If your conception of socialism stopped developing in the first half of the 20th century I don’t think you’re serious about actual political transformation.
Idk of a single left-wing thinker who hasn’t explicitly talked about the need to develop theories and adapt them to on the ground conditions, and if you are somehow convinced your blorbo who died before decolonization, the rise of neoliberalism, and all the radical transformations since 1955 found the perfect pathway to socialism that will never need to be critiqued or altered you don’t have a political project you have a religion.
Clinging to century old ideological debates and grudges and not incorporating the valid critiques of different traditions is like running into a brick wall head first over and over again and convincing an every shrinking number of your friends that eventually it’ll make a door appear
The Pokemon regions
mayor of nipton: i cant believe the deal i just made with none other than the legion! we'll have a new ally and the underground business and services i run here will prosper
the nefarious vulpes inculta:
i like that zionist arguments are not actually working on anyone anymore and it's all just mostly theatre but every now and then you'll come across someone trying to convince you that zionist arguments hold water, like "actually you're misinformed, israel needed to annex this land and keep people under military occupation and kill 2% of gaza's population and starve everyone and destroy every single hospital and every single university for security reasons" and you're supposed to be like oh right of course for security reasons my bad
liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell
It really says something that a lot of monogamous people consider polyamorous and aromantic to be "opposites" but every polyam person I know took one look at aromantics and said "they're just like me for real"
also this teehee
Okay I’m pretty anti Christianity in general because of my upbringing, but I fully believe the phrase, “then go and sin no more” is one of the most powerful statements of moral philosophy in the history of the world
It physically hurts me to block so many beautiful women but they are lying to me.