Left-communism refers to philosophies such an anarchism, council communism, platformism, and other left wing thoughts that do not advocate for an all encompassing and powerful worker’s state, and instead believe in achieving a communist system (stateless, classless, moneyless) through means of democracy, consensus, councils, or other means that put the actual people impacted by a decision in charge, or at least in the conversation, of making the decision.

And of course not. Because we do not live in a society where that happens. The topic is not “does gift economy work” or “do we live in a gift economy.” The topic was explaining a micro-economy that existed around mutual aid and gift economics.

While I agree this is probably just a made up funny joke, if you you’ve ever actually lived in a gift/barter community, it’s pretty much this. Hung out pretty much exclusively with anarchist and various left-communists for years, and this was my life. You do things for folks, they do things for you, and along the way you end up with stuff like a shit ton of honey, and you end up giving that honey out in exchange for something else, and you end up meeting someone with a weird skill, and it all just spirals into this weird and glorious community.

The difference is that in real life, you’re not saying “I’ll give you this honey for a bird corpse” you say “hey, man, can I have your bird corpse, I know a girl who loves macabre art, and it would be a really cool way to honor your beloved pet,” and then you either give them honey as a thank you, or just later on when it comes up that they want some honey, you give them some because you happen to have some.

I once had a friend who straight up gave this guy his Prius, that same dude ended up giving a mutual friend a place to stay for over a year. Original Prius owner never got anything directly for the Prius, but he was within the little gift economy, and ended up receiving lots of things and services from various members over the years. I doubt he feels like he was not repaid for it.

It’s a pretty great way to live. It’s a shame we all could never work out a way to get land and built the cohousing community we dreamt of.

I believe it’s a shadow. Look where the stripe meets the dock, and you can see it continues

Ohhhh! I misunderstood and thought you meant HP stuff in general.

Yeah, I think just because it’s recognizable within the fandom, and not recognizable to those outside of it (at least, in theory. It becoming so popular killed that). It’s an in group marker. Sort of a HP dog whistle lol

Personally, if I had gotten an HP tattoo before the JK stuff, I’d probably have gone for the more classic glasses and scar combo, or possible a wand on my wrist.

Those books were genuinely meaningful to a lot of people. And until relatively recently, JK Rowling was a bit of a liberal darling. I remember an interview with her talking about being on welfare and how we should care for the poor. The books were clearly an allegory for fascism. I don’t blame anyone for getting that tattoo. My mom read me the first 3 or 4 books as a child. I waited in line at midnight for the release for the 5th. It was deeply meaningful to my childhood. If JK had not outed herself as a piece of complete trash by the time my mom passed away, I likely would have gotten an HP tattoo. I’m very glad I did not.

Anyone who got one after she outed herself is a POS, though. You just generally can’t tell when they got it.

Ackshully, it stands for Just Davenports

Was that actually canon, though?

his webs are actually semen

Fucking what

My mom was on Medicare here in the US (the insurance that the disabled and elderly get, that Bernie based his single payer plan off of expanding). Her bowel ruptured, several hours in the ER, 1 hour helicopter ride, 30 days in the ICU, a few days in a step down, an ambulance ride 2 hours back to her house.

Never got a bill for it.

But nooooo, it’d be so horrible if all Americans had access to that.

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I don’t agree that this is excusing Israel’s actions, and I am stepping way outside of my comfort zone even commenting on this thread. I’m not looking to get involved in an argument or anything else. I just wanted to comment that I personally know several people who believe what is happening in Israel is inexcusable, awful, and are pro-palestinian. But those same people have a romantisized notion of manifest destiny. It happened before they were born, they associate it with westerns, the the pioneer lifestyle, people attempting to carve a life for themselves, et cetera. It has been removed from the slaughter of the native population by years of propaganda, and there is a cognitive disassociate between the move of ordinary folks out west to seek a better life for themselves, and the genocide of native American peoples.

That said, if anything, I think this comic can help those people to realize that manifest destiny was bad, rather than making Israel’s action excusable. It’s not that they are okay with what happened to native Americans and not okay with what’s happening to Palestinians, it’s that because of the environment in which they grew up, because they have been fed a particular narrative, they have yet to have had their eyes opened to what the reality of what happened was actually like.

Exactly! She’s one of my favorite historical figures, but when if she wasn’t, even if our politics did not align so well, she does not deserve to swept into the dustbin like this, liberal washed and eventually erased entirely. It’s disgusting.

This is not at all comparable to bonsai kittens. Bonsai kittens were not at all based in reality. Hellen Keller was an actual, real human person who is being erased by idiotic conspiracy theorists. She was a disabled woman who overcame profound disability to become an incredibly example to millions of people, while also being a highly intelligent political thinker. She has been liberal washed for a century, and now she is being erased entirely. It’s not a funny little joke to disregard the accomplishments of someone who represents something that profound to people who are routinely discriminated against. The woman grew up at a time when disabled people were locked away in hospitals, homes, and attics.

Do you have any idea how utterly insulting it is to see people saying she could not have done what she did, or that she did not even exist, simply because they cannot imagine that a woman with her disabilities could learn language? As if to say that disabled people should be outright rejected because their experience is different from an an able bodied persons?

This has nothing to do with “rescuing damsels,” and the suggestion that it does is insulting in and of itself. The woman is dead, she cannot rescue herself, she deserves the recognition that she has lost. When she is taught in schools, it’s an abbreviated, liberal washed, abridged few paragraphs, when the reality is that she is one of the most important figures in the American disability rights movement, and one of the most prominent examples of a socialist woman in US history, especially southern American US history.

It started as a joke, and now there are actual people who believe that she was either not a real person, or that her accomplishments were faked. People with disabilities are already assumed to be lesser than able bodied people, and this particular trend is stripping away one of the most prominent examples to the contrary. It is also erasing one of the most prominent examples of a famous socialist woman in American history, and a southern American socialist woman at that. Her story is amazing, but more importantly, she is historically significant. She is an example to so many people, and she has been liberal-washed for a century, and now she’s being erased entirely. It’s disgusting.

“Hellen Keller wasn’t real” is an immediate swipe away from a profile. I don’t care if they’re joking or if they’re actually a nut job conspiracy theorist. If the latter, obviously we’re not gonna vibe, and if the former, that entire joke/line of thinking is prefaced on ableism and the idea that a deaf and blind woman could not have accomplished what she did, not to mention the erasure of a prominent socialist, suffragist, and activist. I fucking hate that joke.

Iirc, it began that way, but it’s used now as like a softened ellipses.

Life would be different if we threw out babies at predators when startled, like quokka

According to Google, yes. :(

Too cool! Thank you!

Have… Have y’all considered not marrying partners that you don’t share interests with? Like, I know I’m an edge case in that I’m 35, gay, and have never had a live in partner, but it’s really not that scary being single until you find someone you actually enjoy being with. Either it’ll happen or it won’t, but I’d rather be single and able to enjoy my hobbies and passions than be with someone who shares none of them.