Hildegard had migraines with aura, was told they were visions from god, and was like “cool imma do a feminism about it”
I went to a christian undergrad and my very eccentric christian tradition professor always spent a lot of time on the feminist mystics like her and julien of norwich
I’ll give it a read for sure
I’ve actually read principles of communism and foundations of Leninism. I guess maybe it was foundations that I remember just getting confused over the references and history I think I was missing. The same thing when I tried to read god and the state. But I’ll keep going on this list especially since dialectical and historical materialism is next for me. Thanks!
I guess I just want overall to know where I stand as well as be able to talk somewhat intelligently about communism and anarchism. I’ll check out this list for sure and have read a couple already
How does one ‘read theory’ ? I try to read Marx, engels, Lenin and they are always referencing some shit or some group ive never heard of and I get confused and lose interest. I try to read Bakunin and his ADHD is even worse then mine, I can’t follow it for shit. And i dont know what a ‘Hegel’ is and at this point im afraid to ask.
I’m frankly shit at reading anything beyond graphic novels but I want to be better at leftism
Long post venting about issues with a friend. CW: CSA discussion
So I have been friends with this guy a while, but he moved away and just visited for the first time in over a year. There have been some issues with him in our group chat that has him, my partner, and another friend. Mostly, the issues come from him falling into a reddit-fueled spiral of turning into an insufferable incel liberal asshole. He was so furious at the men/bear meme a few months back and also got into a fight with me when I said I’m not voting for biden, where I was accused of falling for Russian propaganda
Well he stayed with us a few days and let’s just say it was not the most pleasant. Mostly he was being lowkey rude to everyone, especially my partner. I guess he hasn’t really made any friends since he moved and has just regressed and isolated himself socially even more.
The morning he was leaving, somehow the topic of lolicon came up. As I had suspected, his full vaushite form emerged as he sprung into a defense of lolicon as a great way for pedos to get it out of their system, and this is backed up by a scientific paper. Now, I don’t really know what the consensus is, I am not a psychologist nor a pedo, but I do know that it is sus to be defending loli if you aren’t also consuming loli. Maybe he is just 3edgy5me but that convo sorta shook us.
Well, fast forward to today (the loli convo was yesterday) and we wake up to him panicking and posting on Facebook about “allegations” or something, then he tells us in the group chat someone is blackmailing him with nudes and claiming he is a pedo and sent them to minors. I have heard of these scams and sextortion, but in the context of the loli convo I was extra sketched out and had a talk with him basically asking to explain himself. Long story short, in this case I do believe he was not acting as a pedo but simply a horny idiot who threw privacy standards out the window so he could show his dick to an obvious scam/fake account he found on reddit.
Well now he is supposed to stay another night with us to catch his flight and we gotta come up with an excuse why he can’t. Mostly, he just hasn’t been pleasant and we don’t want him here, but pile on today’s weird events and its all just a bit more awkward.
He is at least handling this decently well and his family is being supportive despite being rudely awakened by his dick pic (apparently he only had the pic leaked to them so far) and so I’m not seriously worried about him harming himself or anything. But going forward I am worried about his slide into all this bullshit. And he for some reason thinks I’m all in for kamala now, I mean I was definitely coconut posting a lot when biden dropped out but that is not my official endorsement by any means, and he will be very upset to find I am leaning PSL.
The sad thing is we were both relatively radical members of our union and that’s part how we got to know each other well and now he is just turning into an incel shell of himself but…oh well not my problem and the friendship will probably eventually if he can’t get his shit together. Unfortunately the cis male mind virus might gave already done to much damage :(
That’s even better. They are the good ol’ workingman’s team. No long winning streaks, no world series ambitions. Just a honest ball club playing the game, winning some, losing some.
God forbid we have a Yankees or dodgers fan in the White House. That smacks of liberal coastal elite
It may have a websearch tool, but also might know enough from its training data. Maybe they scrape publicly viewable instances of anything for training.
My pet tortoise would go nuts for this