I didn’t know Kyle Rittenhouse had a theme song

“Everything I know about sex, I learned from abstinence-only Christian fundamentalists”

Threads like those always make me second-guess what sorts of things someone on this site might say in complete earnest.

#3 makes me think its sudden explosion in popular discourse is akin to the conservative panic over raceplay: taking a weird niche porn category and treating it like nonfiction so one can hold it up as proof of how “d-generate” society is.

Why does a hobby need to be productive? That idea reeks of capitalist grindset bullshit.

Is gooning even an actual thing? It sounds more like a comedy bit that got taken too seriously and became something “everyone knows” than something that actually happens. Like “kids eat Tide Pods” or “furries are using litter boxes at schools.”

“Woke” bigotry is flour adulterated with cyanide.

The Chinese Civil War was leftist infighting all along

Folks, the bourgeois, they’re no good, more and more people are saying it. All these workers— the biggest, we have the biggest workers— very handsome workers come up to me and say, Comrade Trump there is a specter haunting Europe, and you know what, they’re right. These bourgeois are very nasty people, very very rude, and very unfair to the workers. They are stealing our surplus value and no one is doing anything about it. The proletariat comes up to me every day and says, Comrade Trump will you lead the revolution? And I gotta turn to them and say look, the instruments of capitalism will be used to bring about its destruction, believe me. The means of production, Obama never wanted to seize them. Well guess what? I’m seizing them. Landlords? They’re done for folks. Everyone told me— they said, Comrade Trump you won’t be the vanguard of the revolution and they would laugh, the media laughed the democrats laughed, guess who’s laughing now?

This might cause a struggle

I hope not, it’s an entirely reasonable take.

i don’t care about what happens in a liberated society. i care about what happens in a (current) neoliberal, thatcherrite non-society, where everyone is merely individuals, where the collective good is spit on, where the profit motive creates uncaptured externalities which befall those on the losing end of class distinctions.

Repeating what I said elsewhere: I know a good handful of people who draw erotic art/write erotic stories without any expectation that they will ever make money off of it. They make it because they want to make it, and they share it because they know there are others who will enjoy it. This isn’t some ethereal hypothetical, this is happening right now despite capitalism’s merciless drive to commodify everything in its grasp. And people drew sexy pictures and wrote spicy stories before capitalism, too - if it didn’t start with capitalism, why would it end with capitalism?

because a world in which you can instantly gratify yourself alone, all the time, in lieu of having to go outside and talk to and then fuck someone else, is one which forgoes the development of constitutive attachments with others, a necessary requirement of community.

You could make this exact same argument against masturbation. Or reading. Or meditating. Or any other solitary activity. Some people are naturally introverted, no social configuration is going to change that, and it’s absurd to suggest that it’s somehow bad and wrong to not spend every waking moment in the company of other people. To say nothing of people who are so undesirable that finding a sexual partner simply isn’t an option.

if some people are so invariably into consuming porn, i would suggest they opt for capitalism – though Marx may have allotted for gooning in the morning before fishing at midday and critiquing after dinner, capitalism will surely provide a more varied and variegated porn under the profit motive. all that is holy is profaned, and these people (who, apparently, are NOT the product of their environments, but would be necessarily just, really, irreducibly horny) would be better off there.

The idea that if you like something, you’ll inherently like it most in its capitalist form is absurd. To reuse an analogy I brought up elsewhere, this is like saying that anyone who enjoys video games should support capitalism because clearly gray-brown military shooters and predatory slot machine apps are the apex of the medium.

I don’t doubt it’s awful, though it seems to me the common factor here is capital and the profit motive. Similar to how it turns gaming into endless horror stories of “modern military shooter about killing brown people with tie-in Army recruitment ads made by devs working 80-hour weeks who all got fired after the game made record profits” and “asset flip glorified slot machine.”

I admit that mostly hanging out in autistic/LGBTQ+ spaces may have given me a skewed perception of such subjects

Makes sense, I’ve only been tangentially exposed to the big mainstream industry and what I saw was enough to make me not want to explore further.

If there were better economic oppurtunities how many of them would go into it?

Without getting into too much detail, I know a good handful of people who draw erotic art/write erotic stories without any expectation that they will ever make money off of it. They just like making the stuff.

I still remember how libs talked about Syrian refugees. The only thing more tiring than the blatant white supremacy is the equally blatant lying about it.

I’ll check it out, thanks!

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