Current Events > Video clips from an actual socialist convention

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lmao this is unreal.

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If these snowflakes ever try to start a revolution, just address them as guys and watch them self destruct.

Also, amazing to hear people saying that he/him crap out loud.
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Counterpoint: dash con was only possible under capitalism

Also: the fyre festival was also only possible under capitalism, praise be to our comrade Ja Rule, who got rich kids to volunteer to get thrown into the Ja Rulags
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*jazz hands*
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Holy shit. Did they even spend any time on issues or did the list of rules take the entire thing?
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That is basically a room full of sterotypes

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Are these the people the alt-righters are pissing their pants over?
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Testosterone levels are plummeting, young girls are experiencing puberty at earlier ages, boys have the T levels of elderly men and even comparable to women. This is because of the explosion of birth control use of women in the 70's and 80's, along with the prevalence of plastic packaging and preservatives in our food/drinks. Boys are objectively softer today, and are turning into an army of pansies

It's only a matter of time until most men become infertile and lose their sex drives completely, and we end up like the Handmaid's Tale or some shit

[citation needed]

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clearaflagrantj posted...

Testosterone levels are plummeting, young girls are experiencing puberty at earlier ages, boys have the T levels of elderly men and even comparable to women. This is because of the explosion of birth control use of women in the 70's and 80's, along with the prevalence of plastic packaging and preservatives in our food/drinks. Boys are objectively softer today, and are turning into an army of pansies

It's only a matter of time until most men become infertile and lose their sex drives completely, and we end up like the Handmaid's Tale or some shit

At least someone managed to come up with a creative response to this.
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clearaflagrantj posted...

Testosterone levels are plummeting, young girls are experiencing puberty at earlier ages, boys have the T levels of elderly men and even comparable to women. This is because of the explosion of birth control use of women in the 70's and 80's, along with the prevalence of plastic packaging and preservatives in our food/drinks. Boys are objectively softer today, and are turning into an army of pansies

It's only a matter of time until most men become infertile and lose their sex drives completely, and we end up like the Handmaid's Tale or some shit

U wot m8.
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pres_madagascar posted...

U wot m8.

Plastic bottles have turned men into socialists

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lmao who are they worried will infiltrate their looney bin convention
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clearaflagrantj posted...

Testosterone levels are plummeting, young girls are experiencing puberty at earlier ages, boys have the T levels of elderly men and even comparable to women. This is because of the explosion of birth control use of women in the 70's and 80's, along with the prevalence of plastic packaging and preservatives in our food/drinks. Boys are objectively softer today, and are turning into an army of pansies

It's only a matter of time until most men become infertile and lose their sex drives completely, and we end up like the Handmaid's Tale or some shit

He's finally lost it entirely
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Highwind07 posted...

In the second vid they talked about infiltrators and not talking to anyone without credentials for several straight minutes. Yessh.

Gotta take that echo chamber to its absolute conclusion.

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DarkRoast posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

U wot m8.

Plastic bottles have turned men into socialists

Thank you for this succinct summary
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Thompson posted...

Are these the people the alt-righters are pissing their pants over?

Yep.
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Joke people confirmed.
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clearaflagrantj posted...

Testosterone levels are plummeting, young girls are experiencing puberty at earlier ages, boys have the T levels of elderly men and even comparable to women. This is because of the explosion of birth control use of women in the 70's and 80's, along with the prevalence of plastic packaging and preservatives in our food/drinks. Boys are objectively softer today, and are turning into an army of pansies

It's only a matter of time until most men become infertile and lose their sex drives completely, and we end up like the Handmaid's Tale or some shit

I think youve officially gone off the deep end mate

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The guy pleading for people to not use gendered language sounds fat.
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clearaflagrantj posted...

Testosterone levels are plummeting, young girls are experiencing puberty at earlier ages, boys have the T levels of elderly men and even comparable to women. This is because of the explosion of birth control use of women in the 70's and 80's, along with the prevalence of plastic packaging and preservatives in our food/drinks. Boys are objectively softer today, and are turning into an army of pansies

It's only a matter of time until most men become infertile and lose their sex drives completely, and we end up like the Handmaid's Tale or some shit

It's not that deep, at worst this is the Politics board and CE low key personified.
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MrPeppers posted...

I think youve officially gone off the deep end mate

The best part is how his argument is basically that the world became so liberal and weak that it somehow turns into a far-right dystopia (Handmaid's Tale)

I mean, I like the plot twist and all

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this is like a parody
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AmericaTheBrave posted...

guy

*triggering intensifies*
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Damn_Underscore posted...

this is like a parody

Ever since 2016, and that truly crazy racist phone ad, I've come to accept the validity of Poe's Law. You legitimately cannot tell what is satire and what is an actually-held belief anymore unless someone clearly states "this is satire."


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Thompson posted...

Are these the people the alt-righters are pissing their pants over?

These are the people the left thinks giving more voice to will improve the world?
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you guys know sensory overload is a real thing and it's absolute hell for those that experience it, right?

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CrimsonRage posted...

Solar_Crimson posted...

Thompson posted...

Are these the people the alt-righters are pissing their pants over?

Yep.

anyway, yeah, weird how apparently these guys are a bigger threat to the country than violent far-right nutcases huh

mario2000 posted...

you guys know sensory overload is a real thing and it's absolute hell for those that experience it, right?

POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE!!!!

mario2000 posted...

you guys know sensory overload is a real thing and it's absolute hell for those that experience it, right?

Hey here's a thought, if it's really a problem don't go to conventions
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voldothegr8 posted...

Hey here's a thought, if it's really a problem don't go to conventions

yes, the rightist train of thought of "it's your fault for having disabilities"

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NeoShadowhen posted...

POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE!!!!

That term comes from Robert's Rules of Order, which is how most parliamentary bodies operate.
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NeoShadowhen posted...

CrimsonRage posted...

Solar_Crimson posted...

Thompson posted...

Are these the people the alt-righters are pissing their pants over?

Yep.

anyway, yeah, weird how apparently these guys are a bigger threat to the country than violent far-right nutcases huh

mario2000 posted...

you guys know sensory overload is a real thing and it's absolute hell for those that experience it, right?

POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE!!!!

Funny thing about "gendered language", English is one of the few languages that doesn't have gendered words. I wonder what they'd be like if we were all speaking Spanish, French, or German since tons of words in those languages have genders.
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Ivynn posted...

Funny thing about "gendered language", English is one of the few languages that doesn't have gendered words. I wonder what they'd be like if we were all speaking Spanish, French, or German since tons of words in those languages have genders.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/inclusive-writing-france-feminism/545048/

The Push to Make French Gender-Neutral

Can changing the structure of a language improve womens status in society?

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This is why I keep telling people to support the establishment, we do not need socialism in our future, it's nothing more smoke, mirrors, and pipe dreams that can destroy our country.
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s0nicfan posted...

Ivynn posted...

Funny thing about "gendered language", English is one of the few languages that doesn't have gendered words. I wonder what they'd be like if we were all speaking Spanish, French, or German since tons of words in those languages have genders.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/inclusive-writing-france-feminism/545048/

The Push to Make French Gender-Neutral

Can changing the structure of a language improve womens status in society?

lol good luck, French are notoriously protective of their language.
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it's nothing more smoke, mirrors, and pipe dreams that can destroy our country.

but enough about capitalism

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I always feel like these are the type of people that get offended by the bootstrap comments. Yeah, it's not a fair race, but you have to at least try. Don't just give up because it's not fair.

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s0nicfan posted...

Can changing the structure of a language improve womens status in society?

DarkRoast posted...

You legitimately cannot tell what is satire and what is an actually-held belief anymore unless someone clearly states "this is satire."

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AlephZero posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Can changing the structure of a language improve womens status in society?

DarkRoast posted...

You legitimately cannot tell what is satire and what is an actually-held belief anymore unless someone clearly states "this is satire."

I think it's naive not to grasp that language plays a big role in shaping our views on and understanding of things.
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Antifar posted...

AlephZero posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Can changing the structure of a language improve womens status in society?

DarkRoast posted...

You legitimately cannot tell what is satire and what is an actually-held belief anymore unless someone clearly states "this is satire."

I think it's naive not to grasp that language plays a big role in shaping our views on and understanding of things.

Do you think French being gendered has had a measurable negative impact on French women?
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i know that since "cow" is a feminine noun in german i always associate women with cows
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s0nicfan posted...

Do you think French being gendered has had a measurable negative impact on French women?

I don't know enough about France or its language to say definitively, but here's what the article you posted has to say:

In French, pronouns, nouns, and adjectives reflect the gender of the object to which they refer. So, le policier is a policeman; la policire is a policewoman. The language has no neutral grammatical gender. And there are many nouns (including those referring to professions) that dont have feminine versions. So, a male minister is le ministre and a female minister is la ministre. Whats more, French students are taught that the masculine dominates over the feminine, meaning that if you have a room full of ten women and just one man, you have to describe the whole group in the masculine.

Feminists who believe that these features of the French language put women at a disadvantage disagree about how best to remedy them. Most recommend creating feminine versions of all professional nouns and/or using neutral nouns whenever possible. Many also recommend a grammatical tool that consists of adding a median-period at the end of masculine nouns, followed by the feminine ending, thus indicating both gendered versions of every noun (like musiciennes, which would read as male musicians and female musicians). Some have even recommended creating a gender-neutral pronoun (the equivalent of how they is sometimes used in English, or hen in Sweden). These and other recommendations have collectively become known as inclusive writing.

Many linguists I spoke to stressed that changing a language doesnt guarantee a change in perception; this leads some of them to say that inclusive writing just isnt worth the trouble. But at least one major school of linguistic thought concludes that language and perception are intimately related.

Proponents of linguistic determinism argue that your language determines and constrains what youre capable of thinking. Linguistic determinism is the strong flavor of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesisthe idea that your language influences how you think. This hypothesis was popular in the 1940s, but it was deemed incorrect by the linguistic community in the 60s and 70s. Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey, argued linguist Roman Jakobson. Its not that speaking French makes it impossible for you to conceive of something as gender-neutral, he suggested, but that the language forces you to think often in gendered terms. Whereas in English you can say Im having dinner with my friend without indicating whether the friend is male or female, in French you have to indicateand therefore think aboutthe friends gender by using either a female or male noun. Today, some still believe in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and it enjoyed some popular attention last year after being featured in the movie Arrival.

Some scientific research does seem to suggest that gendered languages like French lead to more sexist perceptions than gender-neutral ones like English. But those studies are limited in that they cant control for outside factors like culture, which are extremely important in determining sexist attitudes.

In France, this debate traces its roots back to World War I, when men went to war and left women behind to fill traditionally male-dominated positions like chimney sweep or factory worker. The nouns referring to those professions, which previously only had masculine versions, developed feminine ones, to the great horror of French society at the time. But what was tolerable in wartime became unacceptable when men returned from the battlefield, and the question of how to make French gender-neutral was sidelined until the 1970s and 80s.

I don't think it's an unreasonable claim.
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Have the people trying to introduce new genders made their way to France yet? They have enough trouble getting new pronouns into culture. I'd love to see the struggle when you have to think about how every other word is spelled and conjugated. Then again, probably part of the push for gender neutral. It's a lot easier.
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mario2000 posted...

voldothegr8 posted...

Hey here's a thought, if it's really a problem don't go to conventions

yes, the rightist train of thought of "it's your fault for having disabilities"

As opposed to the liberal train of thought, "throw fallacies, tear down the character, and deflect when faced with logic"

I didn't imply at all it's their fault for having disabilities, of course it's not their fault. It's just that conventions should probably be avoided by people with sensory disorders instead of trying to keep hundreds of people quiet to accommodate.
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lightwarrior78 posted...

Have the people trying to introduce new genders made their way to France yet? They have enough trouble getting new pronouns into culture. I'd love to see the struggle when you have to think about how every other word is spelled and conjugated. Then again, probably part of the push for gender neutral. It's a lot easier.

French philosophers (specifically, Derrida and Foucault) basically started all this.
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AlephZero posted...

i know that since "cow" is a feminine noun in german i always associate women with cows

You realize that *all* cows are female, right? >_>
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