archomrade [he/him] @ archomrade @midwest.social

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Isn't this a common TERF comparison?

YDI.

I don't know what this impulse is that people have to weigh in on the legitimacy of other people's genders, but I'm tired of people running to communities like this one just to lick their wounds when they get rightfully swatted across the nose.

Good job i guess?

Yea, your opinion of tankies has come across just fine, it's just curious to me that sentiment is so frequently communicated with conservative cultural references

This is the second time this week someone has inadvertentlu appropriated a bit on conservative culture in an effort to lionoze 'tankies'

Lmao

You could describe your shits in materialist terms i guess, but that doesn't make it marxist

YDI.

Outside of how they relate to material conditions, it doesn't.

It can't help inform your gender identity any more than it can help you decide what toppings to put on your pizza. Attributing that kind of cultural expression to an ideology that has nothing to say about it isn't just dumb, it's fascistic.

Ideologies are a part of culture, but culture isn't a part of all ideologies, see?

"The culture of Marxism" is a misnomer - any distinct 'culture' that marxists might share is incidental to what marxism actually is. Suggesting that transgender expression is somehow a distinct feature of a culture 'of marxism' is exactly the thing 'cultural bolshevism' and 'cultural marxism' are pointing to.

Unless you're planning on articulating what it is you're actually objecting to I can't really help you make sense of those two statements.

Because 90% of Marx’s writing is about class relations.

Yes that's the point. Marx isn't concerned with cultural expression outside of how it's used inside class relations. Which is why it's inane to point to 'the culture of marxism', because outside of that narrow materialist context marxism doesn't concern itself with culture.

Thumbs are fingers but fingers aren't all thumbs.

The only point in which Marx comments on cultural practices is to point to how it is used to reinforce labor relations with capital.

If there's any definitive 'culture' to Marx it's more broadly counter-traditional than anything specific.

Yea, see, that's the problem - both of those terms are intended to describe a 'culture' of acceptance/normalization of lgbtq and non-traditional expression and associate it with the revolutionary language of Marx - the implication being that Marxists are intentionally pushing those norms and values as a part of their revolutionary action.

All of which is relevant to the actual content of the original post - either you simply missed the whole point of the meme or you've accepted the premise of the term itself.

Marxism is explicitly a materialist worldview - it has no real way of comparing cultural qualities

Unless you just mean 'the culture of marxists', but then you've pretty much taken up the term in its original meaning. Especially since the original post is about transgenter identity...

Yea, but the problem is that there is no different literal meaning from the dog whistle. What would 'cultural Marxism' even mean to a Marxist?

Nobody is questioning your anti-tankie bona-fides here. We're pointing to the irony of someone trying hard to otherize tankies from other leftists accidentally appropriating a term that's pretty much exclusively used to malign both for the acceptance of LGBTQ expression.

'Cultural marxism' being mistaken for ML terminology in a comment that's trying to scold a shitpost for being too friendly toward the wrong kind of leftist is just a little too on the nose.

Color me surprised that the kind of user who goes out of their way to broadcast their anti-tankie allegiances isn't familiar with the broadly-used reactionary pejorative used to describe liberals that has been around since at least the 1990's

“I’ve come to view home ownership and healthcare as destabilizing forces in my life,” said Bernie, a 45-year-old network engineer from Minneapolis. To finance owning his and his wife’s $300,000 home and saving for the future, the couple was foregoing medical and dental treatment of any kind and cutting back on expenses everywhere, he said, despite a pre-tax household income of more than $250,000.

I have no idea where in Minneapolis this person is but this is nothing like my own experience in the metro area.

My wife and I bought our home in 2021, for about the same price as he's describing and with an income far less than theirs, and we're expending less than 30% on our mortgage payment (including our insurance premiums and taxes). Maybe they bought theirs at the interest rate peak in 2020, whereas we bought ours when the interest rates bottomed out, but I can quite confidently say that our home is not the main burden on our finances.

What is killing us is raising food and healthcare costs, as well as our student loans. Our energy utility announced last year that they would be implementing surge pricing that could almost double our energy costs, and since the utility administers the state solar incentive program themselves, they quoted us a PV system cost almost twice what you can find on the open market (they use your average monthly energy bill to determine how much you can afford to pay for the system, which ought to be criminal). We're getting fucked up down and sideways, but our mortgage payment is probably the most stable expense we have.

There are a lot of reasons things are shit and financially precarious, but owning my home has been a rare bright spot in our otherwise gloomy financial picture. If we were still renting, not only would we be in the same strained situation as we are now, but we'd be constantly anxious about our rent skyrocketing, too.

Home ownership isn't all sunshine and rainbows, but the alternative of renting is often just as expensive - on top of being at the whims of landlords. They've been publishing articles for a decade now trying to convince people that home ownership is overrated and renting is the way of the future, and I really wish I could trust them to report on it transparently.

Huh, it works great on my android os Nvidia shield

As a rule I don't announce my trackers publicly so they can continue existing as my trackers, but the one I use mostly is small-rodent themed.

I'll DM you