If you are part of any sort of cool project, for the love of god ask yourself "hey wait does One Dude have sole access to levers that can explode this entire thing?"

And if so, it does not matter how much you like him or trust him, you GOTTA take those levers away from him. Otherwise you're doomed

Injecting this into my veins forever!

Him!!!!!!

imagine if all this anti-piracy energy was spent yelling about public funding for the arts instead

that would actually benefit the majority of working artists, though, and not the loudest winners of the marketized arts scene.

also while i'm choosing violence, i read the mao speech re. what art shd be and its complete dogshit. only engels had a remotely decent understanding of art, yet ppl will elevate these guys in ways that make me wonder if EYE am the stupid bourgeoise individualist idiot or w/e

anytime i'm tempted in favour of censorship i remember 1) stalin thought 'lady macbeth of mtsensk district' was bourgeoise in its values, even tho og reviews correctly understood it as feminist critique, 2) it took 2 films for stalin to grasp what eisenstein was doing w ivan the terrible

Refugees have often smuggled valuables so that they aren’t completely destitute on arrival at their destination. Sewing coins or jewelry into clothing as a nest egg for starting a new life. This is deliberate impoverishment followed by complaints about dependence on state resources.

(everyone who complains about not enough men/masculinity in literary fiction should be forced to read no fewer than five (5) books by trans men before they are allowed to publish any more opinions)

and if you *are* a ghoul, faking decency is the price of admission into polite society. seethe about it on your own time

the east also has philosophers is sending me. provincial ass worldview.

is there a place to see the rules on mobile? (I'm a bit of luddite and am not sure how these things work...)