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mystery, mayhem the great, mother of harlots and abominations of the earth

whoever decided that toothpaste needed to foam up - and therefore needs to have SLS in it - should be fed to sharks

and whoever decides to REFORMULATE TOOTHPASTES to ADD SLS TO THEM should be set on fire and then fed to sharks

and then the fucking stores like "oh, you want sulfate-free toothpaste? obviously you're an insane hippie and you want our flouride-free selection"

no! I want the flouride! my teeth will rot out of my goddamn mouth without the flouride! I just don't want the incredibly common, incredibly unnecessary foaming agent that I'm super goddamn allergic to!!!!!

I'm not allergic but I used to get this weird eczema patch around my mouth for years and then I switched to sls free toothpaste and it disappeared and hasn't come back. Most sensodyne toothpastes are sls free, and have fluoride. You have to read the label to make sure you're getting the sls free version.

yeah it was a store brand knockoff of the sensodyne that screwed me. the store brand used to not have sls in it. or maybe I used to buy a different version of it? idk but either way I didn't think this had sls in it until my mouth split open along the sides like the damn joker.

whoever decided that toothpaste needed to foam up - and therefore needs to have SLS in it - should be fed to sharks

and whoever decides to REFORMULATE TOOTHPASTES to ADD SLS TO THEM should be set on fire and then fed to sharks

and then the fucking stores like "oh, you want sulfate-free toothpaste? obviously you're an insane hippie and you want our flouride-free selection"

no! I want the flouride! my teeth will rot out of my goddamn mouth without the flouride! I just don't want the incredibly common, incredibly unnecessary foaming agent that I'm super goddamn allergic to!!!!!

HOW DO I MAKE THE HORRIFYING CLOWN GO AWAY

WHY DOES MY DARK MODE KEEP BREAKING

is this an extortion attempt? because I will pay it. I will pay anything you want, tumblr, but make that fucking clown go away he is terrifying and he is breaking my dark mode

HOW DO I MAKE THE HORRIFYING CLOWN GO AWAY

Anonymous asked:

So today, someone who routinely gets bonuses equal to my entire yearly salary told me it was too expensive to offer more than 6 sick days per year. Idk how do you cope?

Have you considered arson?

this is a post about being right about capitalism. would that, if it were true, make him not right about capitalism

but also uh.

The "Marx hated Jews" thing comes from the fact that he wrote an essay titled "On The Jewish Question."

That phrasing raises alarm bells because we associate the term "The Jewish Question" with Nazis, but it was just the way issues like this were phrased within these philosophical circles. And honestly even beyond that it's more of a translation convention than anything else. You could just as easily have translated that title as "Regarding the Matter of Jews."

The essay is actually a response to another philosopher named Bauer, who claimed that Jews would only be liberated if they stopped being Jewish, because true emancipation requires secularism. The essays Marx is responding to are blatantly antisemitic, even by late-19th century standards. Bauer was arguing that Jews who wanted liberation from oppression were basically asking for "special privileges," (in an argument that bears some similarity to modern concepts of "reverse racism") and implying that Jews aren't even oppressed because they control the economy.

Marx's "On The Jewish Question" is basically him saying Bauer is dumb and wrong and antisemitic, and he's being deeply sarcastic for most of the essay.

He does so by throwing Bauer's antisemitism back in his face, by using a series of antisemitic arguments about how the real religion of the Jew is money and huckstering, and so if you want to abolish Judaism, you'd have to abolish economic exploitation. He's responding directly to Bauer's use of antisemitic tropes about how Jews control the economy. He's using Bauer's own antisemitic framework to prove Bauer wrong.

This also goes back to the conflict between Marx and the rest of the Young Hegelians (which Bauer was). He was constantly criticizing them for being too idealistic and abstract, rather than focusing on material realities. His argument here was "You're framing 'the Jewish Question' as if it's a theological problem, but it's not. It's a political and economic one." Because he was Karl Marx and that was his whole thing.

I really don't understand how anyone reads this essay as anything but sarcasm. I get that some of it is probably lost in translation, but the context makes it really clear that Marx is making fun of Bauer. The idea of Jews giving up their religion would have been deeply personal to Marx. He would have understood exactly what it meant for Jews to give up their religion, and how that was an act of oppression rather than liberation from it. Also, Marx and Bauer had already split by the time this essay was written, and they kind of hated each other. Marx wrote a lot of responses to/criticisms of Bauer, and he called Bauer a "right wing fanatic" multiple times.

Like, what's actually more likely here?

Option 1: Karl Marx, a Jewish man, wrote one essay that is totally at odds with all his other analysis on the nature of oppression to be rabidly antisemitic and then basically never discussed the subject again?

Option 2: Karl Marx, a Jewish man and a well-known lover of pettiness and drama, wrote an incredibly sarcastic essay making fun of a raging antisemite that he already he didn't like?

I like this addition. Funny how capitalism, antisemitism and right to exist just hasn’t changed in the last 200 years since this German economist’s time.

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honest question: is this what op is citing as a source?

(this is an honest question, i'm not here to start discourse. i'm trying to learn more as someone who is new to marxism) (/genuine question)

I'm not OP, but I assume you mean me. And yeah, that's the one.

I have also finally started listening to podcasts. I could not get into them, but now I'm in the car an awful lot. And I was listening to music, but that got old pretty fast.

So I finally put on a podcast. And I'm actually kinda into it now. I forgot that I did used to like talk radio. I liked NPR and silly morning talk shows on top 40 stations and stuff like that. I still don't listen to podcasts when I'm doing anything else, but I'm in the car a lot.

I've mostly been listening to Financial Feminist with Tori Dunlap, because it was the first thing that I recognized on the Spotify podcast page. (I follow her on Instagram.) But I'm open to suggestions!

I think my company car and work phone are going to drag me into the modern era kicking and screaming.

I have resisted biometric unlocking since the moment it was introduced. It's a security nightmare. A password is protected by the fifth amendment, a thumbprint is not. But I do have it on my work phone, because otherwise I'd be typing my password in ten million times a day for the stupid 2FA that is required to do literally any work task, including getting into my work email on my work phone, the same phone that is doing the 2FA. (What is the logic here?)

And I have no expectation of privacy for anything on my work phone anyway, so what does it matter. But holy shit, that's convenient. I'm still not putting it on my personal phone, but at least now I understand why people do.

And then I have resisted high-tech cars for a long time. This has mostly been a hypothetical resistance, because I can't afford to buy a new car anyway. But I never understood the appeal of infotainment systems until I got my work car. I don't want an iPad in the console, I want buttons. My work car doesn't have the full-blown iPad in the console thing, but it does have some really nice Bluetooth integration. Including the ability to read my text messages to me while I'm driving, which is great. Except that because it doesn't have the full-blown infotainment system, I still have to look down at my phone to see my Maps (which I am just now realizing is kind of dangerous), and it' doesn't integrate super well with Spotify.

Speaking of Spotify, I actually use it now. I still haven't paid for Spotify subscription, and I probably won't be bothering with it. But I can't fiddle with my various Youtube workarounds quite so easily in the company car, not while I'm on a tight schedule and driving a car that doesn't belong to me in unfamiliar places a lot. I will crash the car. Plus, I don't want my personal Youtube on my company phone, and I'm not re-teaching the algorithm on a new account. So I use Spotify now, like a normal person.

the communist party of britain have put out this statement and now all the twitter wokebros are throwing a collective shitfit about that fact that the communist party, whose politics are based on class analysis and materialism, acknowledge the material reality of biological sex 😭 god i love terf island

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The Communist Party is the only political party with a coherent political analysis of sex and gender. Gender as an ideological construct should not be confused or conflated with the material reality of biological sex. Gender is the vehicle through which misogyny is enacted and normalised. Gender identity ideology is well-suited to the needs of the capitalist class, focusing as it does on individual as opposed to collective rights, enabling and supporting the super-exploitation of women.

we love to see it

My boss was like “Do you have any idea how much money we’re losing” like who cares, it’s not like they would give it to me otherwise

Have our investors tried making coffee at home and not eating out so much?

i think pro life except in cases of rape is actually the most morally fucked up position because youre basically admitting you dont think abortion is murder you just want to punish women for having sex

Things that always slap me in the face every time I am forcibly reminded of them and I will never, ever learn:

1. Most people fully believe that red scare propaganda about what socialism is and what socialist leaders and countries did/do/are is 100% true, unbiased fact.

2. A shockingly large number of people also believe in conservative scaremongering about what socialism is, such as "socialism is when the government does stuff" and "socialism is when I can't say the n-word."

3. Those two groups of people often overlap. Some of them self-identify as socialists.

4. There are people with even stupider ideas about what socialism is than that. Some of them self-identify as socialists.

5. Most people do not actually critically examine their own political beliefs for internal consistency, logical soundness, and evidentiary support. But all people think they do. Pointing out that they lack an ideology, or that the ideology they have is nonsensical, confuses and upsets them.

6. A shockingly large number of people believe that reading political and philosophical theory and grounding your political and philosophical arguments in that theory means you are inherently wrong, somehow. Still not sure where they think correct political and philosophical positions come from.

That last one in particular gets on my nerves because people expect socialists to be able to explain how every minute detail of political, economic, and daily life will function under a socialist system. If we're not able to do it we're edgelords larping on the internet, but if we are able to do it we're out-of-touch ivory tower academics.

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I'm curious how many times an avarage person (or as close as a tumblr user can get to being one) has been on a plane so tell me

A trip one way counts as 1 time, so if you flew somewhere and then came back (for example to and from a different country on a holiday) then that counts as two trips because you boarded the plane twice.

Also! If you can tell me in the tags how many times you traveled by plane and which country you're from I'd be very grateful! I'm curious if there is any difference depending on a size of a country/continent you're from.

Things that always slap me in the face every time I am forcibly reminded of them and I will never, ever learn:

1. Most people fully believe that red scare propaganda about what socialism is and what socialist leaders and countries did/do/are is 100% true, unbiased fact.

2. A shockingly large number of people also believe in conservative scaremongering about what socialism is, such as "socialism is when the government does stuff" and "socialism is when I can't say the n-word."

3. Those two groups of people often overlap. Some of them self-identify as socialists.

4. There are people with even stupider ideas about what socialism is than that. Some of them self-identify as socialists.

5. Most people do not actually critically examine their own political beliefs for internal consistency, logical soundness, and evidentiary support. But all people think they do. Pointing out that they lack an ideology, or that the ideology they have is nonsensical, confuses and upsets them.

6. A shockingly large number of people believe that reading political and philosophical theory and grounding your political and philosophical arguments in that theory means you are inherently wrong, somehow. Still not sure where they think correct political and philosophical positions come from.