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"Left"-trads are one of the weirder strains of leftists to me. Essentially the kind of people that heard the propaganda about how everyone in the soviet union wore a grey jumpsuit, ate nothing but gruel and had the same haircut and thought that sounded good.
the kind of people that heard the propaganda about how everyone in the soviet union wore a grey jumpsuit, ate nothing but gruel and had the same haircut and thought that sounded good.
Tbh that's me, anytime I see one of those american stores with a ludicrous excess of products™ I know that I'd have been a reactonairy if I had never read Marx.
At the same time, a twink with dyed hair :bonk:
There's two wolves inside me..
anytime I see one of those american stores with a ludicrous excess of products™
broke: Blue hair dye is bad because people who use it won't have sex with me
woke: Blue hair dye is bad because of the imperialism and colonialism required to manufacture it
Nothing wrong with choices, imo. I despsie the decadent consoomerism in retail, sometimes I shudder thinking that an entire cotton organism's endgoal was to be a shit-tier minions t-shirt that will inevitably rip in less than a year. However, I geek out over well made things, Uniqlo has some pima cotton t-shirts and selvedge denim for real cheap and they have lasted me years.
I don't hate variety, I hate BAD variety and just prefer quality over quantity.
So hopefully you can enjoy your dyed haired twinks in peace.
I hate the variety. I hate walking into a grocery store and seeing 10 variations of the same cereal, 8 variants of the same fucking potato chip, 100 variations of the same fucking thing. I hate it. I despise it with all my being.
That's not variety though, it's marketing. Same slop comes out of the factory chute into four different labeled bags, because they can make one bag ugly and sell the fancy bag at a higher price.
Salt and vinegar kettle chips and those sour cream and cheddar chips will have to be pried out of my cold dead hands.
yeah, like different tastes is one thing, but when you have 20 of the same product that probably come from the SAME factory being sold by 10 different brands, and like half of those brands are owned by the same fucking company just under a different name. :agony-soviet:
Used to get shirts from an online store that I've had for over a decade. Amazon bought it and now the shirts are faded and worn out within a year.
The amount of men who believe "blue hair" is the reason nobody wants to touch their pee-pees is astonishing to me.
> be me> teenage sex pest at punk shows> none of these chicks wanna fuck me> you harass one blue haired girl and suddenly none of her friends will fuck you> start picking up females in bars instead> mfw no one knows me here> no one to warn them> now I fuck all the time> must have been the blue hair
Wtf is it with people and wringing their hands over dyed hair like some kind of 50s suburban housewife?
It's gotta be a euphemism for lgbt+ and these are incredibly bigoted people. It's the only thing I can think of because I think pearl clutching over dyed hair doesnt make sense.
It's based on the assumption that anyone, especially women, with brightly coloured hair is either gay or an sjw, to the point that they'll even harass people with natural res hair.
Then I really don't know what he's talking about because Lenin was totally an SJW. He fought for and established womens rights, same with gay and trans rights in the USSR, same with ethnic minorities in the USSR.
Not to endorse anything in the post but Lenin almost certainly didnt fight for gay and trans rights. He wasnt homophobic most likely and didnt show prejudice against sexual minorities which is in and of itself amazing for the era but i would be fairly sure that he didnt conciously fight for gay or trans rights or that struggle occupied more than a couple of thoughts through his whole life. The decriminalization of homosexuality under Lenin was because the entire Tsarist legal code was thrown out of the window and (maybe not by accident due to some other socialy progressive members in the party) it wasnt reinstated centraly at that point in time. Lenin probably either didnt care or didnt think about it.
Oh, guess I stand corrected about that. I thought it was something they explicitly legalized.
That's what so annoying with "leftists" who says that early communist leaders are trads. Their support for women's right at the time was extremely radical when you consider that the prevailing view on women at the time is that they're barely sapient private property worth less than a horse. Hell, you can argue that even today their views on women is still way more radical liberal feminists as they advocated liberation instead of mere equality.
Even 50s suburban housewives dyed their hair fun colors since toward the end of that decade blue/pink hair was a trend for a hot min (or so an old lady told me).
Going to xth that's its code to be bigoted whiny fucks with no hismat and a love of aesthetics over all else.
Yeah I asked an older woman why so many of them were copying young people and wearing the bright leggings and dying their hair and she said, “you really don’t know shit, do you?” It sent me off kilter lmao
That's how my convo started, older lady with bright pink hair, figured she was a punk in day, so I asked about the music. She told me nah, they did that back in the 50-60s as a trend and her mom wouldn't let her dye it back then out of fear of ruining her clothes.
Blue hair dye I used in high school stained everything it touched for like a week.
it's the basest fascist aesthetic critique. unga bunga new thing bad
little known fact: Stalin is short for Stalin the Hedgehog.
:order-of-lenin:
Once again, I will be petitioning admins for a formal place to submit taglines.
Can you imagine Lenin and Stalin walking around with Airpods and Drip?
fucking jokes.
leninoid reactionaries are hilarious. devoted to a "scientific" doctrine purely motivated by aesthetics. everything cool will become an anarchistic signifier :meow-anarchist:
yeah, leninists are alright. it's the freaks in the birdsite link i'm talkin about
He's right. If you're going to dye your hair you're only allowed to dye it for either
A. your natural hair colour as proven via photographic evidence to a licensed hair specialist at the people's hair center or
B. an actor in a socialist realism movie playing someone whose hair colour is not your own
In North Korea there are only 3 approved haircuts, and if you pick the wrong one you'll be executed.
Maybe they were, black and white footage just hidden it :thinking-about-it:
Its alright, I will lead the green hair vanguard in glorious revolution against these reactionary forces.
Yes I can! Stalin with a red mohawk is an interesting mental image.
'When you consider this society, what's your main priority, to remain in the majority who never really cared, or to cultivate the hate to annihilate the state, are you prepared to die for your beliefs or just to dye your hair?'
Idk, nothing against having dyed hair, it's just that it is kinda part and parcel to a sort of 'revolutionary aesthetic' that I think is a long standing problem in organizational leftist politics. Like, basically the idea is, if you don't have a face tattoo and dyed hair are you really committed to societal change? It's a kinda reactionary consumer ideology in it's own way. But also, colors ae fun and stuff, and I don't really care outside of when people use their aesthetic preferences to question my own commitment to causes.
I honestly could get away with it in my line of work, but I could never settle on a design.
I've only encountered it a couple of times in cities among what was described to me as the 'lifer activist grifter' crowd, where a couple of people told me I 'looked like a cop' (which tbf, tall guy shaved head plain clothes, I can see it). But yeah, the reaction to the reaction is also overblown. I think it has more to do with the fact that when it does happen, it is people with little organizing experience and lots of theory and history coming into conflict with people who have been activists and maintaining activist connections since college, so it seems like a gatekeeping device at times, when there are some undeniable realities of activism that create differing ideologies from those who are theory/history buffs. You need both.
In my experience the "aesthetic revolutionary" type of person seems to be more common among self-consciously liberal activists. That what it sounds like you are describing to me when you say "lifer activist grifter." Explicitly left wing orgs usually have activists that run way more nerdy (I say this as I am one of them lol). Like I saw way more stuff like FALGSC graphic-T shirts than colored hair and nose rings or whatever, which is arguably the same sort of cringe commodity virtue signaling/harmless fun.
Now the MOST serious activists I've seen, those who were part of an immigrants rights group, wore uniforms to rallies and meetings. That's basically as "square" as you can get, but damn if it didn't make them look like they meant business.
Oh yeah, the immigrants and natives rights people are serious business, much respect. Idk who those guys who commented on me were for. I remember somebody commented that one of them was attempting to TikTok his way to fame, but that also could have just been a joke. They very easily could have been a part of more liberal activist orgs.
