These comments ostensibly come from Aaron Bushnell’s reddit account before it was suspended. I do not vouch for the veracity of this. Hilarious how they try to peg this obvious leftists as a “liberal.”

Originally posted to /r/libsofreddit to make fun of him, but (shocker) Bushnell sounds like he knew exactly what was up.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Doesn’t feel awesome to agree with everything said by a guy who burned himself in protest, ngl

    Edit: a lot of things anyway

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      agree with everything

      So you agree marriage is mutually exploitative and coercive to both parties? (Bottom left in OPs image) not the only questionable take in that image.

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        Yes, actually.

        As a cultural practice, Marriage is a tradition that exploits the human desire for affection to coerce people into fixed, state-authorized relationships for the express purpose of reproducing the nuclear family unit.

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      Nah, he’s right. “Sanity” is a made-up label used to justify the mistreatment of people considered by the ruling class to be unsightly or inconvenient.

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        Bullshit, sanity is a more than just a label it’s a fucking concept. A concept that can be defined scientifically, outside of the context of our society.

        Just because you don’t like the context doesn’t mean you can just pretend things don’t exist

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          “A concept that can be defined scientifically”

          Yeah, sure. It’s totally scientific. That’s why we were diagnosing people with “female histeria” and perscribing them medical orgasms as recently as WW2.

          “Sanity” is about as scientific a definition as “weeds”, which isn’t strictly defined and describes any plants that grow in a place where a human doesn’t want them to. Likewise, sanity is “the abilty to think and behave in a normal manner”, with “normal” left for outside observers to define.

          “outside of the context of our society.”

          Nope, you need the context of a society to define the “normal” bounds of sanity.

          Just because you don’t like the truth doesn’t mean you don’t have unexamimed assumptions clouding your judgement.

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          While I don’t totally disagree with you, nor advocate the position you are arguing against… I wonder what is the scientific definition of sanity? Is there a consensus on it? If it is a concept that exists outside the context of our society as you claim, then is it something objectively inherent in all humans regardless of their culture or circumstances? Or can its meaning change over time; can the standard of entrance be lowered or raised depending on current trends or the whim of the majority?