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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 90 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me the ultimate leftist going down on my sister just as Marx intended

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The "oral with your sister" / "anal with your father" schism is tearing leftism apart.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

That's right, I'm a Marxist-Mullenist, being gay with your dad is a prelude to the revolution

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 18 points 2 years ago

Wait we were supposed to choose?

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[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 88 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Cannibalism as a widespread cultural practice is actually super fucking rare outside of England.

[–] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 89 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

One of the funniest bits of projection ever. Victorians were coming up with all kinds of crazy ways to eat mummies and shit, and all of western society memory-holed it.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let's not forget their fondness of powdered Irish skulls.

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First I'm hearing about it. Where did you find out about that?

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Aren't all Christians cannibals? Don't they believe they're eating the body of Christ? Sorry I don't fully understand transubstantiation.

[–] Crowtee_Robot@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Only Catholic dogma still believe that it literally turns into the flesh and blood of Christ. Protestants generally acknowledge it as a symbol, not the real deal.

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[–] regul@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everything indigenous groups have ever done is good, actually. I am very smart.

Ritual human sacrifice to appease the gods? Not actually that bad! Kill the krakkka inside your head.

[–] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, it wasn't that bad compared to the scale of human sacrifice in Europe at the time, yes I am including executions in this metric

[–] regul@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

.Europeans are also indigenous to Europe.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought Yakub created them in a lab in Africa?

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Prion diseases eating good off this

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[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 55 points 2 years ago (6 children)

On top of everything else saying native Americans were cannibals is uniquely offensive.

The whole idea of wendigos is its what happens to you if you consume human flesh.

Entire villages committed mass suicide before winters if they didn't have enough food so no one would have to resort to cannibalism.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There have been some indigenous cultures that genuinely practiced cannibalism such as the Wari', but to imply it was commonplace is not only incorrect but also doing the work of (ironically cannibalistic) European colonizers.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thinking back to a shipwreck i read about where the survivors decided to take a longer route to safety bc they thought the closest inhabited island was filled with scary cannibals

you'll never guess what happened next~

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Papists do weekly ritual cannibalism according to their own doctrine

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[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

cannibalism has factually been practiced by many groups, including some indigenous to the americas. limiting it to US-occupied peoples i can't think of any examples, but that isn't what the OP asserted.

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[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Isn't cannibalism as a practice more a thing in Indonesia on the other side of the world? Like kuru is a thing and if you need a word for disease from eating people's brains, then there's probably a non-insignificant amount of eating people. Not like mayos don't ever eat people though. Europeans would grind up mummies and drink a tincture of the dust as a miracle medicine, which is pretty weird and gross.

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[–] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Are these people feds?

Because they're overdoing it, the left cannot be character assassinated any further.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

Regardless of whether or not these people are feds, I think this kind of shit is a reasonable argument for the need to have a centralized party or parties that have the power to censure or expell members.

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[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I will not eat the people.

I will not fuck the sister.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago

What are you a lib

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if she's stuck in a laundry machine or other home appliance?

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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago

Getting prion diseases to own the leftists.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

seems like the thread is agreeing that eating people and fucking family members is indeed bad

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I know, but that's like concrete and other shielding materials containing the radioactive waste part of this thread that is going "um actually..."

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

ah, fair lol

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago (19 children)

i think cannibalism is a fine barometer of cultural relativism and lingering western chauvinism. to take the most charitable approach to op1, 'ritual cannibalism to honor the dead' is quite different from the consumption of enemies or strangers--for which our objection would be the violation of those non-consensual victims' consent or rights. but the Fore community in which Kuru famously spread did not practice that, theirs was the consumption of family/community members after natural death. i can't format an objection to that, besides the associated healthrisk---which modern medicine could probably prevent if applied to the problem. the Kuru outbreak actually killed that tradition so it's kind of academic to debate, but i think it's important examine knee-jerk demonization of foreign ritual on honest terms, and to apply a consistent standard to all sorts.

for a more practical question: should a religious practitioner be permitted to fast to death? a voluntary religiously-motivated suicide gets very different billing based on the context, and whether that's justified should be examined. maybe one is permissive of a fasting death or a self-immolation, but not an allegedly voluntary sacrifice, or a jonestown? what are the limits to religious freedom and bodily autonomy, and are those informed by a christian socialization or a materialist basis?

endnote: no, lol to the incest. my actual stance on religion is full abolition before someone twists this into support for mostly dead religions, this is about racist and chauvinistic attitudes that socialists are not automatically immune from

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

the Kuru outbreak actually killed that tradition so it's kind of academic to debate

Seems to me that this is the answer to the question in most cases. Historically, some cultures practiced cannibalism but most have stopped and I don't know of any active movements to bring back that practice. There's an ethnocentric tendency to think of mainstream culture as one which evolves over time but minority cultures are static traditionalist museum pieces. That couldn't be further from the truth - minority cultures change in response to new conditions and information too.

I would go even so far as to argue that using indigenous cultures to try to justify cannibalism is engaging in the "noble savage" trope.

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[–] drhead@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

(cw: cannibalism of stick figures)

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

You aren't a true leftist unless you're part of an elaborate Aristocrats joke

[–] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do we even have a rule about links any longer?

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Terminal stage "DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" no-veggies-at-dinner-no-bedtimes ideology. hypersus

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Guessing this is all actually about that incest cannibal coffin game.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hilariously, /r/tankiejerk also complained about this post.

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[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I do not know if the culturalist opponents of the real world and its evolutionary trends, understood as Americanization by some and Westernization by others, can be described as rational. Confronted by the threat of Americanization, some defend unique "cultural values"...This is a dangerous situation, and the danger is enhanced by adherence to the principle of irresponsibility. It is dangerous because the (capitalist) system has reached a stage characterized by the monstrous power of its destructive capacities. As I said above, the system is capable of destroying human beings, nature, and whole societies.

  • Samir Amin, Eurocentrism.

They certainly aren't rational here...

If you start from a culturalist critique and not a materialistic one, this is what happens.

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[–] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

From the title I assumed this would be about Andy & Leyley.

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