Magneto (birth name: Max Eisenhardt; alias: Erik Lehnsherr and Magnus) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The X-Men #1 (cover-dated September 1963) as an adversary of the X-Men.
The character is a powerful mutant, one of a fictional subspecies of humanity born with superhuman abilities, who has the ability to generate and control magnetic fields. Magneto regards mutants as evolutionarily superior to humans and rejects the possibility of peaceful human-mutant coexistence; he initially aimed to conquer the world to enable mutants, whom he refers to as Homo superior, to replace humans as the dominant species. Writers have since fleshed out his origins and motivations, revealing him to be a Holocaust survivor whose extreme methods and cynical philosophy derive from his determination to protect mutants from suffering a similar fate at the hands of a world that fears and persecutes them. He is a friend of Professor X, the leader of the X-Men, but their different philosophies cause a rift in their friendship at times. Magneto’s role in comics has progressed from supervillain to antihero to superhero, having served as an occasional ally and member of the X-Men, even leading the New Mutants for a time as headmaster of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.
Ian McKellen has portrayed Magneto in various films since X-Men in 2000, while Michael Fassbender has portrayed a younger version of the character in the prequel films since X-Men: First Class in 2011. Both actors portrayed their respective incarnations in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
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Put down the pen… pick up the gun…
Easy said, but not so doneIts a bit weird how there are moments when you get hit by the obscurity of the world around us even though it might be something that you frequently think and talk about all the time. Like yesterday, I was just standing at a corner waiting for the crossing light to change and I started really looking at all the cars passing by. And unless it was a taxi most of them had no passengers. And it just hit me how much room all these individual drivers were taking up and the impact that that makes on the cityscape.
Moana makes me cry every time
TIL that in gen ix empoleon gets roost
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One Piece Skypiea Arc in a nutshell (Spoilers):
- Wahoo Whacky funtime pirate adventure to find an island in the sky!
- The modern carceral state is an institution designed to entrap the working class through the accumulation of petty offenses, and any pushback against the unreasonably punitive nature of such laws will be taken as an excuse for escalated responses from the authorities, including the use of state-sanctioned violence and capital punishment. The stigma and fear of retribution for being associated with lawbreakers is used to divide the working class against itself and keep the populace in line.
- The first world only prospers because of the stolen wealth and genocide of native people’s
- The Straw Hat Pirates attack and dethrone God
I know a lot of kinky people, and it seems like for a lot of them and for me a lot of kink is rooted in processing trauma. Do you think in a better society where people suffer less abuse and can get care for that abuse, a much more healthy society, we’d see less kink from people not needing that outlet for trauma or more kinky because people will be more open and willing to explore new things?
This is actually a really interesting idea. I can definetly say that most of my kinks are also rooted in trauma as well. I’m not certain that we would necessarily see less kink though, I think that as long as we have sex people will be trying new and inventive things with it. The thing is that sexual preferences and practices are ultimately socially constructed right? For instance all Mormons have to like
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Wear special underwear they aren’t allowed to take off? Which prevents them from having ‘normal’ sex. I forget what exactly the situation is, would have to look it up but yknow
And I’ve also seen anecdotal evidence that like protocol kink (calling people ‘master’ and observing certain layers of formality) is more common in Germany where the language has more levels of, uh, formality for people to use.
So I think this definetly means that under a better society than what we have right now kink will look a whole lot different. I don’t think it’s safe to say there will be no kink though, because also at the end of the day kink is pretty fucking fun!
P. S. I could also go into the history of one of my favorite kinks and how it very much can’t have existed in its present form more than a couple years ago, but I’m not super prepared to and I’m not sure it’s super relevant to the conversation :P
I’m glad someone else found my weird thoughts interesting. Also I’d love to know the history of any kink, it’s all pretty neat to me.
Well I mean I’m pretty into hypnosis. I’m not like uhh suuper well read in How We Got To Where We Are Currently but I know that like hypnotism wasn’t really like investigated until a few centuries ago (ok wikipedia says late 1700s was when white ppl got started doing it and writing about it in books but it does astutely point out that trances (a pretty central element of hypnosis) were very much a thing before that) (and also like it is yknow possible to like go into a trance without it having anything to do with hypnosis like if you have adhd hyperfocus can ‘be’ a trance and yknow stuff like that).
Anyways one of the common tropes is like ‘oh you’re brainwashing someone into being your [sex] slave’ right but like the thing is that the word brainwash was invented by like one of the proto-cia guys (I don’t feel like looking up his name right now lol) who invented the whole idea of brainwashing in order to explain why people would choose to support communism. If the communists are using what’s basically magic to get people to support them then that way you don’t have to engage with any actual arguments for why people might choose to become communists.
people might’ve invented/been pushed to it from traumas of society but i think there’s enough to it that’d it’d perpetuate independently of those stressors.
the real worry is that FALGSC might stifle the creation of new and exciting fetishes. at least till the aliens show up
Pushing everyone into the Willy Wonka Fast Travel Tunnel in 2095 to keep kink alive
There are two factors at play. One, kinky stuff is fun. Two, isomorphism is valued under cpaitlaism. It is important to be normal so you maximize your ability to secure profit. That’s why under capitalism everything is beige. To be willing to explore something like kink, or a kink identity, you probably need some reason to distance yourself from society. Trauma is a very good reason to ignore the drive to be normal. Then having exciting sexy adventures. There is a reason you see most people start swinging in their 30-40s. That is when most people start to realize the american dream is a lie and they have to find their own happiness. That is why you find so many nerdy or neurodivergent people in kink. They have already had yto break with society, so one more thing is not a hardship, especially to have a sexy adventure.
Bonus if you want to find a board game group I guarantee the people ar your local dungeon all play boardgames and you know they re good about showing up to events.
Comrades, I’ve been working with a brand new org, helping it get off the ground. We’re publishign our party program in November.
My first article, that I wrote about a year ago, is my first submission to them and they LOVED it. Lots of edits though, been working through it all day. It’s main thesis is that there are parallels between the current trans panic, christian nationalism, and the Salem witch trials. I’ll post it when it’s published! Probably next week.
Parallels? As I see it, Amerikkkan Christian nationalism is the primary cause of the current trans panic and its seed, puritanism, was the cause of the Salem witch trials
I’ll send it over when it’s done!
That sounds amazing! Good luck!
sounds like this pamphlet leslie feinberg wrote
https://www.workers.org/books2016/Feinberg_Transgender_Liberation.pdf
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Got a DM from a comrade who’s struggling. I won’t share who they are because they didn’t ask me to. But I feel so bad for them and I don’t know what to do.
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I’m already in a new band but i want to make another
Exponential band growth
Coward, you have to do factorial growth where every combination of person and instrument is an entirely new band.
Since my teens I didn’t really care to make a big deal about my birthday, but now that I’m in my thirties I’m starting to care again.
Now that I’m a dad to teens, they give me the greatest birthday gift of all every year: a long weekend all to myself. They hook me up with some food delivery, and I can lock myself in my office for a zero responsibility one-man party. They pick up my slack on cooking, cleaning, and picking up groceries.
It’s truly magical. I love them so much.
the switch version of phantasy star 1 is really good
they added a bunch of qol, like the (extremely necessary) manual being built into the game, the dungeon mapping feature (saves you graph paper), and the “easy” mode which just doubles the xp and money drops from enemies without touching their stats (the original is extremely grindy at the beginning)
runs great on yuzu tooI dropped my fucking breakfast on the floor
I still ate it though, I had to pull some hair and fuzz off of it
x-second rule, where x is the amount of seconds that it takes me to pick up food that I’ve dropped
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Well what was I suppose to do, I’m not going to throw good food away
Self crit time: I think it was me who had a bad Nietzsche take in the past, on an old account, that you mentioned in a now deleted thread @[email protected]
I’ve read most of what he wrote now, and honestly I love Nietzsche.
What were your prior criticisms and how have they changed after you head him?
Basically that he was not worth reading as he was a reactionary. And not just any reactionary, but like de Gobineau tier nonsense, with nothing of value to say.
His early shit was very anti-semitic (though he came around on that). And it’s not like all his opinions were chill, or anything. But there is a lot of correct and useful analysis in there too. The Black Panthers recommended him for a reason. And he was a beautiful writer. He also got me to get into reading poetry. (Well, him and Heidegger)
Pardon my ignorance as I haven’t read him. I don’t have a negative view of him, I tried reading him years ago and uhh I guess it was a bit difficult and I always figured I would get to it later.
What’s the ‘ubermensch’ supposed to be? I took it as some metaphysical quality but never looked deeper into it.
Pardon my ignorance as I haven’t read him. I don’t have a negative view of him, I tried reading him years ago and uhh I guess it was a bit difficult and I always figured I would get to it later.
What’s the ‘ubermensch’ supposed to be? I took it as some metaphysical quality but never looked deeper into it.
That’s fucking sick as hell
Also FWIW I didn’t want to bag on you personally. I too had the experience of being humbled by reading a text that I had dismissed out of hand. For me it was Freud. I didn’t become a Freudian or anything but I came away with a nuanced understanding of his work and his intellectual contributions. The downside is that now I get annoyed when I see people saying like “DAE Freud was a cocaine-addled maniac whose collected works should be shot into the sun?? 😂😂😂”
No worries, I didn’t feel called out or anything, just thought it was funny really.
I still gotta read some Freud, he’s on the list. I need all the help I can get trying to read Deleuze.
