I think broadly, the life-saving and pro-human efforts are simultaneously so important to our cause as communists but also difficult to articulate. A death statistic is easy; you just count the bodies. A life statistic is harder. There’s rising life expectancies and lowered child mortality, but fundamentally it’s really difficult to find people and point them out and say “in the alternate timeline where communists weren’t there, this person would be dead.”

One example that’s really clear, for instance, is communism’s opposition to fascism. Without this opposition, Eastern Europe, China, and likely the rest of the world would have been enslaved/genocide by the nazis and imperial Japan, at least for an extended period. The USSR’s opposition to nazism was so life-saving that Western Europe almost went communist, if not for the Marshall Plan. But this one is very transparent. Pointing out the importance of having an apartment vs being homeless from war and poverty, as you have highlighted, are all much subtler.

Well provided someone consents to “just” give you an egg (which may have moral issues but are far simpler by comparison) then yeah there’s much less to navigate

As a gay guy I’d love if this were real and widely available. I would be able to become a father, but not have to navigate the moral minefields of surrogacy and adoption

This is so smart, will do tyty

Actually, funny story. I have big eyes similar to hers. When I smile normally, they squint so I look like I’m closing my eyes or sleeping (and my eyelids are very trigger-happy with flash so it’s a double whammy). I then get the feedback to “open my eyes” and I end up looking insane like that photo. So it’s a lose-lose situation.

In general I photograph poorly tbh, I look better in mirrors and in motion 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Do we? Cuz like, I’m willing to go

I think it tends to happen later in the night. I could be listening to the same song on the radio or at the gym and not feel those same things, just feeling pumped instead

Baggy pants and chunky white sneakers. Ugh I’m so done with then. When can we get back to straight cut? I’m so sick of the skinny-baggy jeans back and forth

Punjabi drinking. Party hard or don’t party at all, I say!

I like this meme format cuz it looks like they’re about to fuck in the woods, which is hot

There’s a reason that George Orwell is studied in middle school. Literally baby’s first politics

Finally, a half-decent meme about something I agree with. Thank you for making a not dogshit meme like half of the communists on this forum lmao

you carry a person on your person at all times?

I agree with the sentiment but by god the pacing of the joke in this meme is awful

Yeah it really splits the crowd. There were three case studies from the course but I can’t find my offering’s outline and I forget the third case study. The first one was: “A woman signs a form saying that if she gets dementia she wants euthanasia in the late/developed stages of the illness. Later, she gets there, but this ‘version’ of her has a really high quality of life and is quite contented. Do you follow through?”

In between there were discussions of frameworks like Aristotelian/Kantian/utilitarian ethics. There were also some medical specific stuff, like the biopsychosocial model of disability. Pretty neat overall, though tbh I wish I took an ethics class more relevant to my current academic pursuits (math)

I remember discussing this in an undergrad biomedical ethics class. Pls don’t ask us to do ur homework lmao

Jury was still out by the end of class discussion btw. This one was complicated lol

Well, as long as it isn’t negatively affecting him I guess. But I assume that he’ll have to somewhat regularly monitor it with bloodwork checkups

How is he now btw? Is he getting treated? Did they find a root cause?

Honestly I’m of the opinion that “fish” should only refer to bony fish anyway; sharks should be their own thing. But also yeah, let people live lmao

Perfect, half of the sentences I say in real life are similarly indecipherable 😎 this is the #authentic #me