[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

you ask what the point of my post is but you didn't grapple with any of it. why would i care about your ideal version of porn? i live in the real world. the proliferation of porn, how it is produced, and how it is consumed, is exploitative and, insofar as it creates "gooners", is deadening. sitting around in your house all day jerking off is self-evidently bad, as is playing slot machines all day, as is eating processed foods all day from your magic fridge.

the issue isn't that you don't have enough treats, or can't get them quickly enough. the issue is that you are provided treats, at the expense of others and the world, and these treats are used as a substitute for deeper psychological and spiritual needs/desires. no one is gooning all day out of an invariable individual preference -- there's something deeper at play/at work.

its just obviously, prime facie sad to sit inside and jerk off all day to a mediated, prefabricated fantasies. not because sex is bad or shameful, but because you've become alienated from the world and are reduced to a little treat piggie.

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 7 points 19 hours ago

pin every post -- nothing is wrong, everything a banger.

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

i don't care about what happens in a liberated society. i care about what happens in a (current) neoliberal, thatcherrite non-society, where everyone is merely individuals, where the collective good is spit on, where the profit motive creates uncaptured externalities which befall those on the losing end of class distinctions. it is in this world wherein online pornography is incentivized, produced and commodified; and it is this one which is reified precisely by this sort of production in particular-- because a world in which you can instantly gratify yourself alone, all the time, in lieu of having to go outside and talk to and then fuck someone else, is one which forgoes the development of constitutive attachments with others, a necessary requirement of community.

if some people are so invariably into consuming porn, i would suggest they opt for capitalism -- though Marx may have allotted for gooning in the morning before fishing at midday and critiquing after dinner, capitalism will surely provide a more varied and variegated porn under the profit motive. all that is holy is profaned, and these people (who, apparently, are NOT the product of their environments, but would be necessarily just, really, irreducibly horny) would be better off there.

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 9 points 19 hours ago

i think there's probably a qualitative difference between vulgar graffiti and having a tiny machine in your pocket that has, and will be incentivized to create more, limitless simulations of people fucking for your gratification at any time.

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 10 points 20 hours ago

when i jerk off all day to online pornography, i'm not jerking off to porn inherently; i'm jerking off to porn within a neoliberal order which purports to best provide individual preference satisfaction but because of the profit motive and class realities provides a world incentivized to indulge my selfish impulses at the expense of workers and the collective good and my own opportunity for actual intimacy.

no one cares about porn inherently, no one jerks off to porn inherently.

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 30 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

radlib take. sex is great, and people should be having it, and online pornography, which commodifies the most intimate and shared human experiences, and only serves to further atomize and alienate us from each other and ourselves, sucks. it produces less sex and less intimacy; it creates a market which degrades and exploits.

we easily diagnose mindless consumption as bad and deadening of the spirit, but yet people refuse to admit this when it comes to frictionless consumption of sexual gratification. why is this, why is the need to signal that one isn't a prude require an endorsement of gooning?

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 100 points 1 day ago

is it really implausible that a dude named hasan is getting detained by tsa lol

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 74 points 1 day ago

okay but he was obviously only taken aside because he kept triggering the metal detector with all his goofy ass thumb rings and pukashells and other assorted accessory bullshit.

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 49 points 4 days ago

Trump admin signaled that they are tired of Bibi's laundry and now all of a sudden moral beacons like Friedman and Borrell are talking like they've been against the genocide the entire time. These people are totally spineless, and probably know that the horse has left the barn and will do anything to pretend that they didn't cosign world-historical crimes.

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

the laundry thing is so funny -- presumably bibi is missing out on being able to wear his favorite shirts or ties, just so american tax payers can cover his laundering instead of israeli ones.

[-] OttoboyEmpire@hexbear.net 11 points 5 days ago

is the new pope taking the name leo suggestive that this would be forthcoming?

i'm not at all familiar with church politics, but it might seem like there isn't a need to reiterate a distributivist vision when there's no effective voice for labor that's seen in need of being moderated.

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