ComradeSharkfucker

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  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlIt hurts
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    6 days ago

    I wasn’t trying to suggest you were defending him and I apologize if it came off that way. My point was mainly that, while celebrating violence isn’t a good look in polite society, it isn’t morally abjectionable in an objective way and I won’t fault people for it. Just as I wouldn’t criticize a rape victim for celebrating their abusors death. While not as direct or severe as rape (hopefully), many people on this site were victimized by his rhetoric. Even if they weren’t directly, maybe someone they loved was.

    To add to this, I also think that the reason so many of us in the west abhor this behavior is because we have state sanctioned and state monopolized violence. It is acceptable to celebrate this violence because it is done under the authority of the state, they are allowed to be violent to us and to foreign peoples and we are allowed to celebrate that. Many of us do because that violence is beneficial to them. People celebrate police and military violence all the time. What’s horrifying, what we are taught to be horrified by, is violence done by us against the interest of the state. This cannot be acceptably celebrated. Maybe we shouldn’t let it be so scary to us. Maybe that mentality is incredibly beneficial to the people who control our lives.

    Violence is a tool, it isn’t good or evil. Sometimes violence is deeply liberating and I think it’s okay to celebrate that. Independance days are a very common holiday and many of them were won through violence.

    As an aside though, I do condemn the murder of charlie kirk. Not because it was violent and murder but because it was adventurism and deeply irresponsible. Individual acts of violence like this, while gratifying, have proven to be detrimental to liberatory movments.

    I hope this helps you understand my perspective

















  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mltoJokes and Humor@beehaw.orgsalmon
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    17 days ago

    Well actually

    This is what happens to salmon when they get hormonal

    For any curious

    Why?

    The goals of the Salmon change when they reach mating age. Now they don’t need to survive in the ocean, they need to make sperm/eggs and survive the long trip to their birthplace. This trip is through fresh water lakes and rivers. That is a very different environment from the ocean. They will need to jump/swim up waterfalls. They will need to avoid predators, but very different ones than they faced in the ocean.At the end of their journey they will mate and die.

    Because the goals and environmental pressures change so much the Salmon must also change to meet those new challenges. If they didn’t they wouldn’t be as successful in reaching their final destination and making more Salmon.

    How?

    Just like humans, hormones trigger biological changes. The change to fresh water also triggers changes and a countdown clock. The changes use a lot of energy, as does their trip and mating. Their body will literally consume itself to make the changes and meet the challenges it needs to so that the salmon make it home to mate.

    (From a former comment of mine)