They are disarming the proletariat because they know how hard we have all been studying the blade. The sword is the true worker’s symbol of liberation. Only a multi-thousand-times folded blade can cleanly slice through the chains of oppression.
I only vote for candidates that I know will lose
Gary Johnson 2016 
I think Redditors would be full mask-off if their usernames were anonymous like on 4chan. Not all that different, but Reddit feels more “Polite” than 4chan.
US right-wing politics has a real 4chan vibe to it these days, it’s been weird to watch 4chan ideas and vernacular become mainstream
I appreciate the response - I understand what you are saying. I do want to clarify that I’m not trying to argue from an arbitrary moral/idpol perspective. In the article in the linked thread, they interviewed a person who is a part of the Navajo nation, who argues explicitly against the consumption of Mescaline for outsiders, synthetic or not.
“How would Christians feel if Jesus Christ was cloned?” asked Justin Jones, a Diné peyote practitioner and legal counsel for the Native American church of North America, a non-profit organization that advocates for more than 300,000 members. “And while the real Jesus is protected, people could do whatever they wanted to the clone.”
Creating synthetic mescaline in a lab or growing peyote in a greenhouse is a violation of natural law, and interrupts the unique symbiotic relationship with the plant. “What western scientists call mescaline is for us the essence of the medicine,” said Jones. “It is the soul of it and what makes it holy.”
If I am understanding you correctly - that would shift this from being a purely value-neutral form of appropriation, to being actively harmful and disrespectful.
Can you help me understand what you mean, or point me in the right direction? I’m not exactly a well-read Marxist and I’m not trying to hide it
According the the person interviewed in the article, it is the plant, and the chemical itself.
Creating synthetic mescaline in a lab or growing peyote in a greenhouse is a violation of natural law, and interrupts the unique symbiotic relationship with the plant. “What western scientists call mescaline is for us the essence of the medicine,” said Jones. “It is the soul of it and what makes it holy.”
There’s definitely a branch of “Psychonauts” that want to engage in the whole ritual practice (See all these psychedelic retreats/therapies/ayauasca “experiences”), but it sounds like many of them don’t want the chemical commodified at all either.
They don’t have a right to the chemical structure of mescaline though. It’s like saying Chinese tea growers have the right to bar western people from drinking energy drinks because they both contain caffeine.
My dude, what? We’re talking about settlers appropriating the culture of indigenous Americans. I’m not versed in the history of the Chinese Tea trade, but it has historically been exported and shared. The key difference being “Exported and Shared”. Willfully sharing parts of your culture with other people is not at all comparable to having it be appropriated by colonizers despite your express protests.
Would you stop taking Aspirin if Egyptian people said that you were appropriating their use of willow bark?
Willow trees grow worldwide, and people generally use the resources that are available to them. There is definitely a case to be made about the imperialist nature of western medicine, but that is a completely separate conversation from what we’re talking about here.
They have a right to the rituals, images, and other unique elements of culture involving peyote. They do not have a right to the chemical structure itself.
Why are you so intent on determining what parts of their culture they have a right to and which parts they don’t?
Yeah i re-read the article a few times and came to a similar conclusion. At the same time - if they have an issue with white colonizers using synthetic Peyote mescaline, is that not also worth consideration and empathy? It subverts the supply issue, but it feels to me (as a white colonizer) like approptiation of someone’s culture, against the protest of the people who’s culture is being appropriated.
Should we really be forcing onto any indigenous peoples our views of whats “fair”? There exist many alternatives to mescaline, and I think their desire to not have it commodified and shared should be respected.
Sure, but Peyote takes 10-30 years to grow in a very specific climate, and is endangered due to overharvesting. Growing your own is one thing, but exploiting an endangered plant and telling the groups that use it to “Grow it on their own land” is blatant colonizer behavior.
I shaved my legs for the first time and… Did not expect that to take an hour and a half. Where did time go
Me: Used Telegram for drugs, but it turned into the most deplorable fascist shithole you ever did see.
yeah, I have regrets.
Imagine having any shred of class consciousness and saying shit like that - having any understanding of systems of oppression and exploitation and going 
“I will kick my fellow workers down to become bourgeois.”. Straight up demonic behavior.
Can confirm, my Dane ancestors sold the family soul off ages ago.
Close to 0 class consciousness among the tech workers I know. Absolute whipped by the establishment chuds that somehow see themselves as above working class. “I dont need a union, thats for people who are exploited by their employer. I have skills to move to different employers.” Yeah ok bud, try not working for a month or two and see watch your bank account show you just how “not working class” you really are.
Source: work in tech, friends work in tech (they’re all libs at best, many reactionary at worst.)
Now you’re making me wish i jumped on the last steam sale, you make it sound super interesting. I’ll keep an eye on it and give it a shot, thanks!!
How is that game? I’ve seen it on sale lately but haven’t pulled the trigger.
I stand corrected - I must begin studying the spear.