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RosaReborn wrote (edited )

Fairy tale 'happily ever after' love most certainly doesn't, nor do most teenage loves. But love is certainly real, it just comes along with a lot of other things as well. Love for a partner requires a lot of respect and empathy, and you sometimes hate the other person and sometimes they bore you or disgust you but you still love them for the person they are. Maybe not forever and definitely not always in the same way, but it certainly is important

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Zzzxxxyyy wrote

Is anything “real?”

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UnkownReality wrote

It's real as long as you chose to make it real. Everything is defined by perspective since that's really the only form of reality we're ever going to feel. You will never know if another person is even feeling, but despite that you chose to make that person a reality to yourself, so since there's nothing neccesarily going against that I guess we could say your perspective is real.

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365degrees wrote

It's about as real as the fancy long-named hormones stimulating one's brain.

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GrimWillow wrote (edited )

You can see love in the fiercest defenders against the capitalist system. You see love in the fists of Antifa. Love in the hearts of the Zapatistas, and in the determined stand of the land defenders in south america against capitalist resource extraction. From la ZAD, to Rojava, to the Anarchist Greeks, there is a burning passion. Love is in the heart of all the revolutionaries fighting in any way against the incredible tides of violent bare faced oppression, it is the biggest elephant in the room of our era (and it has been that way for a long ass time).

I mention this love specifically because many people out there like to talk about love, and then go shit on revolutionary action saying that "the hard left" is so hateful. Where liberals, centrists, and reactionaries seem to meet is on this idea that "Antifa are the real fascists!" "look at their techniques! They're stifling free speechh!!" and they completely overlook the fact that cops and fascists are tools to hold us down and kill us! How much blood has poured before these people can see the shadows of love and pain behind the eyes staring out from behind the masks you find in a black bloc? How many times do massive slaveshops in Bangladesh have to burn before they notice the wickedness behind the forces of these clothing shops? How could you solute a flag that has been found guilty of some of the most enormous acts of demonic hell action while suggesting that you worship a god of "love"?

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GaldraChevaliere wrote

It's absolutely real. People are more than just biological triggers and impulses.

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rot wrote

Define 'love'

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succtales_backup wrote (edited )

golly gee whiz I don't know. What I'm trying to say is that the concept is somewhat alien to me. What you might call "love," may be better described as obsession, or even avarice in most situations.

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OKC wrote

No man would agree to get married if it weren't.

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