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The commie sentiment about how anarchy theory is immature and based on everyone suddenly being very cool with each other is interesting considering they have the idea that people in power will never have the urge to abuse it at all ever for their own gain
God, it's embarrassing how many people in the notes don't get it.
Massively viral online and praise for "breaking gender norms".
Absolute zero virality (this is maybe the first I've heard of her since she came out) and claims of "he's just not as interesting anymore".
Imagine if something like this happened to someone who came out as gay. Would you recognise a sudden drop in popularity and interest like this as homophobia? If so, why is the transmisogyny so hard for you to recognise?
Just learned that the IDF forces Palestinians to go into areas or homes they deem dangerous/unsafe to test if it's booby-trapped and avoid putting their troops in danger. They call this the Mosquito Protocol
They're literally using Palestinians as human shields.
Last year they forced an 80 yr old man to wear an explosive around his neck and walk into random buildings, acting as a human shield for them. After 8 hours they released him and another division shot the elderly man and his wife to death.
This is what the IDF does to Palestinians. This is what Zionists are defending.
Remember, every accusation is a confession with these Nazis
Fuck it, leaving this place soon If you wanna still talk to me, go to my discord (@roguesynapse)
Gonna back shit up then I'm just not gonna post again lmao
It seems that your cheap phones are not a god given right but actually a luxury sustained by imperialist inequality after all. Mirá vos.
behold your mutually beneficial relationship
"it's not imperialism to outsource manufacturing"... then by all means tell me what it is. why exactly is it so cheap to rely on overseas manufacturing in the first place - why doesn't that kind of work pay better? why aren't the safety standards and quality of life for the workers higher? why do those poor people overseas only have grueling factory work and subsistence agriculture to choose from in the first place? who made it that way - what historical and geopolitical factors are responsible for the current state of affairs? why can't those people manage to accumulate any wealth of their own to build stronger and more self-sufficient domestic economies - what is continuing to stop them from doing so? and why is it okay for us to benefit from that system?
the "dire wolves are no longer extinct" stuff is gonna be the most annoyingly persistent science misinformation for the next decade at least
my theory is they went with dire wolves because it's the easiest pop culture-famous extinct animal to evoke. anything people would see as cool or notable enough to care about, like a dinosaur or a woolly mammoth or a dodo, is really hard to genetically edit into existence; the exception being dire wolves, which people both think of as an epic game of thrones fantasy creature that also looks exactly like a normal wolf (as opposed to a large bush dog that isn't that closely related to grey wolves)
here's a good article from New Scientist for anyone who wants it!
I'll cut to the chase for everyone:
Using a species concept that hasn't been scientifically relevant for like. A century.
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Don't make me bring you a featherless biped, Beth.
On April 8 we celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher, and remember all the lives she destroyed.
Happy Margaret Thatcher Death Day to all who celebrate!
It seems that your cheap phones are not a god given right but actually a luxury sustained by imperialist inequality after all. Mirá vos.
looking for an ML org in the US is like a job search on indeed that is Not Going Well. like “okay i’d like an anti revisionist org with an accurate analysis of china (as well as its geopolitical relationship to the US) as well as the russian-ukraine war” and then nothing shows up so you’re like “Well fine i’ll just take good opinions on the war and it shouldn’t cover up sex offenders” and then shoot you have nothing. and you’re finally just gonna throw in the towel you say “fine i’ll take any ML org that actually does anything at all” and there’s also nothing. so you look at unions and guess what. treatlerites
One of the main reasons I'm an Anarchist lmao
its not like marxist-leninism has improved the lives of countless millions. what has anarchism ever done for the world. i think its incredibly stupid to go with whatever ideology is easiest for you. but what do i know
Anarchism has improved the lives of millions, just in different ways. Smaller and more in the fringes of society than the ML states.
I agree, though, Marxism Leninism has improved lives in the past. It turned nations with little industrial production into manufacturing superpowers. ML nations have helped eradicate disease, gave us new understandings of the universe, and lifted billions from poverty. My main problems are how they stagnated, how they seemed to come to a competently run but still exploitative state capitalism and went no further. How political corruption tore through them like wildfire. How forcible collectivization caused many, many avoidable deaths. How many people, many socialists even, were declared enemies of the state and executed or imprisoned. I believe these are reasonable critiques to have, and it led me to explore alternatives.
The fact that, in my countries at least, the anarchist groups are often doing the most direct action (even if it might only amount to charity work) helped some though.
But I mean no offense. Believe what you believe, I'm sure you can find others who agree with you in time. Hopefully someday we'll see each other on the same side of a reinvigorated movement.
Tupac Shakur _ God Has Cursed Me To See What Life Should Be Like
looking for an ML org in the US is like a job search on indeed that is Not Going Well. like “okay i’d like an anti revisionist org with an accurate analysis of china (as well as its geopolitical relationship to the US) as well as the russian-ukraine war” and then nothing shows up so you’re like “Well fine i’ll just take good opinions on the war and it shouldn’t cover up sex offenders” and then shoot you have nothing. and you’re finally just gonna throw in the towel you say “fine i’ll take any ML org that actually does anything at all” and there’s also nothing. so you look at unions and guess what. treatlerites
One of the main reasons I'm an Anarchist lmao
Hossam Shabat is dead. I am beyond rage and despair as I write these words. The Israeli military bombed his car this morning as he was traveling in Beit Lahia. Videos fill my screen of his body lying on the street, carried to the hospital, grieved by his colleagues and loved ones. These are the kinds of tragic scenes Hossam himself would so often document for the world. He was an exemplary journalist: brave, tireless, and dedicated to telling the story of Palestinians in Gaza.
Hossam was one of a handful of reporters who remained in northern Gaza through Israel’s genocidal war. His ability to cover one of the most brutal military campaigns in recent history was almost beyond comprehension. He bore witness to untold death and suffering on an almost daily basis for seventeen months. He was displaced over twenty times. He was often hungry. He buried many of his journalist colleagues. In November, he was wounded in an Israeli airstrike. I still can’t believe I am referring to him in the past tense. Israel obliterates the present.
When I contacted Hossam in November to ask him to write for Drop Site News, he was enthusiastic. “Greetings habibi. May God keep you. I am very happy to have this opportunity,” he wrote. “There are so many ideas, scenes, stories.”
His first dispatch for Drop Site was a searing account of a vicious mass expulsion campaign by the Israeli military in Beit Lahia that forced thousands of Palestinian families to flee one of the last remaining shelters in the besieged town:
Some of the wounded fell on the road with no hope of getting treatment. "I was walking with my sister in the street,” said Rahaf, 16. She and her sister were the sole survivors in their family of an earlier airstrike that killed 70 people. “Suddenly my sister fell due to the bombing. I saw blood pouring from her, but I couldn't do anything. I left her in the street, and no one pulled her out. I was screaming, but no one heard me."
His writing was lyrical and arresting. I struggled to translate and edit his pieces—to do them justice, to convey his emotive use of Arabic into something relatable in English. In the typical editorial see-saw back and forth of finalizing a piece, I would often return to him with clarifications and questions, asking him for additional details and direct quotes. He was always quick to respond despite his extraordinary circumstances.
In January, Hossam filed a piece about the three days between when the “ceasefire” deal was announced and when it was scheduled to be implemented, a period when Israel escalated its bombing campaign across Gaza:
They targeted the al-Falah school; they bombed an entire residential block in Jabaliya; they killed families, like the Alloush family, whose bodies have not yet been recovered and still lie under and over the rubble. The children I saw that night appeared happy but they were no longer living, their faces frozen in a mix of smiles and blood.
In early December, when writing a preamble to one of his articles, I asked him to confirm his age. “Hahaha. I’m young. 24,” he wrote. Then moments later he clarified: “Actually, I haven’t turned 24 yet. I’m 23.” I told him he was young in age only, but in experience he was old (it sounds better in Arabic). “I'm really tired,” he responded. “I swear I have no strength left. I can't find a place to sleep. I've been displaced 20 times.” He continued: “Did you know that I am the only one in my family who lives alone in the north?” Last month, during the “ceasefire,” he was reunited with his mother for the first time in 492 days.
In October, the Israeli military placed Hossam and five other Palestinian journalists on a hit list. At the time, he said it felt like he was “hunted.” He called on people to speak out using the hashtag #ProtectTheJournalists: “I plead everyone to share the reality about Journalists in order to spread awareness about the real plans of the Israeli occupation to target journalists in order to impose a media blackout. Spread the hashtag and talk about us!”
In December, after the Israeli military killed five journalists in an airstrike on their vehicle, I messaged to check in on him.
“Our job is only to die,” he responded. “I hate the whole world. No one is doing anything. I swear I've come to hate this job.” About his surviving colleagues he wrote, “We've started saying to each other: "Ok, whose turn is it?…Our families consider us already martyred.”
When Israel resumed its scorched earth bombing last week, I messaged again to check in on him. He responded with one word: “Death.”
Throughout it all, Hossam would message with ideas for stories, or just to relay what was happening in the north. In his messages and voice notes, he often somehow still managed to be warm and funny—a kind of rebellion against the death all around him.
After the “ceasefire” went into effect, he returned to his hometown of Beit Hanoun on the northeastern edge of Gaza. Hardly a structure was left standing, but he was determined to stay and document the destruction.
He messaged me late Sunday night, just hours before he was killed. He had been forced to leave his hometown of Beit Hanoun on the day of Israel’s renewed assault last week and was forcibly displaced yet again—this time to Jabaliya. We had agreed on him writing a piece about the attack last week and what he had witnessed.
“Habibi,” he wrote. “I miss you.” I asked him what the situation was like in Jabaliya. “Difficult,” he said.
He sent his piece, and I read through it, sent my follow-up questions. He only answered one before going offline. I messaged him again as soon as I woke up this morning. I didn’t yet know that he had been killed.
What you are about to read is Hossam’s last article. I translated it through tears.
—Sharif Abdel Kouddous
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"thank god i was born into this pure and untainted afab body instead of an icky amab one" like seriously i'm begging you to just ditch the quirky language and admit you think """"amab bodies"""" are inherently unfortunate or undesirable. i don't know how you can say this as a transmasc and expect transfems to trust you, you're weird as fuck. just for once can you people please think about the kind of language you are using and how it comes across.
