#accepting that death is a part of life isn't fascist

[olderthannetfic]

I know this isn't usually your thing because its not about fandom really but politics. I'm scared how acceptable violent language against "bad people" is right now in left spaces and I'm worried it means I'm a centrist or something. I'm queer and life is scary rn so i know why people are hurt and afraid but I don't think saying wanting someone to be murdered is ok even if you think the person is truly horrible. But maybe I'm just being fragile? I don't have a lot of experience with this.

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Unfortunately, this is absolutely a fandom thing and I rant about it often.

No, becoming the worst part of your fascist enemies will not protect you or make your political movement successful. Fandom puritywankers are generally also US-flavor fake Lefties who know nothing about economic theory but think authoritarianism is great.

Thinking that "bad people" is a real and immutable category is inherently politically dangerous. To get shit done, you need to be able to identify acceptable compromises and groups that are compatible but different vs. ones that are too toxic to touch.

The black and white thinking of a child will not effect political change.

It has nothing to do with being a centrist.

It also has nothing to do with fragility. You may be feeling fragile, and understandably so, but I am not. Seeing wishes for violence doesn't upset me: it bores me.

If people send stupidass death threats in my notes because ~ooh~ the issue is just ~that important~, they get blocked because toddlers have no place in a reasonable discussion between adults. This should be the norm in fandom spaces.

[unforth]

We are one Iowa caucus into the absolute shitshow that is going to be the US 2024 elections, and I'm already sick of seeing takes downplaying the risk that Trump and his fascist followers represent.

Look. Around 1900, my mother's grandparents immigrated to the Lower East Side of New York City. They brought with them children born in Europe (Poland? Ukraine? which country they were in depends on what year we're talking about) - we're not 100% sure they were THEIR children, even, but there were three, and they were young, and they came. But my great-grandparents had siblings, parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, huge families. And while my understanding is that an attempt was made to convince those folks to move to the US, none of them ultimately opted to.

They all kept in touch as they were able, exchanging letters and pictures, but through World War 1, through the 20s, through the Great Depression, through the worsening situation in Europe in the 1930s, my entire extended family who chose not to immigrate...continued to stay.

I think we all know how this story ends.

I have an entire family photo album of people whose names I will never know, because after every single one of them died in the Holocaust, my great-grandparents and grandparents couldn't bear to even label them. And they were PEOPLE, poor, vibrant, eager to maintain connections with their loved ones abroad. One was a Klezmer musician, and we have photos of him with all the different instruments he played. They're so real on the page, and they all ended in ashes.

And you know how that started? Fascism started with every inch allowed, with every well-intentioned moderate who tried to maintain a middle position even as the whole ground shifted right beneath their feet and even "middle" became extreme, every "no that change isn't coming fast enough, I want instant full improvement NOW" liberal who felt that doing nothing was better than accepting a slower improvement in the (truly awful!) post-World War 1 living situation in Germany.

Most of the members of my extended family also downplayed the risks. They never imagined that the worst could happen to them. They never fathomed how bad things could become.

And now I have their example always before me to know and to scream:

I KNOW HOW BAD THINGS CAN BECOME. I KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FAMILY THEN.

I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN TO MY FAMILY NOW.

People look at me like I'm crazy when I say I've got our passports ready (and have had since before the 2020 election).

Look. I don't know what will happen if Trump is elected, but there's a very real possibility he will, and he's been extremely clear about saying what he'll do. He did a lot of the things he said he'd do last time. I expect he'll continue to do the things he says he'll do. And the things he say he'll do will lead to the deaths of more people than we can imagine - in the US, in Palestine, throughout the world.

Don't tell me there's a middle ground here. Don't tell me I'm over-reacting. Don't tell me the worst won't happen. Don't tell me the risk is mild. Don't tell me we're safe.

We. Are. Not. Safe.

The lives of dozens, hundreds, of members of family were lost in the 1940s amid the horrifying statistic "6,000,000 dead Jews."

I will not let my life (as a Jew), my wife's life (as a disabled woman), my son's life (as a biracial boy), my daughter's life (as a biracial trans girl), be part of the statistics that come from our a second Trump presidency.

If you won't vote like YOUR life depends on it, vote like someone ELSE'S life depends on it, because IT DOES.

And if you can't even do that much, at least shut the fuck up and stop spreading your poison around. You're wrong. The danger is real. Downplaying it now won't make your conscience feel any clearer when it actually happens, and comforting everyone else downplaying it will just make you that much more complicit.

#unforth rambles #politics #us politics #genocide #genocide tw #i don't know how to tag this #i wish the album was here instead of at my mom's #i want every one of you who think this doesn't matter #to stare at the smiling faces of my long-dead relatives #and see these people who were shot and stabbed and burned and raped and destroyed #who died in rebellion or despair in hopelessness or desperation #no matter how much or how little they fought #they're all ashes now and nothing will bring them back #i have no family in europe #not a single person survived #i won't let my family be the ones who stay too long because we don't take it seriously #and neither should you

[communistkenobi]

Isn't a world where people like Pershing and Von Braun are given a chance to atone for their previous poor choices, and act for the betterment of their fellow beings a better world to one where they are just senselessly killed, or shut up in some boring office cubicle for the rest of their lives? Isn't it a GOOD THING when people can apply their passion and talent to aid others?

Alright this is the last time I’m gonna entertain you and then I’m not responding. I do not have a committed opinion about what should be done about all fascists everywhere, and very likely in a post-fascist post-capitalist society there will have to be a range of punishments including execution. This is separate from arguments made for/against criminal convicts being given the death penalty (something I am not in favour of), because we are not talking about individual violent behaviour in the case of a murderer or a rapist. We are talking about people engaging in a project of fascist nation-building which structurally requires the mass murder and death of classes of people deemed undesirable. This is an inevitable conclusion of fascism because of its essentialising ideology that categorises people into “good” and “bad” camps. These people are not mere murderers - their politics prescribe genocide.

I’m sure you’re familiar with the idea of crimes against humanity - crimes that exist beyond what any single person is capable of doing to another person, or even a group of people. I’m not uncritically endorsing this as a way to approach ideas of justice, but instead using the concept to say that there are some forms of violence that should be considered as crimes against human beings as a collective. I believe fascism, including holding fascist beliefs (in the case of Braun, who was a member of the Nazi party! Thats not a neutral act and he should be given the benefit of his own agency, which in the case was actively aiding THE NAZIS), fits the bill of participating in crimes against humanity. I think if you are a fascist you should not be allowed to participate in society - this means you either have to die, or must be monitored closely by the state and disallowed from ever having any form of power in order to prevent your ideas from spreading. Fascism should not be a part of acceptable public speech and your speech vis a vis politics should be suppressed. Should you object to these restrictions, you’ll probably die. I’m fine with that. This is a question of competing interests and safeties - I will not entertain the physical safety of a fascist because his views threaten the safety of vulnerable people. If he decides to stop being a fascist he may retain this safety. If that person is shunned from public life for his past actions, that’s fucking fine! Of course it’s fine! Once you start advocating for mass murder you kind of lose your own fucking right to personal safety.

WHICH IS ENTIRELY IGNORING the context of this idiotic conversation, originally about a fucking Star Wars show, where a high ranking ex-imperial doctor is uncritically accepted back into the New Republic, given a cushy job, given housing, and ONLY punished once he tried to break the law to DO FASCIST EXPERIMENTS.

#asks #jesus christ #mando spoilers #???? I don’t even fuckimg know anymore #nazi mention #lmk if you need this tagged with anything else

[sophsicle]

You are way too nice to Death Eaters. Honestly you should probably check on that. Like, canonically both Blaise and Pansy didn't take the Mark but were supportive of Voldemort's side and benefited from the blood purity thing and in your posts it's always "There's two sides to every story," and "Everyone has a different perspective," which is right! But one of these side is very much the Wrong Side and I'm not sure you see it clearly. (This isn't an attack, I love your fanfic very much but it's a genuine concern.)

So,

The point of saying that there are different perspectives is not to say that therefore everyone's actions are justified. It is to suggest that most situations are far more complex than we give them credit for, that it is incorrect to believe that your reality and my reality are identical. That is what is interesting about exploring a story from multiple perspectives, you get to see how it changes based on everyone's personal view of the world. That doesn't mean no one can ever be held accountable for anything. It simply complicates traditional narratives which usually have a singular voice (a protagonist) telling the story. The whole point of hlayk (where Blaise, Pansy and Draco are concerned) is to take a group of children who were raised in a bigoted environment, and in the middle of a war, and show them as adults, several years after that, trying to come to terms with what happened to them and what they did.

Like:

It was stupid of him to think they could make this work. Stupid of him to think that George would be able to forgive him. Most days he can’t forgive himself. How had he gotten sucked in? Why hadn’t he seen it sooner? The darkness, the violence, the hurt. Why hadn’t he stopped Theo? Or Draco? He had stood by and watched the people around him destroy themselves. Stood by and allowed himself to be destroyed. And he can say that he’d been young but so had George. So had Harry. So had Ron. And yet they managed to figure it out. To this day Blaise can’t come up with a satisfying answer to the question of why. Why his first instinct hadn’t been goodness and kindness and bravery. Why those seem to be things he has to work on, build up to. Why. Why. Why.

I am very much trying to deal with what they did. This whole story is about grief and healing and Blaise and Draco and Pansy trying to figure out how to live with themselves, is a huge part of that.

While on the topic of things I'm trying to do with this story. Another big part of this, is looking at the ways in which men specifically are radicalized. The ways that traditional conceptions of masculinity make men more susceptible to this kind of fascist rhetoric / thinking. Blaise, Draco and Theo are three boys all struggling with what it means to be "a man" and they're doing so in this very politically charged context. "Manliness" is presented to them, as it is presented to many people, as being about domination. You are the strongest. The biggest. The loudest. The most important. People serve you. You'll notice that, if you look at propaganda for things like empire (in the British imperial sense) the language is very "masculine". Colonizing people is a very "manly" thing to do, it will help you realize your full "manly" potential etc. etc. etc. Blaise's chapter in this fic deals a lot with the ways that these boys get sucked into this extremist group in an attempt to prove that they are "men". Another reason that I like to have different POVs is that I don't really believe in redemption arcs in the sense that, I don't think redemption is something universal, I think individuals decide whether or not someone can be redeemed. There is a moment in this latest chapter where Hermione and Draco have a conversation and he is repenting and he's changed etc. etc. and she's like "dope, sick, love that for you, but I don't forgive you" and he accepts that. Different people, in different positions, with different life experiences, will be able to forgive different things. However, not a single person in this story doesn't think that the Death Eaters were bad. I feel like maybe that also needs to be cleared up. Like I am not, nor have I ever, presented the Death Eaters as anything but morally reprehensible. All I have tried to do is show that the ways people (especially children) get sucked into these things can be very complex. And that, I do believe, that we have to allow people to grow. That we have to allow people the space to say "I did the wrong thing and I now recognize it was the wrong thing and I would very much like to stop doing it" because otherwise what is the point? Like literally what is the point. Blaise says some horrible shit when he's sixteen (hlayk is not canon compliant BUT if it was) and then he just never gets to grow from that? He doesn't get to try to be better? He's just stuck? Like what does that achieve? How is that good for anybody? For what it's worth, I do try very hard not to engage with serious subject matter carelessly.

#soph rambles #hlayk

[alexissara]

Birth rates/Fertility rates Are Not A Real Issue

I wanted to talk about this because there is a kind of casual acceptance among many that these rates are a real issue and it simply is not. We see nationalists across the world proclaiming their low rates of people boning down and having kidos speaking of this as if it was an issue. It is simply part of the domain of right wing conservatives yet there are many across the isles who casually accept the concept even if their proposed solution is like idk step your game up men or something. We do not even need to go that far because once again it isn't a real issue. The context on why people are having kids less in each individual country and demographic are different but they share a fundamental truth, it's no one's fucking reasonability to have babies.

The least fascist proposal on why this is an issue go as such "We need younger people to come into the work force, we need them to take care of us when we are elderly". This is untrue, we do not need kids to take care of us nor do we need to replace the work force. If there was less people we'd need less things and it's no one's job to be born just to take care of people. The reality is if we die, we die, everyone dies and the fact some rich dude isn't going to have some young hot maids is not an issue. We could be building a future where no one needs to worry about money and people could simply live in a home at peace. We made up money, we made up all these issues that we allegedly need young people for.

We're not entering a zero babies situation and so many of the issues that stop people from having children are because the state is removing rights from people who want to have children and capitalisms death grip on people. So it is both not an issue and also extremely easy to fix. End systemic homopobia, transphobia, and sexism and bam a lot of the reasons why people can't have kids lest their lives be ruined across the world are done. Then end capitalism and now way more people would have kids because they would have them without entering ruin. These things created by states and enforced by states are creating their own issue.

Now the real reasons behind so much of this is racism be it Japan's "Crisis" whilst basically allowing zero immigrants to become citizens then daring to complain about low birth rates when many would gladly move to even the increasingly barren country sides if they could come from their countries in conflict and get to live a life of dignity or the white worlds fear of a great replacement of white people being breed out of being the majorities of their colonial states. The reality is we're seeing tons of people who want to leave their country because these powerful countries have ravaged their lands and come to one of the more powerful countries, this would have people who wanted to do labor anyway not that they should owe us that given ya know the whole reason they had to flee their home to begin with. It is simply that racism and nationalism create a problem and then even the most simple solution "let more people live here" becomes a "Not like that" situation.

So ya, that's it, just wanted to briefly say fuck you to anyone throwing up birthrates be them talking about it in South Korea or White Brits. If you like my shit you can check my Patreon and Ko-fi out but otherwise ya know go on with your day and have agency over your body, life and soul.

#Brithrates #Birth Rates #Politics

[bestworstcase]

Something about the Penny discourse and whether she'd come back or not and whether it'd be an affront to the themes of the series if she didn't makes me think that part of the issue is that people treat the themes in a very black and white viewpoint.

If the Gods are wrong, then everything must be utopian and Penny MUST come back permanently.

If Penny doesn't come back, then the Gods are right and RWBY is ruined and going against it's themes.

Except, RWBY's themes have NEVER been that black and white, because a recurring theme I've noticed is that making the world a better is not mutually exclusive from the fact that the world can sometimes just suck and bad stuff will still happen anyways for reasons outside of one's control.

And the reality is that the antagonists and villains fit into this as well, because a recurring element is that many of them are PARTIALLY correct. Not completely right, or totally wrong, but PARTIALLY correct or wrong.

The Gods are correct that Salem should learn to accept that Ozma was dead, but the problem is that they use it as a means to enforce their control over humanity for their own egotistical indulgences, and are shown to be willing to abuse that power when they are slighted.

Adam and Sienna were correct that the Faunus are in a bad position and deserve better, but the former twisted the ideology into a means to satiate his own ego and bloodlust.

Ironwood was correct that Ozpin was hiding the full truth and preventing his allies from being able to properly fight against Salem, but he was looking at things from the perspective of an arrogant fascist egomaniac who viewed himself as being the only one who could be the hero, despite all the evidence pointing to the contrary.

Jacques was correct that Ironwood was becoming a tyrant, but he was only doing so out of his own self-centered greed.

And so on and so on.

The ultimate point I get from the series is that defying the odds and making the world better doesn't suddenly make the villains and cynics completely wrong; it's just that we shouldn't allow the cynics and villains to be the one who get to define what is right and wrong, and that our efforts to improve and progress the world are not rendered in vain just because misery and pain still happens regardless of what we want to occur otherwise.

And frankly, I'd argue that Penny ALREADY proved the Gods wrong.

She came back from death TWICE. That is HUGE. That is OPEN DEFIANCE of the Gods' bullshit.

It's just that reality is still reality. She made a poor decision in coming back to fight with her friends despite barely recovering from her ordeal with the virus, and it doomed her.

But she still DID defy her fate, and that's not irrelevant just because she ultimately died in the end. Her existence, as tragic as the ending may be, proved that the Gods were full of shit, and that the Gods shouldn't be allowed to dictate terms for what THEY think Life and Death is.

The big problem I think is that people fundamentally refuse to value anything that isn't an absolute victory or an absolute loss. Even when they want a gray situation, they still subconsciously stick it into purely black and white frameworks in order to keep things comfortable and straightforward.

mm. the argument that penny coming back again is a necessary refutation of the gods [and sometimes of salem, a line of reasoning that i find baldly absurd] is interesting to me for how it demands the presupposition that death itself is evil; that the gods are wrong for having created a world where things are mortal. and that’s a critical misreading of rwby’s core thesis. death is simply… an ending, and life goes on; grief is a kind of love and can bring comfort and strength as well as sorrow. immortality is explicitly a curse, explicitly a means of torture—the gods are not cruel because they allow death to exist but because they murder people and withhold death to punish salem. it is their deliberate, malicious violations of the natural cycle of life and death that makes them evil.

this is not a story where bringing someone back from the dead is necessarily a good thing. nor is it a story where the desire to do so is bad, or deserving of punishment. it’s a story about grief and the obligation of compassion for grief. to say a character must be brought back from the dead to prove the gods wrong [or to spite salem, christ alive] is to miss the point.

the story structures major character deaths as classical tragedies for a reason. and then people go “well they can’t let penny stay dead after everyone tried so hard to save her, that’s just sad” like the entire point of classical tragedy isn’t to say “in the end, they fell, but they still tried, and it matters that they tried, and it matters that they were here.” it’s like going to a musical and complaining when the characters sing gjshdjbk

more.. generally yeah the fandom has a dreadful habit of trying to apply the moral logic of fairytales to a story that is overtly critiquing the moral logic of fairytales, and similarly of presuming that moral correctness innately correlates to ideological correctness in a story that explicitly handles morality and ideology as discrete and often contradictory beliefs, and being completely unable to parse what rwby is doing with its villains as a consequence.

#but yeah transhumanist readings of rwby are HYSTERICAL

[steviesbicrisis]

"if we don't like it, we make it gay" that isn't the point, though. so many other people have said this more eloquently than i can, but you can't claim "death to the author" when the author is alive and actively lobbying for the genocide of trans people in the uk and influencing (and funding, iirc) republican politicians in the states to do the same thing. if you say "fuck terfs" but then continue to engage with the franchise and ignore the multitudes of jewish and lgbt+ people telling you the reasons why you shouldn't, the reasons why this franchise is literally killing us, your trans and jewish friends/followers are going to be cautious of you. *i'm* cautious of you, now. you're not only supporting a terf by giving her engagement, but jkr is a fascist. i can't assume your response to this, and this isn't sent out of malice, but i hope you can ask yourself if a book series and nostalgia are more important than the real people being affected by the political career of its creator.

I'm going to answer this as best as possible, but please be mindful that English isn't my first language, so I might not be as eloquent or exhaustive as I could've been in my native language.

Leaving this premise aside, I say this with no malice nor desire to sound bitter/defensive: please take a step back and stop assuming stuff about me.

I don't even know where half of the things you said come from, I genuinely thought you sent this ask to the wrong person until I read the "fuck terfs" part.

"continue to engage with the franchise" how am I doing this? I have 1 word associated with it, that's it. Do you see me promoting the books or the movies? do I reblog stuff about the franchise? Do I go around showing anything related to this? I've stopped giving money to that author the moment I found out what she stands for. I have one post related to the franchise before I knew how big of a deal it was to make fan-related content (I thought it was okay to still go on with stuff she doesn't get money from), which I decided to not continue writing it the moment I understood it might've been hurtful to someone.

You also assume I don't listen to fellow friends/followers. The thing is, you don't know me, this is Tumblr, I do not show everything about me in my blog. I have lgbtq sources I go to inform myself on how to approach topics that interest the community but not me personally because I wanna be supportive. You also have to understand that I get my information mainly from Italian resources and the approach on the topic might be different. This is not me speaking for the Italian trans community, obviously, but they seem to not really care if you engage with fanmade content, while I see in the "internet world" trans creators who don't accept fanmade as well and some do. I simply don't know where I stand but in the meantime, I'm not engaging even with fanmade stuff just to be safe.

All of this to say, I have no problem admitting that I don't know what I should do about fan-made related content because I tried to understand but with the mixed up opinions I simply don't know. Me not knowing translates to me engaging with any content until I understand better.

I'm trying really hard to not see malice in your words to be honest, since you've been assuming so much stuff about me. Everything else you touched upon it doesn't apply to me (like having nostalgia about the books, I never once said anything like that).

All of this being said, I am sorry to know that people are cautious about me. I hope you can understand that this blog is supposed to be a happy place to talk about Stranger Things and have a nice break from chaotic everyday life and I'm really saddened to know that it isn't as lighthearted as I thought.

To the people who were disappointed/had hard feelings after reading my bio, I am sorry. I mean it, I would never write something anywhere with the intention of hurting everyone.

To anyone who reads this, I hope you don't see me in a bad light after what this anon wrote and my response, I'm trying to handle this situation the best I can and be mindful of everyone's feelings. I am far from perfect but I am trying.

(I'm leaving the bio as it is if people wanna check it out after reading this but I'm going to change it after a little while.)

[thebranchesofshe]

John Pringle is first and foremost a predator and a parasite. He's a serial killer that hops from host to host when the body fails. As for how he was created, I won't give that away just yet. But he was created to love, and decided instead to destroy, and his decision to become this predator-parasite came when his own mortality became evident to him. He lives unnaturally long, and his continued existence comes at the expense of others.

In this sense, he's not far off from the concept of a billionaire or a landlord, roles that can not exist without victims of exploitation. John Pringle is not a human being or even an animal. He should not exist. There is nothing human or sympathetic to be found within him. There is only pity for his miserable, wasteful existence as a result of his desparation. John Pringle is the personification of murder.

And when we first meet him, it is in the form of a deer. Specifically one that is very wrong because, well, it's already dead.

Parting the curtain here, I was inspired by the effect of Chronic Wasting Disease, which ultimately results in deer behaving in bizarre and erratic ways beyond their control (some people refer to this as 'zombie-like'). When deer have no predators, they overpopulate, and they frequently starve or get sick. It's an unbalanced and unnatural existence, much like the one John Pringle is living.

So why does John Pringle arrive in the form of a prey animal when he is inherently a predator? The answer is interesting (to me).

He is fundamentally a victim of his own existence. He is ruled by an overwhelming fear of death. He kills for sport, recognition, attention, a sense of identity, but ultimately to sustain himself. In a sense, he wants to be a predator (and is), but at the back of his mind, John Pringle is the prey and death itself is the predator.

But John Pringle is mythologized into a sort of satanic character by the Order, or at least, parts of his legend transform into the character of the Wyrm/Wurm/Worm, representing destruction and spiritual death. The Wyrm/Wurm/Worm eventually becomes simply The Worm, a very literal worm, as a result of postbellum morbidity. How ironic that John Pringle, afraid of death, is mythologized into death itself. And how ironic it is that after all, he is nothing but a worm.

And even lower than that.

He is a parasite.

Keep this in mind when you read him. John Pringle is a living concept. He can not and will not change. He began as the ideal man from the eyes of a woman whose life was ruled by a predator. He's the imaginary husband of someone who was born and raised in a patriarchal sect in which a high priest with a sexual interest in her held absolute, unquestionable authority. He is greed, murder, assault, subjugation, and exploitation.

There is nothing honorable about him, nothing redeeming or worth redeeming. While Decaelo is populated with many Christian characters of vastly differing opinions, I try to avoid a Christian view of redemption or even describe behavioral changes as 'redemption', which is why the attempts of certain characters to achieve redemption through suffering or prostrating themselves before those they have wronged generally fail or have little effect, but when certain characters decide to change and follow through, it isn't redemption. I don't really subscribe to that. What it really is, is change for the better. A step in the right direction. Becoming a better person. Righting their wrongs and continuing forward regardless of whether they are accepted or not. Not depending on the forgiveness of others in order to change.

John Pringle is static. He can not change. He can not grow. He can only destroy, use, abuse, appropriate, and kill.

A fascist can realize they were wrong and decide not to be a fascist anymore, but fascism can not change. Someone who exploits others can look back in regret and become a champion of justice, but exploitation can not become better. Someone who has abused others can change for the better with conscious effort. Abuse can never be good.

Such is the existence of John Pringle.

And finally,

He is not a w*****o. He is not a SW. He is a disease created by a cruel society, a fatal parasite with a consciousness. In all seriousness, I highly suggest reading the post previous to this one, also tagged #john pringle. Reducing these figures from Native American culture to "scary deer spirit" is incredibly disrespectful, racist, and also, frankly, stupid.

John Pringle can be enjoyed and appreciated as a character, but 'redeeming' him or 'reclaiming' him completely undermines his role in the story and the pain that he causes, much of which is, surprise, exploitative in nature. In particular, he has a malicious fixation on making the one person he is unable to kill as miserable as fucking possible, not just because he is unable to kill this person, but because he cannot steal a desirable feature from them. The theme of John Pringle discarding his host bodies as they fail is also not an accident. He uses people up and spits them out when they are no longer useful. Sort of like, I don't know, America's treatment of disabled people, says the author who has lupus and a spinal injury.

Decaelo is set in the American South during the early 1970s, and involves characters of color, as well as disabled, queer and trans characters, and revolves around love and healing and justice in the face of oppression and exploitation.

John Pringle is not and will never be your 'blorbo.'

#john pringle #public service announcement #omniscent blathering

[gaykarstaagforever]

If you're an "average American" and you aren't already inspired to be a Communist revolutionary by the expensive, garbage life you lead because rich men get to do whatever they want, like...what more is it going to take to convince you?

Because I think the answer is nothing. You will be like the average Russian. Your life will be hell, but you will worship the people who made it hell, because they are God's chosen leaders of your race. You will starve to death and die fighting in the wars they start because, well, at least I will go to White Heaven for my righteous obedience.

There is no redeeming people like this. They are cultists who will only flee from direct bombing of their houses. And wherever they flee to, they will settle in and resume having no self-respect and defending the Glorious Racial Leader from there.

My point is you are not going to magically convince a majority of people to stand up for themselves, no matter how bad it gets, if they are already demonstrating a historic acceptance of oppression. And in America, not only are they accepting it, they are eagerly pushing for more of it to score points in the Race War only they are fighting. You aren't going to change that trajectory because the housing market gets even worse suddenly.

Revolution is a minority forcing a majority to change. Because the majority would rather die than deal with change or anything that challenges reactionary tribalism. This is a lesson every revolutionary has ever had to accept.

There isn't going to be a democratic socialist revolution. The majority in America will never agree to that. So if you still want one, time to give up on the democratic part.

The Fascists already have, and they are currently openly arming. We should probably take the hint.

#comminism #revolution #socialism #civil war #fascism #pessimism #antidemocratic

[noneedtofearorhope]

i’d love to see the tables turned and all these anons and shit try and justify the mass death, misery, suffering, exploitation, and slavery that NECESSARILY comes with the state.

like, if we assume for sake of argument that the state is necessary for insulin production (which to be clear, i don’t think any of us agree with, we all believe that life would find a way), the state is unnatural, it’s human made, and thus needs to be justified. unless there has been recent research that finally gives conclusive evidence that diabetes is human caused, it’s just a fucking shit fact of life. diabetes doesn’t have to justify itself, and no one, anarchist or otherwise, has to make a justification for its existence.

i shouldn’t have to stress this so much, but fash jacketing just seems all too common here lately, but again, we don’t believe the state is necessary for insulin production. but if divine powers came down and showed us that it was, it still wouldn’t be justified to cause the death and suffering of others thru the state just to extend the lives of diabetics. in this case, we would do everything we can to alleviate the suffering of those who are dying. the focus would be on quality of life and end of life care. just like it is for any number of diseases that have no cure even under the boot of state and capital. just like it is for the elderly, as again, fact of life is that we all die eventually.

#i know this is probably not gonna be received well #people get angry when they are reminded of their mortality #but i think someone has to lay it out #accepting that death is a part of life isn't fascist #the drive to extend life and even eliminate death at all costs is what is fascist #your life or the life of a loved one doesn't matter more than the life of anyone elses #you can ask that people go out of their way for you #that they inconvenience themselves #even that they bear some suffering for your sake #but the moment you enforce it you've crossed the line #thats the seed of fascism #if not fascism outright #ok i thought i was done before but now im actually done #until i make my next post lol #not proof read because editing tags is a pain lol

[theforgottendaydreamer]

Dear straights who aren't allies...

Someone I know in real life just told me that it's unfair for the lgbtq+ community to exclude the straights.

Now, I won't hold back on this.

It's bad enough that some take the "A" only as Ally and not as Aro/Ace/Agender (or Aspec), and now this?

Straights who aren't allies constantly torment lgbtq+ people. They forbid us from getting married, adopting children or having some of our own. They make us feel scared of holding hands in public- for fear to be shot dead for who we are. They make us leave our homes and randomly accuse us of carrying and spreading diseases. There are literal laws againts being part of the lgbtq+. Yes, against.

Let's take a look at this, shall we?

(Source)

After this, those cishets are still offended because the lgbtq+ community is "excluding" them. And that's a lie.

The healthy part of lgbtq+ has never excluded anyone. I specify healthy because some in the community are aro/ace exclusionists, or part of the neo-fascist group called "lgb community", or transophobes, biphobes, homophobes etc. And they can kindly fuck off.

But there is literally no part in the healthy lgbtq+ community that excludes straights. There isn't a group that goes around claiming that straights are bad, there aren't political and/or religious cults who kill the straights to purify the world, there aren't lgbtq+ people trying to talk children out of being cishet.

Nobody has ever been killed for being straight. Nobody has ever organized literal protests against straight people. Nobody has yelled at a straight couple in the street (unless one of the two members is a trans man or a trans woman identifying as straight) or even beat them, to death sometimes.

So, seriously, what are you even talking about? This is pathetic. This is just straights wanting to have control over everything, AS USUAL.

Allies are appreciated and welcomed. We need them, love is love and we love allies deeply.

Generalizing is bad, and I know and I'm glad that not all straights are against lgbtq+ people, luckily. I appreciate allies immensely, every lgbtq+ person should do it because we all have to collaborate.

(Also, being not against lgbtq+ is not being an ally, but that's not the main focus of this post.)

To those straights who are "offended": stop acting like we are excluding you and start working on how to stop others from excluding us. Become allies and learn respect and acceptance. Be decent humans. Thank you.

#hate on lgbtq+ and i will block you without even replying. #lgbtq+ #lgbtq+ community #discourse #ally #allies