TotallynotJessica

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

You don’t oppose them now? Putin’s regime isn’t even delivering for Russia. They tried to safeguard themselves from NATO threats, only to cause mass migration of working age men, kill at least 50k of their own soldiers, and caused NATO to expand and be strengthened. Hell, Ukraine will probably join NATO once the invasion is over. They got overconfident over how easily they took Chrimea and thought they could just blitz the rest of the country, failing to realize that Ukraine had prepared over the past decade and that most of Ukraine would see them as invaders. They fucked over their own imperial ambitions while accomplishing basically nothing.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

This is a real vibe killer. It’s not something unpleasant to shine a light on a deeper issue. It’s just unpleasant for the sake of being unpleasant.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

Except the Chinese government has way more control over their companies than the US government does. In fact, there has been an explicit push recently by the government to increase their control and ownership of companies. It’s also consistent with how most large states operate, especially ones with a history of trying to control ethnically Chinese people outside of their borders.

That isn’t to say that a ton of anti China sentiment isn’t racist; it’s just that one doesn’t need to be racist make such a prediction. It’s true that many people who hate China hate it for the wrong reasons, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t things to take issue with.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

I don’t know what “willing cooperation” has to do with anything. The US government has the willing cooperation of millions and had the willing cooperation of a majority of Americans in the past. That doesn’t mean the US government didn’t do some of the worst shit ever during the peak of their popularity. It’s also not like consent isn’t manufactured in China.

If anything, it’s my belief in the similarities of the Chinese and US governments that makes me think they would do hateful things with their power. People in China are the same as people here. I don’t have a rose tinted view of people here either.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

The feminine urge to sit in a dark room mixing potions(making meth)

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

In many countries right now and over the past century. It’s more common now than ever. Thatcher and the Queen ruled England at one point. It wasn’t a good rule but it was a rule none the less.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

Neurodivergence has a lot to do with our current culture and technology. It seems to be about what is or isn’t functional in the greater system, not some fundamental property. It’s a spectrum with no one really being at the same point, but most people falling within a specific range. The problem is that it’s a relative term that depends on context, not that the word doesn’t have meaning.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

It’s capitalism vs government programs that can feed the starving, not capitalism vs anything else. That was an era before the modern state. We’re talking about with today’s systems, not with systems that are no longer relevant.

Also, self sustaining communities shared food with their own at numerous points in history. People were giving food to eachother for the common good long before Karl Marx.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

It might be profitable for society, but not for an individual capitalist.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

True, but I was trying to highlight relying on capitalism to feed people, vs using government programs at all. I didn’t mean to imply that they are mutually exclusive.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

It doesn’t assume there’s a fixed amount of bad shit. It’s saying that if you talk exclusively about oppression against one group, you miss out on the bigger picture. The oppression experienced by black women is similar, yet different to the oppression experienced by black men or white women. Intersectionality came out of the experiences of black women who felt they weren’t being heard or recognized in civil rights movements about women and movements about black people. In the women’s groups, they were marginalized because of racist attitudes that many in the movement tolerated. In black liberation groups, they were sidelined by misogyny.

These intelligent black women recognized these challenges and worked to address this by promoting intersectional thinking in civil rights spaces. They highlighted how there’s no single black experience or single woman experience. There were commonalities, yes but there were also differences. The civil rights movement is diverse, with there not being a single universal experience among them. There are many ways to experience discrimination, so instead of creating cliques of similarity, civil rights movements should embrace the diversity within their own movements.

If you eliminated all police abuse, it would be amazing. It would certainly help things. However, there are still other things to consider in parallel to that. For instance, is abuse in the private sector being addressed? Are companies hiring thugs to intimidate rather than using cops. Are we also trying to end other forms of abuse by the state, like imperialism. If you ended police brutality, it might not even lead to increases in those things, but they would still need to be addressed. Basically our work is not over until all unfair hierarchies are addressed. Police are only part of the hierarchy, and we should listen to those who are victims of other parts of it.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

They said it in a slightly incorrect way. It’s not like there’s an unaddressable amount of discrimination that gets shifted over. It’s that other forms of bigotry can fester in a movement if diverse voices are not part of the conversation. Intersectionality is about praxis: not just theory, but how movements practically function as well.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

I wish I had a xylophone :(

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

Poor guy, but it’s true.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

Part 13!?

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

Is that Celeste as in super cool, or Celeste as in dangerous platforming.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

The snow pic admittedly isn’t that bad, but most places aren’t as chronically hot as the other pics imply. Many people would have to be straight up suicidal to try and live around such open bigots. I don’t have a choice; I have to live away from that shit for my own safety. The worst part is that I hate cities. The extremism from the right has literally ruined rural living for people like me.

Also, if being a treasonous bigot is considered simply “conservative,” then we’re in deep shit.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

The biggest issue is that this is a doomer self defeating argument. If you don’t believe something is possible, then it isn’t. Even if total communism is an unreachable goal, why not try to move closer to it? Liberalism is a walking contradiction, with economic liberalism being almost incompatible with social liberalism. That hasn’t stopped it from having drastic positive and negative effects on human history from people trying to live by it.

Furthermore, the idea that communism is a dead end reinforces the toxic view that anyone attempting to strive closer towards it is a threat that must be eliminated. Anti-communist sentiment has led to and enabled some of the worst atrocities of all time. The best part is that many of the people accused of being communists merely wanted liberation.

The fact is, if communism was wiped from existence and Karl Marx erased from history, the same ideas would evolve out of Christianity, or liberalism, or any ideology that isn’t a fucking death cult. This is because Marx did not make a unique and unprecedented observation, he just put the pieces together first. Egalitarianism and sharing is as important to human success as territorialism and self interest.

Finally, Marx did believe communism would come out of industrialized societies with enough resources to go around. That is not the state that the Soviet Union or China were in when they declared themselves communist. Making absolute statements about the end state of all attempts at something is setting yourself up for failure far more than trying a new way to make something theoretically possible happen.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

We’ve used every economic system by itself

Because a few hundred years with constantly changing technology is an exhaustive test of every possible version of organizing society. Pack up folks, it’s all been tried and only one thing works or will ever work.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

As a civil human being I simply believe that conservatives like you do not belong in civil society. It would be beneficial to take modest steps to make the average conservative incapable of purchasing property, being in public without a well informed and civil chaperone, and banned from serving in the armed forces. Such a proposal is in line with rules conservative countries take towards 50% of their population, and thus it is only fair that we adopt mirror policies.

See how fucking little civility matters when fundamental rights are being discussed? Get your head out of your ass and recognize that anger is justified against defenders of fascism like you. You pathetic little weasels probably only supported the 1960s civil rights movement because the white people looked and acted more thuggish than the black activists. Or maybe that still didn’t even sway you.

DeSantis actively harassed scientists with police when they tried to report accurate numbers after he withdrew from the national reporting system. Meanwhile, what’s the worst policy that Newsom instituted long term? Making people wear masks? I swear, blind fools like you wouldn’t recognize authoritarianism if it knocked down your front door. You think economic freedom matters when you live under an oppressive state?

Books should not be banned in a country that supposedly values freedom of speech, period. Mein Kampf, the Turner Diaries, any fucking book should be allowed in libraries if it has the space for it. Hell, if I lived in Florida I’d push to have the Bible banned with your logic. It promotes and is sponsored by organizations that have an actual history of grooming and abuse. That’s not even considering the violent and sometimes lewd content in it.

Even that small quote, if that’s all there is which is doubtful, misrepresents the nature of why those skills were given. They were given to milk value out of human beings like cattle. It’s like saying cows are fed nutritious foods that help them grow. Yes it’s technically true, but saying that by itself ignores the reason that food is given. It focuses on a shiny reflection on a picture of a pile of poop.

DeSantis is a fascist supported by Nazis, who hires Nazis. Defending such a piece of shit is pathetic and disgusting. I know you think you’re a sensible conservative, but the standard conservative would rather see liberal democracy destroyed than accept that an asshole like Trump could lose an election fair and square. If you choose to side with Republicans at this point, you’re a fascist buddy, congrats.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

You’re clearly incapable of understanding a satirical joke to prove a point. I don’t want any one of those fucking things for anyone, yet that’s the sort of shit conservatives are pushing for. They’re trying to make it illegal to present as any gender other than the one you were assigned at birth in public, effectively banning trans people from public life.

The other points were things that the most extreme in the American right argue for, and policies already enacted against women in conservative theocracies today. Some of these counties are American allies, like Saudi Arabia, and some are enemies like Iran. As much as you might try to deny it, there is serious overlap between Christian nationalists, and ISIS. Those fascist theocracies are the logical conclusion of the modern American right.

The whole point of that paragraph was to highlight how hard it is to be civil with someone threatening your fundamental rights. I wanted to put you in the shoes of the people your evil ideology oppresses. It shows a fundamental lack of respect to even hold and express those extreme views that DeSantis enacts policy on, so of course I have no reason to show you any respect. It doesn’t matter how pretty the box is; what matters is what’s inside it.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

Conservatives should be legally allowed to participate in society, yes. Of course what I said was in jest. Just because they are legally protected by the law, doesn’t mean other people can’t use their own freedom of speech and association to call out and disassociate from awful ideas and people. Protection under the law doesn’t mean anyone needs to put up with you.

However, not all restrictions are automatically fascist. In fact, even liberal democracies would be wise to not legally tolerate people who were willing to overthrow the system. Much like tolerance, liberty is a social contract, and those who want to take away the liberty of others should not have their own liberty protected.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

That’s the issue isn’t it? For much of American history, that has been how anti-communists have operated. Unfortunately, liberalism is a fundamentally contradictory system, with economic liberty and personal liberty being two different values. They oppose eachother, and anti-communists ultimately trampled all over people’s personal liberty to reinforce capital interests. As long as liberalism exists, there will always be that dialectic. It’s why liberalism is unstable and will always try to evolve into a capitalism supporting authoritarian system, or a socialist system. So if one favors liberalism, they ultimately have to choose which parts of liberalism they favor.

The reason we believe we have natural human rights is because it creates the best possible world for us to live in. Sadly, such an idea is a construct, a useful one that should be upheld for mutual benefit, but a construct none the less. The world is not naturally fair and operates based of of might and violence. This is because people are machines, for nothing else could exist in a self consistent logical universe. This doesn’t make you less deserving of rights, it just means you need to fight to keep them because they aren’t guaranteed.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

Literal whataboutism. Ridiculous.

TotallynotJessica, 9 months ago

It is immoral to deflate a poor person’s tires or put sugar in a gas tank. It is dangerous to dig a hole on a highway. Destroying large oil infrastructure does send a message if you make the news for a few days. However, if it raises gas prices significantly, it might just make more enemies.

If I were a domestic terrorist, I would damage luxury goods and services owned by people who invest large sums in oil. Hell, targeting luxury products and services could even be done non-violently. People just need to be creative and not target things that the everyday person uses. Luxuries aren’t as big of a national security risk to governments, meaning the rich will have to invest more of their money into preventative measures.