queermunist she/her

You can never win on their platforms. They control the horizontal and the vertical, even if everyone was on Facebook rightwing ideology would still dominate and brainwash our families because that’s what Facebook wants. Your content on Facebook only makes Facebook more valuable. You can’t win there.

Won’t be long before they jut ban anyone to the left of Charlie Kirk anyway. You’re a fool to think you can win on a battlefield where the enemy makes the rules.

Because they’re fascists.

How does “my logic” lead anyone to believe there has ever been a period of time that was perfect? The powerful have been oppressing us since we invented fucking agriculture and they started forming empires. All hitherto history is the history of class struggle, nothing has ever been perfect, what are you talking about?

Are you confusing me with someone else?

And now you’re insulting me.

What I’ve been taught? Who the fuck do you think taught me all this theory and history? Ebil gommunist brainwashing school?

I fucking read and read and read. Off the top of my head: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, I read A Dying Colonialism, I read The Wretched of the Earth, I read Black Reconstruction, I read A People’s History of the United States, I read Shock Doctrine, I read Revolutionary Suicide, in fact I just read Empire of Borders and it really handily describes the global apartheid system our reforms rely on!

These are the basis for what I now understand about reformism within the imperial core. Reforms can only ever privilege a small segment of the working class above the workers in internal colonies and out in the periphery, they can not even help everyone under capitalism because then *where would capitalists get profits? Profit is theft, you can’t reform your way out of that.

Instead, reforms like the New Deal were a way to bribe that special privileged segment of the workers into opposing revolution. That’s it. They saw what happened in the USSR and it scared the shit out of them, so they bribed white workers into supporting capitalism and deputized them as enforcers. They can’t bribe everyone with reforms, so they just bribe enough to act as enforcers.

And now that the empire is in decay they’re running out of money to bribe us with. There are limits to growth, there is a tendency for the rate of profit to fall, you can’t escape this.

We can fight for reforms! But they should be the basis for further revolutionary aims, not be the end goal in and of themselves.

Working people lived prosperous dignified lives and did make improvements to government regulating business, as incomplete as it may have been.

The white ones did.

White prosperity has always been built on the back of colonialism and imperialism. Superprofits are stolen from the global South and from internal colonies within the global North (i.e. the periphery) to then be redistributed to a special privileged segment of the working class in the metropoles in order to prevent revolutionary consciousness.

Those reforms were bribes.

Now that the empire is in decay those superprofits are running out, so all those reforms can’t be sustained.

Calls for reform can be a way to rally workers to our cause, but reforms can’t be the limit of our goals because reforms under capitalism require rebuilding the empire. Call for reform, sure, but our only hope is to link arms with those imperialized and colonized people of the periphery and for the workers of the world to unite with revolutionary goals rather than purely reformist ones.

White workers in the metropoles don’t get to be privileged above workers in the underdeveloped periphery anymore. We hang together or we hang separately. That’s going to mean organizing undocument workers, organizing prison labor, organizing gig workers, organizing home healthcare workers, and organizing across borders.

Try to have some revolutionary optimism.

… bomb pops are five fucking dollars?

Work for whom?

Literally microscopic.

… all proteins are tiny?

Some atheists believe in reincarnation I suppose, but memories are pretty universal. Whatever anyone believes, everyone remembers.

The atheist afterlife is your memory and how people talk about you.

So if you’re a good person, people remember you fondly and speak well of you.

And if you’re Thatcher, people piss on your grave and openly wish you were in hell.

There was actually plenty of toilet paper, it’s just that panic buying causes pointless shortages. If we had a functioning government they’d have rationed toilet paper to make sure everyone could get enough.

Ghosts are the first and only pepper to make me puke.

Doesn’t stop me from eating then, just smarter about making sure my stomach has lots of stuff to dilute the heat.

States without currency sovereignity or trade sovereignity probably can’t respond to pandemics without indebting themselves. If they can’t print money and can’t marshal the forces of production they’re basically reliant on market forces, and capital is happy to punish them for daring to get in the way of profits.

Related, COVID also proved to me that the EU is not a progressive historical force. It similarly turns sovereign nations into dependent states without currency sovereignity or trade sovereignity.

I think the fact that the US had a 9/11 every day for so long is actually a lot more horrifying than people being forced into screening to leave apartment complexes (which is what you’re referring to when you sensationally accuse them of “nailing doors shut”).

Being marched to my death was horrifying.

Stopping a pandemic means sacrificing some freedom of movement. The fact that China was willing to sacrifice productivity to save lives convinced me that politics are in command and, despite their market reforms, they remain committed to Marxism.

Well germ theory is woke! Didn’t you know?

I saw China take COVID seriously while I was marched off to work to die because my job was “essential” - the US, EU, Canada, it was basically every Western country except New Zealand (which is an island and basically became a bunker nation for billionaires and shouldn’t really count)

I became pro-China after that.

Misanthropy tbh

Hate has a material basis, it’s not just something that emerges organically from human nature. The ruling class needs to maximize the reproduction of labor so it invented and promoted queer hate as a way to remove one of those obstacles. Its material basis is actually very similar to anti-abortion and anti-contraception and anti-feminist politics.

I’m talking about contradictions that can arise between religion and politics.

If their religion says to be charitable to the poor, but their politics say to starve the poor, they’ll starve the poor. If their religion says to love their neighbor, but their politics tells them to hate their neighbor, they’ll hate their neighbor. When there’s a contradiction between religion and politics, they’ll choose politics and then work backwards from there to justify it religiously.

Abrahamic religion isn’t set in stone, it’s capable of reform and has even done so in other historical contexts. This doesn’t even require secularism, all it requires is that they read their books in a different way for different interpretations.

But secularism isn’t impossible. As the colonizers become less secular and more religious, the historical currents begin to push against religion among the colonized. Perhaps less so among Muslims because they can deflect the contradictions onto sectarianism against the Christian colonizers, but African Christians will have to reconcile the contradiction between their anti-colonialism and worshiping the god of religious colonizers.

Or they’ll convert to Islam. It’s hard to say.

But there are lots of ways this can play out.