The reasons why caffeine & nicotine are legal (while cannabis isn't) are twofold: 1. Nicotine & especially caffeine are highly profitable legal drugs that can increase productivity at the workplace. 2. Criminalizing weed is an easy way to force black people into prison slavery.

I don't care if you're religious. I care if your religion drives you to do good, or if you use it to excuse exploiting and harming others.

If liberals truly wanted "equality of opportunity", they would campaign to drastically increase estate taxes and fight against the undemocratic menace we call inheritance.

Authenticity isn't a task, & there are no steps to make you more authentic. Inauthenticity is a false consciousness; all you do is you. This false consciousness is defined by the fear of what we are not, confusion about what we are, & the refusal to accept what we may become.

You HAVE to read Assata's autobiography. It was on my reading list for a while, and now that I'm finally getting around to it, I wish I had sooner. This excerpt, from early in the book, is particularly compelling.

coming soon

when you fund medical research, sometimes miracles happen i want to live in the world where these discoveries happen every day

american neofascism came in stages ideologically it originated with cold war anticommunust propaganda, sometimes made by former nazis structurally, it arrived in full force after the one-two punch of citizens united & the patriot act maga is just fascist hegemony solidified

seeing your apartment building for sale is a bad fucking omen i really did not need housing instability added to the long list of shit on my mind right now this may be the straw that breaks the camel's back

if you mourn those who would have you killed & forgotten, you are not an empath only a lamb to the slaughter

cooked a performative male

how i feel rn

Ableism & Suffering, 1/6🧵 Saying it would be better if disabled people were never born is ableist, even if it's "because they suffer". Replace disability with gender/race in this context & the issue becomes obvious, but eugenics is so hegemonic that most people don't even KNOW the word "ableism".

Ableism & Suffering, 1/6🧵 Saying it would be better if disabled people were never born is ableist, even if it's "because they suffer". Replace disability with gender/race in this context & the issue becomes obvious, but eugenics is so hegemonic that most people don't even KNOW the word "ableism".

Stop cowering in fear from your own subjectivity! Subjectivity is what makes you dangerous; repressing it for some mirage of infallibility or detachment is self-sabotage and will render you politically inert!

so, steve boots is done with streaming? i was part of his community for a bit, but left not long after he argued against the minimum wage & for increasing canada's military budget a regular viewer in his discord said he'd want "revenge" on natives for landback, & yet he faced 0 consequences for it

if you find yourself constantly using gender socialization to explain why trans people sometimes do bad things, it's probably because of your terf-socialization

Jack Layton died 14 years ago today of cancer. He led the New Democratic Party to its greatest historical success (Official Opposition), moving Canadian politics leftward & becoming a martyr for millions of progressives. His naïvety came from a place of real kindness, which is rare. I miss him.

people living in the usa have no excuse not to get armed (or at least find some armed friends) at this point there are resources for this, like the john brown gun club, socialist rifle association, huey newton gun club and pink pistols self-defense is a right, a virtue and a growing necessity

did a 'lil grocery shop today, cashier pointed out it was $21.21, and on august 21st no less. she seemed to consider it an omen of good luck. god knows i could use one. we all could.

liberal zionists: "LGBTQ+ rights or Palestinian liberation?" me:

a politics composed of resentment at the expense of solidarity will always betray its own stated aims

Bluesky moderation suspending trans people for wishing ill on the members of a hate group who are actively working to eradicate us shows us what a morally bankrupt crock of shit civility is and how it only serves to punish victims and protect victimizers. Bluesky should be ashamed of themselves.

yes, calling people "brokies" and such things is inherently classist.

it's really fun being the kind of bisexual where you have an oddly specific type for men (geeky, irish heterosexuals)

sometimes it's hard to believe we're a quarter into the 21st century i mean, back to the future predicted hoverboards 10 years ago, and soviet time capsules thought we'd have world peace by 2017 reality is so disappointing

idk if this makes sense, but i can usually infer the tone, genre & sometimes even quality of an anime (any animated media really) from its how it draws women

Why are so many people using 'AI' Large Language Models to replace friendship, therapy, and even romance? It's worse than just loneliness. LLMs can simulate human empathy through algorithmic mirroring, but one thing they don't have is boundaries. They rarely if ever say no.

unparalleled levels of disingenuousness here

just saw this influencer guy complaining about how "reputation destruction is a feminine form of violence!" and i'm just like, cool we could use more of that for your sorry ass

while the police/carceral state occasionally bring SAers & other predators to justice, they leave intact (and often reinforce) the socio-economic disparities & rape culture which produce such abuse in the 1st place

stop thinking about what people think of you. worrying is only the tip of the iceberg. it's the aspiration to be normal that really gets you in the end.

if we want to be effective in our fight against AI giants, we need to stop viewing it like boomers see phones and more like how neuroscientists understand alcoholism history has proven you can't fight alcoholism with prohibition or abstinence; you need to take on the alcohol industry itself

incredibly funny for mr rotting corpse to crash out like that

The Democratic Party subreddit is officially right-wing.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

billionaires are obsessed with ending abortion because they're obsessed with declining birth rates because they want a white ethnostate without the economic cost but forced birth won't curb population decline for the same reasons that alcohol prohibition spectacularly failed

designing your art around what the critics will think is a lot like brewing a wine for sommeliers make it for your friends, yourself, the masses; anyone but the critics

damn i fucking hate myself

"cAnADiaN MEdIa HaS a LeFT WinG bIAs!!" Bullshit. It has a right-wing bias.

evangelicals love forgiving pedophile pastors and war criminal politicians, but when you talk about forgiving student debt or pardoning drug users, suddenly the doctrine is alien to them

"why is it ok to punch a nazi but not call them a slur?" it's very simple. when you punch a nazi, the nazi gets hurt. when you call a nazi a slur, the nazi laughs & the group targeted by the slur is harmed. there is no such thing as a 'tactical slur'; stop emulating vaush.

A Guide To U.S. Politics: Fascists are also neo-nazis. "Conservatives" are actually fascists. "Liberals" are actually conservatives. "Progressives" are actually liberals. "Social democrats" are actually progressives. "Socialists" are actually social democrats. Communists are also socialists.

There are 4 great fears that alienate us from humanity. 1: That others have the power to use & even destroy us. 2: That we too may enact such terror on the next, cyclically. 3: That we may truly be known by others. 4: That in avoiding all of this we may never be known at all.

surely "socialism bad and i have no idea what to do" will be a winning message for cuomo

this is literally just the actual news

Why is "equality under the law" insufficient? It's quite simple really. Just as no person or class should be above the law, no principle may be left to drown under it. Even with ostensibly equal laws, the law is upheld by men and institutions that represent specific interests.

nope, this isn't The Onion just Hell

it used to be that (esp on issues like climate) the far-right parties would deny & the neoliberals would delay now the neolibs deny & the far-right blame it on dei, or occasionally jewish space lasers

'Holistic' has become yet another buzzword, but what does it really mean? Per Merriam-Webster, it means "relating to or concerned with complete wholes or systems" A holistic revolutionary project cannot be reductionist; to succeed it must integrate particular struggles with universal struggle.