If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

So strange, Cyberpunk 2077 references Erich Fromm!

The whole point of designating a non-organasation as a terrorist organisation is that you can now just arrest anyone you want and say they're a terrorist. If your job is to arrest Antifa then anyone you arrest is Antifa by definition and there's no question of pesky evidence of actual membership.

Genuinely, you don't hate fascism enough.

MAGA are currently doing a hyper version their usual thing re Kirk's words, i.e. denying he said what he said while also celebrating him for saying it. You have to understand: this tactic is fundamental to the Right. "I like this. This is correct and good. Also, it never happened."

One of the left's most frustrating optics failures is its clear obsession with optics. Aside from ultra-leftists, the left self-moderates so much that to be a "communist" amounts to being a liberal who hates themselves for it; for it, we alienate fewer people while attracting almost none.

Another really disturbing tendency I see among liberals is the assumption that full fascism can be defeated by moderate fascism. This is absurd. If we grant fascist premises, why should we not expect fully fascists conclusions to follow?

Easily the most disturbing attitude I see many on the left adopting right now is the idea that fascism can be stopped by not invoking its ire. That's not how fascism works; fascists don't spare the weak but hold them in contempt. Not fighting back only teaches fascists what they can get away with.

My first article in three years :D anticapitalistresistance.org/dont-help-fa...

Most governments have a policy of not negotiating with terrorists because you don't want to give terrorists an incentive to KEEP doing terrorism. The problem with fascists is that they're terrorists and liberals are ideologically committed to negotiating with these terrorists as often as possible.

"Wherever working-class social movements grow, fascists see them as distinct threats...To guard against this, self-defense projects—often armed—are formed to ward off these outside threats." Via @shaneburley.bsky.social www.yesmagazine.org/social-justi...

Thanks to the French working class for my best ever birthday present

Cross-resharing, much less from Tumblr, is rarely something I do, but I saw this sappy thing about transfem feelings and getting over the self-deprivation that egg life was and it kinda hit me, so now y'all have to see it too: www.tumblr.com/planetarytra... Ending applies to t4t relationships, btw.

Actual audience notes from the test screening of VIDEODROME, 1983 I love the one person who got so mad they forgot their gender

America does not have a booming economy. It has the same permadepression but with a bubble on top; a mirage of credit and deregulated finance capital; the same secular stagcline of profit rates from the 70s is still operating. This is why US monopoly capital is flirting with fascist dictatorship.

It frustrates me how liberals, and many leftists, respond to conservative critiques of the direction culture is taking by defending the object of their critique rather than by putting forward a more compelling alternative. Leftists' willingness to defend the cultural status quo is genuinely odd.

In 2003, the UK legalized marital rape, by every measure a greater threat to women than the mere existence of trans people, but we should resist the temptation to attack statements such as Rowling's below as hypocritical. We should instead see them as revealing the speaker's true values.

It's frustrating how many leftists will recognize that marginalized voices have historically forewarned against impending fascist violence more broadly, only to minimize our concerns when we speak up...

Fascists can't appreciate satire of fascism for the same reason radicals can't take movies like 300 seriously. Fascists and radicals have diametrically opposed value frameworks and we interpret art accordingly. Fascists aren't "missing" anything in games like Helldivers 2; they perceive differently.

I salute E. Jean Carroll and Stormy Daniels for being braver than all three branches of our government.

Don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but just a little reminder... Adolf Hitler was also found guilty of a crime and sent to prison. He was dictator fewer than ten years later.

It's very telling that, in their desperate bid to bribe the British public into letting them cling to power a little longer, the Tories zoomed straight in on policies designed to punish and torture young people. The British reactionary lizard brain seethes with fear and hatred of the young.

Trump will succeed where Debs failed and become the United States's first incarcerated president

NEW ESSAY (building upon the last one): “Gender Ideology” Is a Conspiracy Theory – it displays all the hallmarks & I believe we should explicitly call it that. no paywall, please give it lots of "claps"! juliaserano.medium.com/gender-ideol...

from yesterday!

You (dumb, hasn’t seen Fight Club): If I buy things I’ll be happy Me (smart, has seen Fight Club): I’m going to punch someone in a basement

patriot front is marching unopposed in West Virginia right now no police in sight. People really need to be asking why neo-Nazis are allowed to march with impunity while peaceful students protesting against genocide are being beaten, mercilessly and treated like a invading army.

There are just no words anymore. Nothing language provides to me captures the pain right now.

I talked at a Trans Strike Back demo in London today.

Interventions designed to prevent, halt, or reverse non-cisgender experiences are known as conversion therapy. The scientific consensus is that these practices are “pseudoscientific,” and experts on torture have identified these pseudoscientific practices as “torture.” #transgender #trans #LGBTQ

Very possibly the article I am most proud to be involved with to date.

Here is a podcast I have made for Trans*Mission and Anti*Capitalist Resistance on the present situation facing trans* people in Britain. Please give it a listen and share widely 💜✊

they did NOTHING while nazis were marching in the streets screaming "Jews will not replace us" but now that students are peacefully protesting apartheid they're pretending to give a shit about us... this is so deeply and transparently disingenuous

Taps the sign yet again. youtu.be/mqc9vhPNJT8?...

Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities in the West Bank under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. www.972mag.com/pogroms-west...

NEW IDSG. Free Public Bonus: Talking About Gaza, with Eiynah. @danielharper.bsky.social is joined by @nicemangos.bsky.social to discuss Gaza, and some issues around IDSG's response to the genocide. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/public-bonus...

It's hard for me to convey what it's like to be trans right now. In Britain as elsewhere. Many mornings I am woken by panic attacks that feel like death. We need cis people to attend protests like this one. We need your friendship.

CASS MEANS SOCIAL MURDER WE DEMAND LIFE!

A*CR's response to the Cass Review. This is an absolute condemnation of the attack against trans* life. Please share widely, and get in touch either on the website or with me if you want to be involved. To other trans* people, I feel your pain too; we will never stop fighting this together.

I wish I could hang out with whoever put this poster up they seem rad and cool

Another Sunday, another transphobic Sodha hit piece. Not linking to it... it's easy enough to find on the Guardian website. I'm particularly taken by the title and subhead, which are spectacular in their reversal of the reality. The rest is the usual garbage.

Sitting in a Tree xkcd.com/2919

Now we're talking.

when people are like "I just don't like the vibe on Bluesky"

Greed and laziness are Marxist virtues precisely because they're always the virtues of the ruling classes, the virtues painted as vices among the masses. Theoretical clarity and rigor are important, genuinely, but that shouldn't have to come at the cost of being exciting, dangerous, etc.