If your politics and their praxis aren't backed and guided by any form of power analysis you can't ever aspire to be anything more than a spineless loser. Licking the boot not even because you like the taste of leather but because you're told it's proper.

I'm actually aware that someone else who posted about this earlier was bullied into deleting their post by frothing Rockstar/GTA fans, but I'm not going to back down on this one. No video game leak is worth a teenager being locked up in an asylum for life.

This idea some people seem to have that being put into a mental hospital is somehow getting off lightly compared to being sent to prison have never been in a mental hospital and should shut the hell up.

Anyone else pulling this is gets blocked as fast as this piece of shit. By all means have a trial, convict the kid for a crime. Putting him in a mental hospital indefinitely without trial isn't justice, it's sure as shit not a "reduction" in punishment. It's capitalist, ableist bollocks. Fuck off.

Slop detectors are also slop, even when selling a pretend counter to slop, because all slop is a grift

well that's rockstar, uber and nvidia on the fuck no list source www.bbc.com/news/technol...

Exactly this. No gatekeeping. Access to HRT and surgery on an informed consent basis, just like everyone else. Why we have to be subject to examination and study after study like some organism in a drop of water is demeaning.

I hate how much awareness I have of US politics. I wish the going ons of the imperial hegemon didn’t dictate every aspect of my every day life without even pretending I have a say in any of it. Can’t vote in their elections but have to suffer their consequences Have to live with the hate they export

So now that we've hit the fucking limit of refusing to challenge patriarchal society's most dearly-held assertion of sex as natural, prediscursive and unassailable, what shall we do next? Keep pissing ourselves lest the notion of transition's material reality leads to too many clutched pearls?

We've seen activists, academics, lawyers, and scholars of feminism and gender and transness and queerness all refuse to acknowledge, for various reasons, that TRANS PEOPLE CHANGE SEX, that we are able to navigate society as the sex we transition to, and are punished for daring to change our sex.

There's a lot of distance between "SCOTUS would have ruled against trans people no matter what, so the arguments don't matter in the slightest" and "We should keep conceding that trans women are immutably biologically Male and only seek protections based on nebulous notions of gender expression".

tangentially related: im sure the average american just calling right wingers "magas" now will have zero consequences when the trump era comes to an end and result in no relativizing at all

FMAB transition voice: Transgender Lesbian Transgender Lesbian Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Maybe this makes me a bad person but I care very little for the procedural excuses those with power use to excuse their in/actions as the blood of my trans siblings stains the ground. If your rules have brought you to this moment and prevented the actions nessecary, what was the point of the rules?

Remember, if you ever try to explain to someone why their experience of oppression on an axis you hold privilege over them on is wrong and that they're exaggerating, being alarmist, or that it's not that big of a deal - you're a disgusting piece of shit and all your words are completely meaningless.

The cemeteries of Germany are full of the men who thought they would reclaim patriotism from the Nazis and thus drive the hated enemy to oblivion Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

This isn't made to be a criticism of Phil specifically, but I think this photo is a good example of when it's important to put race as a descriptor in alt-text for screen reader users. This photo is extra horrifying because it's a Black woman who is surrounded by Patriot Front on the metro.

Incidentally, this highlights a general problem about people who confuse respect for the right to hold their beliefs with respect for those beliefs. Within the general bounds of politieness, I don't have to respect anyone's beliefs. I can think you are stupid and wrong.

Unironically, schools should teach latex or markdown instead of word processing. Also teach remarkjs/revealjs instead of PowerPoint and pandas/csv instead of Excel.

And it is that third revolution that is most consistently repressed and attacked.

At times of rupture, when new elites are making big moves, those social forces slip out of control and become a third revolutionary force where *everything* is on the table and structures all elites rely on to exists get attacked.

There are many problems with Bookchin but I think his third revolution idea is spot on and consistent. Much contestation is within the realm of governance - between old and new elites forming coalitions between different social forces that have their own logics.

I dunno if this is offensive to say because I seem to upset people when I say this, but humanities people should consider joining us, or at least join us in decoupling from Word and other MS products where we can... and @acollierastro.bsky.social says it more convincingly than I can!

If your local socialist book reading group is trying to explain why some minority group's liberation struggles are actually bourgeois colonialism, just run and find someone else to join the struggle with.

THEY'RE CALLED "NEWTYPES", COOP. THEY'VE LIVED IN SPACE SO LONG THEY DEVELOPED PSYCHIC ABILITIES. AND THEY'RE ALL AUTISTIC TOO

Are we making you feeling uncomfortable by calling you out? Well our loved ones are dead and the best of our years on this earth have been wasted. So you are going to have to suck up the discomfort. I'll take being uncomfortable over what you regime has done to us, I'll trade places with you.

I'll tell you what you are supposed to do: You lower your heads in utter shame and shut the fuck up. You show humility and you listen. That's how you carry yourself around the non-American victims of YOUR regime.

Re the American flag discourse, when Americans on this platform are confronted by non-American victims of the American regime's oppression, the majority of them reply with something along the lines of "What are we supposed to do? What do you expect us to do?".

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Much like blockchain nonsense being a more useless database, I have yet to see LLMs do anything better, or even as good as, alternatives we already had, that we didn't have to power by burning everyone's future. Using "AI" is the least efficient way to do *anything*.

"All we have to do to redeem this symbol is insist that the propaganda about its meaning is the real truth, while the material acts associated with it can be disregarded!"

The insistence the US flag is a hate symbol gets louder the more Americans miss the distinction between the symbol, the state, and the people.

"Rehabilitating the symbol of a genocidal empire is the progressive mission"

The abilty to separate progressive politics from any concept of international solidarity is one of the most effective US propaganda tools ever conceived. The US right and "left" are damn near indistinguishable from a foreign policy perspective. It's remarkable how quicky they turn on anyone.

The whole notion is just poorly disguised desire for totalitarian dictatorship with a daddy computer in charge and all the tech CEOs as the evil viziers whispering in its ear. All justified by the supposed cold impartial rationality of silicon, bigotry disguised as logic.

Blippo+ is on sale! look if we're friedns eventually i'll convert you to loving and watching blippo+. As a goofy FMV and bad television fan, i cannot express my adoration for this game. Might as well get it now instead of in a month when i finally convince you and it isn't on sale, alright?

i’m sorry but farming is cheating. you didn’t scavenge those cucumbers, you grew them in your field on purpose and “found” them later. and that’s bullshit

I don't think this is about sex positivity going wrong. It's about rape culture. It's about its ubiquity and insidiousness. About the way it will shape every single discourse and activity - all of them, sexual or non sexual - the second it is not actively fought.

what was the point of studying that niemoller poem if you're the first one they come for every time

every part of conservatism: top to bottom, social and economic, exists with the sole purpose of allowing child abuse to happen, and helping child abusers escape punishment.

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

(Will Stancil voice) "As you can see from the charts, transphobia isn't real because trans people have said mean things to my fellow mediocre white men" or fucking whatever. Just block the loser.

This, but also child molesting is not a sexuality which is something a weird subsection of commentators have already tried to analogise these people to LGBTQ people through falsely. Hate and rape culture go hand in hand on a cultural level. Violence is a practice not a being.

Your body is your body. Every child's body is THEIR body. Support children's bodily autonomy; support bodily autonomy for all.

Every child deserves to feel ownership and autonomy over their own body, and regardless of their gender, an issue some trans ppl run into as they grow older is a sense of tension between what they want and who it feels like their body "belongs" to - their family, their future spouse, society

Teach kids language to advocate for themselves. Respect their no, encourage them to express their feelings, listen when they cry. Criticise and argue with people who automatically ignore or shut children down. Stand against beating and other forms of physical "discipline"

Support all kids' rights to do sports or dance or whatever - be a little judgemental, make concerned faces, if someone is pressuring their child toward an activity they don't want. Let kids play with whatever toys they feel like. Exclude creepy uncles or similar entirely from family gatherings.