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Obviously idgaf about white people but I truly hope Western Black people and PoC will break free from the shackles of binary politics. The Left VS Right "framework" did us much much more damage than whatever wokeness y'all think you got from it.
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You will never see me say this about another human being but I hope John Travolta stays in the fucking closet forever, which is highly likely because Scientology hates gay people. It would set us back 15 years. Seeing his name on lists of gay celebrities would give my psychic damage. I do not want to share this community with that man. I think maybe if the ideology of Scientology wasn’t so fucking homophobic, he would have tried doing the Kevin Spacey ‘Hey, I’m gay! After decades in the closet in the public eye, I’m finally coming out as gay! Don’t focus on how I’m a sexual predator, let’s talk about how I’m gay!’ luckily, John Travolta is trapped in a cult so I think he’ll spend the rest of his miserable life not aligning himself with the gay community and dragging us down with him. Is this stance politically correct? Idgaf.
I will admit, there are a few celebs I’m pretty sure are LGBTQ and closeted and I kind of hope I’m correct and I hope they feel safe enough to come out one day. And then there is John Travolta who has had persistent rumors about his sexuality for 30+ years and everyone I see someone mention them I’m like “Yeah, but he’s straight. We shouldn’t assign a sexuality to a stranger. That’s a heterosexual Scientologist right there.”
AND Lindsey Graham! Let’s take him at his word, I’m sure his 3 girlfriends that he wrote about in his memoir were completely real.
Idol worship among western queer people must be studied
totally the opposite of the point of this post btw but also. do you think they don’t have gay celebs and gay icons and fan culture in the east? do you think gay people don’t enjoy watching other gay people succeed and exist publicly elsewhere?
Gay culture "in the east" is rooted in grassroot community-building in spite of violence, not fancams. Mind you, it was the same in the West before white queers took over. But of course, Hollywood celebrities and "representation" are definitely what's going to save y'all!
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You will never see me say this about another human being but I hope John Travolta stays in the fucking closet forever, which is highly likely because Scientology hates gay people. It would set us back 15 years. Seeing his name on lists of gay celebrities would give my psychic damage. I do not want to share this community with that man. I think maybe if the ideology of Scientology wasn’t so fucking homophobic, he would have tried doing the Kevin Spacey ‘Hey, I’m gay! After decades in the closet in the public eye, I’m finally coming out as gay! Don’t focus on how I’m a sexual predator, let’s talk about how I’m gay!’ luckily, John Travolta is trapped in a cult so I think he’ll spend the rest of his miserable life not aligning himself with the gay community and dragging us down with him. Is this stance politically correct? Idgaf.
I will admit, there are a few celebs I’m pretty sure are LGBTQ and closeted and I kind of hope I’m correct and I hope they feel safe enough to come out one day. And then there is John Travolta who has had persistent rumors about his sexuality for 30+ years and everyone I see someone mention them I’m like “Yeah, but he’s straight. We shouldn’t assign a sexuality to a stranger. That’s a heterosexual Scientologist right there.”
AND Lindsey Graham! Let’s take him at his word, I’m sure his 3 girlfriends that he wrote about in his memoir were completely real.
Idol worship among western queer people must be studied
Blue eyed samurai could've been a top 10 animated series if it wasn't all about victimizing blue-eyed ppl
Do self-proclaimed Muslim worshippers and believers realize that no amount of foreign interference will do enough damage to match theirs? Why did this lady look me dead in the eye and tell me that it is completely permissible for a man to marry a second woman without his wife's consent? Just opening their mouths and spouting WHATEVER.
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There's a tendency in IR discourse that I've noticed where the fact that many so-called “authoritarian regimes” curtail what is often labelled as the “freedom of speech” of individuals is framed as evidence of some innate illegitimacy, often presented as a desperate gambit to maintain the power of those in control. I think this is a fundamental mistake. So-called “democratic” countries can afford free speech because they exist within a normative hierarchy stabilised by international institutions, the primacy of their economic systems, and, of course, an as yet unchallenged position within the world order. This makes them more resilient to ideological destabilisation, not because of any innate moral superiority of their systems or ideologies, but because they occupy a materially and normatively privileged position within a particular historical context. As the material power of this world order declines, its normative power follows suit, and this is already evident as states long self-styled as bastions of free speech become less willing to tolerate dissent, from the US to Germany, while at the same time states considered repressive begin experimenting with gradually opening space for discourse.
this misses that the enforcement of free speech laws requires a comprehensive surveillance regime carried out by a wealthy and functional bureaucracy. in practice free speech freedoms in china are far more limited than third world regimes, and obviously the chinese system not at more risk of ideological destabilisation than nepal given what has happened. shoring up a position in normative power through control is only possible with a chunk of some material power.
Wealthy systemic competitors to the normative hegemony of the liberal international order are obviously more at risk of sabotage and destabilisation and have social classes that are more vulnerable to trasformismo than poor or aligned countries. This means they are going to devote more resources and develop more sophisticated methods of maintaining their internal discursive consensus; this is a given.
more at risk?? bolivia is going through effectively a third coup post morales. i do think chinese authorities can genuinely let go of the chokehold on social discohrse they're attempting, the social and political power of chinese media is pretty entrenched now in manufacturing consent and the material success of xi's economic reforms is obvious.
Tldr: Bolivia arguably going through a third coup kinda proves that the attempts made by China to keep a "chokehold on social discourse" are exactly whats keeping it from undergoing legitimate threats towards its own sovereignty.
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I would argue that Bolivia going through a third coup and China not going through anything majorly threatening its sovereignty is actually proof that they should keep their method of maintaining ideological stability, since it's working. I'm not against the idea of China becoming more lax on this, but again, that's easy for us to theorise.
I play with my Mainland Chinese friends on Steam and join Discord VCs with them for raids without much hassle, and they're not exactly getting their doors kicked in when they do talk shit about the party with us. And this isn't an underground counter-culture, it's a phenomenon the CPC definitely is aware of. Like yeah it's not an insignificant amount of effort for them to set up, and when we're not planning long sessions tgthr on weekend nights they generally stick to wechat among themselves, which definitely creates a general rift between the Chinese community and the rest of the world. That for me personally is the biggest criticism I have, and in general is considered a barrier for fostering Internationalism there, but also, they argue it's an unfortunate lesser evil than exposing themselves to Western Intervention. They have protests, they have their netizens shit talking and criticizing their politicians. Admittedly not any of the Politburos, not denying that. But it's not late era Mao nor restructuring era Jiang anymore. The people are more directly involved in politics and openly criticizing the government. I will contend that their needs to be a shift away from the conservative leadership within the party, not only in censorship but other aspects, but it's easy for me to say when I'm comfortably living in a NeoLiberal "Democracy" and don't have to contend with the West desperately trying to find any of my government's weakpoints to expose.
The argument for retaining and even at points tightening their censorship laws is to have a de jure defense ready to be wielded when necessary. Because again, de facto, the general chinese political scene is very vibrant right now. Interest groups (which are like minor coalition parties in ur average multi-party liberal democracy) are increasingly active in critiquing the CPC and submitting proposals for bills, with 2022 iirc holding the record for the highest amount in the National People's Congress' history. The congress publishes if a passed/implimented bill or reform was initially proposed by a non-CPC party or their members so you can look up some of them. With regards to protests and the Chinese public's criticisms of its government, it's understandable that it's hard to parse between Western propaganda and actual on the ground happenings, but if you try reaching out and interact with Mainlanders they'll vouch that worker strikes and protesting their grievances legitimately happens without the police coming to beat them with batons at every turn. This isn't to say it doesn't happen, or that the party has never used it's state police to crack down, arrest or abuse its protesting citizens. Again, the party leadership is still generally conservative (for Marxists), it's just not as violently rampant as results of googling "China protests" will get you. And a lot of the policies on paper are again, constantly broken by the public anyways to the point that it's kinda believable that they're there to be wielded when a significant threat actually comes, so they won't have to start drafting policies or planning a response from scratch while also having to hold things together during an upheaval. Like, with this topic I feel like I'm kinda going in circles with desperately trying to reiterate myself, and I'm sorry for not being more articulate on this, but I understand it's a sensitive issue, so I will say again, that yes the CPC has also used these for things most would not consider a sovereignty threat, such as Chen Pinlin's case. But considering how eager western reporters were to pounce and milk his film for their propaganda purposes, you can see why the CPC might be miffed. And considering how quick these same news agencies were to drop advocating for him when he was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison, kinda shows the extent of how much they actually valued "human rights" and China's "repression of free speech". A whole month of "FREE CHEN" leading up to the trial, then just a few weeks after the decision, then silence. Like, if you really cared you can keep fighting and advocating for him. At least a few months more like cmon.
@nyantara this is your own banner btw:
And this is your own reply:
Reflect.
that banner is a long running in joke that basically identifies me to my followers because that tweet is so inhumane in its racism its a meme. im having a hard time believing you're actually agreeing with its sentiments because then this is a moment to memorialise, possibly forever in the history of this blog. hopefully you're accusing me of anti racist hypocrisy.
This pathetic attempt at a reverse uno doesn't take away from the fact that you made (and have yet to address or reflect on) a blatantly sinophobic claim.
"Agreeing with its sentiments" I'm not the one displaying it on my blog as a self-identifier. Reflect.
if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.
There's a tendency in IR discourse that I've noticed where the fact that many so-called “authoritarian regimes” curtail what is often labelled as the “freedom of speech” of individuals is framed as evidence of some innate illegitimacy, often presented as a desperate gambit to maintain the power of those in control. I think this is a fundamental mistake. So-called “democratic” countries can afford free speech because they exist within a normative hierarchy stabilised by international institutions, the primacy of their economic systems, and, of course, an as yet unchallenged position within the world order. This makes them more resilient to ideological destabilisation, not because of any innate moral superiority of their systems or ideologies, but because they occupy a materially and normatively privileged position within a particular historical context. As the material power of this world order declines, its normative power follows suit, and this is already evident as states long self-styled as bastions of free speech become less willing to tolerate dissent, from the US to Germany, while at the same time states considered repressive begin experimenting with gradually opening space for discourse.
this misses that the enforcement of free speech laws requires a comprehensive surveillance regime carried out by a wealthy and functional bureaucracy. in practice free speech freedoms in china are far more limited than third world regimes, and obviously the chinese system not at more risk of ideological destabilisation than nepal given what has happened. shoring up a position in normative power through control is only possible with a chunk of some material power.
Wealthy systemic competitors to the normative hegemony of the liberal international order are obviously more at risk of sabotage and destabilisation and have social classes that are more vulnerable to trasformismo than poor or aligned countries. This means they are going to devote more resources and develop more sophisticated methods of maintaining their internal discursive consensus; this is a given.
more at risk?? bolivia is going through effectively a third coup post morales. i do think chinese authorities can genuinely let go of the chokehold on social discohrse they're attempting, the social and political power of chinese media is pretty entrenched now in manufacturing consent and the material success of xi's economic reforms is obvious.
Tldr: Bolivia arguably going through a third coup kinda proves that the attempts made by China to keep a "chokehold on social discourse" are exactly whats keeping it from undergoing legitimate threats towards its own sovereignty.
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I would argue that Bolivia going through a third coup and China not going through anything majorly threatening its sovereignty is actually proof that they should keep their method of maintaining ideological stability, since it's working. I'm not against the idea of China becoming more lax on this, but again, that's easy for us to theorise.
I play with my Mainland Chinese friends on Steam and join Discord VCs with them for raids without much hassle, and they're not exactly getting their doors kicked in when they do talk shit about the party with us. And this isn't an underground counter-culture, it's a phenomenon the CPC definitely is aware of. Like yeah it's not an insignificant amount of effort for them to set up, and when we're not planning long sessions tgthr on weekend nights they generally stick to wechat among themselves, which definitely creates a general rift between the Chinese community and the rest of the world. That for me personally is the biggest criticism I have, and in general is considered a barrier for fostering Internationalism there, but also, they argue it's an unfortunate lesser evil than exposing themselves to Western Intervention. They have protests, they have their netizens shit talking and criticizing their politicians. Admittedly not any of the Politburos, not denying that. But it's not late era Mao nor restructuring era Jiang anymore. The people are more directly involved in politics and openly criticizing the government. I will contend that their needs to be a shift away from the conservative leadership within the party, not only in censorship but other aspects, but it's easy for me to say when I'm comfortably living in a NeoLiberal "Democracy" and don't have to contend with the West desperately trying to find any of my government's weakpoints to expose.
The argument for retaining and even at points tightening their censorship laws is to have a de jure defense ready to be wielded when necessary. Because again, de facto, the general chinese political scene is very vibrant right now. Interest groups (which are like minor coalition parties in ur average multi-party liberal democracy) are increasingly active in critiquing the CPC and submitting proposals for bills, with 2022 iirc holding the record for the highest amount in the National People's Congress' history. The congress publishes if a passed/implimented bill or reform was initially proposed by a non-CPC party or their members so you can look up some of them. With regards to protests and the Chinese public's criticisms of its government, it's understandable that it's hard to parse between Western propaganda and actual on the ground happenings, but if you try reaching out and interact with Mainlanders they'll vouch that worker strikes and protesting their grievances legitimately happens without the police coming to beat them with batons at every turn. This isn't to say it doesn't happen, or that the party has never used it's state police to crack down, arrest or abuse its protesting citizens. Again, the party leadership is still generally conservative (for Marxists), it's just not as violently rampant as results of googling "China protests" will get you. And a lot of the policies on paper are again, constantly broken by the public anyways to the point that it's kinda believable that they're there to be wielded when a significant threat actually comes, so they won't have to start drafting policies or planning a response from scratch while also having to hold things together during an upheaval. Like, with this topic I feel like I'm kinda going in circles with desperately trying to reiterate myself, and I'm sorry for not being more articulate on this, but I understand it's a sensitive issue, so I will say again, that yes the CPC has also used these for things most would not consider a sovereignty threat, such as Chen Pinlin's case. But considering how eager western reporters were to pounce and milk his film for their propaganda purposes, you can see why the CPC might be miffed. And considering how quick these same news agencies were to drop advocating for him when he was sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison, kinda shows the extent of how much they actually valued "human rights" and China's "repression of free speech". A whole month of "FREE CHEN" leading up to the trial, then just a few weeks after the decision, then silence. Like, if you really cared you can keep fighting and advocating for him. At least a few months more like cmon.
@nyantara this is your own banner btw:
And this is your own reply:
Reflect.
Being anti-USA is the bare minimum for legitimate leftists I'm not even kidding
Embracing decolonial thought includes rejecting the colonial binary political system. I'll keep saying it because this brainrot has been infecting the global south as well: Left VS Right is a one-sided, imbalanced political ideology (yes, it is an ideology on its own) built on a presumed sense of equality and visibility between the oppressor and the oppressed. Mind you, actual Western leftists don't even use the language of oppression, and oppressors never identify as "rightists."
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i live outside of major metropolitan areas and there are hardly any activist orgs in my area i’m considering joining my local amnesty chapter but i have my qualms about them i was curious what your thoughts would be on joining amnesty as a communist
If you are referring to Amnesty International, I would not consider them an organization worth supporting if you are a communist or otherwise anti-imperialist.
Amnesty International just labeled Alexei Navalny a prisoner of conscience, but it has a long and sordid history with that designation.
However, “prisoner of conscience” is a designation the London-based human rights organization has refused to apply to Western dissidents like Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange. A representative of the organization told journalist Joe Emersberger that it would not recognize Manning as such because they were unsure if the military whistleblower leaked the information in a sufficiently “responsible manner,” claiming to be equally uncertain that she was being punished because she revealed evidence of widespread human rights abuses. Likewise, while Amnesty has criticized Assange’s trial (one that they have been blocked from observing), in 2019, it told the defense team of the Wikileaks cofounder that his is, “a case we’re monitoring closely but not actively working on. Amnesty International does not consider Julian Assange to be a Prisoner of Conscience.” Going further back, it refused to grant the status to perhaps the twentieth century’s most famous political prisoner, Nelson Mandela. It justified its decision on the basis that the African National Congress leader refused to renounce armed struggle against Apartheid and advocated violence — a decision that garnered it decades of opprobrium. Yet Navalny himself has also advocated violence. In a political video, he described the Muslim people of the Northern Caucasus as an “infestation of cockroaches.” While bugs can be killed with a slipper, in the case of human infestations, “I recommend a pistol” he said, before mimicking shooting one. Far more violent figures than Mandela or Navalny have also earned Amnesty’s “prisoner of conscience” label, including Venezuelan politician Leopoldo Lopez. Lopez was a leader of a U.S.-backed coup in 2002 and organized a campaign of insurrectionary violence in 2014 that included bombing schools and universities, poisoning water supplies and shooting journalists. 43 people were left dead, with the government estimating the damage caused at $15 billion, around the same as the destruction wrought by the 2020 Beirut explosion. In 2019, the organization’s Americas director stated that “International justice is the only hope for victims of human rights violations in Venezuela. It is time to activate all available mechanisms to prevent further atrocities,” implying that she supported the U.S.-led campaign to overthrow the government.
Whilst I appreciate the intention of this response, I don't think that it actually addresses the situation Anonym is facing.
RMaL is correct to point out that Amnesty International is a liberal org which should not be trusted to properly carry out anti-imperialist work, however this does not answer the question of whether or not it is valuable for Anonym to join their local chapter: this is for the simple reason that Anonym is quite posibly not the first ML in their area to think "well I don't like Amnesty but it's the only show in town," and is definitely not the first socialist to think that. Anyone in this kind of position should look first at what kind of work their local chapter (of this or any bourgeois non-profit) is doing, and second at what types of people are doing it. Orgs like Amnesty International are no place for Communists to carry out longterm strategic work, but they could be tactical grounds for networking/recruiting the advanced masses in your area. (One comrade I organize with is a social worker who has recruited many of her co-workers into both our mass organizing and study groups, because her job is a magnet for politically (semi-)conscious people who want to change the world but have no idea how.)
Now, this is not to say that Anonym definitely should join their local Amnesty—only to outline the concrete questions they should ask when making this decision. In broader terms, the way to get into communist organizing is to 1) identify a local, progressive issue that people are ready to take a step towards fighting for (it doesn't need to be the most progressive or most important issue, just something popular that genuinely weakens the bourgeois dictatorship on some level); 2) either a) find a group already working on the issue you can unite with, or b) find people ready to fight for the issue (even if they aren't fully communists yet) and unite with them to form some kind organizing committees; 3) launch a campaign that can unite the broadest number of people in your city to stand up.and fight for their rights against the monopoly bourgeoisie. Ideally, you should start this work whilst simultaneously reaching out to an actually ML organization whose work you respect, who you would like to see get established in your area down the line.
Joining Amnesty for a bit may legitimately help you find/build a base for mass organizing—but only mass organizing can accomplish the work that needs doing!
pedophiles on here always try to hide behind the argument of censorship, particularly the idea that "uhhh why cant we talk about really serious subjects!! should we just remove anything negative from things??" and its like u guys arent making and consuming pedophilic content to have an intellectual conversation about the darkest, most horrific subject imaginable. ur doing it to get off. be so fucking for real.
"purity culture" "oh so we cant talk about any dark subjects?? we cant write about anything?? guess ur going to jail for writing about murder in that case lol!!" ur getting off on the fucking thought of kids in sexual situations. theres no "discussion", ur just getting off to it. idgaf if its "behind closed doors", thats fucked up and u cannot be shocked and frustrated that people think ur a nasty person who shouldnt be in contact with kids. "purity culture", u people love to throw a tantrum about purity culture just because a person said to u its disgusting that u make and consume content depicting children in sexual situations. ur the freak for doing it, ur not oppressed for being a piece of shit. lol.
This is a result of racial fetishization, western sexploitation and choice feminism btw
1 time i watched this youtube video called "every time a person of color has had a line in the harry potter movies" & it was only like 10 minutes long but also the "person of color" with by far the most lines was this shrunken head with a jamaican accent
Idk why ppl in the comments think this is funny (even in a sarcastic way) because why the fuck is this shit normalized? And mass aired?
