Lets talk about the state and revolution

Quetzal | Non-binary catboy lesbian | They/Them | 21 | Communist

[undasura]

my beloved lovely gorgeous beautiful talented sweetielump googoobear cute charming adorable lalah

[anton--rayne]

I suppose I should ask on behalf of my fellow ignoramuses why that persepolis quote is bad. I thought it was prescient, particularly to highlight the common humanity between the people of two countries that are hostile to each other. I don't think the part about our governments being the same are correct as America's worse for the world, but I didn't expect people to hate the quote that much.

In the era we live in, a government cannot exist independently of its people, "the usamerican government & the usamerican people" are not completely unrelated entities that happen to be on the same land with the people having no influence whatsoever on the government, nor is that true for any country on earth, let alone the Iranian people. The quote tries to ignore this reality by pretending as though the people of all countries are unrelated victims of their governments

While the "east" and "west" aren't perfect descriptions the world is very much divided! Again, the political scene does not exist independently of the population! Denying this reality denies the very context all governments currently exist in and make their decisions based on, it is denying the very active global hegemony's oppression, it therefore denies how the governments of SWANA exist in relation to it: sucking up to the west in expense of the populace and / or trying to protect the populace, it denies the victimhood of all Iranian people within this order actively hostile and deadly to their very life because it pretends such a hostile order does not exist in the place.

As you said it yourself too, "(our) governments being as bad as USA is incorrect". It is actually the worst offender here, the above so far is a deeply flawed understanding of how states & the world order operates. This deeply flawed understanding piles up to logically result in the final misconception: That the US; the deadly force that has been causing suffering and mayhem in SWANA for over a century, couping and scheming to install puppet regimes that results in the death of millions, dehumanizing everyone within the made up category of "the middle east", (something it carries from the west before it!) and the very aggressor here, is the same as its victims

The Iranian nation is a victim of the US, the Iranian Government does not exist independently of the people, the "just the government, not the people!" play pretend of trying to position the government as seperate from the general populace just furthers the said justification to attack every nation the US victimizes. Therefore it is a very detestable quote, born from mistakes in analysis the citizens of periphery who gather fame in the core unfortunately tend to fall in by passively internalizing the core's logic used to manufacture consent and combining them with the sometimes valid complaints they had of their state, admittedly it can also be from trying to assimilate by appearing as the Good Token Anonymized Person Of The Global South who would never think the opposition to the west is justified

[anton--rayne]

Hence why it is especially disgusting with the turn of events that people think this quote is """relevant"" in any way, though of course if the US and its proxy entity were to attack not any civilians but military targets, they would still be very much making their intentions clear

[anton--rayne]

It is being shared again after Satrapi has finally died. We have seen how "US and Iran governments are the same" once again since the US purposefully murdered hundreds of Iranian elementary school girls and crushed their tiny bodies under a rubble of their school, then threatened nuclear holocaust on all Iranian people and the surrounding region. Let me make it clear: I was too kind, if you quote this, you are a dog. People like you amnufacture consent and have the blood of all the dead children on your hands.

[evillesbianvillain]

[evillesbianvillain]

work

[oneheadtoanother]

[bloody-monstrous-wolf]

[lamignonette]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

⚠️sweetiepie located

[innerchildabortionclinic]

mind palace that was formerly a palace until the ruling family was killed mercilessly for its crimes. and now it's the thinking woman's socialist republic.

[spreadsopotism]

Mind People's Congress

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said to be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.

[criptochecca]

Us the venezuelans

[criptochecca]

[veryextraincorrectfegbaquotes]

[cookiethebirddoll]

this post is ruining my life. i keep saying that im doing things “dustly” and that things were “mad of dust”

[veryextraincorrectfegbaquotes]

Maide’s influence is solely positive and you should be thankful for her increasing your whimsy.

[tallwriter]

Who the heck are these characters?

[veryextraincorrectfegbaquotes]

Goop Lyn and Maide, is it not obvious?

[allegedly-human]

nonsense words such as "blorbo" and "skibidi" are outliers and a minuscule minority and thus do not invalidate that statement

[deadelated]

It's okay to have blatant double standards that favor women

[malevolentcafe]

Now make your feminine lesbians dark skinned.

[orthoscheme]

i'd kill a thousand billion pjackks for one more second of irish american chan

[cannibal-flowerbomb]

"TME/TMA is about genitals" people have yet to address that this makes it sound like they genuinely believe that cis men all have pussies and trans women all have dicks. Neither of which is fucking true.

[magicisrealandsoismyally]

I mean this in, the kindest way possible, this is one of many reasons why TME/TMA is important to discuss. The idea that nonbinary people cannot be transfem is a result of the massive amount of erasure of transfem nonbinary folk due to transmisogyny.

[agender-witchery]

I just find it really weird that all of my trans focused posts EXCEPT for the nonbinary focused posts tend to pop off. Like the fact that I'm trans is negated by the fact that I'm nonbinary to some people.

[agender-witchery]

People will say TMA and transfem to mean trans woman when those terms very explicitly are designed to include nonbinary people who are marginalized along the same lines. Enbies can experience transmisogyny. Enbies can be transgender and feminine.

I'm tired y'all.

[natoapologistblocker]

The international relations tag of Tumblr really is emblematic of how the majority of people who studied IR actually act. They did a degree in a field dominated by Western epistemologies and premised on Western problem-solving theories concerned with managing crises instead of actually finding long-term transformative solutions to the issues plaguing the world order, and developed a sense of being an “authority” on politics, which they use to dismiss anyone poking holes in the overarching narrative. “I did a degree in this! Listen to me! I’m an expert!”

Though this is something you mostly find in people with only a BA or a master’s. Three of the seven or so PhDs at my faculty largely agreed with me on the Cold War and the nature of the international order as something effectively designed to sustain Western interests, and many of them swear by the Marxist tradition. I did a Political Economy of War unit and the lecturer tacitly recommended reading Vladimir Lenin, trying his hardest not to provoke the Ukrainian student, not knowing that she herself was a staunch Marxist. lmao