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People like to say "show me a communist (or socialist, used interchangably) state that hasn't failed" like some sort of gotcha. My comrade in labor, when have they ever been allowed to just do their thing?

Basically every radical left attempt has been met with staunch opposition. Sometimes local/regional (Spain, Zapatistas), sometimes wider (CIA interventions in... everything). So there's eventually a decision point – what's your relation to violence and oppression. The Soviet Union says "violence is the only way to carve out a place in the world" and becomes a totalitarian empire. A shit outcome.

But if you don't establish strong military backing, you probably go the way of Allende in Chile. (Ousted and killed/forced into suicide by the right-wing aligned army.) Also a shit outcome.

Which is to say it's not "real communism hasn't been tried", it's "real communism hasn't been allowed to be tried".

#brainloops #I think Vietnam might be threading the needle there but I don't know enough about their situation to meaningfully say #politics #leftism #socialism #communism #I think Cuba is also an interesting case but the frequent and recent US blockades are yet more proof for the “always opposed” idea #Cause obviously capital is scared of people seeing viable alternatives to it

What's that script in your banner? It looks cool.

Oh, that is Seen-script from the delightful comic Rice Boy. https://www.rice-boy.com/rb/ Outside the trunk are vowels, inside the trunk are consonants, and if the consonants cross the trunk lines, they are voiced, otherwise not. I think one of its cooler features is that characters are voluntarily vertically flippable, you continue writing from where your pen is.

Anyway, you should go read everything Evan has made. It's good.

#rice boy #webcomic

butch-pilot

I really love the idea of sentient mechs because of all the unique relationships they have with their pilots. You can have mechs that refuse to let their pilot go because they love them so much, mechs that sacrifice themselves to make sure their pilot lives, or even mechs that hate the atrocities their pilot is forcing them to commit and will happily turn on them if given the chance. My favourite is a mech who remembers all their past pilots and has vowed not to make the same mistakes with the new one.

second-coming-of-da-journalist

Damn mood!

#Boyfriend Titan 7274 #mecha

man it would be so cathartic to just fall apart lie down curl up have a good cry and not have to finish writing this thing and not have to deal with how inadequate it is

Alas, my mental health is better than it was 10 years ago and the despair just isn't setting in. There's concern, overwhelm, stress, fear. But despair is absent.

#the academic mines

Y'ALL

It would be VERY cool if I could find a citable source on how you need 2 things to identify as non-cis. (and honestly, should need to identify as cis as well)

i.e., thing 1 – internal feeling. Be it dysphoria, lack of euphoria, just a lack of association or however else you experience it and

thing 2 – the awareness that a) other options exist b) they are available to you and c) that this internal feeling is a sufficient basis to consider your other options

and like, some people can develop thing 2 in a vacuum, others need experiences with non-cis people to find their way to it, some others need experiences, therapy, a forcefem suggesting blog and a really good kink session to get there

can't step out of the box if you like the box and don't believe in an outside

#the academic mines

rokuenknightofvoid

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They detected russian game and you can check it for not sponsored russian aggression <3

why is every fucking publication called "perspectives" anyway?

on my list I have 2 different perspectiveses in anthropology, one in sociology and now one in medicine

#the academic mines

I should quote Judith Butler in this thing

but they're about as quotable as every other philosopher, which is to say not very

and I don't have the capacity to summarise and paraphrase

I barely have the capacity to read them, cause it's a philosophy text

#the academic mines

Next time I make a public survey (this has yet to happen once), the gender options are gonna be

( ) It's simple [write-in box]

( ) It's complicated

( ) It's complicated, but I will explain [write-in box]

#agender agenda #shitchosting

Man, reading a book from 2007 and there's this middle-of-a-sentence

"feminists and pro-feminist men"

bruh, this is some EU regional product identity shit, it's only feminism if it comes from the vagina region of the body, otherwise it's just sparkling activism

even if we assume the most bad-faith reading of feminism as "a belief in the necessary hegemony of women" that would still make the men adhering to it feminists

But nah, the book's actually ok and it has what I was looking for, more or less

#agender agenda #the academic mines

tuxankhamun

Trial by wombat

If your game has combat, you gotta decide if you want it to be theater of the mind (TOTM) or do you want to have tactics on the map (TOTM).

#shitchosting #ttrpg

elierlick

An iconic UK bookstore is offering visitors the opportunity to vandalize Harry Potter books for 25 pence. The Bookish Type, the trans-owned bookstore in Leeds running the promotion, will donate all proceeds to gender-affirming healthcare costs. Good fundraising idea or bad messaging? 🤔

icaruskey

fantastic idea

Books are precious, but not to the point you can't deface them or reuse them in ways that you want/need, especially not a dime a dozen copy of a popular series.

This is art. It's activism, it's demonstration. And the money goes to a good cause. So good all around.

genderkoolaid

i think people need to get a grip around the fact that a state or other governing body banning/destroying books is bad because it stems from intent to control people's knowledge and what kinds of ideas can be expressed and shared.

it's not that, like, astral nazi particles are created whenever anybody of any social status or authority fucks with any book.

halceon

People get so weird about the printed word, I can't.

As a teen I once printed out a bunch of my poems and then gave them out as fliers on the street. And some guy wanted to make a moral case against it, something about them ending up on the ground being disrespectful. Fucko, those are my poems! I cannot be disrespected by this action.

It's just printer ink on paper! Why is "a book" sacred, but a technical manual, which takes no less skill or labor to put together, something you never open, keep on a shelf for 5 years and then toss out?

And especially a single HP book, among the millllllllllllions of copies? One (1)! That doesn't even register when compared to the number of HP books that get destroyed through negligence or accident.

#writing #discourse #trans rights #including the right to deface or destroy personal property

kamiana-ruzha

you fry pelmeni once and you never go back

#facts

so there's this concept I hold that I haven't seen expressed (haven't gone looking for) that I call legitimizing your text

Which is like the broader category of practices and, more importantly, textual elements that are there to say "I'm allowed to say this", be it a claim to truth or a permission to tell fiction.

The obvious example is citations. I didn't invent this, someone said it before. You can verify at this source.

But this also includes folkloric elements, like saying that your grandparent told you this tale. Or "a long time ago in a faraway land".

I mean, I'm sure there's stuff written about the nature of some of these uses separately, but I'd love to see an exploration of legitimizing as a broader need and practice.

#brainloops #Now that I write it out it bears resemblance to the larp concept of 'alibi'#linguistics