polyamorous / anarchist

[soon-palestine]

[trannydurden]

happy juneteenth but dont forget that prisoners are legally allowed to be subject to slave labor and also black people are disproportionately arrested and subjected to that legality. happy juneteenth but slavery still lives in america. america is still dependant on slave labor.

[leosuncancervenus]

A white person will get 15k notes repeating the very basics of juneteenth/modern day slavery information for other white people and black people struggling through the ongoing impact of slavery will not even reach a fraction of that audience.

Pay someone’s bail. Support any struggling AA on your dash. Use your platforms to help us reach people who are obviously a lot more interested in what you have to say than independently seeking out ways to materially improve our lives.

[thelonelyjew]

Pride banned Jews?!?

So it's that time of year again that I see people circulating stuff that is completely fabricated about what they imagine happened at Chicago Dyke March in 2017.

First, Dyke March is not Pride. It is not meant to be apolitical or single-issue. It is explicitly anti-imperialist, anticapitalist, and, yes, antizionist. It's not the big mainstream pride Parade that has corporate sponsors (and ads for gay tourism in Israel), it's a small radical grassroots demonstration.

Ok now that that's out of the way, they did not "ban Jews". I was there. They did not "ban Jewish symbols". They did not ask anyone to leave because of their Jewish pride flag.

What actually happened was three women who turned out to be employed by Israeli pinkwashing operation A Wider Bridge participated in the march with a rainbow flag that featured a blue star of david in the center. I remember seeing it and disliking it bc it gave me Zionist vibes but neither I nor anyone else bothered them about it.

After the march there was a cookout in the park. The women were asked to leave by a Jewish member of the Dyke March Collective after several hours of hanging out at the cookout because they were harassing other marchgoers.

Immediately publications like Forward, Tablet, JTA, as well as more mainstream publications started running stories making wild untrue claims which you can still read if you Google it because none of these were ever corrected or retracted. It's clear that these AWB agents had press releases pre-written and ready to fire as soon as they managed to provoke any reaction that they could spin into a controversy.

The photos that ran along with these headlines were also misleading. One of them showed a photo of a rainbow flag with a white star in the center. The star on the flag I saw was blue, and the shade of the star has specific political connotations. Showing a different flag with the politically significant color removed is extremely misleading. The one that was carried in the march (and which, again, wasn't banned!) looked like this:

Another banner image, this one in a New York Times article, showed a young woman with dark curly hair holding a sign that says "this is who we are". She was clearly chosen to feature because of her stereotypically Jewish features. The article implies that she is one of the supposedly banned Jews. This is false. You know how I know? Bc that was the friend I was there with that day! She does not identify as Jewish, she looks like that bc she is Italian, and she had no idea she was being photographed!

I had a hat decorated with red and black stars of David, and the following year a bunch of us wore Workers Circle sashes with Yiddish text (which uses the Hebrew alphabet) as well. No one who wasn't employed by a Zionist organization was asked to leave or even questioned about anything related to Zionism or Jewish identity.

I'm resigning myself to the fact that this is going to get dug up and passed around every year and people will believe what they want to believe, but if you hear claims that some queer group "banned Jews" or something similar, please look at the source for the information and if possible try to talk to actual Jewish people who participate in the community events being discussed. And if you hear this about Chicago Dyke March in specific, please correct people. I feel like I'm going insane when this many people are insisting that what I saw and experienced wasn't real and pointing to the barrage of misleading articles as what I should believe over my own experiences.

[left-reminders]

[lids-flutter-open]

This teen girl on this j train just yelled really loud “does anyone care if we smoke weed” and waited a sec and her friend was like “raise your hand if you care “ and nobody did so now they are smoking . I love them

[queer-as-city-folk]

Women want one thing and it's quite obvious, A large affordable interconnected North American Rail Network

[nando161mando]

Everybody's a Republican now

[skinn1-system]

[log6]

I voted for the huge mass of shadow and bone in the shape of a skull that appeared over the American Midwest

[nyancrimew]

no matter the outcome of this election: organize, build local community, build strength in masses. elections aren't the only time politics happen, it also happens on the streets, in the community and by mutually supporting each other.

the way forward is together. we build power from the ground up. in the US and everywhere else in the world.

a better world is possible and we can start building it now, by ourselves. anarchism starts in the now.

hack the planet

[nyancrimew]

ANARCHISM STARTS IN THE NOW

[uss-edsall]

Since you're 16 hours ahead, what are the US election results?

Jeb!

[recoiloperated]

JEB!

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

[testosteronetwunk]

[communistkenobi]

I agree with this post generally but we need to categorically reject “going against nature” as a moral failing. on a grand scale this is a foundational argument in capital-C Conservative thought. on a more local scale, if you’ve ever had surgery, antibiotics or a vaccine you are unnatural by this same metric (this is a good thing). trans people are unnatural (this is a good thing). as Susan Stryker says we must embrace being a frankenstein monster. reject the authority of nature

[polyanarchist]

Do you live in Illinois? Would you like to vote for some things despite being critical of electoralism? Do you find it hard to get fully informed about all the downballot races and referenda? Do you wish you had an antizionist trans Jewish woman who spends weeks and weeks of every election cycle researching every ballot item to give you helpful background info about each one? You're in luck!

Voter Guide — Stephanie Skora

[homunculus-argument]

If you ever encounter a conspiracy person of any type irl, you can act like you've never heard of

their particular conspiracy

online communities

Don't start arguing with them headfirst, or tell them that they're wrong. Make them explain the entire thing to you from the start, and once they have, ask them where has this happened? Whom has it happened to? How do they know these people that have experienced this? Like was that their uncle or a co-worker or who exactly is it that has told them about these things?

And as soon as they mention online forums, just look at them with deeply baffled confusion, and as slowly as possible, ask "so you were told all this by... someone from the internet?" with the exact same cautiously incredulous tone as if they had just said they receive all of their news from a talking dog.

[rosieobuttcheeks]

I did this to a man who claimed litter boxes were being used in schools and got him to admit no it wasnt his school, actually it wasnt a school at all and no he had no proof of it ever happening. When he said he heard it on fox news and facebook i just looked at him like 🤨 and he shut up pretty quickly

[maplecinnamonbun]

this is just “people in real life: hey man how’s it going”-ing them. excellent

[homunculus-argument]

If you can't find a normie for contrast to highlight how batshit someone is, playing the role of one yourself is fine.

[vague-humanoid]

Hacked billboards display 'antisemitic' messages in Chicago suburb

Multiple electronic billboards in a Chicago suburb were hacked, displaying hateful messages described as “antisemitic" on Wednesday.

[everentropy]

Hey guys? I know we're all supportive of Palestine here but "Death to Israel" with a Palestinian flag just feels like antisemitism with a leftist coat put on it.

I think there's a difference between "fuck Israel's occupation of Palestine" and "death to Israel" (and by extension, the people who comprise it). I think the ongoing genocide in Gaza has given antisemites permission to say things that previously people would have pushed back on. There has been a huge rise in hate crimes against Jewish people and you can't just pretend that those are unrelated.

Also if you're thinking "Oh, so genocide is fine when the perpetrators are Jewish", you need to work on your reading comprehension skills.

"Oh but all of my followers know I mean the colonial state of Israel and not Jewish people in general!". Everyone knows that Israel was founded as a place for Jewish people, and I simply don't think the difference is as clear as you think it is. We can oppose colonialism without implying everyone in Israel should die.

[tamamita]

The Zionist state is a settler colonist project that was founded by David Ben Gurion who had this to say about Arabs

The compulsory transfer of Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something we never had, an opportunity we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings. National consolidation in an independent state.

-Entry 12th of July 1937, Diary of David Ben Gurion.

"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion (founder of Israel) accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population? ‘Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said ‘ Drive them out!'"

-Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

The settler state was founded on the ethnic cleansing of Arabs, and every person has the right to wish for the death of a vile settler colonial nation that has committed genocide and ethnic cleansing of the native population for 75 years. Saying “death to israel” is no more antisemitic than saying “death to america” is antiwhite, in that nobody is calling for a genocide, so for you to call it leftist coated antisemitism is a narrative pushed by Zionists to silence all forms of criticism of the violent settler state and 75 years of terror. The Zionist entity was created on the blood of the native Palestinians, and here you are justifying colonialism ironically. Death to the Zionist entity. Fuck you.

[andnowanowl-deactivated20260413]

What they want as a billboard. 💀

[ms-demeanor]

trick or treat!

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