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sudensk || brazilian || marxist-leninist || she/her ❄️🎀

[prolet-kultist]

about me

hiii so. renewing my about me post

you can call me sudensk or alice. she/her. i'm 🇧🇷. white, TMA. i speak portuguese and english and ive been learning german for a while, aber mein deutsch ist sehr schlecht!

marxist-leninist, tankie, stalinist, whatever. atheist. i like literature, worldbuilding, linguistics, history, public transport and football. but communism really is my biggest interest in the end. i also have a yt channel where i rarely make commie music videos twitter | reddit | bsky | my personal worldbuilding project | letterboxd the most valuable thing to a person, is their life

[guelwaar]

whose definition of "graphic violence and torture" ? do we think maybe those conceptual boundaries depend on factors like the speaker's prior ideological commitments? have we ever read a censorship policy?

at what age does a child cross from innocent pre-exposed object to sullied brain adult? what is the normal age to experience or witness violence? where does that leave those who experience and witness violence at younger ages? who may never have lived a 'violence-free' existence?

do we actually think that children are ontologically incapable of being interested in violence, or are we merely so threatened by the idea they could be that we refuse to even speak the possibility?

is it the worst thing in the world to pick up a book and then decide its subject matter is unappealing, frightening, or overwhelming? is that such a foreign fucking concept? did anything scary ever happen to you as an 8 year old? did it have an instant off-switch as effective as 'close the cover and pick up something else'?

what kind of violence? is all violence the same? do all depictions of violence have the same literary merit, political meaning, or emotional effect?

[apocryphon-of-eden]

when i was a kid i loved audiobooks (still do) and i always wondered why i had to “check out” an audiobook online thru overdrive and latter libby for a limited time, since if they always had the digital copy of the audiobook there was nothing stopping them from just letting anyone have it, at any time, and for any length of time. i was a kid so assumed it was for some complicated reason that i didnt understand, instead of the uncomplicated and stupid as fuck reason that it’s like that so publishing companies can make money rofllll

[prolet-kultist]

its kind of thematically intriguing that particular section of communist groups in the early 70s that were really keen on guerrilla warfare and kind of acted in spite of the existence of AES states (to the point youd have maoists and people very clearly aligned with the ussr both on this side). see japanese red army, PFLP, black panthers, etc.

[soup-mother]

I'm really just fucking tired of the perspectives of people from the US being prioritised over all others and treated like they're innately more valuable and worthwhile no matter how shallow or uninformed they actually are.

[soup-mother]

Everything in the entire world has to operate through a US specific frame of reference. Your entire life's context will be condescendingly repeated back to you by someone who skim read the Wikipedia article for it. They're from the US after all. That means they're right.

[prolet-kultist]

college is the inverse of high school but since things all have nuance i also can't say one of these was bad in every single way and the other is good in every single way. but the things that were good in one are bad in the other

[pangur-and-grim]

it is weird that celiac stuff has become part of the 'culture war'. because it's literally just a medical thing.... I get super anemic unless I cut a certain protein out of my diet, because it bulldozes the villi in my intestines. but if I post about it, right-wingers send me gore images. I guess you can't expect shitty people to be logical, but I've even heard lefty people make fun of gluten stuff, and it's like why are you mad about this??? why are you pissed off that I'm eating bread that doesn't taste as good so that I can have blood in my body? it's so morally neutral.

[ms-demeanor]

I'm sorry, I know you weren't actually looking for an explanation but I always have a rant about this locked and loaded.

As far as I can tell the reasons that this happens are:

The interpretation of disability accommodation as wokeness - a lot of the same people who are shitty about food limitations are also shitty about sign language interpreters and ramp requirements (also building regulations relating to the latter) because they view any accommodation as capitulation to a group they think should "suck it up and deal with it" (quietly exist without named or obvious accommodations). The conversations around peanut-free or milk-free classrooms to accommodate children with allergies are similarly unhinged and possibly more horrifying.

Conflating specialty diets as a result of proximity in the popular consciousness - you're a lot more likely to see something described as "vegan + gluten free" or to see vegan/vegetarian/g-free options grouped on menus than you are to see keto/vegan/gfree options so the "lefty" animal-free diets get grouped with gluten-free (it's also interesting that there are right-wing diets, and I wonder how many of these people remember when you used to be able to find "atkins-friendly" symbols on casual dining restaurant menus)

Gluten free diets became a fad fifteen years ago; tons of people read "Wheat Belly" and stopped eating wheat as a weight loss hack and when they went back to eating wheat because it's actually pretty difficult to get around a major staple grain they didn't experience any negative consequences; people saw this and basically think that it's a trend, that people are faking medically necessary diets as part of a fad. When questioned about this they always go "but, I mean, it's okay if you REALLY need to skip the wheat because you have a condition but most people are doing it because it's popular" when g-free diets haven't been a major trend for quite a while now. TO BE QUITE FAIR, I think that things like "Gluten Aware" cookies and beer and such, which contain a little gluten but not NO gluten contribute to this perception (these have annoyed me forever for two reasons: 1. They make people without celiac think that a little gluten is fine for people with celiac, which it is not; 2. fucking commit, companies. *I* want the cookies and beer and it's deeply annoying that these business will go to the lengths to create products with minimal gluten but won't actually make g-free foods - this is often because of the risk of cross contamination, they won't claim to make g-free things because they won't work with a dedicated g-free facility)

Anyway, in conclusion: it sucks, I'm sorry.

The fun flipside of this is that I've seen people who are more right wing become aggressively pro regulation and pro accommodation when they or their family members have to suddenly take on the individual burden of making up for a society that doesn't include them by default.

[ms-demeanor]

US specific:

Is your ham made with vinegar? Does your ham have the generic word "spices" on the ingredient list? Does your ham include "smoke flavoring"? Does your ham include caramel coloring?

Because malt vinegar has gluten in it. "Spices" may include wheat products in a mix. Smoke flavoring may be made with barley flour. Caramel coloring may be made with wheat or barley syrup.

If the label says "gluten free" that means that the "spices," caramel coloring, vinegar, and smoke flavor are certified to contain 20ppm or less of gluten.

If the ham is cured in any way, it may include gluten. If the ham was marinated, it probably includes gluten. If the ham was prepared in a facility that processes wheat in any way, it might be cross contaminated with gluten.

There's a company out there called "Gluten Free Water" that makes water in plastic bottles, poking fun at the idea that too many things have a gluten free label. I fucking hate that company. Because that company is functionally saying "lol, people are so sensitive and over the top about this, let's be a little silly and laugh about how crazy people can be with their 'gluten free' nonsense."

Did you know that there are sustainable food containers and straws that contain wheat? And that you don't have to label them? There are definitely people with celiac who have been sickened by biodegradable plastic straws in their "obviously water is gluten free there's no risk here" water.

"It's over-labeled so it looks trendy" just means you don't know how foods are made or what foods contain gluten. Gluten is ridiculously common in foods in general, and also in packaged meats.

Your ham has to say gluten free because it distinguishes it from the hams that do contain gluten, which is a fucking lot of them. And you're annoyed that your ham has to say gluten free and I'm annoyed that I'm standing in the grocery store calling a ham company to figure out where they source their caramel coloring so I can figure out if the damned ham is safe to eat.

"lol, oats don't have wheat in them, are people so stupid that they have to be told what is and isn't wheat? why does this oatmeal have a gluten free label?" Cross contamination; gluten free oats are not grown near wheat and are not processed in facilities that process wheat.

"lol, rice doesn't have wheat in it, why is this rice labeled gluten free, all rice is gluten free" Cross contamination; the rice isn't processed on equipment that processes wheat.

"lol why does this turkey breast say gluten free, it's just fucking turkey" read the ingredients on your "just" turkey, lots of packaged meat is packed in broth, some of which contains modified food starch, which may contain wheat.

"lol why are these strawberries labeled gluten free? they're fucking strawberries" WAX, BUDDY. SOME FRUITS ARE COATED IN PRESERVATIVE WAX FILMS BY THE MANUFACTURER AND SOME OF THOSE FUCKING FILMS CONTAIN GLUTEN.

I think that part of the reason that people are so irritated by g-free labels is because it exposes them to just how vast and alienating their food systems are.

"Ham should just be meat from a pig, maybe with sugar and salt; what on earth is happening that there might be wheat in that process? Nothing in that process should involve wheat." And then you might have to think about it for a second, might have to wonder what "sugar" and "salt" mean when someone is producing a million hams to be delivered thousands of miles away. It's not just sugar and salt; it's preservatives and nitrates and batch cooking and getting corn syrup instead of sugar and getting smoke flavoring instead of smoking the ham and turning your "whole food" into all the ingredients that make up the ingredients that make up the ingredients.

A "gluten free" label says "you can eat this" to somebody with celiac disease, who has already pounded their skull against the shittiness of the medical system and the food system.

But to someone who doesn't have to worry that their food is going to disable them, a "gluten free" sticker on ham takes a known quantity and turns their sandwich into a hyperobject that contains animal agriculture and industrial additive production and shipping pollution and the ongoing assault on regulation.

If it doesn't have the label, you can just eat your lunch. If it does have the label, you are haunted by the specter of RFK junior imploding the FDA.

Turns out that everyone in the US with celiac is already constantly haunted by the possible implosion of the FDA because food regulation is an up-close and personal part of our daily lives that most people would rather not think about.

[anton--rayne]

a bra and a hijab are the same thing in many ways

[anton--rayne]

Hijab is not much different from many different hair coverings which used to be extremely common throughout the world. All of those had their own religious connections with them. Hair coverings were often a tool of both religion and "modesty", the loaded gendered concept. Nowadays it's most commonly associated with Islam therefore it strikes out as Abnormal. A bra too serves the same purpose, yet its considered the "acceptable" tool of Modesty with no loaded baggage whatsoever while Hijab is the "backwards" tool of modesty with Evil Baggage. The same concept, when it's Muslim racialized, is Backwards and Violent, yet the violence of the bra, because it is accepted among White people too, is acceptable and invisible

[anton--rayne]

Can you imagine if tomorrow wearing a bra was seen as completely backwards, but nothing else changed socially for women, yet the new policy was to force women to take their bras off in public? What, that sounds like the wrong way to go about it to you because it would be humiliating and misogynistic? Now lets apply that humanity to other people's cultures

[tedthetalk]

I actually do think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes

[tedthetalk]

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

[tedthetalk]

I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

[dogletantte]

Reading comprehension test:

1. Does OP mention an obligation on victims to forgive abusers who have learned from their past actions?

2. Does OP mention any work on the part of victims to educate their abusers?

3. Is there any mention of “redemption” or “forgiveness” at all in this post?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Something about how society cares more about punishing the wicked than about making the world a better place, and how many people really struggle to shake that.

[evilsoup]

Years later, in one of Benito Mussolini’s prisons, Gramsci recalled the exemplary advice Lenin had given Italian revolutionaries: “Separate yourselves from Turati, and then make an alliance with him”.20 This apparently contradictory message encapsulated the dual nature of the united front, involving both the necessity for revolutionaries forming a distinct and separate current in the workers’ movement, in the form of a cohesive and principled party, while striving to forge unity with others outside it. The Italian revolutionaries had ignored the first part of Lenin’s advice, and the price they paid was high. When the Italian Communist Party (PCI) finally emerged as an independent force, resentment towards the PSI meant a reluctance to pursue the second part of Lenin’s advice. The PCI found itself under the ultraleft leadership of Amadeo Bordiga, who rejected the united front and was opposed to compromises with reformism, even on a tactical basis. This was particularly dangerous because the defeat of the factory occupations created a context in which Benito Mussolini’s fascists could gain strength—and offer themselves as a tool to the ruling class to eradicate the threat from workers. As Broué notes:

In the first six months of 1921, the tally of destruction came to 19 printing presses and workers’ print-shops, 59 People’s Houses, 119 Chambers of Labour; 83 peasant leagues, 151 Socialist circles and everything that went with them, and 151 cultural circles. We omit here the number of people who died or were wounded, of men and women crushed by violence, fear, humiliation, ruin, and feelings of powerlessness.21

The PCI refused to give a lead and the PSI, on the receiving end of the worst violence, signed a “pacification pact” with Mussolini. Despite this miserable leadership, the possibility of united resistance by Italian workers emerged in the form of the Arditi del Popolo, an organisation set up by a group of ex-officers who wished to resist fascism. The Arditi were broad anti-fascist defence organisations:

The initial group also included a few anarchists…and possibly a few adventurers. But those joining were men from very diverse backgrounds who wanted to fight. They included not only young Socialists…but also Communists and people without party affiliation, who were simply democrats. In several localities, these groups were already beginning to stand up to the aggressors, put them to flight, and thus open up a perspective for confronting the terror.22

Tom Behan describes the momentous beginnings of the Arditi:

3,000 Arditi met for their first…national rally at the Botanical Gardens in Rome… Their message was simple—they were a military organisation formed to defeat fascist violence. But this was far from being a small group engaging in individual acts of terrorism against fascists. It was a movement that had the potential to become very big, and which organised public events and published a newspaper sporadically… The rally…was called as part of a national demonstration against fascist violence…more than 50,000 attended… Two days later the Rome chief of police wrote in a report that the size and nature of the demonstration “shocked the leader of the local fascist movement, who began to worry about the new situation emerging within the Roman working class”.23

However, “[t]he Communist Party forbade its members to join the Arditi del Popolo, the creation of which, it said, was a ‘manoeuvre by the bourgeoisie’”.24 Bordiga’s newspaper declared that “Communists…cannot and must not take part in activities organised by other parties, or which in any event arise outside the party”, and set about creating its own “pure” communist squads in competition with the Arditi.25 At a local level, many PCI members rejected this sectarian approach, becoming involved in the Arditi, sometimes in prominent roles. In many areas, the Arditi proved it was possible to push back fascism. The best example came from Parma, where 20,000 armed fascists marching on the city were repelled by the local Arditi. However, such examples remained localised, with no national organisation seeking to generalise from them. Mussolini later told a biographer: “If the Parma model had been used elsewhere, and was successful, the right of war veterans [fascists] to gain control over public life would have been called into question”.

Revolutionaries, hegemony and the united front • International Socialism

The working class is fragmented in its politics, including its support for different parties or no party at all.1 The existence of these div

[trangoldin]

[puppygirllaika]

after ten beers and a pack of marxboros i highly doubt any "pulling out" will be happening.

[magicalastronomies]

a lot of people seem to believe in great replacement theory but dress it up in progressive language

[txttletale]

of course, in many cases, copyright actually obstructs and discourages accurate credit, because credit openly given to influences can become evidence in a copyright suit

[evillesbianvillain]

Straight man: *says insanely misogynist shit*

The tolerant left: are you gay? I bet you are gay. I bet you like men. I bet you like sucking cock and taking it up the ass.

[zoobus]

*puts on hero cape* actually I would have no problem fucking that woman. This misogynist homo says she has no value because he wouldn't fuck her. But I would.

[prolet-kultist]

alongside the abolition of the family and the abolition of the distinction between town and country i hope communism brings out the abolition of the distinction between pet and animal

[sapphling]

pet rent is a stupid and exploitative fee along with rent in general but it's kind of obnoxious seeing Pet Parent™ types complain about it by saying that landlords should charge additional child rent instead as if that's not, like, something landlords would be chomping at the bit to do to impoverished and especially racialized tenants if it was anywhere in the vicinity of legal

[hagiomoto]

I don't like the word sapphics because I don't respect Ancient Greece