Red Banner Butch

Red/29/Transbian Just yelling into the Void

[redbannerbutch]

Hi Yall, you can call me Red (She/Her)! This blog is mainly a place for me to yell into the void.

As you can see by the red star and the name, I'm a communist. If that bothers you, tough shit.

DNI: fascists, capitalists, Neo Liberals, centrists, terfs, homophobes, and all other variations of right wing loonatics.

18+ only

An incomplete list of beliefs:

—I believe that the soviet union as a communist country, while undoubtedly a valiant attempt, was a failure.

—I believe that both the soviet union and China are examples of giving imperialism a coat of red paint and calling it communism. Don't get me wrong both the USSR and China did/are doing alot for the revolution, but that fact doesn't blind me to the imperialist policies and actions. There is nothing wrong with having problematic faves as long as you acknowledge them as problematic.

—I'm a Trotskyist, I believe in the permanent revolution, I believe that a communist society should be a radically progressive and democratic society.

-I'm a communist but I fundamentally agree with Mikhail Bakunin's quote "liberty without socialism is privilege; socialism without liberty is slavery"

[depsidase]

[marxist--lesbianist]

Voters want affordable housing, instead they get datacenters.

Voters want abortion access, instead they get restrictions.

Voters want peace, instead they get another imperialist war.

Voters want universal healthcare, instead they get kicked off Medicaid and higher premiums.

I thought this was supposed to be a democracy.

[stalinita]

Marco Rubio is such a fucking idiot. He keeps trying to convince CUBANS who have been enduring shit from the US for six decades that it's actually communism's fault and that Cuba's government is actually the one causing blackouts and not letting anything in.

I mean, the blockade is just an established fact.

He really thinks that Cubans are dumb. He thinks that they have no idea how Cuba was before Fidel- that they know nothing about their own history, about why they had a revolution.

Cubans KNOW why there was a revolution, a lot of older Cubans even remember it, and that's why so many would do anything for the revolution.

I hate Marco Rubio so much.

[zylahbee]

sexism in medicine kills people. racism in medicine kills people. fatphobia in medicine kills people. queerphobia in medicine kills people. classism in medicine kills people. ableism in medicine kills people.

do not downplay people’s fears about being mistreated because they are a part of a marginalised group. it is a matter of life and death and you should be angry about it.

[category-five-autism-event]

Marriage equality isn't fully here until disabled people can marry without losing their benefits.

Marriage equality isn't fully here until poly people can marry each other.

Marriage equality isn't fully here until it's affordable.

[renthony]

Hot take but rigid divisions between queer identities and heavily-policed labels that are treated like diagnoses are really, really bad.

Trans men have shared histories with lesbians who have shared histories with bisexual women who have shared histories with ace people who have shared histories with aro people have shared histories with gay men who have shared histories with trans women who have shared histories with nonbinary people who have shared histories with etc etc etc etc etc.

Labels are important for people who want them, but we need to stop treating sexuality and gender as rigid boxes and checklists.

[idhren]

yes. labels aren’t a fort you need to protect; labels are a pin you can add to your backpack to signal being part of something. You can, in fact, have more than one label (as a treat).

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

[animentality]

[redbannerbutch]

Mamdani is a prime example of why leftists need to run for local office. The policies he is implementing won't overthrow capitalism, he isn't going to usher in the workers state.

But he is actively helping working class people in the name of socialism. He is winning hearts and minds.

[socialistexan]

Apparently boomer Democrats are having meltdowns over a gen-z progressive who is primarying an 80 year old Democrat because she "went on trans podcasts" and wore a Charizard kigurumi

[socialistexan]

[transfeminine-anarcho-post-egg]

ok but what is she running on

[socialistexan]

You can check her out here, but quick run down:

Universal single payer healthcare

Restore reproducive healthcare

Protecting trans rights

Passing the Equality Act

Ending mass deportation

Term limits for Congress

$25/hr minimum wage

Support for rural medical care and schools

$3000/month for stat at home parents

Kat for Congress | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois' Ninth District

Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress in Illinois' Ninth District because Democrats need to do more to stop Trump and fight for working pe

[gayvampyr]

reblog if you’re a commie fuck who wants the USA destroyed

[stillnaomi]

Marxism is about changing the current state of things in practice, not about mental masturbation. this is why liberal institutions view Marxism-Leninism with such hostility. it's fine to teach sophisticated seeming versions of Marxism in the university when they're detached from revolutionary practice. it's fine to give their authors air time on your shows or write ups in your magazines. the same goes with platforming anti-communist socialists who condemn Marxism-Leninism, and with it all the countries in the world that have made significant steps towards building socialism. the construction and reproduction of this compatible left by liberal institutions is a powerful weapon for making sure that imperial core socialists are anti-communist, and are detached from practices that actually threaten to overthrow capitalist rule. don't fall for their bullshit when Marxism-Leninism is right there

[stalinxtrotskytoxicyaoi]

[depsidase]

[redbannerbutch]

A reminder to all Americans that the 2nd amendment is becoming more and more relevant

[natoapologistblocker]

Certified The Economist classic. They are just a parody of themselves

[redbannerbutch]

Got a good laugh out of capitalists calling socialism a "me-first doctrine"

[teaboot]

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

[teaboot]

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

[teaboot]

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

[theconcealedweapon]

You can't gatekeep LGBT events, for two main reasons:

You can't clearly define who's LGBT. Even someone who could pass as 100% cishet in their everyday life could be LGBT. Someone in an opposite gender relationship could be bisexual. Someone could be questioning their sexuality, even slightly, or maybe they did in the past or will in the future. It also isn't just people who identify as a non-assigned gender or have romantic or sexual attraction to the same gender that are oppressed. Even those who simply deviate from gender roles while still technically being cishet can be oppressed for it.

Requiring LGBT status as a condition for entry to LGBT events requires LGBT people to be out. And being out can be dangerous, so it should never be required.

The only people who shouldn't be welcome are those who are harmful to LGBT people. Examples include people who are openly anti-LGBT, all cops, and Christians who aren't actively trying to take Christianity back from bigots.

[nonaferatu]

people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result

[marxistlesbianist]

Only a general women's movement has the power to liberate trans women, but only a union of trans women organized within such a movement has the power to ensure that it does liberate trans women. Likewise, only a proletarian socialist movement has the power to liberate women in general, but only a general union of women organized within the proletarian movement has the power to ensure that it does liberate women.

As an oppressed people, we cannot rely on the privileged classes to discover our own interests, but as a minority we also cannot rely on our independent forces to overthrow such powerful systems. A strategic alliance of all oppressed people's is needed to build socialism, whilst autonomous unions of oppressed people are needed to protect ourselves and advocate for our interests within the coalition.

Do not mistake the failures of particular movements in the US for an indication of the general impossibility of such a strategic alliance. The reactionary hegemony is a temporary phenomenon, whilst class struggle is the permanent condition of class society. No movement will appear if we don't build it, but history is on our side.