https://www.optionsri.org/post/chattering-classes-activism-is-the-best-remedy-to-authoritarianism

Rest, recuperate, get into a sustainable rhythm. Only we will keep us safe.

Youth liberation is so key.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc9r_BYSBia9HLaEV1kaInTB_ltiC1v4R

Ive seen most all of Andrewisms entries to this.

Indeed, Trans Kids are Deserving of the Choice to avert a puberty they Clearly Do. Not. Want.

Anything else is heirarchal domination and authoritarian violence; and speaking firsthand as a person who got to her late 20’s b4 realizing she was in denial: is deeply traumatizing.

The good news is therapy works. The bad news is “To con someone is easy, you need only to pull one over on their intelect. To convince that same person they’ve been conned is much harder: you have to overcome their ego.”

Thanks, the added context makes sense of it.

Woulda thought you were a transphobe had i not checked your post history…(not that trans folks cant be transphobic…so…) what do you mean by this?

Fun /s facts i learned recently about Banksy:

• intentionally does art near low income neighborhoods, thus gentrifying them to all hell
• he built a hotel 4 miles away from the Gaza Strip that trivialized everything Palestine was going through for the past 78 years, and told a story of how the genocide is “a nuanced and debatable issue”

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

Evictions, disproportionately of those most vulnerable, due to Austerity via the Neoliberal policies of Reagan and Thatcher which very much persist today, maximizing, subsidizing the profit of fortune 500 companies while making welfare a slur.

Cops break up people who are just trying to feed the hungry.

ICE; Locking children in cages – No human is illegal. The Contras were perpetrated by the imperial core, and then the imperial family eats up the propaganda to hate the refugees fleeing those situations.

Prisons, during covid lockdowns, put prisoners in 24/7 solitary. Solitary is torture. It is so bad that is an effective motivator to force prisoners to instead labor for cents a day.

Cops illegally raid safe injection sites, and spread disinformation about People who use drugs, dehumanizing themselves in the process.

Read about the Comstock Raids, as far back as 1860s, the reason that motivated the Stonewall Uprising a century later, and dont think they up and stopped harrassing queer folks of color for doing so much as existing in public.

The origins of the police forces were to chase down runaway slaves.

It is not “a few bad eggs”. It’s not about a bug of the system, it’s the features it was designed for, through Comstocks weaponization of the Post Office to control bodies and autonomy, into modern day surveillance state and militarization.

What we are talking about is Violence. SYSTEMIC Violence.

There is no more violent beast than the Settler-Colonial White Supremacist, with all it’s manifest destiny. This Prison System’s history is well documented, and evidence of it’s violence is more apparent and accessible everyday.

Abolition is a process and it will take time, the two greatest things we can do to obsolete prisons and police are:

1. encourage and popularize anti-authoritarian parenting methods and 2) build strong community groups and mutual aid networks.

We must be free from class, from heirarchies of domination. These are inherently violent

That Dang Dad on YT is a great resource, and that’s a starting point, because there is no justice unless you adress the root cause, and the truth is always on the side of the oppressed.

Who?

Counterpoint:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221113151723/https://www.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/n4cvkn/they_get_the_boot_and_nothing_else/

Scratch a TERF, find a nazi.

Nazis/Fash will appropriate everything.

So hey, good for the author if it works for them, but for me? Fuck that. I claim dyke, proudly. I go to the Dyke March. Dykey Dicked Sappho Pantastic Lesbo with a brick in her hand and the knowledge that if you’re queer (and open/honest) long enough, all the binaries boil off. Even ABCD has it’s (granted, extremely rare) exceptions.

I get where they’re going, but ultimately this just boils down to, on a communal level “Labels work for people who like them, dont force them on people who don’t identify with them.” and on a personal level “Dont be reclkless with other people’s hearts, dont put up with people who are reckless with your heart.”

You define you. You will be limited and framed into boxes, but in truth your heart, intentions and identity are yours to explore, to show and be known. Dont put up with those who would seek to control that.

The bigotry, disinformation and fear-propaganda moral panics, too, will pass. It sucks to have to fight just to exist, but it’s a life worth living, so spend more time happily. 👭🏝

Couple thought experiments for those interested:

This Subthread addresses how we premempt violent, conquistadoric tendencies (starts at home) – and how we can prevent the reemergence of heirarchies

This video (and really the whole channel) “dares” to vividly dream; to envision: A world taken back from the clutches of the planetary work machine.

Capitalist Realism, i suspect, has a Heirarchal sibling, intent on keeping us convinced that “Resistance is Futile.” Therefore Dreaming and “being Utopian” are not only of utility, but crucial and worth celebrating