My 2nd least favorite religion.

Americans won’t save you. Get over it.

If you want to stay in the nursery and cry that no one will play pretend with you, then go ahead. I don’t care.

You can just use it’s actual fucking names given to it by Indigenous Nations before English ever existed.

If you are so baffled as to why your big brain advice isn’t helping then why don’t you have the sense to meaningfully adjust your expectations?

I always laugh at this line. What does that make Maduro? What does it make the USSR? What of the hundreds of colonized nations?

Victims of a mere paper tiger, I suppose.

Do you really know what we need a spine for? All we do is waste away “organizing” over bullshit. Uninspired, insipid fucking protests, milquetoast bargaining meetings, blah blah blah mutual aid drama drama tenderqueer drama. We aren’t going to save anyone from anything. Not ourselves and not anyone abroad. We will exploit and betray our own sympathies, nothing more. Do not make the error of blaming imperial citizens for not defeating their own champions. We aren’t going to be guilted into dismantling our empire. Do you not know the mountain of skulls we had to pile just to lay it’s foundation? We have only begun to destroy the world as nothing but a paper tiger.

No.

As does using an Italian’s name for the inhabitants of this continent. America is most certainly not a continent. It is a colonial project.

Honestly it makes me so fucking depressed when I hear people saying something as fundamentally disconnected from reality, something so needless and unthinking, something so flavorless and insipid as even ironically implying Gates is one of the “better” ones, that “as a person” he may be fine and that no one is “defending him.”

Something about autism

It makes it hard to say Trump is following the law and the Dems are just Trump haters when he literally said he was an authoritarian live on TV. =)

This is embarrassingly and radically false. It remains just as easy as it always was. Have we learned even a single thing in the last 10 years?

My advice is to not let this shit affect your family relationships.

I’m not their savior but they will be my destroyers. Enough of the naivety. They have chosen a death cult. Fail to respect that decision at the peril of us all.

Why are people surprised that their parents are fascists? My parents have always been obvious christian fascists with a notable amount of local influence in their cult. My dad unironically relished “arbeit macht frei” when we went to Dachau. My patrilineage is an impressive pedigree of anti-communism backed with service in American wars. My grandfather privately referred to POC as savages until his death. Perhaps my experience is more unique than I believe, but I refuse to be naive.

I have broken relations with my family in part because of all this. Also because they hate my chosen family and I won’t tolerate it. I feel no responsibility to save them or correct them. I respect their very intentional decision to be monsters and hope they can be stopped asap. They are evil. They have always been evil.

It is VERY difficult to imagine there not being glaring red flags. This may be a result of my own baggage, but I am immediately skeptical of those who are blindsided by their family’s ideology. I fear many of you who are surprised would be shocked to know my family has always known that your family would belong to the imperial cause eventually. My family is not so obtuse as to believe they are any different now than they were during Clinton, 9/11, or the Tea Party, but somehow others give their own family a pass?

I am equally skeptical of numerous cliches used by ostensibly “leftist” folks including the use of problematic language or the reduction/commodification of identities. If you ironically say “neurospicy” for example, I assume you are willing to betray disabled people for your own gain. If you use “gay” as an insult, regardless of your identity, I will see you as my enemy. Period. These times will not reward naivety.

SCIENTISM

Damn, even threatened with being call right-wing. Science folks always balk when it is ever brought up. I suppose I can understand having to “defend” scientific findings from the dogmas of creationists, but this doesn’t mean science and scientists are not vulnerable to dogma or to the very epistemological supremacism that has been the intellectual basis for genocide and empire building.

SCIENTISM

The dogma of scientism and the obsession with STEM is just as responsible for this situation as anti intellectualism is.

Just outlaw AI-generated content entirely. Outlaw all investments in AI as well.

Wrong.

Fearless? Maybe. Leader? Yeah. Hero? I wish.

Neo-christian like most westerners

Any way we can get an actual fleet with actual soldiers instead of just getting arrested for attention?