Didnt downvote but ill bite.

Dont self-hate. There's so many self-proclaimed misogynistic chauvanists to hate.

You offer your humanity. That is unique and not about the gender binary.

Your intrinsic traits mean people are more likely to listen to you.

If you're into a long form video essay, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBn5VF_On2k

You get to be inclusivity batman

If your up for a punk song https://propagandhi.bandcamp.com/track/refusing-to-be-a-man

Gender is made up. A social construct used to divide, for the purpose of economic imperialism. If youre up for a book:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781557100238

Self-love is needed if you're going to uplift others. Your intentions seem to be in the right place. Meet that with humility, humanity and accountabilty to learn and grow from mistakes and you'll do fine.

One more thing that feels relevant, a sentiment from a friend:

I think that a lot of people on the left are focused on the idea of forgiveness coming from the people who were wronged, but I think that's a misguided notion. It's not my place to seek forgiveness from those I have wronged, and I don't have any obligation to forgive those who have wronged me. I think that the harsh reality is that we live in an unjust world, where justice only exists if we fight tooth and nail for it, and will it into existence with our choices and actions.

So then if you believe what you're saying, be a part of the fight to make our grass the greener

With all due buddy: "If cisgender men could get pregnant..., ...with a drive thru haha every five freedom units I'm dunny with the funny" would slap, contrasted to choosing to erase trans men, which catches hands.

Witness this right wing authoritarian whining about getting ratio'd for spouting Moral-Fear-Propaganda openly dehumanizing one group of people under another, crying about it.

Fascism is a virus all of it's own, a weird evil in a bad way, the only kinds of degenerates with the only kind of kinks society must stop. Their bloodlust is the poison. This White-Supermacist, Eugenicist Cancer asks you to turn your neighbor in and destroys every nation that obliges.

So reader, Solidarity Forever. Ill promise you, you promise me, to never sell each other out to these murderous theives. I'll call you on your shit, please call me on mine. We'll work together, and our grass will be the greener in time. ❤️‍🔥

(Obvs wont be replying, will be mute-block-deleting any interactions from bigots)

It's about colonised or coloniser, with drastically different privilege and safety for white folks than someone with melanin. You can play nuance games all you want, in the end this is pitting proles against proles for the sake of empire building. The common person would be much safer, happier and harmonious in the world of Land Back than the Neo-Colonialism we endure.

The Imperial Middle: Why Americans cant think straight about class

Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely -- being fed up with the state of the industry -- but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here's what's kept me optimistic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0

Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to "reject isms/be your own ism"

Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.

I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.

https://resonate.coop/ is a spotify alternative which has been goin on for several years now. Support for small artists goes far, solidarity for all workers, Co-Ops represent a neccesary stepping stone towards a sustainable society so Subvert is nice to learn about :)

As someone who's not a doomer, with her Rage fueled Hope, and Hope fueled Rage:

Deep down, I know you cant believe this status quo can stand for much longer than it has.

If someone earns a dollar they didnt work for, someone else worked for a dollar they didnt earn.

As someone who's transitioned out of economic privilege, I know how hollow all that iPicketFence really is.

You cant really expect others to aspire to that plastic existence.

You can't really believe that endless colonization, that your comfort depending on someone of lower economic class existing, wont eventually result in fascism.

So that's why the "Scratch a lib and a fash bleeds" phrase rings true. Thank you for airing out all your laundry for all to screencap, demonstrating just how that when we discuss what neoliberalism pushes, we can see it for thr prefiguration of a right wing authoritarian regime waiting to cannibalize it's own nation.

Austerity Kills. Food Not Bombs. Housing is a human right. No Human is Illegal. Threats to the bodily autonomy of any Non-Man or Non-White are a threat for all. These are not utopia or naive, these are the bare basic conditions of humanity that have been stolen from the people, and causes for which local organizing today can tangibly improve lives being lived now AND prefigure a society that we can maybe even, someday have good reason to be proud of. Screw the fear, screw the dread, go build some connections with folks who are also putting in the work for these things, it reinvigorates the soul. (And sure helps reduce time spent with your pocket amulet)

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?

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 remembers Macromedia Fireworks?

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