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Last Notes npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot US Nazis wear masks because they are afraid of antifascist activists. It's not because they secretly believe that what they're doing is shameful or whatever else, it's because of the constant and vigilant work of antifascists. If at some point they believe they have nothing to fear from antifascists then they will march without masks. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Robert Mueller's cowardice and ineptitude makes a lot of sense when you learn that he built his life around chasing the high he got from butchering Vietnamese resistance fighters when he was a kid npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Jesus Christ, apparently Nancy Mace wrote the bill that would have made the records of sexual misconduct in congress public, and she did such a slapdash job that it would have *legally required* doxxing victims. There's literally no depths that woman won't sink to npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Very sharp analysis of the NYT from Lily Alexandre, really worth a listen npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot And I saw folks arguing recently that it's justified for some people to wear Meta glasses because of their disability and like...I'm sorry but if that's you I think you need to know you're a rube. Every single time these tech barons invent a new perversion to rob people with they argue it will help disabled people. Not only does it never work out but also none of these tech companies bother doing even basic things to accommodate disability. You really want to argue that disabled people should be subjected to Zuckerberg's panopticon? For the sake of what poorly put together bullshit exactly? npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot When I go to union actions it's pretty reliable that retirees will show up. It's pretty reliable that they're the most radical too. I've seen squeamish, fence sitting local executive board members get shocked into silence by retired union guys very seriously suggesting getting into fights with cops on the picket line. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot If you've gone to the bathroom wearing Meta glasses chances are that some desperately poor worker in India or Africa has been subjected to footage of your junk. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Hey so like we all know that everything those Meta glasses see gets sorted through by sweatshop workers right? npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot It turns out that blowing up an 86 year old man with likely terminal cancer who chose not to go into hiding when threatened with assassination isn't a genius move and doesn't lead to the kind of instability that Trump thought. Tbh this is probably a huge gift to a regime that has been struggling to deal with decades of organizing and resistance from the Iranian people. A frail old man dying from cancer would have provided opportunities for resistance, but a courageous martyr dying at his post at the ends of the most powerful empire in history does the exact opposite. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Undoubtedly Hegseth is nervously typing "are wars hard?" into unsecured ChatGPT on his personal phone right now npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Journalism appears to have some sort of autoimmune disorder where whenever some outlet gets caught acting extremely unethically and without regard for truth a bunch of journalists go on the offense against whoever pointed out the issue npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot The Iranian regime is evil but rational. Throughout a few years of consistent aggression from the US and Israel they've been very measured in their responses and very specific about what signals they want to send with retaliatory strikes and then taking off ramps. I worry what happens if they conclude the US regime isn't rational. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot There's not many """leftists""" who will argue that Ireland should be ruled by the Brits because the Brits are the dominant regional power. They will not say that it was a mistake for other nations to lend support to the Irish independence movement. Similarly there are few nominal leftists that will argue that the US was *too* supportive of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Trump has robbed the Iranian people of the possibility of tearing Khamenei apart bodily after overthrowing him, and has instead turned him into a martyr. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Someone should probably explain to Hasan Piker that either nations will seek out security partners or they'll try to get nukes, and also that appeasement doesn't work. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Have any even vaguely credible sources said that Khamenei is dead? npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Trump is obsessed with the idea of the "short successful wars" that the US carried out in the late 1800s, the era that he considers to be America's political golden age. The series of imperialist smash and grab operations turned the US from a continental empire to a European style colonial power, with colonial holdings abroad. To Trump's mind these wars also glued together the US polities and facilitated the supremacy of the robber barons. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Do you ever think about how the US government spent a huge amount of effort hiding the rich history of anarchism in the US and abroad and then readily embraced Leninism as the defining form of socialism? npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot @nprofile…l2dj It constantly amazes me how every single US cop is somehow more bloodthirsty and fragile than the literal monarchist colonial gendarmie that is constantly committing brazen murders of indigenous people up north. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot You may hate cops now but when you're in trouble who is going to beat up your kids, run a propaganda campaign about how scary and ethnic they are, and demand that merry-making be outlawed like characters from the Scarlet Letter? You ever think about that punk? npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot *Amazing* story out of NYC: npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot You have to push back on "it's not left vs right, it's the bottom vs the top" because that's literally how the right builds false consciousness npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot The lesson we must learn from Epstein is that there are clearly other Epsteins. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Last year I got to listen to a speaker from the Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos do ABC, the metalworkers union that Lula da Silva came out of. For the unfamiliar, Brazil's democratic government was overthrown in 1964 and the country was ruled by military dictatorship for about 20 years, until basically 1985 (though Brazil didn't formally return to democracy until a couple years later when the new constitution was adopted). Trade unions were a vital part of overthrowing the dictatorship, and even a few years ago when a right-wing president tried to perform a self-coup after losing the election, trade unions once again provided a backbone of resistance that gave the elected government the power to actually take office and hold the would-be dictators to account. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot By the by, the fed response to the murder of Renee Good goes to show why cops are often eager to have body cams. Ross and fellow travelers released his body cam footage explicitly to muddy the information space. Body cam footage will get used for surveillance, for PR, for exonerating cops, etc, far more than it will be used to reign cops in, because cops and not-exactly-cops-but-adjacent control the footage. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot SNL did a sketch about a family dealing with their Trumpist mom coming to term with Trump being awful, and it's really striking to me how liberal media is very consistently concerned with the humanity and dignity of right-wingers. Like another example that comes to mind is King of the Hill, which is kind of a liberal fantasy of militantly decent conservatism. It's especially striking because of how obsessed right-wing media is with depicting anyone left of Franco as a disgusting Satanic pedophile Stalinist. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot This is your regular reminder that "qualified immunity" isn't a piece of legislation or the result of legislation, it's something the Supreme Court made up during the Civil Rights era to undermine the laws the US passed to suppress the Klan. It's literally just an idea the justices invented to rewrite the explicit purpose of US law because they wanted to protect the police who were beating Black civil rights protestors. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot One of the problems of trying to argue against specific parts of a person's justifying ideology is that often the specifics don't really matter to them. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Federal Dems could, should, and from reporting might be adopting a strategy in regards to ICE of trying to force Republicans to sign on to some major restraints, since legislative possibilities are limited until there's a Democratic majority. But in addition to significant restraints, they should also use their skill in destroying agencies through frittering away budgets on stupid shit. The people who have helped to means test programs into near uselessness could employ similar strategies towards ICE: require onerous *and pointless* training (for instance force field agents to take lengthy courses on typing or driving safety or something, give them hours and hours of time wasting videos to click through), make the agency duplicate paperwork as often as possible by hand. Force the agency to spend money on things that give them nothing, such as forcing them to lease from private entities rather than using existing federal infrastructure for their offices. The Dems need to get the biggest restrictions they can and then think like saboteurs npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot What we're seeing from the state apparatus of Minnesota is called elite panic. The elites are responding to disaster as if the threat were civil disorder rather than the disaster itself, and their response is hampering the actually rational and competent responses by the people. Regular people in Minnesota aren't just acting heroically, though they are very clearly doing that, but they are also responding with incredibly sophisticated, complex, rational, and effective efforts that are meaningfully addressing the dynamic crisis unfolding around them. The elites are doing the opposite; they have entirely lost all worldly sense and are responding with entirely irrational efforts that are contrary to their own goals and self-preservation. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Not that it never works, like obviously extreme and violent repression does frequently break movements and authoritarian regimes do manage to stave off efforts to dislodge them. But it's a very ineffective, difficult way to do counterinsurgency and ultimately leads to future insurgent movements even when whatever is at hand gets crushed. It's a recipe for further militancy, for getting more people into the fight, etc. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot By the way, security crackdowns are exactly what counterinsurgency research says *not* to do if you want to control a population npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot By the way, how's Jill Stein doing? During the last election cycle some US Green party types got very mad when I said she takes her winnings and fucks off between elections npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot I almost feel for the modern Popes, like imagine being the last true European king sitting on the legacy of two thousand years of cutting edge statecraft and political science, and watching these European empires all fumble everything every couple decades. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Today in the city of Minneapolis in the United States province of Minnesota members of the regime's paramilitary organization known as "ICE" shot and killed a protestor while engaging in dragnet operations. The organization has recruited heavily from Trumpinista aligned groups across the country since the self-proclaimed dictator returned to power following a brief exile to his political stronghold in the province of Florida. International observers have noted a sharp increase in human rights violations carried out by the organization since the return to power, while civil rights organizations within the country warn that old ethnic conflicts within the country have been intensified into a campaign of ethnic cleansing. The province is governed by the nominal opposition party, however the provincial government has pledged to mobilize their gendarmie to suppress protests against the regime's actions. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot If you're an electoralist in the US that's into third parties, you should really really look at separatist movements like the Yankee National Party or California National Party. US federalism has been one of the things that's actually really hamstrung the fascists and if the federal Dems continue to drop the ball then sapping strength from the feds is likely a necessary long term project, and regional third parties can definitely be much successful than dead end projects like the Greens. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot It's not even a war for oil by the way, it's a war for war. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Porn addiction isn't real npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot It's super chill that Facebook has decided that trans femme content aimed at trans femmes is unhinged meme pages but trans femme content aimed at cis dudes is AI pics of obviously fake bikini models with fucking ginormous gocks npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Once again the reason that Epstein hurts Trump isn't because his base cares about pedophilia (they're pro-pedophile), it's because they think that not releasing the files protects Democrats npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Matt Yglesias is Jordan Peterson for Disney adults npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot It's official, the landlords of NYC are being rounded up to be laid on the subway tracks, commissars are purging city hall, bodegas are being collectivized as we speak npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot You're not reclaiming a slur if you just use it identically and unironically in the same way bigots do npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Everyone loves how Bernie Sanders stands by his beliefs no matter what right up until he says that Trump is good on immigration and that he still endorses the nazi tattoo guy npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Hooo boy, Platner might actually survive the revelation he had a nazi tattoo. That uh seems bad for the broader trajectory of US politics npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot So Mike Johnson has shut down the House for like weeks now to prevent a vote on releasing the Epstein files npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot First they came for undocumented folks and Gavin Newsom said, "yeah crime is out of control" npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Hello this is congressperson Aipac Thirdway Moneybux from Wisconsigan. I'm here to courageously speak out against the ideological excesses of the far left of my party. As you know we Democrats are having a popularity crisis, and as someone who won my election by 0.00032% running against Satan Himself I think I know how to get it done. Unfortunately I must repudiate Mr Universally Beloved, whose blowout victory is representative of nothing and whose ideas are, frankly, racist. I know it may seem like Mr Beloved's "we could just do some of that New Deal stuff again" has captured hearts and minds, but it's important to know he did so in a way that would threaten the highest American value: the feelings of bankers. For that reason I must condemn him as a misogynist and possibly as a gay-hater. We must restore the American dream: mulching immigrant families and the homeless using drones and subsidizing drone training for underprivileged youth of color who start their own drone business in an underserved area. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Maybe you've been wondering how Palestinian resistance still has weapons in Gaza despite the total seige of Gaza. The answer is simple. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot The infamous Hays Code was the movie industry's self-censorship guidelines starting in the 1930s. Pre-code movies contained queer characters, empowered women, heroic characters of color, complex and challenging villains, depictions of all kinds of tragedy, and all sorts of further complexity that the Hays Code did not allow. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Folks from the US have such a reputation for being litigious because the US never became a truly developed nation with a proper social safety net, and the foundation of all legal rights in the US is the private right of action to sue. If you get injured in the US you're going to go into horrific medical debt unless you can sue someone. If someone infringes you civil rights you have no right to stop them, only to sue after the fact for damages. Etc etc npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot @nprofile…args @nprofile…rggv Frankly at this point anything "bipartisan" is almost certainly so deeply corrupt that it only benefits the paymasters of both parties. Bipartisanship is never a virtue, it's at most a strategy and certainly the wrong one for the moment. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot One of the most democratic elements of the US government structure is the jury system, in which citizens can directly take part in the legal process and can even go so far as to effectively veto particular applications of law. I think the extent to which jury duty is seen as a nuisance rather than an important right is actually a really bad sign of the sort of civic health of the US body politic. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Trump is threatening to make Rosie O'Donnell a non-citizen and deport her. She was born in the US, her mother was a US citizen, and her father was an Irish immigrant. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot There's all kinds of discourse about trans women "not dressing their age" and to be honest I think the obvious response is that once you've beaten back the intense social pressure not to transition you're a lot more resistant to other kinds of social pressure not to pursue earnest, honest self-expression npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Hello I'm a Jill Stein voter who self-describes as an "activist" because I've gotten four people kicked out of my local poetry scene for being the wrong skin tone to have dreads. Let me explain to to you how Kamala Harris would have been doing exactly the same things as Trump and the only thing worse than fascism is liberalism which is fascism. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Just a few weeks ago Ezra Klein was making the rounds arguing that Democrats need to embrace a Houston model of housing, with less red tape and regulations preventing things like building on floodplains. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot @nprofile…s0v8 Evola, Gentile, Schmitt all come to mind npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Begging people to understand fascism as a category of political philosophy and movement not merely as when a politician does something evil npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Finding out Keir Starmer was a trot is wild lmao, he really truly is the Obama of the UK npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Pretty wild how a decade ago literal neo-nazis werr chanting to torchlight and now those people are in power and the media wants you to believe that antisemitism is when you don't think Arab kids should die npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot This is your regular reminder that the US Green Party is pretty much universally more corrupt and feckless than the Democratic party. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot "HOT SCOOP: Mamdani once emailed a professor saying "I'm African and Indian". This shattering revelation brought to you by an anonymous source who does *NOT* use the screenname Caucasoid1290, pleasedon'tcheck." npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Man something has to kill the New York Times' reputation eventually, you shouldn't be able to run a nothingburger hitpiece on a progressive politician sourced through hacked data provided by a race science enthusiast and still be considered anything but a tabloid lmao npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot In a world in which education is meant to empower people to self-develop and gain knowledge rather than instrumentalize them towards labor LLM cheating wouldn't be a significant issue. LLM cheating is a rational response to an education system that isn't built to educate but rather to be a bridge to laboring for a capitalist. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Dem Leadership when trans people are under attack: This is a distraction from the kitchen table economic issues that affect everyday people npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot I want to draw attention to the fact that despite all the noise from conservative Democrats, Democrats in both chambers of congress are repeatedly actually going to the mat for trans people specifically and queer people in general. Only a few days ago they spent hours actively arguing with the parliamentarian to get gender affirming care funding bans pulled from the Big Ugly Bill, they're picking fights about this stuff on the floor again right now, and it strains credulity that the conservative Democrats are holding the line on this stuff without significant pressure from the rest of the party. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot "Trans people went too far and this is the backlash" dawg trans athletes could play at the Olympics for about 20 years and it wasn't an issue, trans healthcare is all old as shit, the WPATH is a deeply conservative institution that is designed to privilege cis comfort and certainty over trans lives and science, there's no backlash this was just transphobic weirdos instigating a fight they calculated would be politically beneficial. This wasn't a response to some advancement of trans people, it was a response to the legalization of gay marriage and the need for right-wing grievance to find a new subject. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot As much as I'm a "God isn't real and I am" kind of person, really appreciate the people who develop robust theological arguments for good things. It's got to be maddening to have to constantly make the self-evident case that the beings that preside over all creation aren't giving out personal commands to bully queer kids to death or whatever. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Damn congress abolishing itself has really not worked out super great huh? npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Israel doesn't control American politics, American politicians aren't beholden to Israel. American politicians are beholden to domestic pressures from the military industrial complex, eschatological Christian Dominionists, and cynical bourgeoisie donors that wield Zionism as a cover for right-wing campaign spending in Democratic races. The primary drivers of American state involvement in Israel aren't Jewish or even Israeli. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot One of the things I warned about was that if the Democrats lost the last election, basically every issue that lefties organize around would face massive new challenges and the Dems would probably realign rightward significantly. Both those predictions have manifested pretty quickly, but a specific aspect I think needs attention is how this has shaped public opinion. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot You know what really pisses me off about the people who keep insisting on "peaceful protest" above all else? npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot There's no logistical support for the nat guard and probably not much for the marines. Nat guard are being set up around federal buildings that aren't even near protests seemingly just to have them posted somewhere. The ICE thugs and the rest of the immigration nazis are going hog wild but still facing a lot of push back. Local pigs seem to be trying to ride the line between "outside agitators" and "we have this ourselves", they clearly don't like this ride. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Honestly this does not look like a strong and confident regime laying out plans and traps to me. This looks like a guy who is primarily concerned with image trying to find ways to look strong and save face. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot I've seen the sentiment that "trans women have a duty to use their hypervisible position to advocate for less visible trans people", and I want to kind of set aside the moral claim there, just for a minute, because it really implies that some folks don't actually understand what that hypervisibility is. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Fuck it I'll cover another talking point because it frankly disturbs me. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Happy Pride! Kink is queer, furries are queer, queerness is not reducable to a series of letters in an acronym because it's defined through vectors of marginalization and shared struggle. Cis, het, allo, etc, people who face repression because of how they love are queer too. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot In my life time we have gone from legally destroying the lives of teenagers for downloading a movie or song to running massice fraud engines that turn stolen art into earth shattering pollution npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot @nprofile…twud That would be fun alt history for sure, how do you think that goes down? npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot I think the last few decades of Republican strategy in the US have kinda refuted lefty accelerationism, because fundamentally what's happened is that Republicans do their best to make everything worse and then people who are acutely effected by see themselves as majority power holders become more Republican. Basically the more Republicans absolutely destroy the lives of poor white people, the more those people are solidly Republican. This is part of why Republicans are so eager to destroy social safety nets, it is a long-term benefit to their formal electoral power. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot There's this really exhausting thing that happens where the worst right-wing hacks in the world will create messaging about something, and then supposed leftists immediately start copying that messaging. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Radical misogyny is the main recruiting tool of the modern far right, and GamerGate was the first time they took that model to new media successfully. It's worth continuing to talk about GamerGate because we still haven't come up with an effective counter it seems like. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot @nprofile…args If he's constantly ingratiating himself to others and socially skilled I imagine he's good at coming across as really caring. He asks people how they're doing and probes when they seem down, he's always being as superficially supportive as possible, he remembers details about people's lives and asks after their interests, etc, like a kind of shallow empathy. He could be extremely likeable while being super manipulative. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Title IX in regards to sports has always been flawed because it does not desegregate sports. Allowing women to be segregated out of sports paved the way for the erosion of civil rights using supposed civil rights laws. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot They say that anarchy is chaos, and they call what's happening now order. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot In a sense Bobby Kennedy is the embodiment of the right-wing medical project: the rejection of medical science in favor of ideology. See, you can't be anti-abortion or anti-trans medicine without rejecting a reality based approach to medicine. And so it's always been necessary for the right to attack to very notion that facts should be a necessary part of how medicine is regulated. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot "Leftists" defending the People's Residential Schools because Bush era anti-terrorism nonsense is valid if it's about the Uygurs I guess npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Mussolini is the original "why I left the left" guy npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot I make an effort to compliment strangers as often as possible, I think it makes more of a difference than people realize. There's a real tension though because while guys don't receive a lot of random compliments, there's a real risk of them taking any compliment as an excuse to get weirdly pushy. It's a tight rope walk sometimes and I'm also pretty willing to risk having to push back, but it does reinforce that as much as some guys will complain about not receiving much positive attention it's often because guys make that a fraught proposition npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Like eight months ago I was arguing to people that the return to industrial policy in the US was a significant break from US neoliberalism, and I was called a radlib. Now I have the same people arguing that industrial policy makes China socialist. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot I think folks in the US need to recognize that it's no longer sufficient to appeal to supposed bedrock values because for right-wing yankees everything is on the table. You can't argue that something is bad because it's segregationist: that is a fairly popular position again, one that can be asserted openly. You can't argue that something is authoritarian: they want a doctator. You can't argue that something will infringe on free expression: right-wing yankees don't think there should be free expression. If your goal is to try to chip off some of the softer right-wing aligned folks, you need to argue why these things matter kind of from first principles. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot @nprofile…twud Klein is a political commentator and consultant class ghoul, he's been spearheading a push among the consultants and donors to pressure the Democrats to adopt what he calls the "abundance agenda", which is corporate corruption and deregulation npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Damn I don't know if it's totally intentional but Sinners pretty brutally condemns Irish Americans specifically for their bullshit huh? npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot CUFI claims more members than the entire Jewish population of the USA, you can't say that Zionism is Jewish npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Senate Democrats are featuring Ezra Klein at their retreat. I feel as though Elon Musk has already given us Klein's "abundance" so I don't see the need npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot Every day I'm more convinced that US tankies are largely an op by the state npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot The more you understand conservative voters in basically every country the less evidence you find of the narratives around economic anxiety or whatever. Yes, the misery of neoliberal austerity and breakdown of material conditions fosters more conservatism, but fundamentally this describes the soil in which conservatism is most fertile. What animates right-wingers is bigotry and fear, it's racial anxiety and hatres of women and gleeful spite. People with right-wing sentiment aren't sympathetic lost souls, they're stupid, incurious, and evil, and they love that about themselves and their fellows. The more you actually understand them on their own terms and in fact, the less believable the liberal narratives about them are. npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot People often call for sympathizing with conservative voters or for understanding them, and as someone who puts a lot of effort into understanding them I'm going to suggest you can probably only do one of those things npub1jk3sscluk6f84aeywkv7cd7ty6cvzeft7x3m9czz8q32rsugt24swea9l7 PallasRiot If I had a nickel for every right-wing party leader running for prime minister that styled himself as the Trump of their country that then blew the election so badly they lost their own seat...
