WittyProfileName2 [she/her]

Huge problem imho, is that a lot of these people who rattle on about voting for harm reduction candidates go home after voting on election day and then don’t get involved politically until the next election cycle.

In these bourgeois “democracies” political parties are always going to move to court wealthy donors and thus shift right wing. If you lot over in America can’t mobilise enough people out in the street to fight for these causes, to grind your country to a screaming halt if needs be, then the Dems will be where labour is soon. Maybe not this election, but check back in with this comment by the midterms.

I guess there’s some small comfort that they’ll at least pay lip service to trans rights then.

The labour party won an election over here and one of the first things they did was stop access to puberty blockers. During the election I was told by a lot of liberals preaching harm reduction that, as a trans woman, that I had to vote for them 'cos the Tories would be worse.

I’m worried about trans people over on your side of the ocean being in a similar position where the elections are between trans exterminationist and transphobe.

Okay, can you be more specific about what they did to minimise damage? Like, did they make trans people a protected class, or relieve the bureaucracy around transitioning, or what?

Not an American, so no real stake in this but, could you tell me what the Democrats have done in the past four years to protect trans rights? Since you’re all so clearly concerned about them an’ all.

That’s a brave person right there, to stand in front of all those tanks.

What happened next? I bet it was something terrible.

Do murder ghosts or whatever count as dependents?

There’s probably some nightmare tax form for this, isn’t there?

Ah, you’re right, I see now, boiling down Marxist critique into “can’t control emotions” and “only wants money” while celebrating the individualistic ramblings of a lead-poisoned imperial despot, is a much more rational outlook.

Systemic issues aren’t real, you just gotta stop thinking bad thoughts and suddenly the crushing oppression that Aurelius was writing in defense of don’t matter.

“Hmm, why would man sitting on the top of an inherently unjust system preach complacency with said system as a virtue? Must be because he’s super rational and smart.”

• you, somehow still on that slave mentality in the 21st century.

I started mixing hard and soft expletives originally as a joke, yesterday I dropped a plant pot on my foot and before even thinking the first words that came out of my mouth were, “gosh fucking darn it.”

It’s called the Perineal Raphe. It’s the result of the urogenital folds fusing during the development of an embryo.

Baldachin’s Blessing.

You get it from hugging Fia in Roundtable Hold.

That the USSR managed to last long as long as it did despite being invaded by more developed nations multiple times during the aftermath of its revolution and eventually collapsed largely due to its own internal corruption does put paid to the idea that some authoritarian measures will help protect a socialist state from external attempts to destabilise it.

The problem seems to be one inherent within the structure of states. Any heirarchical structure like that is fit to be abused by someone sufficiently self interested that they’d put their own interests above the interests of the people gestures at Mikhail Gorbachev selling the USSR out to the Western core for his own enrichment.

Anarchism, being decentralised, might be able to withstand some of the issues that were present in the late USSR. But previous anarchist attempts have been crushed by outside actors much easier than socialist attempts.

I don’t really know what there is to be done.

I don’t see how to protect this hypothetical socialist state either. Cuba has managed to escape any attempts that the US has made to overthrow it’s democratic mandate but it had the support of the USSR in it’s early stages and there’s no hegemonic power right now that could be of similar help.

I’m not a particularly bright person, and I don’t think I’ll ever have a proper answer.

The coup in Bolivia kind proved that even social democracy is off the table if it interferes with imperialist interests.

This is a problem that all anti-capitalist ideologies have to face.

The capitalist hegemony has an interest in preventing nations from shifting away from the status quo, so socialist, anarchist, whatever revolution that is fought, however it is fought. It will have to carry out some practices that would be decried as authoritarian to protect themselves from outside interference.

That you seem to take the comments on deadly seriously.

Complaining my shitposty reply to a shitposty comment doesn’t fit your personal formal debate rules isn’t dunking, it’s pissing yourself in public.

Tankies forget that Trotsky existed.

Is somehow also not saying that people don’t know shit.

Your only excuse that you didn’t want to waste time is invalidated by the numerous attempts to dunk on me in this comment thread.

Where did I say that. All I said was that I didn’t feel like writing a lot about Trotsky when I figured we both had some knowledge of him.

I really gotta wonder why you’re still doing this since you obviously think it’s a waste of time.

OK that’s a lot to look up, thanks for the recommendation.

The comment I’m replying to also didn’t explain their stance either. Is there any particular reason you wanna only whinge at me?

If you want to know something you merely have to ask. Maybe explain that you don’t know much about a subject matter.

My initial comment was to someone who has an opinion on Trotsky and thus probably knows who he was, so I didn’t feel like typing up a whole-ass essay on the guy. Y’know?