Marcela (she/her)
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just stating I was an anarchist got me a talking to by my manager
See what you did wrong there? You are about to do it again!
17·1 day agoOh dear, I saw that.
And immediately looked away.
they are told all the time that “cis-phobia” is just as big of a deal or a bigger deal than transphobia
This is mind-blowingly stupid. These people did not know the term cis three years ago, not even in the context of organic chemistry, and now it’s a bigger problem that transphobia.
4·7 days agoEver heard of homonationalism?
2·11 days agoAnd provided an insight to the whole flow of dark money.
Edit: Otherwirse they could just brush it off as a rumor/conspiracy theory.
63·13 days agoI consider this an anti-intellectualist take. I don’t agree this is the root cause.
There is professionalization of the sciences in the context of capitalism, and other forces driving academic endeavours. Including military funding for example. But being educated means also understand the principles of constitutional democracy. This is the main reason anti-intellectualism is the breeding ground for authoritarianism, the very reason this thread exists.
the traditional working class is gone in developed countries
I understand that, but there is a kind of modern-day proletariat. Super market cashiers are working class in that sense.
At the same time a lot of the left is made up of the massively grown academic middle class.
I was about to reach to that. The contradiction now might be more about being “educated professional class” versus “non-educated workforce, specialized laborers etc” (let alone gender). And not other distinctions that might have been meaningful in the past, since you mentioned already that people don’t work in factories as much as they did before.
These are more meaningful for explaining politics, but the truth is the vast majority of people wants living wages, social welfare and public healthcare. Americans are heavily brainwashed against these ideas, and perhaps some neoliberal Europeans as well.
2·13 days agoThe kid should slap the father. That would show him!
This is called “watching as the Overton window moves” in real time.
The working class is always a low-hanging fruit for the far-right rhetoric. That is why you need an “aggressive” democracy to keep the fash in their place. If you don’t, the rate of expansion for fascist ideas is faster than for socialist ideas, because the first is regressive and the latter progressive. Any democracy that is not actively fighting fascism is doomed to destroy itself. This is how we got here. AGAIN.
WTF happened for “The Left” to have to “win back” the working class? Are post-post-modern enough already?
Bring back anarchosyndicalism ASAP.
8·15 days agoI think that the judge said that the decision does not mean that Meta acted lawfully, but that the authors did not present convincing arguments, and wishes that other plaintiffs will come up with better arguments to set a legal precedent against Meta, who stands to make trillions out of it, and thus can compensate the creators.
Conclusions: Legal torrenting is not in sight because of this. And we watch capitalist accumulation in real time.
Oh thanks, I have been looking for this. Someone referenced this argument but I could not retrieve the exact source.
I expected they would say that “downloading only” is fair use. But they also argued uploading? These girls have gone wild.
I also saw elsewhere that they said “decades-old copyrights law” can’t hinder their innovation. And this is what rival capitalist interests manufacturing legal precedent looks like.
1·15 days agoWell said!
4·18 days agoJudging from the other comments, I am not sure that others got the B99 reference.
Edit: Having reread your comment - hilarious!
Hey I see what you did there!
LMAO
3·23 days agoI am sorry to hear that.
The Cass Review was a study the British government asked for. British institutions have been influenced by trans-exclusionary politics. TERF, rad-fem, or gender-critical views are related to a fringe 1970s flavor of feminism, but in the 2010s has taken the meaning of any transphobic woman and also any transphobic person or movement.
Rowling, the author of Harry Potter has bank-rolled similar individuals and groups. Most importantly, the Cass Review and the Supreme Court ruling are considered moves made by Rowling and other transphobes to roll back trans rights in the UK. The Supreme Court ruling was followed up by an EHRC guidance, an organization that was criticized for transphobic views before.
After the guidance there is a widespread witch hunt of trans people in public bathrooms in the UK, which is similar to many Southern US “bathroom bills”. Following the Cass Review, there were many critics of its methods and conclusions, but the UK blindly chose to stop treating young trans people. A clinical trial was designed, a scientific test to see if a treatment is effective, for puberty blockers.
These are drugs that stop some sex-specific hormones from causing changes to the body to make it sexually mature (like growing hair in places, developing muscle mass, growing breasts), because these changes might cause discomfort to young trans people.
A scientist in the team doing the trial stopped it, and several transphobic media wrote about it. They claimed the study stopped because it was considered harmful for participants. This is a talk-point of TERFs, who want these treatments to be prohibited altogether.
It turns out that the scientist who caused the trial to stop was a TERF himself, and another scientist said there was no real reason for it to stop. The scientist who stopped the study was taken out of the team, because his beliefs could make the result less fair.
The media that wrote about stopping the trial are now writing a lot about taking him out of the team, and it seems they try to make it appear as censorship of TERF views.
I hope this helps.
Emphasis placed wisely