My thoughts are that… I don’t know who this book is for? The complete title is The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism, but it doesn’t really talk about Western Marxism as a movement. The author expects you to be familiar with western marxism already, i.e. having the same definition he does, and he never really expands on it.

This is pretty common among conservative books (and other media more generally). It’s produced to give people who already agree with it confirmation that they are right (“It’s in this very authoritative book!”), not to convince anyone or convey new or interesting information.

in the context of this guy being a large part of the “alt-right pipeline” (look, the name is bad, but he was a big part of feeding people that way), this looks like a way to say “look, the left may have some good arguments and seemingly reasonable proposals, but anyone can have those”

i don’t see the problem with this tweet (assuming that it’s true, which feel free to correct me if it’s not)

a very cursory search shows Rage Against the War Machine is a Libertarian Party event, which means at best right-wing libertarians and more likely outright fascists who are cynically using calls for liberty to immiserate and oppress minorities. good on the PSL for attacking them.

that’s a whole bunch of words for “trans people don’t deserve medical care because i’ve decided that’s the wrong thing for them to do”. maybe if we change society a bit the number of people seeking hrt and surgeries will drop, but that doesn’t mean that those of us who want them should be denied.

he has been doing the maga communism grift for several years now, and recently thrown in with the “American Communist Party” along with Infrared and Midwestern Marx. literal nazbol shit

kitty

the process, in brief, goes something like this:

1. you write something (if this is the first time through this sequence for this work, it will definitely be bad. that’s ok and expected)
2. analyze that, which will reveal some significant flaws
3. figure out some ways that may help with those flaws
4. go back to step one with your improved understanding

this can be very frustrating to begin with, but after a few tries you will start to see some improvement, and maybe even something you actually like.

the lead dev has gone on the record that using singular they in the documentation is putting politics into his project, so i expect it to be possibly technically interesting (emphasis on possibly), but no effort put into accessibility and with a fucking horrendous dev community.

i think the way they want it to be understood is “if elected, i will so thoroughly address all of the issues you care about that you don’t have to vote on them again”, which is kind of reasonable until you try working out how that would happen

Slim Shady

that’s an ergonomic nightmare. the keyboard is too high and the screen is too low. if you use that for more than a couple minutes at a time your shoulders will hate you.

youtube makes a lot of money off of nazi(-adjacent) content. it’s a core part of their business model at this point

our possessions tie us to our past, and it’s to our benefit to choose those ties carefully. how does having those big troves of things you will never look at again make you feel?

i mean, the way the supreme court has operated historically (and especially in the last few years) means they can delete basically any law they don’t like, but you are correct that the decriminalisation of homosexuality is only based on a court verdict. many states never removed the relevant laws from their books, so they could in theory be enforced again if the court changes their precedent.

people who love keeping live fish in their house

here’s a citation for the factual inaccuracy presented there: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military

racial minorities are slightly over represented among the enlisted in total, but they are definitely far from the majority, and statistically less likely to be among the poorest.

that said, we should try not to vilify individual service members without specific cause (i.e. that particular person saying reactionary shit), just as a matter of practicality. we have enough enemies as is.

i know you probably know this, but in case anyone has not made the connection, 23andme (and related services) are trying to make real the link between ethnicity and biology which is the fundamental project of (psuedo-)scientific racism. once you have tied ethnicity to a certain set of DNA markers, it is much easier to argue that certain ethnicities are inherently certain traits, which is doing racists work for them.

ethnicity has always been a social and cultural construction with only incidental correlation with biology.

i’ve only been playing factorio lately. this is my current seablock map. trying to get the train based city blocks going. i’ve got basic resources going and about to start science blocks.

it’s white supremacist settler colonialism with a healthy dose of anti-semitic conspiracy theory

to go back to the original post, where she is getting angry at zionists (presumably about the genocide israel is doing), i care much more whether you are doing anything about it than what emotions you have about it. different people work differently. i’d rather someone contribute to a local org and be ignorant of global struggles instead of spending all of their time getting angry at people online so that they contribute nothing.