Notices by (((becci cat))) en/eo/ia/misc (kittybecca@queer.town)

the right and the bootlicker "left" exaggerate hysterically when they claim the left loves Islam but hates Christianity because it's Western. there's a huge difference between thinking people have just as much a right to exist as you do vs. accepting someone else's moral code being imposed on you. christians in the u.s. are trying to do the latter; muslims are not. when christians claim to be "persecuted" they are referring to not being allowed to impose religious law on others.

seize the means of cuddles

(consensually)

@ej @envgen For trans issues, transadvocate and everydayfeminism have a great selection of entry-level essays.

@envgen if you're critical of white cis men's ability to opine about things that don't affect them, how will white cis men ever maintain their dominance of traditionally white cis male institutions like "having a valued and respected opinion on the issues of marginalized people"?!?!?!?!?

"this is going to solve all our problems"
--everyone upon seeing a new thing, shortly before it gets incorporated into our problems and worsens them

authoritarians really seem to hate artistic freedom

all types of fascists have looked on modern/postmodern art as "degenerate" or even communist, while authoritarian communists have tended to disparage the very same art as bourgeois in character

people might pretend that boiling food and freezing food are different things with vastly different purposes, but enlightened centrists know that both are changes from leaving it at room temperature

seize the means of production

i'm pretty sure the GOP knows they're gonna get trounced next year and passed this terrible tax cut bill so the economy will be sabotaged when the dems take over

people say "give Nazis a chance" like no one's ever given them a chance before, like humanity hasn't already seen the horror of what happens when they're given a chance, like no one has ever gotten up in front of a room full of people and talked about the horrors they experienced when Nazis were given a chance

Anarchist Unions Take Lead in Catalonia General Strike

https://itsgoingdown.org/anarchist-unions-take-lead-in-catalonia-general-strike/

"None of their members have ever been in this situation before, and they might make mistakes, but any mistake they make will be worth more than 1,000 correct decisions made by internet commentators."

Right-wing "libertarianism" is an unstable ideology because it rests on a set of assumptions rooted in 18th-century liberalism, which itself was rooted in idealism.

Eventually right-wing "libertarians" have to answer: what is the basis for my belief in private property rights?

This has a few outcomes:
1. biological essentialism, which usually leads to fascism
2. embrace of idealism, which usually leads to religious conservatism
3. rejection of right-wing ideas

right-wingers: the poor need to take personal responsibility

workers: ok, we want ownership of what we produce

right-wingers: no not like that you commies