Absolutely, kind internet stranger - I don’t want it any other way, I also appreciate your kind comments to me and willing to engage with my viewpoint, however imperfect they can be (no one is perfect, except for cats, of course).

I try my best to signal my intentions, and that any disagreements or points I make are in good faith and it is in the struggle against all forms of oppression, like sexism, ableism, racism, classism, and all sorts of hierarchies we experience in the workplace, public or private spaces, etc. that are well known, or also not well known, unwritten and novel.

It’s difficult enough for getting people to switch from whatsapp to signal.

I don’t know how successful i’d be to get people to switch to simplex.

Is there a particular reason that you don’t recommend signal?

that’s truly sad, you’re right… I think bluesky is a waste of time and mastodon varies by instance.

yes i definitely agree with your point here, systems don’t just live in the abstract, but are carried out by people who carry on fucked up prejudices, and all that.

I 100% agree with this, but the burden should not be placed on the oppressed. Men must dismantle patriarchy too. They don’t get to sit around and do jack shit.

Obviously you don’t want the privileged to steal the cause and speak for the oppressed and marginalized, and this has always been an issue. But it’s not because of ‘men’ but because of capitalism and patriarchy that declaws any effective challenge to oppression. There are similar examples to this like green washing and the environmentalist movement.

I get what you’re saying but I don’t think it’s higher birth rates either. This falls into a neoMalthusian trap that assumes that we don’t have enough resources when it’s the privatization of goods and services that makes production and access to goods stagnant and inefficient.

The implication of saying it’s birth rates will shift the blame on those who have children, and those are historically poorer people in rural areas/less affluent communities/the global south.

Besides, if you look at consumption per capita it is the richer areas and less populated areas in the world that are using the most energy, polluting the most, and consuming the most.

If these are just random ideas to brainstorm for a project, you could just assign a unique hashtag… like #2025project1

Then you can view that specific page and see all the references. The page is created and you can start working permanent notes to that page or continue using journal mode to collect ideas.

I don’t think I will have much success trying to work on a project in journal mode, so permanent pages are important, but the journal mode lets you collect ideas so you can later organize and make official in its dedicated page.

or, you know, men who don’t cat call and consider themselves feminists and allies? This is not hard.

it is either edgelord useful idiots who think saying edgy words make a fuck all of a difference or they want to let out steam because of patriarchy, or a prolonged and sustained psyop to completely discredit ferminism or to divide progressives/the left.

I think it’s both.

If there’s anything the ongoing massacre and genocide against Palestinians have shown is that you can never trust so-called democratic states to stop a genocide, and in fact either do nothing to stop it, or actively arm it, or suppress activities, journalists and students protesting this genocide.

This is a horrific stain on the so-called virtues of ‘democratic’ states and it will never be erased. This will forever be remembered and it will NOT be forgotten.

One of the many lessons of all of this is that the oppressed have only themselves to protect and support.

Until the world disarms this genocidal state there will be no security or protection or human dignity for the Palestinians. This is an essential task, to completely pressure states to embargo the genocidal state.

Twitter is filled with trash bots, fake engagements, right wing copers.

Lots of progressives continue to use twitter but I just stopped going because it’s just a trash site anyways,

open borders does not lower wages when you consider the whole imperialist dynamic of wealth transfer that has forced migrants to find work elsewhere. Furthermore wages get lowered because of the capitalist profit motive.

can someone pleaseee think of the oligarchy PLEAAAASE.

DEMOCRACY (copyrighted/trademarked) IS AT STAKE!!

yeah, and not just leftist. you can have the most liberal and bourgeois-backed nationalist project just to secure some kind of national sovereignty and there will still be a coup. Case point: Iran and Mosaddegh.

Imperialism will sap the wealth of countries and peoples for short term gains, regardless of the economic system.

i call this a doubling down… there’s only so much fake constructed lies of reality until it just breaks the brain of followers.

all the best to them (not)

while this is welcoming news during this atrocious time of the zionist genocidal assault against Palestinians, I am curious of the details. Is this 1967 borders? What about the facts on the ground that zionism has created to make a two state model incapable?

Do we really want to normalize having a new Palestine state existing in a quasi-like existence next to this genocidal state? How far will that go? Will AOC and others say Palestine has the right to defend itself and arm it with iron dome?

Furthermore Israel should not be off the hook in the important work of dismantling colonial regimes.

The only possible way forward is to equalize existence for all peoples on the lands, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity, or who they are. Ethno-nationalist state models like zionism deserve the trashbin of history and I dare any one upholding liberal values to defend an ethno-nationalist state now or in the future, but we all know they’ve done an trash job in the past.

sir your website is not working for me

I also think the same way. If it was short form content of the same subject, ok maaaaybe the brain won’t be so clusterfucked. but as it is, it’s so random it’s just frying our brains.

the distinction between the urban and rural countryside, and only possible with the abolishment of capitalism!

I encourage everyone to research on IBM’s business dealings with Nazi Germany.