alt-text for thumbnail embed: text saying “law is harm” and then a smaller “fuck cops & judges”, next to a trans flag with half of it covered by the black anarchist triangle. This is all over a 2d digital art wooden background.
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 80%
there are many non fascists willing to be "converted", only targeting those least likely to join is the losing strategy lol
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 33%
if you assume everything you could try will succeed you will be found dead at the bottom of a cliff
there is a difference between guaranteed failure and efficiency as well
from this comment my assumption is that you didnt watch the video. I think you should probably focus on context before jumping into a conversation
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 40%
that is not online, the circumstances are very different. This also doesn't stop them from doing fascism, it just changes what fascism they do. I am not sure the impact of that is all too great
it probably just convinces them to focus on attacking disabled people, women, queer people, etc
alt-text for thumbnail: text saying “blocking fascists is self-care” next to an antifascist flag on a 2d digital art wooden background edit: reactionaries in the comments, look at that. Not surprising since this place downvotes everything related to queer and disabled people, I suggest yall find somewhere else to hang out. I got a discord server if anyone is interested
alt-text for thumbnail embed: text saying “law is harm” and then a smaller “fuck cops & judges”, next to a trans flag with half of it covered by the black anarchist triangle. This is all over a 2d digital art wooden background.
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 50%
the diagnosis is literally "special interest is one a fascist thinks they can use"
this group is filled with reactionaries
yall are literally saying "damn the nazi made nazi race science, I didn't expect that but I like nazi race science so I think we should keep it"
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 15%
people here think "scientific terms" are not social constructs? Yall, scientific models are models they aren't reality itself
anyways, go subscribe there and talk in my discord if you want to talk to people realistic about this shit
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 27%
im autistic, its an identity
identities are real things too
I would encourage you to stay in your lane
alt-text for thumbnail since it embeds: it is an image of the autistic flag with an infinity symbol and multiple colored bars, on a drawn wooden background with the words "aspergers is abeist" on it
alt-text for thumbnail: The words: ““biological” sex is the gender binary” on a 2d digital art wooden background next to the non-binary flag
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 75%
which is why I post stuff like this, shows you how many reactionaries are lurking in our spaces and shaping what opinions we see
alt-text for thumbnail: text saying “apolitical friends don’t exist” next to the progress flag on a 2d digital art wooden background
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 33%
the anti-AI hate is something I see all the time in leftist spaces, and I have seen that weaponized against autistic people again and again
alt-text for thumbnail in case it embeds: it is an image of a queer flag with an infinity symbol, on a drawn wooden background with the words “autistic people mistaken for AI” on it
Alt text for the thumbnail in case it embeds: [blue words saying “what is ableism?” next to an autistic flag of many colors with an infinity symbol on it. This is all on a 2d digital art wooden background]
alt-text: the words “no ethical production under capitalism” with production underlined. It is next to the ancom flag, and is over a digital art wooden background.
alt-text: [yellow words saying “abolish cis puberty” next to a trans flag on a digital art wooden background]
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 50%
at the end of the day, puberty is an incredibly political situation, with lots of right wingers attacking trans people over it. It has a lot of crossover with things such as sexism as well
alt-text: [yellow words saying “abolish cis puberty” next to a trans flag on a digital art wooden background]
alt-text: [ a thumbnail of blue text on a digital art wooden background next to the hand holding a rose democracy symbol. The text has multiple variations either saying “you won’t notice democracy ending, nobody notices democracy ending, or democracy ends quietly”]
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 100%
thanks, its been a time, audio is definitely not easy
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 100%
i mean regardless of what people want democracy is about sacrificing everything you can to those in power so you can be part of the group that gets scraps, instead of the group that doesn't
alt-text: [ a thumbnail of blue text on a digital art wooden background next to the hand holding a rose democracy symbol. The text has multiple variations either saying “you won’t notice democracy ending, nobody notices democracy ending, or democracy ends quietly”]
alt-text for thumbnail in case it embeds: it is an image of a queer flag with an infinity symbol, on a drawn wooden background with the words “autistic people mistaken for AI” on it
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 25%
I don't.
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 33%
"It takes longer to disprove one than make it."
if you spend time disproving their comments, they will simply make more because if you are wasting your time disproving them then you aren't working on building social structures to resist them. It is gifting them power.
I will now block you so I can focus on productive discussions.
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 75%
this is answered in the video
alt-text for thumbnail: text saying “blocking fascists is self-care” next to an antifascist flag on a 2d digital art wooden background
alt-text: the words “no ethical production under capitalism” with production underlined. It is next to the ancom flag, and is over a digital art wooden background.
The point of protests is a threat to the state, and to wear down its reserves of resources and normality by taking up space and not allowing it to do things. If there is no threat of more actions, like even continued protesting, why would the state choose fundamental systematic change over losing a small bit of resources? We are in the middle of a pandemic and so many protests are happening without a significant portion of people wearing masks. This makes these protests self defeating. Continued action won't happen in the moment when everyone gets sick, and fucking over anybody willing to protest with long covid means we get even less protesting in the future. There might be a small threat of more action, but that is far overshadowed. The state is actively benefiting from protests right now because so many of yall are ableist and eugenicist. Even working alongside these people is counter-productive. If we don't exclude reactionaries from our action they will take us down with them.
Pushing yourself doesn't always make you stronger, for many people it can do the opposite. Harm and challenge is not an inherent good. There is the common saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and that applies to rest too. This can be seen clearly in many of the different things we do while resting, like organizing the spaces we live in. In the moment it might be much faster to look through that mess instead of cleaning it up, but eventually it will cost far more time overall. If we are living paycheck to paycheck though, we might not be able to sacrifice that time. This is a perfect argument against things like wages in any system though. I know many people say we need “incentives to work” or to “give resources to groups that do the most work, so that they can do more”, but that is by far the wrong way to look at it. Convincing someone to work too hard now can cause them to do less in the future, no matter how many incentives and threats you add. Rewarding people for doing more in the moment just means you are systematically rewarding people who just look through that mess more, instead of those that clean it up. If you do that enough, give them the energy to expand and make more of that form of organization enough, eventually you won’t achieve anything but collapse. Without time to rest we will achieve nothing, and punishing people for resting will only be counter-productive. Metrics from a distant observer will never replace the workers there in the moment.
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yo, one thing about actually abolishing oppression towards us trans people: it requires not putting any specific puberty above another. All puberties are permanent, not just trans ones. We have the ability to sit every person down before puberty and talk them through what it entails, and then let them choose what exactly they want to go through. Making it an explicit choice places trans and cis people into the same situation. Even with zero medical barriers to transition once someone realizes they are trans, the social barrier of what you are "expected" to be is an issue, for multiple reasons. People who want to make big changes are often questioned and forced to prove that what they want is what they “actually want”, because it deviates from what is expected. People who deviate in smaller ways are punished in their own ways, with those deviations being treated as mistakes or failures, because another major role can't be easily assumed. They are pushed to drop everything that is not perfectly aligned with the role to not be constantly torn apart. We have the technology to provide agency, not allowing its use is oppression. The only way to abolish the hierarchy around puberty is to abolish expectations around puberty. If you think a child doesn’t have the ability to decide what puberty they want to go through, forcing them into a random one isn’t better. If they can’t say no, then they definitely can’t say yes. People will always know themselves better than others do.
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 20%
community fridges are a good example of this working. I don't need to propose anything
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 25%
well, this will be a space you are likely to be far less radical than average in I can say that, and I checking out these sites for the first time and these forums have not impressed me. The more public anarchist spaces tend to not have much going on because so much energy goes towards dealing with trolls and such, so they can't build mutual aid and such internally
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 40%
Have you looked into anarchist communities? What I typed here was like, just a basic summery of stuff that is completely uncontested there I thought would make for an easy spam post in other places to find other anarchists lol
I got a discord server linked in my bio if you would like to meet a group of people who all believe in this stuff, and I can help you find others if you want.
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 57%
it took me years to find others who felt the same way, have you had luck with that? I ask because you seem like you are not used to it
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 20%
and before that you make sure the other person is on the same page by making sure they help themselves first in case you get knocked out yourself, so you could say it starts with helping them
or maybe we could just describe it as building social structures that help everyone involved, you know mutual aid like ive been saying. You can do more together. I'm disabled, there is no amount of focusing on myself that will make me stable in this society.
I am done with this conversation. If anyone wants to focus on working with people to survive, I got links in my bio. If you think you can survive alone go somewhere else.
RosethornRangerTTV Now • 50%
you can't help yourself without helping others, mutual aid is how the poor survive
RosethornRangerTTV
lemmy.worldQueer disabled anarchist who builds communities for mutual aid online. I also stream and such: https://linktr.ee/rosethornranger