and that's one of the things now isn't it. EU has more strict standards against poison content in fruit and vegetables, it sends the poisoned ones back to the imperialized countries. a poor person in EU can go to the market and buy food that went through much more strict poison control. if a rich person in an imperialized nation wanted the same thing they can't just walk to the market, they have to go through active research, and if they even are lucky enough to find a more safe source, they have to pay more and even then they can't be sure of its safety because there's no government protecting them from getting poisoned, and when even the rich are struggling a poor person can't even look for alternatives. something as basic as Buying fruit from the market without getting poisoned. but if you point to this as an imperial core privilege they kill you

the middle class isn't your enemy EXCEPT the global south middle class. the imperial core middle class is pure and free of sin, the global south middle class, who are the most privileged because while the average salary in their country is 400 usd they make the astonishing 700 usd a month, are the true oppressors of imperial core lower class, they are racist, they are responsible for imperialism, they are backwards, they have everything in the world, we need to talk about how evil they specifically are. the average imperial core citizen is struggling while the average global southerners is middle class, just like how the average woman is privileged while the average man is homeless or average white person is poor while brown people are rich

patriarchy will have wives and daughters in torture chambers 24/7 but then pretend that its somehow actually men that are tough and always enduring and people will be like ohh soft and lovely things are for women and children because women and children are ~protected by the patriarch <3<3 and harsh rugged things are for men because men push through any pain >;) and people take it at face value and will start saying ohhhh men deserve comfort too!! like. okay take a look at mens shoes and womens shoes and tell me which gender is the comfortable gender. and i know the story they will be like oh but you see men have to wear practical clothing because they have to be ready for rugged action at any time!! meanwhile women are dainty ~protected creatures that won't be engaging in combat or daring adventures you see? but the reality is jakey and i are both working in the same office or going to the same party and you're expecting only me to go in high heels and freeze in a mini skirt like shut up. and the small truth to the "men always ready for action" bit: if i have to run away from jakey after he tries to rape me when he offers to walk me home after the party who's gonna run faster with shoes like these, me or him? if we are both about to miss the bus, who is going to be the one who can dash a bit and ask for it to stop and save the day? it's just this self-fulfilling prophecy. it's women who endure. women. women. shut up

something I want to say as a personal statement, speaking for me, Shelby Donahue:

It always troubles me when people talk about trans women (like Meagan and Autumn Hill, my partners who I talk to every day) in men's prisons, describing them as "rape concentration camps" and emphasizing the sexual violence there. Both Meagan and Autumn Hill have told me, explicitly, that the vast majority of their fellow prisoners respect them and respect their gender, and while some prisoners have been threatening (particularly to Meagan), that the violence against them has primarily come from the institutional systems of the guards, wardens, etc. I know this in part because of their actions: Meagan and Autumn Hill have consistently helped their fellow prisoners, with little things like getting artwork to help a prisoner draw a birthday card for his child, or bigger things like helping someone get back in contact with their family. And a lot of prisoners have been supportive to Meagan and Autumn Hill, especially when they know about the Prairieland case. They make snacks to share, trade books, and comfort Meagan when she's feeling particularly sad.

I say all this for two reasons. The first is that prisoners are not all rapists or bigots, and in fact many of them are not even guilty of the crimes they're arrested for. They're an oppressed class of people, even the worst of them, and they deserve to be understood as individuals, not a nameless and faceless mass of violent threats. And, as individuals, a lot of them have been good comrades to Meagan and Autumn Hill. I want people to keep that in mind when thinking about prisoners. There's a lot of racial stereotypes and bigotries in the way people think of prisoners in the USA, and we need to unlearn those things and understand prisoners as people, as our equals.

The second reason is that you, and me, and everyone we know may end up in jail, or prison. I think about that a lot - getting raided by the FBI will have that effect on you. If we end up in prison, we have to understand the risks and dangers realistically, without excessive fear or unrealistic optimism. And I think it's important people know the facts about what prison is like, and what prisoners are like. Not everyone is violent in prison - but everyone there is the victim of a lot of violence. There are potential friends and allies everywhere.

there is just no actual virtue in self-abnegation for its own sake

A lot of Christian leftists remold their religion into their political beliefs and self flagellate over enjoying good things and even flagellate other people for wanting good things and not seeing poverty and self deprivation as a virtue, almost to the point of making this the center of their politics

Nuclear waste is awful and could contaminate the water supply, hence us needing to run a coal power plant that dumps ash in the river

To be clear, this post is anti-coal and pro-nuclear

There’s no way the British could have built Buckingham palace. It had to be aliens

Tower bridge was clearly built by a group of ancient Mongol explorers

Big Ben? Look at the Arabic numerals on the clock face. This was clearly a monument to The Lord erected by Sunni scholars and master architects.

"north korea/cuba/china is a dictatorship" the liberal democracy of the united states is soaked in the blood of millions. your "liberal democracy" is not inherently fair or just. your "liberal democracy" exists to serve the interests of the bourgeoisie & the ruling classes. the main export of your "liberal democracy" is murder. by virtue of the imperial core labelling it a dictatorship, china becomes the evil boogeyman of the west. more than 800 million people have been lifted out of poverty in the past 40 years. it does not invade in the name of imperialism. its foreign policy is peaceful and non-aggressive. it provides humanitarian aid to countries impacted by us imperialism. but because the us calls it a dictatorship, it's unjust. because the us calls it a dictatorship, it must be.

i just am immediately repulsed by a series of cutesy comics where a clearly transfemme character is being called a moid and its supposed to be this cute relationship like Shen i dont think yk what the fuck you are talking about.

and ofc his audience is just eating it up like its the most genderwoke shit ever

You just have to wonder if Shen talked to a SINGLE trans woman about any of this shit. like he obviously knows what the term 'moid' means but doesn't know enough to know that putting the word in the mouth of a TWERF character is actually just, well that's literally a very real, very hateful group of people that work to get trans women killed so sorry. I don't find a cute little comic about one of them very fun or funny.

This is what happens when a person is subjected to an onslaught of transmisogyny-exempt people going on about "GNC men bein heckin valid!" like I don't blame shen as much as I blame his audience for constantly shouting down any and all trans women perspectives on his comics.

but I also know that shen is a grown ass adult and my patience wears thin like, you can't be out here drawing cutesy twerfs and 'femboys' dude like what the fuck.

Hey friends, baby Marxist here! I’m starting to feel like technology corrupts the pure soul of man. Has anyone tried turning back the wheel of history so that we can return to a state of perfect innocence?

Existence of baby marxist implies the existence of mommy marxist and she isn't gonna be happy if you were doing any revisionism while she was out campaigning

Hey kids, mommy Marxist here! I'm starting to feel like some of you haven't engaged enough with economic theory, leading to a reactionary and idealist view of the bourgeois tech industry. Has anyone tried putting you in shock collars to force you to read Capital?

"Generate AI hentai"

-Karl Marx, Capital.

It's true he said this

republicans: homeless people should be ground into sausage and fed to schoolchildren

democrats: persons experiencing houselessness should be ground into sausage and fed to schoolchildren

this post posits a utopian world where either of these parties would support feeding schoolchildren, making it a masterclass in "hopepunk"

(for people who don’t know kathleen stock is an infamous British terf who triggered a whole “free speech” university row over her views)

this is what people mean when they say that transphobia and ableism are interlinked. because *of course* the same person who refuses to believe people when they assert their gender also refuses to believe them when they assert a disability. because who knows their bodies better than a random british upper-class white woman!

and at the end of the day it really boils down to this vindictive need to police and bully strangers because 1. why do you care about someone saying they’re a woman, dressing like a woman etc. and 2. why do you care about someone using a walking stick if they don’t 100% need it? the answer is, neither of those things affect your life, and you shouldn’t.

golly its almost like there was some kind of virus going around recently that gave a bunch of people lifelong disabilities. does anyone remember anything like that?

The American worship of The Dog as a sort of animal god, complete with a taboo against depictions of violence, even fictional, against them, is one of the most harrowing things about this nation’s culture.

and like why is there even still gender segregated tennis in the first place. it's hitting shit with a racket. anyone can do that against anyone. like I feel like we've had pretty significant proof that women can and do whup any man's ass at tennis for uuuuuuh however long the Williams sisters have been doing it. what on earth is the point of "sex testing" the players. let them all just hit the fucking balls at whoever they want who gives a fuck.

Ppl love when the base affects the superstructure but the second the superstructure affects the base everyone loses their shit.

yipeeeeee :D

be nicer to sex workers

u need to engage with sex workers as actual workers of the same class as u and not victims who need saving. u need to show respect for us publicly further than just reblogging our promos and posts abt giving us money. u need to publicly support full service workers. u need to not expose sex workers to ur puritanical, reactionary followers. u need to be nicer to sex workers.

Kinda love that a bunch of nazis killed themselves and then the actual trials basically were like "have I heard of you?" "No" "okay, well just don't do it again and we'll let you go run the west german government"