SpookyBogMonster

joined 1 year ago
[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Shout out to Leslie Feinberg. Everyone go read Transgender Warriors.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

There are plenty of early leninists who were deeply intersectional. Alexandra Kollontai jumps to mind immediately.

But yeah, there's definitely a vulgar strain here that nutomic is clinging to.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Jesse....What the fuck are you talking about?

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nothing in @Doorbook@lemmy.world's comment implied that.

Also...Why do you think so many American cities in the south west have spanish names?

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

tbh, their funtion isn't all that objectionable. Mixed use buildings are cool and good, actually. But the fact that they're made of cardboard and duct tape, look like ass, and are signifiers of gentrification are what suck about them.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think it's that complicated

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

"The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation."

  • Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

This is pretty straightforwardly an accelerationist tactic. It might not have been called that at the time, but strategically pushing crises over the tipping point, in order to take advantage of their fallout, wasn't invented by the boogaloo boys in 2017.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago

The prefix trans comes from Latin and means "On the far side of" wherever you're currently standing. So transportation takes you from one place to another.

To be transgender, your gender identity, expression, etc. Moves from one gender to another. So that could be in a binary way, from male to female, or vice versa.

Or it could mean you're going from male, to something in the middle, or otherwise not related to the traditional gender binary. You're still trans, you're just moving to a less expected part of the proverbial map.

The word transgender was pushed heavily by Leslie Feinberg, who was nonbinary. They also considered themselves a lesbian, and even transitioned to living as a man for many years in their youth.

I bring this up because I find that cis people, and even some trans people, want to put everything into nice neat little boxes, and queerness has just never worked that way. A term like LGBT implies that each of those letters is a discreet identity box, when in reality, all of these ideas and labels are a complex overlaping series of ven diagrams and umbrella terms.

Source: am Nonbinary and Bisexual.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I keep seeing reports that Nex walked into the living room the next day, complaining of a headache, collapsed, and was rushed to the hospital where they died.

Everything about that, and their initial state, immediately after the fight, are classic head trauma symptoms. If what ultimately killed Nex was something like a subdural hematoma, then I guess you could argue that the death was not directly a result of the trauma? But the causal chain of events is incredibly obvious.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

I mean, in this specific community? Yeah... Just look at the name.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

The thing that sets off alarm bells in my head for "Tankie but not communist" is someone who uncritically upholds Russia and/or Iran. Take, for instance, one Caleb Maupin. A guy who calls himself a Marxist, but hangs out with noted fascist Alexander Dugin, and was recently outed as a creepy sex pest.

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