more people need to know that feminism is for everyone, and that it’s not necessarily against anyone. if feminism feels against you, the question becomes what is it about you that feminists find harmful. and i want to make it clear, i don’t jive with everyone who calls themselves a feminist. i’m not on board with TERFs and i’m not on board with #GirlBoss feminists who present feminism as some form of neo-patriarchy in a similar vein to neo-colonial approaches to racial justice where we do colonialism from a place of revenge. and before you say this stance is an attack on traditional masculinity, understand that no, it’s just a critique of toxic masculinity. there’s a difference. the difference is Tim Walz and JD Vance. both are really good examples of these two kinds of masculinity. Tim Walz is really and truly into “guy” stuff. he likes hunting, he coaches football, he’s the breadwinner for his family. none of us are bothered that he’s all those things. why? because he doesn’t want to dictate to anyone what it means to be a man. do you know who does? JD Vance. none of us are bothered he wears makeup, looks like he’s never done a day’s work in his life, or that he fucked a couch. we’re bothered that he doesn’t take accountability, promotes a singular version of performing masculinity, and that that version of masculinity includes inflicting harm on others. arguably even, Tim Walz is more traditionally masculine than JD Vance. but still, he’s the one feminists respect and appreciate.

i desperately hope this reaches someone. i hope someone reads this and it starts them on a journey. waking up from false consciousness is the hardest thing to do, and the only real way to do it is to go out and befriend people the system treats worse than you, and to really listen to what they have to say. and i don’t just mean hear. i mean come in with not just an open mind, but an open heart. come with a notebook if you have to. treat them like the subject of an interview, but also treat them like a respected and loved family member. and if they say they aren’t the ones to teach you something say, “i understand. can you direct me to some good resources so i can start shifting my perspective. i obviously haven’t been exposed to this”

because ultimately that’s the thing. we are all products of our lived realities. and all of our lived realities include hegemonic propaganda that tells us patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and nationalism are all inescapable natural realities when they are not. we evolved empathy for a reason. our emotions toward others are our antidotes. think about that the thing that comes up in WWI diaries that haunted surviving soldiers the most was what they found in enemy trenches: not monstrous brutes, but instead young boys, just like themselves, trying to survive. they felt that way, they felt that horror, because the violence of this system benefits a select few, so the system must subvert our own best interests. when they felt that horror they were experiencing the confrontation of the cognitive dissidence the terror of the violence of the system instills in all of us. they were on the edge of realizing that the root cause of WWI, nationalism, is a big dumb stupid tool that keeps any of us from ever breaking free

there were other options that didn’t obviously support a nazi. by the time they started shipping it was clear who this person was. you had other options from ford, rivian, and gm. you chose not to take them for some reason

men’s lib is part of the feminist movement

also 40 other states as well through indirect processes

that’s patriarchy, which enforces capitalism. that’s not the natural order. that’s how we’re programmed

you’re right. antifa is anti-fascist. we don’t want another hitler. and the reason it’s “controversial” is that the right wants another hitler. they have another hitler. what we’re engaged in now is a war about what truth is. the right wing has captured most of media. so they’re trying to direct their actors to promote the message that antifa is the source of the problems to capture the ~50-60% of americans who never know what’s going on. these dumbasses will be swayed by the most basic psy-op campaign. they are manufacturing consent for that they’re about to do genocide against american community members

EVERYONE FREAK OUT, HONESTLY

all of that is because gender is socially derived. we don’t need to attach any aspect of our personality to our gender, or any of our gender to our personality. given this, we can understand all gender to be either contrived or performative. if gender is performative, we can contrive associations that are positive and hopefully raise a new generation of decently well adjusted men who get us closer to living in a post gender-coded society

what i find interesting is that Denmark has been one of the more consistently helpful countries to Ukraine

fuckin’. WHAT!?

like i absolutely believe you, but this sounds completely insane

even if he doesn’t, we should still write “Deposed Dictator Blues” about him

it’s a reference to a poem about the rise of the nazi party in the 1930s

so… sony pictures i a money laundering scheme, right? am i crazy to think this?

that’s the craziest part to me! fuckin’ tankies acting like a hyperfascist regime is their ally is bonkers

it’s so much not a stretch that it simply just is. it’s the kinda stretch you get sleeping in a perfectly neutral resting position for 8 hours

that’s more people than live in my community growing up. that’s more people than went to most people’s highschools. that’s more people than who most people are able to remember names for.

it’s a mind boggling number of people that russia sent to die exclusively for the purposes of hating Ukrainians

my objection to snaps came before i knew they were proprietary. they actually factually run worse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxkFCBPgx4

they forgot what they were nevering again and got too caught up on the details. also Israel was founded by Nazi sympathizers and collaborators, including the founder of mossad was a member of the SS

thank you alduous huxley for the warning. maybe with the next rise of fascism we’ll be better equipped to listen to the story tellers warning us about the dangers we’re in