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@agnosticnixie

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Citizen of the uncanny valley. Drink the Rich. Will never be a real human. She/They

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I really don't think the thing people do where they start trying to relitigate jewish history and identity whenever there's a flare-up in the I/P conflict actually helps Palestinians but that's just me
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@agnosticnixie
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Cisgender was coined by a cis researcher who realized there was no term to say "not trans" nearly 30 years ago. Just a note.
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The rejection of sex positive feminism by certain parts of the left has come with the gradual reintroduction of swerfism and, I'd argue even, terfism and anti-queer positions in left circles.
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Abusive men exist without your caricatures of sex positivity, they still find space in sex negative circles just fine. Finer even considering the willingness to tolerate certain deeply patriarchal attitudes that comes with puritanism.
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@KatyMontgomerie tbf the few actual lesbians involved in this nonsense have always been the same old clique of separatists who felt more solidarity for political lesbians than for any actual queer grouping
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@stillgray Well, there's also Fred Hampton, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, Huey Newton, De Leon, Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, Sacco and Vanzetti, etc
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@agnosticnixie
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@JerryBurn @thepoliticsund1 Randomly looking up another british industry's death stats: welsh coal mining's had over 35k deaths since the 19th century so nearly 20 times that in 200 years
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@Chinchillazllla @itsJeffTiedrich He's just trying to admit he voted for bush at least 1 out of 4 times and trying to wriggle out of it by pretending he's like 100 years old
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@agnosticnixie
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Marxist-Reaganism, the new tankie tendency for people who clutch pearls at the idea of "lazy disableds abusing the system"
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@ASecrest949 @sarahsbian The US war machine killed a quarter of Vietnam's population in a war meant to install a fascist regime
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@ChadNotChud Wouldn't making the flag code binding violate the first amendment in a fairly big way
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@stillgray Oh yeah, John Brown is probably going to get a couple.
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@nillawillask @ureverypie @ProgPro @realdoonser lmao, the only trans person who has come close to qualifying for the olympics in 3 decades is a trans man
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@FF7_Trivia The people trying to define what they mean by JRPG are definitely kinda making his point with all the fundamentally contradictory replies - including some that would clearly include multiple wrpgs
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@Missy_u_So_Fine @PinkNews Also there's basically never been a case of trans panic where the murderer wasn't lying about not knowing
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@CharDefinitely @e_manopla @tulpapilled The book espouses minimal government only in the way that most fascist dictatorships only spend money on cops and the army
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@jpbrammer In fairness the modern suit and tie is kind of a decline compared to
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@BadSocialisms Love to demonstrate how non-reactionary I am by quoting a fascist as part of an unhinged tirade in favor of moral relativism
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Recently learning WEB Dubois had a pro-Japanese empire phase killed the last shred of willingness I have to entertain nationalism as having even mild liberatory potential I think
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@loafershaggy @LegoRacers2 @excerpta It's also weird to imagine as a saying that would come from somewhere that doesn't have shitty winters
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@Dawnsearlylig10 @MikeDrucker Isn't it wild that the other 48 plumbers keep paying money and giving promotions to the two people who are supposedly fucking things up?
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@kit1049 @kattenbarge Some french left orgs still have yearly meet ups to celebrate his execution
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@osamabishounen @illkoui The chocolate announcement at the start of the book always came off as a jab at wartime rationing specifically in ways that feel too obvious to miss
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15 years ago it was a common conservative talking point that the world would be better off if they nuked "the middle east" and pushes to ban gay marriage in the US at the constitutional level were the political mainstream
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"but doesn't every generation-" 15 years ago, saying "my parents are conservative" did not carry a high chance of them being utterly unable to stop shrieking about the necessity of genocide, buddy.
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@Tha_Profit @squidphilis @jorgelvillatoro @danieteebee >the process is transparent lmao Also a reminder that the US hoarding vaccines is the main reason Mexico is going to Russia in the first place so the whole "we're getting picky about which vaccine" shit americans are doing is frankly stupid
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@lenasleftsock @streamcIear The only "bi" slur you managed to reference is intra-community bullshit that originates from cis lesbian separatists so congrats on playing yourself
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@vickiejomorris @GlobalBC @Aaron_GlobalBC Your hometown is a dump based on the fact that scabs are seen positively there
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@dame_danni @shaybryder @PublishersWkly Publishers are already working on trying to see how they can leverage cases like these to neuter first sale
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@AnRCColaAdvert How do you even read a statement that's basically "I'm stuck in Russia because half the world's countries would ship me to a US blacksite" as pro-Russia lmao
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@WolframOctavia @poppy_haze Hell, the welsh were christianized during the Roman empire and most of the local princely families kept a founding ancestor who was very clearly Belenus in the family genealogies
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@EternalDago iirc the neapolitan disease was a common euphemism for homosexuality across most of Europe since the 17th century
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Xi Jinping is just Trudeau for tanks sent tweet
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@JasonABritt @Phillipasoo When your fascism is done by Eva Peron instead of Francisco Franco ๐Ÿ™Œ
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@jessiegender Balance of Terror also struck the sledgehammer harder with Uhura taking the conn from Stiles
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@phantomhag My favorite aspect of that is Gaius and Lahabrea pushing the big red button is more likely to be the thing that killed them
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@gryphalyaza @maliklendell If Simone Weil, the catholic mystic, could work with a man who thought all spanish churches should be burned down, I think you can live with people not opening a socialist org meeting with a christian prayer
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@ThisToxicX Rare case of AJE not burying this on their arabic site so I'm assuming the equivalent AJA piece is even worse
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Anti-sex worker socialism is inherently bourgeois.
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@lukeisamazing @hoipcentral Anyway the longbow is England's katana
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@kurteichenwald They fought. Gandhi and MLK were single men. They had vast militant movements that liberals like you pretend didn't exist
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@LeonDerczynski @tegeljerk @JoshuaPHilll Sweden was blocked by turkish nationalists
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@CougarSpider Also Morocco has actual history, the country has broken up and reunited multiple times but the concept has been around and it follows the mediterranean pattern of being roughly an old roman province turned country
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Middle Eastern studies especially in the anglosphere is full of these dipshits; ottomanism is like the tip of the iceberg
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@realMaalouf So, in general, it's correct to say that in Islamic civilization, both in theory and in practice, non-Muslims living under Muslim rule were called dhimmis and were lower in status than Muslims. But all they had to do to become part of this elite was say "There is no god but God
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"What do you mean, pro-work MLs peddle Reaganesque nonsense about people abusing welfare"
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Anyway since american pundits seem very dedicated to making the french protests strictly about retirement age - protests just forced the Macron government to put on hold (at least temporarily) his plans to reinstate conscription
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@BriannaWu Oh sure. Sorry, previous tweet was unclear, but was responding to the French losing their minds over a relatively small increase in the retirement age.
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@Dragon_Maggot @MusketAnna The vibrant gay rights standard of *checks notes* restoration France and post-tanzimat Turkey
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@Queer_Money @HecubianDevil There's a fair subset of the "raise the age of consent to just a year older than I am" who are doing this because they don't want to admit they're adults
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@PackerKats @MelanieBen Maybe she can regale them about tales of not doing shit to prosecute killer cops
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@SaddestRobots Some might even become given names (incidentally one of my favorite kind of cultural shifts during revolutions is revolutionary fad names)
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@streamcIear Riddle me this: what is the bi slur
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@socialistdogmom It's cool that all you need to make nationalism not chauvinistic is a coat of red paint
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The increasingly loud public acceptance of the Vietnam stab-in-the-back narrative combined with the rehabilitation of the war has been going on for years and it's been coming hand in hand with creeping fascism the whole time
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@lisaquestions Old school too lmao, I hadn't seen the "how dare you self diagnose" shit for years
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@kurteichenwald @JAMyerson You're peddling a false narrative about both India and the Civil rights movement.
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PSL twitter evolving to peddling welfare queen nonsense as marxism is an amazingly terrible look.
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@elagabalus__ @GravitysRa1nbow Conservatives spent the entirety of the 1920s whining about flappers
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@TeddyRedder @T4RIG Love to expect communist revolution to somehow arise from a civil war where both sides are fash
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@LanaDelRaytheon I love the social modernity of approving gay marriage as I demand homeless queers be removed from the premises for hurting property values
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@streamcIear Clearly bisexuals face homophobia so what slur is used for it, this is important
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@hecubian_devil In a fit of irony there's like nothing in OP's posting history about the antisemitism in Rowling's writing until literally today
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@RudeKara @ayynicko People like you who think they aren't susceptible to propaganda make the easiest people to propagandize.
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@Dawnsearlylig10 @MikeDrucker I'm just saying, if one of the plumbers I hired was threatening to wreck my plumbing, I would simply not give him important committee appointments and reelection money
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The terrifying thing about the "everything vaguely queer and/or sexual is grooming" thing is that it's basically catnip for bipartisan (i.e. fascist) legislation almost to the same extent as making everything related to sex work "trafficking"
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@angrymaxfuryst @punishedhoover Don Bluth's career being bookended by a movie about how the russian revolution was the result of an evil supernatural force against the saintly tsar and a movie about a family that literally fled said tsar's regime is a hell of a thing
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@habibahamid @EladNehorai He's a tatebro so still far right
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@psykeln @pottawacommie Enthusiastic consent came out of sexpos feminism. The swedish model doesn't work and is actually used as a tool of control against women. It's strictly peddled by bourgie feminist orgs who still cling to the idea that their precious gentrification project will one day work.
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@afromaterialism @yogacommie You would unironically stan Mussolini and the 20s Japanese junta based on their professed anxiety about "colonization" by more powerful great powers
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@_DataUnicorn @shaun_vids History is humanities and any attempt to pretend you can do objective rankings like that is inherently ideological
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@AnarchOnion tbf if it carries through Sophia of Hannover that's like the Romanovs + every protestant royal house
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@Anarcish I love when people act like adding different latin prefix in imitation based on their meaning is some sort of deep transgression of the holiness of latin
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@PhilodoxPils @julesprom @leftistthot420 @BlackDGamer1 Fallout 4 unironically goes closer to the originals' themes than 3 did and half the fanbase just went "those guys with obvious nazi undertones seem cool"
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Regarding film discourse: blowing a billion on a massive epic series that requires a small country's population's worth of extras is something the soviet film industry would totally have done by now if the USSR was still around
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@ashleylynch @gachaponce The argument you made is incoherent nonsense so like there has to be a starting point
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@metricalfoot It's like when people cannot conceive of any other reason people in the Balkans could still hold a grudge against Turkey other than american-style racism
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@KenLayinTahiti Kindly neck yourself
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@Molson_Hart The nanny makes more than the median household income in Manhattan
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The IRS will fuck up left orgs with a budget of like 20k if there was one misplaced penny in the books so the idea that a long-running bail fund is running away with the money seems a bit far-fetched for now
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@PNotparis @AITA_reddit Maybe if he wasn't a snitch he wouldn't grow up to be something as shitty as a cop
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@MaxThyme @primarycatdad Guess how much goes into processing modern real leather (it's basically plastic)
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@roisbelh @GrayAthene Astrology was well regarded primarily by learned men, in masculine spaces, masculine academies, and was only relegated to the female sphere when it became merely equivalent to treating a cold by bleeding the patient.
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@ElBeardsley Robespierre's direct role in the terror is heavily contested by serious historians especially compared to the people who conspired to take him out, most of whom had significant body counts, also the french terror killed fewer people than the repression of even one irish revolt
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@DiamondLPL @celesitial @_benjvmins_ 7% of Ethiopian jews worldwide live outside Israel
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@MorbiusDevo Mormon cattle barons are not actually a colonial subject
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@LilySimpson1312 Moving to the last independent country in the Americas to have slavery for the culture
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@lukeisamazing @hoipcentral The average longbowman was a wealthy yeoman with their leaders being straight up gentry; class-wise they were identical to the french men at arms they fought
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@YoEnderRebel @thehill Yeah that McDonald's sounds like it could kill people, true
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@seansu @ilikeadamsmith @Sharon_Kuruvila Shit like this has been around in US political discourse since at least the 80s stop trying to blame Russia for the shit your right wing friends have always been saying behind closed doors
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@JihadalHaqq @yeongno3 Apparently american stalinists live in the global south by being south of Canada, amazing how it always works
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@ChrisJustice01 @longislandtonv @NoLieWithBTC Reminder that GWB ran on making gay marriage unconstitutional and Reagan's handling of the AIDS crisis was driven by eliminationism. This is who they always were.
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@MaxCCurtis @shaneactuallytv Who can forget the centuries of folklore making out goblins to run the world of *checks notes* organized crime and cinema
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@JonsHouseosauce @thoneycombs Describe exactly how you think cops enforce law, and consider in your response that when cops go on strike crime usually goes down
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@ThCollierPerles @AshJubilee Or just how much the french center right starts running on national front talking points the minute they do well in polls
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@shaun_vids the resulting Canada would have a permanent tory supermajority thanks to dem thinking even the notoriously right wing libs are commies lmao
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@scattermoon @JacobKishnevi Theres's an entire genre of 19th century lit that's "write about class as brutally honestly as possible"
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Continuing the destruction of earth for extractivist and productivist goals to own the anarchists
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Not only is it not possible to set solid borders around specific queer identities, the idea that you can decouple the complexities of gender and sexuality is also nonsense in the broad lines - and it's absolutely a thing the right counts on
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