queermunist she/her

4chan’s Chris “Moot” Poole created /pol/ immediately after meeting Jeff Epstein

Just a coincidence.

But in that case, the Constitution is irrelevant. It would be impossible even if there wasn’t a 5th amendment.

All that matters is who is in charge of the heights of political power, the law is a fiction they use to legitimize their authority.

Are we still pretending the constitution matters?

Except sometimes conservatives go out and shoot people.

They’ll ignore this and just claim that the deaths were covered up.

I can only think- “Chocolate? I remember when they first invented chocolate. Sweet, sweet chocolate… I always hated it!”

In addition to the older generations thinking queerness is yucky, there’s also the problem of the West using our rights as a bludgeon to justify sanctions and wars. I’ve seen Westerners try to justify the genocide in Gaza because “they’d throw you off a roof for being queer!” As if Israel isn’t actively blackmailing us into being informants by threatening to out us to our families.

This is all to say that anti-queer sentiment has become deeply rooted among the masses, themselves.

The violence requires death, is the thing. People don’t just allow themselves to be forcibly relocated (as per your example), they will fight to stay on their land unless they face the threat of death (and many do stay, and die). Behind every “nonlethal” process is a death machine that makes it possible in the first place. That’s why colonization is always accomplished through mass death.

China isn’t preventing or discouraging intermarrying or intermixing with Uighurs, which is a key feature of apartheid. Neither do they have to use separate lanes of the road, carry special IDs marking their ethnicity, or forced to use different emergency shelters.

I use those examples because the real-world example of apartheid, Israel, is currently doing all of those things today.

When we look at how colonization in the real world happens we see it is accomplished, again, through mass death.

See: Israel

In the real world there hasn’t been a genocide that didn’t involve mass death. 3, 4, and 5 all require a lot of killing to actually work.

Downplay what? A reeducation/deradicalization program isn’t fucking genocide on its own, it has to be accompanied by mass death, and when you say it is you are the one that’s donwplaying the crime of genocide as a concept. Even the boarding schools they used in the genocide in North America had mass graves, because genocide is always accompanied by mass death and to claim otherwise is whitewashing.

It’s the crime of crimes because it’s the worst violence that can be inflicted on a group.

You are doing genocide denial when you claim that genocide can happen without being accompanied by mass death. Genocide is the crime of crimes because it always involves mass slaughter of innocent people, to bring about their end. The invention of “”“cultural genocide”“” without any of the accompanying mass violence effectively whitewashes genocide as a concept.

Love to be in full Sun while doing work 🙄

At least have an umbrella or something?

… no I think that’s actually the first of your worries. You need to find a new job, which means you need to work on your resume immediately. This is something you should start thinking about now because we’re basically in a recession.

If you got laid off how would you even apply for another job? Write up a resume on your phone? Sounds like a nightmare.

The hole is in the middle of a parking lot because the chatbot hallucinated the job order.

You aren’t asking a big enough question to actually grasp what the lesser evil even is.

The first question you really want to ask is “what is the primary contradiction?” We can discuss what that might be, US hegemony or Western imperialism or neocolonialism, but this will inform our understanding of how we should vote. Only once we identify the primary contradiction should we cast our votes in whatever way will advance the struggle against it.

Let’s say we identify US hegemony as the primary contradiction. Does voting for Harris help advance the struggle against US hegemony? No! She would have been a fine steward of the empire, if she was president the hegemon would be in better shape than it is under Trump and the struggle against it would be even harder.

Trump is wrecking the empire, and in light of this, Trump winning is actually a lesser evil. What we see under Trump is the US pulling back from all of its soft-power while threatening its own allies. Yes, it has become more violent, but the violence isn’t a sign of strength. The US is in a weaker position than it has ever been in my life. All is chaos under heaven, the situation is excellent.

But, if Trump winning was the lesser evil, does that mean we vote for Trump? Also no! It’s important for him to not actually ever be popular within the US, because that also erodes his own legitimacy among the US population and makes the US itself harder to govern. The fact that he “won” with 49.9% of the vote isn’t the best outcome, better would be losing the popular vote again, but it’s still good because forcing USAmericans to confront the weakness of their elections also weakens its position as the hegemon. They look at their own elections, look at Trump winning twice without ever getting a majority, and ask “do we live in a democracy?”

(The answer is no by the way.)

His unpopularity is why there was an uprising against ICE in Minnesota. There wouldn’t even be protests against ICE if Harris was president, and there weren’t under Biden despite him deporting more than Trump in his first term, but under Trump people can easily see what they have always been: colonial occupation troops. Under Democrats the streets are empty, under Trump the people fight back. The BLM uprisings happened under Trump, but it was Bill Clinton that gave us the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to fill the prisons with Black people. This has to be factored in when we ask what the lesser evil is.

They’re both great evils, so identifying the primary contradiction is the only way we can identify what is to be done.

Notably, this is not accelerationism. The goal here isn’t to make things worse so they get better. The goal is to make the US empire weaker, because we have identified US hegemony as the primary contradiction and that’s what we are struggling against. Revolutionary defeatism, in other words.

The “I don’t know why you’re laughing” moment was 🤌

>gets compliments

“Am I being bullied?”