Two images of scenes from the show bojack horseman. The first is bojack horseman labeled nordic countries on a yacht labeled 'social Programs'. The next is a zoom out where the yacht is seen on a highway being pulled by a truck labeled "imperialism".

Hierarchy involves one social class defining what another social class is. The entire point of the diagnosis is to maintain hierarchy, to maintain these social groups as something that only exists through the perception of cis people, allistic people, etc. To break hierarchy we must define and identify ourselves. We exist outside their perceptions of us, if everything we are must be described through their experiences then we will lose so much understanding and control over ourselves.

Doctors can't peer into your head and tell you how you feel, they can’t see what identities you feel like explain your experiences. They just tend to know a lot, and can check if your descriptions match up to what other people say, and if they experience you the same way they experience other members of the community. That can be useful information for many, but we cannot let their experiences define ours.

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for communities that are not just inclusive of disabled people, but mainly made out of us, check the post pinned on my account

Here is the official Ukrainian presidential website (archive link) and an English, auto-translated (Google) version. The words of Vladimir Zelensky, from the latter:

I want to remind all politicians from any camp: wartime shows very well the paucity of personal ambitions of those who try to put their own ambitions, their own party or career above the interests of the state, the interests of the people.

Who hides somewhere in the rear, but pretends to be the only one who cares about defense.

Any activity of politicians aimed at splitting or collaborating will not succeed. But he will get a tough answer.

That is why the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided… Given the full-scale war waged by the Russian Federation and the ties of some political structures with this state, any activity of a number of political parties during the martial law is suspended. Namely: "Opposition Platform - For Life", "Sharia Party", "Nashi", "Opposition Bloc", "Left Opposition", "Union of Left Forces", "State", "State", "Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine", "Socialist Party" Of Ukraine ”, Socialist Party, Volodymyr Saldo Bloc.

The Ministry of Justice is instructed to immediately take comprehensive measures to ban the activities of these political parties in the prescribed manner.

I wandered into r/ OurPresident today, which is generally a pretty good pro-Sanders sub. There, I noticed this post with over a hundred upvotes. Further down, we have the OP defending Rogan, a serial peddler of cishet white male grievance who in the past has offered a platform to numerous vile figures on the far right. Further down in the thread, we have posters upvoting transphobia, ranting about “woke culture” and making suspiciously MAGA-chud-sounding appeals to free speech.

I’m kind of at a loss as to how to process this sudden influx of Roganbros into the Sanders coalition, which is a movement that I’ve been a part of for years, and that up until now I’ve always felt welcome in. I feel like this is the inevitable result of dabbling in establishment-Dem-style big-tentism, where courting aggrieved cishet white male “centrists” inevitably pulls the center of gravity rightward.

So, yep. I’m not entirely sure where I’m going with this post. I’m just feeling demoralized right now.

A 4 panel meme featuring a person with long hair asleep in bed and alternating panels with a brain talking to her. In the first the brain says "being disabled is often illegal". In the next she says “what? How?" in response. In the third, the brain says "’insane asylums’ are prisons for the crime of being neurodivergent". In the fourth she is shown with her eyes wide open, awake in bed.

The tool the fascists have used the most to get their way is the military (i.e. all the fascist coups). At the end of the day the people that have the power are the ones with the guns. Being in the military attracts fascists more so than any other political ideology because:

A. they are heavily nationalistic

B. with being in the military it lets them legally kill and beat up people

Now I know I may get some push back from this, especially from those of us in the United States (which I am too). The push back I'm gonna get is that the US military is a tool of big business, which it is. However, we have to start somewhere and we definitely CAN NOT just let it be overtaken by fascists. Having leftists in the millitary to oppose the fascism in it is a much more powerful weapon than leftists that form a rebel/guerilla group outside the millitary. A guerilla group in the United States has a near zero chance of being successful, while those in the military who are leftists can use their power and the people's trust to oppose fascism on its own familiar turf. Look at the history of Latin America for instance. Left-wing military coups to force out fascist military leaders have been much more successful than left-wing guerrilla groups. Some left wing military coups in Latin America have been from: Juan Jose Torres (Bolivia), Manuel Isidoro Belzu (Bolivia), Velasco (Peru), David Toro (Bolivian). If you haven't noticed by now I am half Bolivian hence why I'm more likely to know a left-wing general if he's from Bolivia. And of course had it not been for Hugo Chavez purging the Venezuelan military Venezuela would still be under the control of international companies.

And the only reason Pinochet's first coup attempt failed was because it was put down by the members of the military who were loyal to the Chilean constitution.

Whenever I've gone on liberal and leftist TikTok, I'm never impressed to see them go on Omegle and shout-down confused and non-witty Trump supporters. I also got called and harassed a "Trumpy" for defending lower-case l libertarian values such as anti-censorship and voluntary association. Just a few months ago it was Trump supporters who dominated TikTok's fyp, but now they've logged-off for good and leftists are starting to gain some actual ground whilst liberals aren't defending Biden to the death while his transition occurs. This tells me that most people supported Trump out of a herd mentality, but there do remain those suburban rednecks that leftists think of all Trump supporters as.

Even those aggravating fuggs tend to insult their adversaries by saying "your fat/immature/spoiled" rather than overt racial slurs. You're bound to find that Proud Boy or Klanner in the one or two comments, but those guys to MAGA are what Marxist Leninists are to liberals. It doesn't reveal "all of their true colors." Those suburban rednecks and Karens reject the existence of systemic racism because they feel hard-work is an equalizer with no color bias. If leftists spent more time debunking the myth of meritocracy rather than going full ANTIFA on every centre-rightist we see, we can guarantee a less hostile environment for us now and later whilst generating more revolutionary potential.

Here's the link to the second time I posted, the first was censored by a bot.

I'll quote the text before they remove the post:

Note: this is sort of a meta-post. I had a link for an article dicussing the linguistic mechanisms behind this, but I can't seem to find it, so I'll try to summarise: words aren't offensive on their own.

1. Referring to an offensive word is not offensive, attributing it to a person is. Otherwise linguistic analysis would be impossible. This should be more than obvious. However the bot censors me for some reason... I've posted this twice now... I'll give it a discount since this subreddit is not made for discussing Linguistcs.

2. Calling a person an offensive expression is not always offensive: if I call a friend of mine "you old bastard", it's harmless, but it's offensive to do so to my grandfather, even if he doesn't mind. This hints at the true nature of what is offensive (see below).

3. Just because something is potentially offensive, it doesn't mean it is offensive in the specific use: satire and other figures of speech often play around with this linguistic fact.

4. We're all adults here (supposedly?). Censoring profanities makes sense for children that can't handle them, but this is not the case. Either potentially offensive terminology hurts the writer's point, in which case downvoting takes care of it, or he has no point and is hiding behind ad hominem attacks, in which case his comment should be considered for removal because it is off-topic.

Now, about point 2: an offensive expression is often used as a form of comradery among certain groups - black people might use "nig__" among themselves, and its inoffensive, it points to them being equals. If white people call each other "nig__", it's also innoffensive. However, when a white person calls a black person "nig__" that is potentially offensive because the black person cannot reply as an equal. This is also why it can be offensive to call your grandfather "an old bastard", even if he doesn't mind.

Now I'm proud to announce I'm a socialist banned from /r/socialism. It puzzles me that they are against oppression from capitalists and use that as a basis to create a new oppression themselves. I guess that's Marxism-Leninism in a nutshell...

What are you thoughts on this? Can you remember the article I referred? It was linked in a political subreddit somewhere...