idk man but if tsarists and mercantilists find your politics palatable, your politics might suck

i like to imagine trotsky waking up each morning in 1905-1915 with some new batshit take and being like "oh golly, the boys are gonna love this" so he goes yet again to the bolshevik/menshevik cafe and pulls a "how do you do fellow communists" only for lenin or some other comrade to dunk his ass in the trash. dejected, trotsky returns home and awakens the next day with another batshit take

so lenin was a shitposter during ww1 and a big question for revolutionaries at that time was, do we want our home nations to lose? for him, it asked: should tsarist russia capitulate to other imperial powers, and should radicals work to realize that self-defeat?

lenin took the unpopular stance that, yes! empires should lose, regardless of where you live. borders are an imperial figment in the face of global struggle, so this sense of “us” and “them” comes pre-packaged in the warlord’s favor.

yeah i’m a defeatist but like how lenin meant it

when communists accuse american leftists of a "failure of imagination" they mean this FALC shit: how so-called radicals in the west balk at the idea of struggle and tribulation. the revolution must be easy, it must be painless, with all our little conveniences preserved. again and again settler anarchists romanticize the frontier-pastoralism at the heart of manifest destiny, desperate to distinguish themselves from a unified global struggle because it triggers their red-scare prejudices. bogus

lotta utopianism just embarrassed of the C-word 👀

exhausted of assimilationists. i have come to leverage and destroy

become a threat 🔪

i’m not actually mad. this was destiny in some ways, that’s just what structural dynamics do. but the bottom line is that half my team is on masto and thus there is a non-zero chance they have seen my wife’s posts about gaping hole

you fuckers just had to hit primetime. we could have remained in perfect obscurity like secure-scuttlebutt but Someone decided to exhibit Structural Advantages

what do you mean "egregy" isn't a word? i have to say "egregiousness"? fuck this ridiculous language

absolutely wild that noise-cancelling headphones exist. i know how they work and that shit is magic

stranger: go fuck yourself!
me: huh. ok

me, 22 years later, having cloned myself, romanced her, slept together, now sipping cocoa in the afterglow: i wonder what they meant

instead of netflix i just pay for a vpn

@witchy absolutely. and to be clear, my answer would have been different as i was coming out, when i too didn’t feel like i fit the “always known” model, and was terrified of the challenges this society places on the process of trans-becoming. i just wanted to recognized as a woman; there was a reason i read a lot of magic gender pills fic, i was just afraid to wonder why.