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I also recommend reading about MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) because it shows the holes in the idea that governments function like private households and require our taxes to pay for its projects in the first place.

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And for both the liberal and the far-right, this belief that marginalized people are "weak" satisfies power fantasies. For the liberal, it satisfies savior fantasies. For the far-right, it satisfies fantasies of annihilation and subjugation.

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Liberals have nothing more than moral words and platitudes to oppose fascism – their politics are unable to meaningfully transform the material conditions that nourish and enable fascism.

This is why even the most well-meaning liberal is ultimately powerless to stop fascism.

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"gender is a system of class, and is one defined by the domination of manhood over society. This is why another name for the gender class system is patriarchy. Gender as a social system is patriarchy and patriarchy is the social class system of gender. Within this class system, we find three distinct classes, two accepted [(cishetero men & women)] and one subversive [(queer people)]."

- The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto

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The middle class/petite bourgeoisie is often the biggest supporter of fascism because they are in anxious/insecure socio-economic positions, but also fear a loss of privileges from radical working-class movements, which often prevents them from gaining class-consciousness.

Fascist movements often make vague critiques of "rich elites", but they also despise anti-capitalists (communists, socialists, anarchists etc.). This makes them particularly appealing to the middle class/petite bourgeoisie that tends to resent both groups to some degree.

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"Divine masculine/feminine energy" and it's just sexist western/colonial gender stereotypes like the idea that passivity & sensitivity = femininity 💀

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Read María Lugones for more on this topic. I can't recommend her enough

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"Only in community [with others has each] individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible. In the previous substitutes for the community, in the State, etc. personal freedom has existed only for the individuals who developed within the relationships of the ruling class, and only insofar as they were individuals of this class. The illusory community, in which individuals have up till now combined, always took on an independent existence in relation to them, and was at the same time, since it was the combination of one class over against another, not only a completely illusory community, but a new fetter as well. In a real community the individuals obtain their freedom in and through their association."

- Marx & Engels, The German Ideology

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"Understood in its totality, the spectacle is both the result and the goal of the dominant mode of production. It is not a mere decoration added to the real world. It is the very heart of this real society’s unreality. In all its particular manifestations — news, propaganda, advertising, entertainment — the spectacle represents the dominant model of life.

It is the omnipresent affirmation of the choices that have already been made in the sphere of production and in the consumption implied by that production. In both form and content the spectacle serves as a total justification of the conditions and goals of the existing system.

The spectacle also represents the constant presence of this justification since it monopolizes the majority of the time spent outside the production process."

- Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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"Access to trans healthcare matters more than whether people think they are valid and trans enough or not"

The alienated and isolated trans person who feels like they don't belong anywhere, lack community and feels like an impostor is just as vulnerable and potentially dead as those who lack access to trans healthcare.

Both matter.

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And no this doesn't mean all reforms are bad or whatever. Rosa doesn't moralize in her analysis, she just points at the shortcomings of reformism as a primary strategy.

"We know that the present State is not 'society' representing the 'rising working class.' It is itself the representative of capitalist society. It is a class state. Therefore its reform measures are not an application of 'social control,' that is, the control of society working freely in its own labour process. They are forms of control applied by the class organisation of Capital to the production of Capital. The so-called social reforms are enacted in the interests of Capital." - Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution?

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One thing that really shows the absurdity of gender essentialism and the gender binary is that the more you try to define the "essence" of manhood/womanhood, the more characteristics you define as part of manhood/womanhood, the less people actually fit those definitions.

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When trans people have high rates of bad mental health outcomes, conservatives see it as evidence for a need to demonize trans people further. When men have high rates of bad mental health outcomes, suddenly they recognize the social and cultural forces that shape mental health outcomes.

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Sometimes dudebros make the finest queer theorists

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Aníbal Quijano's essay "Coloniality and Modernity/Rationality" is a short and interesting read if you're interested in the way colonialism shapes subjectivity, knowledge-production and epistemology more broadly ❤️

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One reason why some people struggled with seeing the reason behind wearing masks is because rather than protecting you from infection, it protects others from getting potentially infected by you, which goes against the logic of western hyperindividualism.

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"The loss of gender norms would have the effect of proliferating gender configurations, destabilizing substantive identity, and depriving the naturalizing narratives of compulsory heterosexuality of their central protagonists: 'man' and 'woman.' The parodic repetition of gender exposes as well the illusion of gender identity as an intractable depth and inner substance. As the effects of a subtle and politically enforced performativity, gender is an 'act,' as it were, that is open to splittings, self-parody, self-criticism, and those hyperbolic exhibitions of 'the natural' that, in their very exaggeration, reveal its fundamentally phantasmatic status."

- Judith Butler, Gender Trouble