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This is the same level of bad faith arguing as claiming Bernie sanders is a wealthy millionaire.

He’s definitely the poorest senator and given how long he’s been in congress that’s saying something when most of his peers are filthy rich and compromised.

He on the other hand wrote a book and inherited property through his wife.

You know that it is class traitors who usually start revolutions right?

What’s your thoughts on Luigi? I’d imagine you support to some level, right? He’s a class traitor.

At least Shaq worked hard at playing basketball instead of working hard at exploiting workers for their wealth.

The global 1% include a whole lot of innocent “middle class” people in wealthier countries, like the uncle in your example.

I think maybe you mean the global .01%?

What do you expect from a country that believes it can bomb others into “democracy”?

(Saying that as an American. Also, I’m sorry, please take in vermont as a territory we’d make a great addition to the maple syrup confederation)

And for those that say go for a third party, it is far easier to remake the Democratic party, an existing party with an existing infrastructure, than it is to convince people to vote for a third party that is either new or has existed for a while and never been successful. The green party, the PLS, are distractions. Put that effort into changing the democratic party.

Strongly disagree, they’re a controlled opposition party owned by capital. You can’t fix that, you have to fully replace it.

It’s not ineffective messaging, it’s ineffective work.

They don’t do shit and need to fucking go.

I’m into women but I’d hang out with him

Omg live journal! Throwback! I miss those days. 😭 life was so much simpler back then. Hold up let me put on a passive aggressive away message wRitTeN lIkE tHiS on my AIM! 😝

were always cesspools of hypervigilance, groupthink, and aggressive identity politics, but their activity was largely that of a vocal, and often very young and confused, minority misunderstanding academic and popular concepts, not a major cultural current.

I think the bad faith faux outrage pronoun policing is an offshoot of that and influenced larger culture especially larger queer culture. I was not welcome in those spaces back then despite being queer myself because I always saw aggressive identity politics for what it really is: a distraction against class based struggle. Queers dying in the street from poverty isn’t magically eradicated by a rainbow painted in the road which is all our leaders have to offer us. Performative bullshit. I think the appetite for performative bullshit stems from tumblr activism in the 2010s. Remember when all the corporations made their logos rainbow for pride month for a few years? So brave! they know what side their bread is buttered so they’re done with that now that the fascists are running the show. (And donating to them!)

Also I’m not offended. I am getting old in a time of crisis. The other day a friend texted me about how we should go to a protest together. Dude. I’m so fucking tired. the protests don’t matter and don’t do shit, and with AI and facial recognition, all that’s doing is getting you put on a list with your identifying info to be further dealt with in the upcoming years. I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs about the descent into fascism the US has been speed running since fucking 2000 when bush stole the election. What we need is a general strike, a real one, we need to hit the capitalists (who side with fascists, a tale as old as time) where it hurts. Or ya know, deny, defend, depose.

Sorry, off on a tangent there.

what is more likely, I think, is simply that neopronouns and pronoun importance has increased with the acceptance of trans folk in society as more than a joke or an aside thought.

Probably part of it. That being said, now when people feel like being assholes they focus on pronouns and identifying as an attack helicopter or whatever.

But they're also considerably less racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic than the kids were back in my day; and so is society at large, I think.

I don’t know about that anymore. Trumps support amongst the 18-29 year old crowd surged between the 2020 and 2024 elections, from roughly 1/3 to 1/2. And he won young men this election by 49-48%.

I think the “Zellenials” were the most accepting of any generation (just based on observation and IRL interaction) but their younger gen z counterparts are swinging back hard. Older millennials were assholes but as they aged they became better. All but one of my tormentors growing up apologized for the abuse they did to me, unprompted and unexpected, which im grateful for. (I moved away a decade ago and was back home a few years ago visiting when I ran into people who were cruel to me when I was younger, it was a trip)

No, that’s putting words in my mouth entirely.

This has nothing to do with politeness (calling people what the want to be called is what everyone should do cis trans or otherwise).

This has to do with faux outrage over being “misgendered” by being called they/them by a stranger.