The added context of the underground subway system definitely helps. In pure terms of use of space i definitely agree that we allocate way too much space to cars and car infrastructure. It’d be nice to see these ideas implemented as a broad ideology. Where i live we are moving further and further away from public transportation infrastructure.

Paradise is a stretch. Paradise to a non-cyclist like me would be a robust tram system with cheap monthly pass. This looks nicer I agree, but if you’re not a cyclist you’re still driving.

Ive had incredible luck thrifting. I usually go once every 2 weeks and only take items I really like. Early on I stuck to sports bras cause theyre more forgiving as you grow, so they last a bit longer.

A line silhouettes tend to look good when your hips aren’t super wide, as your fat moves around tho your hips will fill out. More than anything have fun with it. Try new clothes outside your comfort zone. Get lots of accessories too!! Putting together an outfit with accessories is so much fun. Gives you the opportunity to further express yourself 😊

Trump does not require any justification for his behavior.

A riot is the language of the unheard. The middle class is not the target of that messaging. It is the working class. Factories can be torn down, businesses can be destroyed. The institutions of power can be dismantled. We are not powerless. They are vulnerable to us. The ruling class cares more for their property than for the lives of workers. This is not new tactics. It has been used effectively since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The more the state colludes with the ruling class to inflict political violence upon us, the more we inflict revolutionary violence on the institutions and the infrastructure of the state.

Educate others instead of propagandizing as a counter revolutionary. Those who would be swayed by fabricatdd news stories about violent BLM and ANTIFA protesters are already too far gone and they are not the people we need to reach.

Not OP, but i can say 2 years post op it feels weird to think I used to have something there lol

Congratulations Dandelion, so happy for you 😊

If by personal and intimate you meant about bodies or relationships or surgeries or sex or, I mean really anything related to being transfeminine then yeah you can absolutely discuss those things here. Adult content should be labeled as NSFW, the usage of slurs in titles should be avoided, but as long as the rules are being followed thats all that matters.

Ahhh, yes i see the post in the div0 governance community. Thanks for clarifying.

Is it against the rules to deride the use of image generation models in this community? Clarifying because your rules section says nothing about it.

Yes, i very much agree. Liberalism will never present a legitimate defense against fascism, and will never prioritize working class rights.

Support working class politics. Support public ownership. Essentially, become a working class state. Outlaw fascist rhetoric. Redistribute wealth from billionaires to the working class. The main reason that fascist media organizations exist is because billionaires do. They wouldn’t be able to mass indoctrinate if they did not have essentially boundless economic power. Fascists won in Germany and America both because of media dominance and manipulation of the western liberal political system. In very comparable ways honestly.

The German democracy failed to respond in any way to the rise of the fascists. The only political party attempting any actual resistance of the fascists was the communists. The conservative and liberal parties were more interested in combating the communists than they were about combating the fascists. It was more important to them that the institutions of capital remains unaffected than fascism being stopped. They could have never let Hitler step foot out of a jail cell again. They honestly could’ve shot him, and a fair number of his nazi party upper echelon. People were calling for it, literally. Most people believe that Hitler mass indoctrinated all of Germany and won a landslide election and from there dismantled German democracy. That actually isnt true though. The final fair and democratic elections in Weimar Germany resulted in an extremely slim victory for the Nazi party. The communists were very close behind them. And in turn were conservatives and social democrats close behind the communists. On the whole, the majority of the nation voted for other parties. Once a bad actor was chancellor, all he had to do was find an excuse to enact emergency powers. He was handed the best possible opportunity on a silver platter by a young communist who was doing his part to fight back. If only others had followed his example, maybe history wouldve ended differently. As it was, Hitler enacted emergency powers to suspend all civil liberties in Germany. He banned the communists from any political organization and started literally rounding up communists and communist politicians and putting them in concentration camps. This was in 1933. The first camps were for communists. Then when Hindenburg died a short while later there was literally nothing standing between him and pure absolute dictatorship.

He could’ve been stopped at many points if liberal democracy was an ideology that prioritized the rights of the working class. If they had had an aim whatsoever of stopping fascism, it was preventable. Much like the democratic party though, their primary aims were to protect the ruling class of capitalists and the institutions that allow them to steal working class labor.

The last waves of fascism this advanced in America were in the 1930s. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century outright Nazis were generally associated with skinheads and were almost universally hated by mainstream culture. There are now actual Nazi movements in control of western nations. And even where they aren’t, they are winning over sizable percentages of the population.

This isnt going to pass as easily as you seem to think. Genocide has been live streamed around the world for almost 2 years and resistance to it has been relatively minor in terms of what you would actually expect. White western Christians (men especially) are actually mostly very down with white supremacy and neofascism. It benefits them specifically. And they represent the largest voting block in most western nations.

Liberalism could have prevented this by preventing Nazis from ever coming into positions of economic / cultural / political power in the first place. Liberalism is primarily concerned with countering revolutionary politics, moreso even than preventing fascist uprisings. It’s more important to them that pro capitalist values are the dominant ones in politics and culture than whether anti fascist values are. The ruling class almost entirely stands to benefit either way, they’re ambivalent towards fascism.

Have all the western countries that have had rising fascist dictatorship movements in the past few years come about through some other unrelated means?

Empathy isn’t your strong suit is it. Nor apparently is carrying a serious conversation or responding to basic questions. Id love for you to point out what constitutes vitriol in that comment. Because no the comment as a whole is not vitriolic. I didnt call you names, I didnt insult you. I responded very deliberately and explained how I feel about this exact subject. Unless youre operating on a different definition of the word.

I dont get where this accusation that I am vitriolic is coming from, nor that I am asking you to be angry? I said that summarizing Joanne as a “shit person” puts her on par with like a guy at work who makes passively bigoted comments about his coworkers.

This is exactly what I have been talking about throughout this thread. People act like what she has done is just like, mildly bad or distasteful or something. Like she said a slur once or something. She is creating an international legal movement to attack my community. Thats an incredibly serious discussion to me.

You also didnt call her a monster, not in the comment I responded to anyhow. Its not a matter of my liking, its a matter of people downplaying the severity of who she is and what she has done. I’ve lost friends in the past 2 years due to rising hatred against our community. We live in fear of genocidal violence against us, and she is one of the loudest voices in the movement creating genocidal violence against us.

I dont understand where this defensiveness comes from for you, exactly. You and several other people here are acting like this is a casual difference of opinion when obviously to me and other people it isn’t. I never insulted you, nor anyone else here. I have been upset and I have emphasized my opinion as this is obviously a subject that matters a lot to me. If you disagree with something I’ve said you can respond to it, instead of claiming that my issue is “you’re not vitriolic/angry enough for my liking”?

Calling Joanne a shit person is incredibly dismissive of who she is and what she has done.

Youre spreading apologia for people supporting a woman who is extremely harmful to my community. I’m not going to passively sit back and watch you attempt to downplay how serious this conversation is to us. You ignored my comment and I did bring it over here when I saw you saying the same thing in an adjacent comment (this is all under my original comment, I see the updates). I’m not interested in people spreading support direct or indirect for Joanne Rowling on my home instance. I will argue against that every single step of the way.

I maintain what I said. Everyone has a line. Murder, sexual violence, child abuse, you know everyone has a point beyond which they will no longer consume content produced by someone. By continuing to consume content produced by Joanne Rowling, they are saying that she hasn’t done anything enough to actually make the content she produced unethical to consume. There are always exceptions when it comes to art. I’m never going to convince people not to like something. But they can and should have to sit with the shame of that. The least they can do is own it, “yes spearheading an international movement to attack the rights of queer people is not enough for me to give up my favorite childhood author”. If that’s it for them, great. They’re people who should probably stay away from the trans community. But to try and act like “No matter what an artist does it doesn’t matter, their art is still sacred on its own and enjoyable without any ethical implcations” is ridiculous.

We’re adult members of a community facing an ongoing outside attempt to literally destroy us. She is the figurehead of a movement thats sole aim is to entirely drive us out of society, an aim she is aware will kill us. If thats not enough for someone to drop a fucking book series than clearly trans lives dont matter too damn much to them.

She will. Haven’t heard her name in 5 months. I honestly think by next election she will be entirely forgotten.

I do think on some level piracy is more ethical than paying her money, but I still see consuming her work in any form as unethical. I think everyone has an internal line beyond which they will no longer consume or engage with art created by someone. Like child abusers tends to be a major one, or sexual assaulters or murderers. Not that these are hard lines that immediately disqualify any art from consumption, but I think most would agree that consuming art knowingly made by people who do those things is wrong and unethical. There’s exceptions as always, loads of famous people running around who do those things who’s art people love. But still I think that its hard to defend that, and that most people have a line somewhere.

By continuing to consume her work you are indirectly stating that she hasn’t done anything to cross that line for you. (Not you specifically, the proverbial you) I don’t think it’s impossible to let go of content created by harmful people, or that anyone categorically can never do that. I think to suggest that is kind of ridiculous. Like I doubt many people would seriously defend listening to and enjoying Diddy’s music.