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   The Galactic Shitpost Outpost (cosmictrigger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 22:44:48 JST The Galactic Shitpost Outpost

   Andrew Vachss, world-reknown crusader for children who have been or are being abused, said this once about activism:

   "I think there’s only so much ‘care’ to go around inside everyone. The more different things you ‘care’ about, the less you can ‘care’ about any one of them. The people who want to STOP women from having abortions, that’s the ONLY thing they ‘care’ about. But the people who want women to be ABLE to have abortions, they ‘care’ about a whole lot of stuff–clean air, pure water, logging, cigarette smoking, racism, gun control, animal rights, affirmative action, freedom of speech, etc. Fanatics always have more impact than dabblers. When it comes to getting something done, whether it’s breaking a brick with your hand or overthrowing a government, focus is the best weapon of all. People on a jihad are willing to do things most people aren’t."

   My focus is capitalism, and by extension, fascism.

   So . . . hot take:

   Not every leftist is required to care about your particular issue.

   A person who is on the verge of being homeless and hungry is not thinking about January 6th, animal rights, or transgender issues (unless this happened because they're trans.)

   But there are so many leftists who DEMAND you been seen CARING AND CARING LOUDLY.

   I do not want to hear from annoying and self-righteous vegans at all. I care quite a lot about racism and trans issues, but that is because I am not about to be homeless or hungry.

   Pick your battles.

   If you have an indomitable will and laser-like focus, and put all your effort into that one cause, you are more likely to achieve your goals.

   Except, of course, vegans, because no one in the history of mankind has ever changed their views because someone laid a massive guilt trip on them.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Sep-2023 22:44:48 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @CosmicTrigger I would just add to this an important caveat, which is that there's care and CARE. You can still passively care about an issue enough to recognize the importance of it and the struggles regarding it and even be willing to lend a hand to the people leading the charge on that issue without deeply caring about it as your own primary personal crusade. And I think that even if you choose a few primary issues to deeply care about and let others handle the rest, you should still have strong solidarity with those other people who are fighting those other fights. You need to be willing to lend them a hand, and to recognize the importance of their struggles, even if that's not what you primarily care about, bc if you dismiss the importance or meaningfulness of other people's struggles, or refuse to help them if they ask because you only care about your one issue, then that does actually make you a dick, because those are real other people that are dealing with some form of oppression or exploitation and by denying the importance of their struggle you would be telling them that you don't care about their own oppression right to their faces. (Except in the case of the vegans, where they are struggling not to liberate themselves from any oppression or exploitation, but on behalf of a third party who has taken no initiative in liberating themselves or articulating their own oppression or exploitation because they CAN'T, they're not conscious, and so vegans are just taking up a secondhand crusade that wouldn't exist without them deciding that it needed to be done. It's second hand saviorism deciding that something needs to be rectified not because anyone in that situation is speaking out against it or because they have actually formed meaningful persons to person relations of equals where a real exchange of ideas and compassion can happen, but because they went looking for a cause and found one. I'll start caring about supposed animal Liberation when animals start asking fot their own liberation)

     That's how you build a strong movement, through solidarity and mutual aid. I've often thought that a truly strong leftist movement will have a variety of people with their own primary issues they care about and primary struggles to fight that all help back each other up in those struggles but also focus and push forward in the things that they care about, that way the movement can have people that deeply care about every issue, a real diversity of thought and goals and cares, that can leverage the whole movement together to pursue them.

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     The Galactic Shitpost Outpost (cosmictrigger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 03:58:59 JST The Galactic Shitpost Outpost

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     • novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

     @anarchopunk_girl EVERY left winger should care about trans rights. NOT caring makes you a . . . well not a leftist.

     See any group full of tankies.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 04:00:47 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @CosmicTrigger definitely, I was actually gonna use tankies as an example of people who are bad at actual solidarity lol

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     The Galactic Shitpost Outpost (cosmictrigger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 04:04:33 JST The Galactic Shitpost Outpost

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     • novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

     @anarchopunk_girl

     I don't care if someone is an "it's a personal choice, I don't care what you eat/wear" vegan.

     But those kinds of vegans are extremely rare.

     Because those kinds of vegans don't call you a mass murderer because you happen to like cheeseburgers.

     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ repeated this.
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     The Galactic Shitpost Outpost (cosmictrigger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 04:11:13 JST The Galactic Shitpost Outpost

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     • novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

     @anarchopunk_girl transphobia is pervasive and endemic to tankie culture.

     But then there are transgender tankies and that shit blows my mind. I know one in real life and my trans anarchist best friend - who I met the transtank through - and I have to tell them how ridiculous they sound.

     If you are transgender or enby and fly the Soviet Flag and stan people like Stalin, you are a special kind of stupid. We're talking about a regime that would label your existence as 'bourgeois degeneracy'. It's disgusting because it's a regime that would send you to a horrid mental institute at best and kill you at worst.

     Being a trans or enby Tankie is some real "Jews for Hitler" energy.

     This is one of the most cursed images I've ever seen

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 04:12:15 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @CosmicTrigger agreed. It's the problem that I elucidated a while ago and ironically had a bunch of vegans boost: people who are vegans on the basis of a moral belief that animals are moral subjects and that eating them is murder cannot whatsoever coexist with everyone else, because they must inherently see us as evil murders, and so from their point of view direct action against us is fully justified — and I would never ask or expect anyone to compromise their morality by not acting against those they believe are murderers! Indeed, it would be a terrible double standard of me to expect these moralist vegans to not try to stop what they perceive as murder when I definitely try to stop anything I perceive as murder. Meanwhile, the rest of us ofc do not perceive our eating of meat as murder at all, and so we must necessarily perceive their direct action against us as an invasion and aggression against us, and thus must respond in self-defense! Therefore, these moralist vegans will forever be at war with everyone else. Even more so because their position relies on a **moral belief** that is not innate or natural or intuitive to many people, so the conflict is irreconcilable, because the difference between the two sides is made by whether you do or do not have a certain non-obvious moral belief or intuition, and the truth about moral beliefs is that at base they are not justified by reason at all, but are simply brute facts about what we do or do not care about or value that well up naturally from our personalities and life experiences. You cannot convince someone to switch out the very foundations of their moral system.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 04:12:17 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @CosmicTrigger agreed. It's the problem that I elucidated a while ago and ironically had a bunch of vegans boost: people who are vegans on the basis of a moral belief that animals are moral subjects and that eating them is murder cannot whatsoever coexist with everyone else, because they must inherently see us as evil murders, and so from their point of view direct action against us is fully justified — and I would never ask or expect anyone to compromise their morality by not acting against those they believe are murderers! Indeed, it would be a terrible double standard of me to expect these moralist vegans to not try to stop what they perceive as murder when I definitely try to stop anything I perceive as murder. Meanwhile, the rest of us ofc do not perceive our eating of meat as murder at all, and so we must necessarily perceive their direct action against us as an invasion and aggression against us, and thus must respond in self-defense! Therefore, these moralist vegans will forever be at war with everyone else. Even more so because their position relies on a **moral belief** that is not innate or natural or intuitive to many people, so the conflict is irreconcilable, because the difference between the two sides is made by whether you do or do not have a certain non-obvious moral belief or intuition, and the truth about moral beliefs is that at base they are not justified by reason at all, but are simply brute facts about what we do or do not care about or value that well up naturally from our personalities and life experiences. You cannot convince someone to switch out the very foundations of their moral system.

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     The Galactic Shitpost Outpost (cosmictrigger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 05:09:24 JST The Galactic Shitpost Outpost

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     • novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

     @anarchopunk_girl

     Did you see this? Boost it

     https://kolektiva.social/@CosmicTrigger/111021727567634578

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     The Galactic Shitpost Outpost (cosmictrigger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 05:16:23 JST The Galactic Shitpost Outpost

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     • novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

     @anarchopunk_girl kolektiva is completely fucked up right now and I think I might have to leave it.

     Somehow, every single bookmark I had got the web address changed to kolektiva while leaving the name of the bookmark intact:

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 11:48:59 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Tom Ritchford

     @TomSwirly @CosmicTrigger lol

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     Tom Ritchford (tomswirly@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 11:49:01 JST Tom Ritchford

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     • novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

     @anarchopunk_girl @CosmicTrigger

     Why waste everyone's time with your blah blah blah?

     You want to eat meat because you like it, and you don't care if it hurts living creatures or destroys the ecosystem.

     Just say that and don't surround it in a haze of empty self-justification.

     > You cannot convince someone to switch out the very foundations of their moral system.

     No, eating meat is not the foundation of your moral system.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 11:51:00 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Tom Ritchford

     @TomSwirly @CosmicTrigger I never said *eating meat* was the foundation of my moral system. And none of what you responded to was self justification, it was an analysis of vegans, I said very little about what I believe. But then again, why would you ever read what I said or even slightly engage with me when you can be condescending