Notices by ramonita :trantifa: (ramonita@todon.eu), page 3

I didn't even know that the "The Joy of Sex" guy was a comrade! Figures.

oh fuck you, you monstrous sleazebags. not in our name. not in our name.

I see antifascists groups:

- pro-Israel and downright Islamophobic, and not just the obvious (antideutsche);
- generally focusing more on antisemitism, but anti-settlers and denouncing Israel;
- pro-peace, denouncing both antisemitism and Islamophobia, "Jewish safety means Palestinian freedom" position, often platforming Jewish voices against Zionism;
- generally focusing more on denouncing the genocide of Palestians, while distancing themselves from Hamas/Hezbollah and other Islamist authorities;
- marching for Palestine side-by-side with downright caliphate supporters, gray wolves, actual antisemites etc.

this makes for strange bedfellows; e.g. I've seen a certain Israel propaganda outlet platforming an Apoist demo against Erdoğan's visit (Apoists have always been resolute supporters of the Palestinian cause).

honestly it's getting hard to keep track which antifa_xyz accounts are picking which side. myself, I believe that the focus has to be on stopping the Palestinian genocide, but surely that doesn't imply marching under the crescent moon; surely there is enough space in our hearts and posters to acknowledge antisemitism as a problem too.

Isn't it fucked up that we live in a world where they just passed laws to arrest for 10 years people who save the lives of drowning refugees and this is just a normal thing that society accepts

if there's one thing 2020–2023 taught me, is that there's no collapse line in the sand. no matter how bad things get, it will all be promptly normalised. I fully expect everyone to be required to go sit in an office to work on spreadsheets even if we need hazmat suits for the commute

in times like this talking of the abolition of states and borders, talking of the end of all nationalisms ethno- or not, talking of the people refusing calls to war by wealthy old fucks, talking of ecology & peace & degrowth, talking of a complete rejection of rape, infanticide and indiscriminate bombing no matter the context, talking of workers and marginals of all lands joining hands against their owners and masters, talking about ethics at all makes one be seen as naïve and cringe, wishful thinking for the impossible.

as anarchists it is our task to shout that the ends don't justify the means, ever. it is our task to keep fighting for justice & freedom, undaunted by social pressure or arrests or death, now more than ever it is our job to be visible, to be vocal, and to make the impossible inevitable.

Opposing the Israeli occupation of Gaza isn't being anti-Semitic.

Opposing Hamas and war tactics of abuse and rape isn't being anti-Palestine.

I would kill the Nazis who tried to kill me. I would not rape them, or their mothers or wives. I would think that goes without saying, but apparently not.

I blame First World's people glorification of peace. It leads them to a binary, where there are two worlds, the world of peace that they inhabit, and the world of violence which remains foreign and Other (and that, as I've experienced numerous times, they will pay any price to keep that way).

So when they are forced to recognise the legitimacy of violence, they look at it like at a primitive, uncognoscible subhumanity, incapable of ethical complexity ("a vicious tribal conflict", in that USian's words).

Palestinians are clearly justified in violent resistance, therefore Hamas is justified in the weaponisation of rape. By which alchemy "Hamas" is made to equal "Palestinians" (in erasure of Palestinians who oppose them, or are oppressed by them as well as the settlers). and "rape" equals "violence" equals "resistance".

The irony being that the people these white folk are using as comparison when they say "tribal"--the State-refusing, indigenous folk of the world--have for millenia developed cultures of war, whole ethics of war, completely lost on the "civil" peace-lovers.

The actions of Hamas in this attack do not retroactively justify the atrocities that Israeli settlers have inflicted for decades on Palestinians, nor the atrocities the Israeli forces are doing in retaliation. None of these atrocities justify the abuse of noncombatants by Hamas, either. One bad government doesn't erase the other, and common folk pay the price regardless.

War is fought to stop the enemy from having power over you. In many situations this involves lethal violence. In no situations this is advanced by systematic rape, or racial slavery, or concentration camps etc. It is important to distinguish the means and the dynamics of violence.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: for as long as a single fascist wields a rifle, we are against peace and for war. The resistance of Palestinian people is entirely justified, lethal force inclusive. What Hamas did in this action was however not just lethal force; it wasn't an action to curtail the enemy; and the moment that you think anything leaders plot is justified if it's leaders of an oppressed people, you lose the distinction between the governments and the people, and with it class consciousness.

"Isn’t it evident that this society has an impulse towards catastrophic self-destruction? Its impatience for the apocalypse is palpable." (@PeterGelderloos )

Graeber/Wengrow's three freedoms that we lost when the States violently took over indigenous cultures:

- the freedom of movement (knowing that a culture of hospitality will have your back wherever you immigrate to);

- the freedom to disobey (knowing that you continue to be a respected, full-fledged member of the society even if you position itself against consensus);

- the freedom to experiment with social structures (knowing that you won't be punished if you try living by different rules).

or how I prefer to phrase them: no borders, no cops, fuck the system

Some attempts to summarise my burnout with the Euro queer scene in one sentence:

* My people strive only to create safe spaces; but we need to learn to survive enemy territory,

* My people are so worried about pointing out one another's internalised fascism, that they forgot to learn the names and addresses of externalised fascists.

* The enemy weaponises trauma, while my people base their self-image on the trauma.

* "They were behaving badly so we kicked them out"-- 'out' where, exactly, and to harm who next?

* My people will do anything for peace, while what we need is victory.

"Yet for all the different approaches and priorities we bring from our different cultures and political perspectives, I believe—I insist, I demand—that collective eroticism is a critical part of what anarchism can be. May our desire for freedom and our desire for each other intertwine, each nourishing the other."

"Gender and Sexuality in Saint-Imier: A Memoir" https://de.crimethinc.com/2023/08/25/gender-and-sexuality-in-saint-imier-a-memoir

someone: "I have realised a while ago that the worst thing you can be isn't a racist or a facist. It's to be ugly, disabled, degenerate, sexually deviant.

"Because when they express hatred against a fascist, they don't mock their fascism. They mock their belly, their ill-fitting clothes, their ugly old face, the colour of their teeth or how they comb their hair. They mock his small penis, or that his penis is weird, or they mock that he's secretly gay or he's about to get raped so much in prison. They don't mock that she's racist, that she destroyed the livelihood of millions of families, that she defends war and the police apparatus. They mock that she's a bitch, that her voice is annoying, that she did plastic surgery or doesn't do sex or do too much sex.

"When a fascist trips in the public eye, those people who identify as progressive, but all along are eager for an opportunity to tear down someone for having low-brow tastes, for eating steak with ketchup, for being ugly or dumb or fat or old – they see a green light to engage that desire, and jump on it with glee."

@anarchopunk_girl @glaskows

where by "hunger" we mean "the compulsive greed of capitalists from wealthy countries who are financing the whole thing for profit"

Ecoterrorism or barbarism.

(a couple climate change points by Jason Hickel.)

Intel GPU drivers now collect telemetry data on "which types of websites you visit, which Intel says are dumped into 30 categories and logged without URLs or information that identifies you, including how long and how often you visit certain types of sites". It also snitches details on your computer *and* "other devices in your environment", as well as "how you use your computer" (no clarification provided).

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/intels-gpu-drivers-now-collect-telemetry-including-how-you-use-your-computer

looking at the Vox election in Spain and the face of De Santis over a Sonnenrad I'm thinking of this pattern. I mean it's not a brilliant observation or anything but it's interesting how recurring it is, isn't in? elections in the 2020s compared to the 2010s and early, in almost every liberal democracy, are charaterised by:

1. The presence of an openly fascist party.

2. Much higher (70%+) turnover than previous decades, as people perceive the fascists as a threat (or, if you buy into their propaganda, as the hope of regaining former glory).

3. Very tight races, where the fascists either win by a small margin, or lose by a small margin.

4. Alliances of traditional center-right conservatives / neolibs with the fascists to form coalitions, in EU-style multi-party systems, or as wings of same party to get votes in the USA's FPTP anti-system.

5. Moral panics around queer people and immigrants/Muslims being the wedge issue of choice in the fascists' open/public campaigns.

6. The electoralist Left in shambles, despised and untrusted by the working class.

7. The liberal candidates universally hated and only ever elected as lesser-of-two-evils.

4. We stay together.

We are comrades. We know who is the enemy, and we distinguish internal conflict from the enemy. We strive to make every comrade feel seen, welcome, and treasured. Our bond is the metal of identity and ethics and shared dreams; our bond is tempered by the fire of the struggle and the pressure of oppression; our bond is stronger than nation, stronger than family, stronger than individual relationships. Our community survives heartbreak.

5. We build meaning.

We remind one another of how our lived experiences are part of a larger struggle. We talk of our ancestors and our goals so that we can find ourselves here, between past and future, carrying the torch of rebellion. We look at one another and we stan.

6. We are visible.

When we spot our symbols in another body we feel calmer and safer, we drop the tension of our jaws and breathe with relief, for we know we found someone we can count on. When our enemies see our symbols they tremble, for they know that harm to one will mobilise all.

7. We occupy territory.
We do not hide in our concrete cages but take to the streets, we meet visibly in our hangout spots, and in doing so make our hangout spots ours. Our allies know they are safer in our territory; our enemies shiver and hide their emblems of oppression.

8. We empower.
Our meetings do not drain energy; they energise. Our meetings are abundant: they abound with fun and joy, with music and laughter, with crying and mourning, our voices lift with emotion, with belief, with life. Our meetings reject the logic of capitalism, of work culture, our politics is not a second job, our politics is a feast and a party and a rage and a hug in the long night. We hype.

9. We call upon our ancestors.
We learn the stories of those who came before us in the struggle, those who carried us to where we are. In remembering the dead we bring them to life in our bodies, we live the lives that they fought to let us have. We remember our dead in mourning, yes, but also in celebration and power, we do not remember them merely for the tragedy of their oppression, but for the joy and freedom of their lives in defiance, fully aware that there are no heroes and that their glory is our glory, that we today in our bodies are nothing but power and glory.