Then? Well this Labour lot are this week guffawing and cackling and celebrating the demise of Corbynism - that laughably mild Scandinavian-style social democracy - that promised to actually address at least some of these challenges. So, guess what? There will be no electoral alternative besides that one the establishment media have manufactured through aggressively promoting the last 10-20 years: rebranded fascism. A Nigel Farage will follow Sir Keir Starmer into 10 Downing Street. But hey, the latter, and those like him, will be just fine, won't they? Their houses, their directorships, their speaking tours, their book signings, their big bank balances won't be effected. It'll be us lot lying in the streets, in hospitals, or in detention centres. Let's get organised. And let's make our own radical media networks as priority. People need to know there are alternatives outside all of this.
Whoo we're partying now! The UK is going *back* in time, to...1997 -- except with even fewer bones thrown to the working class. Wait till the general electorate quickly realise that "change" meant the food banks are staying, key services are privately operated, the surveillance state is on steroids, the cost of living is too high, that their money is channelled into the armed forces, climate action is almost nonexistent, the pandemic is further exacerbated, marginalised people are still attacked, and that MPs are acting in the best interests of their pals who own property and businesses and bought the party in power...but it's all better operated, with fewer scandals, and in nice suits.
I despise the ceremony of weddings and don't particularly care for marriage, but I have been engaged a few times, mostly due to my previous partners and I battling for visas and such. My current partner and I have been together over ten years now and several years ago - for important legal reasons at the time - took a couple of witnesses to an office to register married, but still went ahead and got rings. The originals didn't fit for a while as my partner's weight changed and I badly injured my finger, so we got fun temporary replacements when Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was still UK Prime Minister. On one healthcare visit, the worker noticed the ring with "Fuck the Tories" engraved and loved it, asking where she and her partner could get them (FYI: Topple and Burn). "The only problem," she added, "is that after the next election we'll need ones that say 'Fuck Labour.'"
I've been shaken and upset by this, and I know this politician would love that, but it's turning to anger now - anger at these fucking ghouls who are so oblivious to gender as performance, so obtuse with outdated "radical" "feminism" obsessed with "sex wars" and penises as biological "instruments of oppression" and reinforcing binaries so that they can play on and switch the "superior" and "inferior" groups that supremacism and fascism depend upon. No wonder so many of these types of politicians are backed by those who openly team up with fascists. Assholes.
I came out a couple years back but, shit, I knew I was non-binary all my fucking life. In fact, you know what? As far as I can recall I have never, ever, stated this publicly before, in my thirty years on the internet, but I love Mastodon so here goes: I was born under different forenames, and by the time I was just eleven years of age (yes: eleven!) I knew I wanted them changed to forenames that were specifically non-binary, even though I was unable to articulate it in that way (I just said I wanted names that could be for any gender). But my mother supported me, and so my forenames were changed - and have been my legal forenames ever since. (Of course, a few who got close to me later enjoyed deadnaming me a few times over the years to score points.) A bit of further insight here: https://www.mediaactivist.com/im-coming-out-to-pyro-and-entrance-music/
I stated on my site bio that I've always hated it when people tried to put me into the boxes they chose for me. It's not a joke or some fucking admirable political cause to deny my very existence and reality. https://www.mediaactivist.com/bio/
I just found this stuff in my letterbox, jolting me and - to be honest - really quite upsetting me. The Green stuff is inoffensive, the Workers Party shit is bad, but I'm talking about someone having the right to have hate propaganda dumped into my home and in my face, denying my identity and existence - while complaining, as always, that they're being silenced.
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