Notices by Ember (facsimile_willows@veganism.social)

@Radical_EgoCom I'm surprised by how negative, or at least mixed, the poll results are--especially considering the alternative to Maduro.

@Radical_EgoCom I met you after you'd already moved away from anarcho-communist positions, and I don't have any inherent issues with marxism-leninism.

If you can't see how your comments here aren't constructive, and just come off as petty, then I can't help you either. You'll have to figure things out yourself.

@Radical_EgoCom It is good to have multiple angles of leftist analyses out there. It is good to have discourse about those perspectives so we can hone our ideas against each other's--even if a single agreed upon conclusion is not met, that discourse is mutually beneficial. Your comments here don't come across as thoughtful or constructive, they just feel overly petty and obsessive.

I won't act as if I know you, but as someone who has followed your account for a while, seeing your recent shift into the likes of Stalin apologia and support for Russia have been very concerning to see as an observer. It feels like the "I am the arbiter of rationality" debate lord attitudes from the new atheist movement applied to leftism.

@Radical_EgoCom @TheDialecticalCommunist I think there is a very big difference between recognizing something as a strategic or circumstantial asset to take advantage of, and supporting them.

@Radical_EgoCom @TheDialecticalCommunist We can't seriously be talking about capitalists supporting socialism? You should know as well as anyone that this idea is nonsense. They may be an antagonistic force against the US, which is an asset to consider in some circumstances, but I'm not going to support Russian imperialism just because I am against American imperialism.

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@Radical_EgoCom I don't really like sayings of this sort tbh. Similarly to other sayings like "no ethical consumption under capitalism," people often seem to interpret their meanings very uncritically, until all that is left is "no accountability." I think it's better to just encourage people to understand that reasonable measures and goals with respect to anticapitalist action will look different depending on your current conditions.

@Radical_EgoCom I don't think Stalin is someone we should be celebrating.

@RavenLuni @Radical_EgoCom So long as people are on the same general page, I don't care too much about details, but I definitely agree with Cat.

Beyond just the ruling class, a clear objective is the abolition of class as a whole. That, however, is not something which can ever be achieved without acknowledging current class antagonisms. Proceeding with rhetoric and strategies that refuse to engage with class, while our material reality is so clearly impacted by it, unfortunately seems very counter productive. It is desirable to the bourgeoisie for their position as a ruling class to be obscured. As a consequence, most people right now already have effectively no grasp on capitalist classes, and any concept of "the elite" is usually misguided at best. We want people to become more aware of class so we can build class solidarity among the proletariat. We don't want people to preemptively reject class on an ideological level, and subsequently become incapable of rejecting class on an actionable level.

To put it simply, if you dismiss the reality of the bourgeois ruling class, you also are dismissing targeted resistance against them as mere individualistic violence.

@Radical_EgoCom I watched a bit of this, but honestly I don't really think he's gotten out of the anti-woke/anti-sjw mindset and sphere as much as he seems to think.

He seems to have this idea that anti-sjw content started out alright but that it eventually got out of hand--he isn't recognizing that it was always harmful and ridiculous. His perspective now still very much seems to be a "both sides are bad" one.

He seems strangely reluctant to acknowledge that the backlash Anita Sarkeesian got was completely unfounded as well--to the extent where he calls anti-woke content creators "reverse Anita Sarkeesians" later in the video. It's absurd, considering that most of Anita's analyses at the time were extremely tame--it just happened that she was one of the earlier figures on the internet who applied feminist analysis to video game media.

I think there's just a lack of understanding on his part about what life is like for marginalized people. That our livelihoods shouldn't be subject to how diplomatically we are able to present ourselves to our oppressors. That it is reasonable for marginalized people to be emotional about these topics.

The reality is that for him, as an allocishet white man, basically none of the political consequences from those things have any impact on him. His life will practically be untouched by the Trump administration. It's so easy for white men to be detached and "rational" about these things because they have no stake in it. It's a game they can take out and put away as they please--while calling those who are given no choice but to participate as "obsessive".

@bytebro @Radical_EgoCom Lets say that you allow a fascist to run for candidacy on this basis of "that's how a democracy should work". When the fascists get elected--and they will--would you just accept it because they were democratically voted in? Are we just going to let them exact extreme amounts of harm on marginalized communities because "that's what the democracy decided"?

Of course not! Any decent person is going to fight against those fascists anyway, even though they were democratically voted in, and even if the majority agree with their policies--"democracy" be damned.