Notices by Rage Rumbles 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🫂🔞 (black_flag@beige.party)

POLITICS

If your politics is based on governments, votes and rights you need to think harder.

These are the things which keep us all subservient. They are the things rich men can buy. And habitually do.

It is a basically dumb move to give absolute power of violence to some men that they can then deploy against the mass of others.

#Politics

@selzero Flavor Flav is the dumb one. Chuck D is the smart one.

You think crows are stupid. Crows aren't stupid.

#crow #crows #birds

@HauntedOwlbear It was never going to be. Every dystopia has its evil kings and warlords.

FIFA Peace Prize?

Is that like the Jeffrey Epstein Prize for Services to Humanity?

#fifa #worldcup #worldcupdraw #usa #epstein

COP140: this time we're serious.

#cop30 #Environment #climatechange #ecology #Politics

"I hate seeing Blacks and Asians on TV" says MP of racist party.

A random comment?

Well I'm old enough to remember when the racist party's leader said he would not want his neighbours to be Romanians or Bulgarians.

#ukpol #uk #ukpolitics #fascism #racism

SEX AND INTERSEX (AND GENDER)

"If a child is born with two X chromosomes, oviducts, ovaries, and a uterus on the inside, but a penis and scrotum on the outside, for instance, is the child a boy or a girl? Most doctors declare the child a girl, despite the penis, because of her potential to give birth, and intervene using surgery and hormones to carry out the decision. Choosing which criteria to use in determining sex, and choosing to make the determination at all, are social decisions for which scientists can offer no absolute guidelines."

(Biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling, "Sexing the Body")

The recent US govt statement on "sex" talks about "sex at conception". At conception EVERYONE IS INITIALLY FEMALE as possible male characteristics cannot even develop for several weeks. That is part of a process which may, in some people, not develop in a binary way or in a predictable way. In addition, not everyone is either XX (usually female) or XY (usually male) in terms of chromosomes. In fact, the notion of a strict, hard binary is entirely false. This is NOT a matter of numbers for even the possibility of one single deviation proves the binary is not true to reality. The fact is a binary, which is the same as a deliberately created gender division, is artificial and a political project. As Fausto-Sterling says in the same book:

"But why should we care if a 'woman'
(defined as having breasts, a vagina, uterus, ovaries, and menstruation) has a 'clitoris' large enough to penetrate the vagina of another woman? Why should we care if there are individuals whose 'natural biological equipment' enables them to have sex 'naturally' with both men and women? Why must we amputate or surgically hide that 'offending shaft' found on an especially large clitoris? The answer: to maintain gender divisions, we must control those bodies that are so unruly as to blur the borders. Since intersexuals quite literally embody both sexes, they weaken claims about sexual difference."

Neither sex nor gender nor sexuality, a number of leading biologists say today, are a simple matter of "what's there". Increasingly, social factors are also seen to matter. For govts, it becomes a matter of politics (and political dogma) too. In one fell swoop, the US govt has attempted to wipe out intersex people and trans and non-binary people. This is based on ignorance and flawed thinking as part of a political agenda for an entirely political purpose.

They can never be allowed to succeed. For biology does what it can not what orange fools tell it to.

#trans #intersex #nonbinary #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #politics #usa

NIHILISM is the belief that life, existence itself, has no ultimate, cosmic or eternal meaning or significance. From this perspective, it is, thus, a void.

Consequently, it would follow that reality has no truth or morality of its own, that it cannot, and does not, speak for itself and that, as a further consequence, that it cannot, and does not, care.

As a result, there are those who despise both nihilism and nihilists because they believe that if nihilism is true then there is nothing to stop someone becoming a Nazi, a terrorist or in general leading both terrible and destructive lives.

Nihilism, then, is ultimately the view that life must be lived without ultimate grounds or foundations, that such things, where they exist, are pure invention.

This, I believe, makes it politically interesting.

#nihilism #philosophy #politics