Notices by Rayne, Unexpired-Covid-Test-Having Bourgeois Ass (salad_bar_breath@todon.nl), page 4

Mutual aid is not about generosity, selflessness, or virtue...

It's about community building, it's about solidarity, and it strengthens all of us, and we all benefit from it.

I appreciate that I have everyone talking about their dreams on the Fedi. Very interesting stuff 💜

@clewd lol I mean I understand. Look, Celeste, *pulls a can labeled "Rayne's asexuality" out and throws it in a nearby garbage can*, if it's okay to say I totally wouldn't of minded being the trans girl in your dream 😳

@clewd lol I mean that was intense so I had to put it down for a second lol

Okay Jesus fucking Christ, let's do some leftist Karl Marx 101 cause y'all need it.

Okay, so while this can be complicated a lot more, people can be broken down into two distinct classes. The owner class, who owns things, and the working class, who doesn't own things, and thus has to trade their time for it.

A person comes into possession of a house. They can do one of two things with it. They can live in it, and thus it becomes personal property, or they can rent it, and thus it becomes private property, that is, something that generates wealth. This can apply for part or all of a house, it doesn't matter.

Now, if that person comes into possession via a bank loan, then the bank technically owns the house, however, it still is something they can exercise as private property, that is, extract wealth from.

(Con't)

Expired: class reductionism.

Tired: Combating class reductionism by embracing the economic mobility and prestige of marginalized members of an identity, basically adopting "girlboss feminism" with extra steps for marginalized communities.

Wired: Understanding that working class as a whole is a pillar of identity that is necessary to uplift and improve the material conditions through means that embrace an intersectional framework.

Inspired: Understanding that class stratification can create antagonisms within marginalized groups that hinder its progress, and that your liberation can only come through uplifting and empowering members of your class with lesser wealth, power, and prestige; and that your job as a more prestigious member of said identity class is to best represent the interests of the more common and pervasive members of your identity class (that is, the working class members), and showing up for them in ways that advance their material interest at the intersection of their combined marginalization.

I kind of wish leftist spaces online were willing to engage with and talk about speciesism a bit more.

But it's hard enough to even talk about veganism, which is such a small part of anti-speciesism. Proposing that there's an oppressive system of human supremacy and struggling against that as members of the dominant, privileged group is hella hard work and unlearning but necessary because it's intersected with all other struggles of marginalized humans against dominant humans is well...a tough pill that no one wants to swallow.

I include me in this, of course, because I am equally criticizing my own slacking off in engaging with these discussions and instead forgo it for more palettable discourse that (some) people will agree with me on.

Angela Davis on veganism, exploitation of animals, and the revolutionary perspective:

https://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-vegan-angela-davis.html

Also:https://youtu.be/jBqC-E8EDeA

Okay, so since the TERF took up a bunch of my time and emotional energy yesterday and I'm recharged, I want to address a more minor thing on the docket.

My fellow lesbians, please, please, don't police bi and pan girls' sexuality. They're allowed to be into men. It doesn't matter that we "don't get it". You don't have to respond to their men appreciation posts.

Hey followers...

If any of y'all got anything extra you can spare, or know some resources or job links in the Seattle area, Vanta could really use it. She got kicked up out of her place on some bullshit.

Being homeless or having your housing threatened as a transfemme is hard and terrible. I know.

She's been good to us, and has made the Fedi a way better place in a lot of ways. More importantly, she's one of us, and we should take care of her.

https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/112080004580673240

@mutualaid #MutualAid #TransCrowdFund

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes I know this is unrelated to your post, but you can always remind the liberals that they were the ones that helped Trump in the first place

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428

@AnarchoNinaWrites sex-shaming is weird af to me. Like I mean I'm pretty ace (unless it's for cheap cereal) so I get not wanting to engage with it all the time but like...as long as people aren't putting the shit in your timeline without a CW just keep on stepping.

@ampersine nobody is hate voting for Trump, this is just something liberals have made up. Everybody who votes for him loves him, and is not going to switch, regardless of how much fascist catering the Democrats want to do.

However, Biden continuously not doing what people want is going to discourage voters and your man is going to lose because he would rather do a genocide than just bite a bullet and pressure Israel into a ceasefire.

@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes yet another popular cis "leftist" white woman "journalist" has shitty takes on queer politics that come out after they brought everyone in with their good takes.

Maybe this is some kind of trend everyone ought to be more cautious of.

Since WPATH still does the whole "HRT can be dangerous because here's some studies showing that happened with EE and synthetic progestins that no one prescribes anymore" thing and there's this whole "are you *sure* you want to do this?!" paternalism in trans health care that still occurs, it's hard to say which one of those things contributes to this bullshit. It's probably both.

Providers please stop with the "slow start" HRT challenge 2024

Also I want to be abundantly clear about this as well.

If you sit here and say that you support me and the classes I belong to, that is: gay, trans, and woman. Then you have to support the Palestinians in their struggle. The bare minimum in doing the latter is to say that Israel is doing a genocide and the US, and thus Biden, is complicit.

If you fail to understand the connection, you fail to understand basic intersectional theory.

Thus you are not my ally.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I was getting some optimistic analysis that had me on maybe, but hearing your answer and reading the Supreme Court issue on appeal and how broad and encompassing it is, and how legal analysts are using the language of "chill" in the sense of a public official function when talking about presidential immunity (which, if youve ever looked an FOIA document and easily redaction occurs for plausible "chilling effect", whew that gets applied broadly), I'm thinking you might just be right.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I certainly agree that at this point (regardless of any October surprises), a Biden vs. Trump election will, with almost 100% certainty, result in a Trump victory, and that we should plan and act accordingly.

But I am curious (if you want to engage with this) as to your thoughts to the question of if Trump will go to jail. Like, how are you on that possibility? Will it even matter even if he does?

Of course, this isn't to say that fascists and accelerationists both are driven by their own monomyths. The fascist requires the neoliberal, because the fascist is the hero in this story. The accelerationist requires both of them to push their galaxy brained bullshit about sending more people to the camps in order to incite revolution and make progress**.

** Which of course, isn't their actual goals, but rather they just want to feel like the smartest person in the room and balk "I told you so's" from their privileged position. That is, to become the hero in the monomyth.