Notices by Queer Satanic (queersatanic@kolektiva.social)

youth liberation includes #SchoolAbolition, but ridding the world of public schools does not in itself advance the cause of #YouthLiberation

again: youth liberation is a worthy goal, and the end of public schools as they exist today is a part of that.

but absent many other forms of abolitionism, including #familyAbolition, the cause of youth liberation is not actually being advanced by removing from children another check on the tyranny of their own households

conservatives and reactionaries love to advocate on behalf of children b/c they see children as unpersons who can be ignored completely when they self-advocate and whose will ought to be subordinated to their adult owners; this is the main part of the freak out about "#criticalRaceTheory", "#wokeism", and all the #queerphobia targeting public education and educators.

right-wing adults believe they are entitled to their own children thinking and acting as those adults say the children should think and believe, and b/c the right engages in extreme indoctrination and coercion to achieve this, they also believe that any divergence of obedience must be due to some nefarious outside influence rather than the children themselves having agency or original desires.

these adults are looking to eradicate all competing forms of ideas children might be exposed to and to beat and even torture children that fail to comply e.g. "#conversionTherapy"

no longer compelling children to spend hours each day sitting in classrooms where they are essentially held hostage, constantly surveilled, and restricted in their autonomy including bodily autonomy is a worthy goal; but the modern anti-school / homeschooling movement is perfectly fine with all of the same abuses and more so long as it's done by parents — in fact, removing another check on "parental rights" (i.e. the right of parents to utterly dominate their children) is a feature not a bug of the attack on #publicSchools.

the reinforcement of wealth inequality where the burden of caring for children is further atomized and the poorest families with the least resources suffer most is a feature not a bug of the attack on public schools.

states like Iowa pushing for the return of #childLabor; states like Florida pushing teachers out to be replaced by cops and military veterans as overseers; the ubiquity of undocumented immigrant child labor in agriculture, slaughter houses, and automobile plants as a model for poor children more generally — all these are features not bugs of the attack on public schools

people claiming not to be taking a side in a struggle for justice are always taking the side of injustice

While we talk about #TheSatanicTemple a lot, there’s the obvious reasons (the #SatanicTemple is still suing us) and the less obvious reasons (#TST is actively dangerous).

But in a world with literal Nazis active and ascendant, it’s worth explaining for others why the latter is true and this attention is warranted.

To begin, while #Nazis and other #fascists are clearly a much greater threat in themselves, liberals and especially leftists are not regularly propping up fascist organizations.

With #TheSatanicTemple, many otherwise decent people *are* wasting resources and energy propping up TST to no discernible benefit — at least to anyone else beside the two men who literally own it.

In a time and circumstances where we have limited opportunities to actually make an impact, every organization that is sucking potential allies into their grift for selfish benefit is a threat and should be treated as such.

But it's not *just* that.

satan give us strength

If you’re in #Seattle esp. #NorthSeattle / #Northgate area, be on the lookout for this Nazi shit

#Azov stickers with its #BlackSun (#sonnenrad) have been going up in the area, so tear them down and/or cover them up wherever you spot them

#antifascist #satanicAntifascism #Stickers #SeattleStickerArt

Landlords provide housing the way a mugger provides a safe walk home.

Landlords don't collect rent for building housing, maintaining housing, or doing property management because someone else can do all of those things and more and the landlord would still collect the rent.

Landlords collect rent for the implicit and explicit threat that if you don't pay them, someone with a gun will come and cage you, beat you, or shoot you.

It's a regularly scheduled mugging with lots of bells and whistles.

“damn, I eat a lot of corn huh”
-guy who misunderstands shitposting

Imagine if we counted cop and prison violence in violent crime stats.

Imagine if cavity searches and kidnapping women were regarded as serious violations when someone with a badge did it.

Imagine what a “heat map” from violence would look like then.

@hakan_geijer Yeah, absolutely.

The point was not that it was an *easy* solution but that it was a *simple* one.

The hard part is all of the work involved that few of us feel like we have the bandwidth to do, especially as hobbyists.

We need more and smaller instances with values like what Kolektiva professes and attracts, but doing that involves some money but also lots of time and energy.

@hakan_geijer It would be nice to have some smaller instances to make it a little harder to get so much info all at once.

That's a fair criticism, but it involves people standing up their own better or at least as-good smaller instances as options with similar values and commitment to moderation.

Hope is not necessary for resistance to begin just as victory is not required for a fight to be worthwhile.

Cameras can have a little spray paint, as a treat