Holy shit, I didn't know his comics got translated into English. This is one of the best ones, but Kobane Calling remains at the top for me.
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I don't think your logic is fucked frankly, it makes sense to me. The only thing I disagree with is that I think killing yourself is still giving the fascists a win. They don't want you in their world anyway, you ending yourself just saves them the work of doing it themselves.
I fully empathize with the lack of hope, for me mainly about the climate. On the fascism side I can cling to the historical precedent that fascists are eventually bound to lose, even if they'll cause untold damage in the meantime, but with the climate I don't have the same hope. I simply don't see the world having anything close to the level of collective resolve that would be needed to avert a complete catastrophe, and we're already maybe beyond the point of no return. Every year from now on that we spend battling fascism is one more year of collective effort not spend on avoiding irreparable damage to the world's ecosystems. We're waist deep in the rising waters, but we can't swim to safety because there's a guy coming at us with a knife, and by the time we're done fighting him the water will be at our neck anyway.
I don't really have any words of comfort for you here. I generally oscillate between the selfish and defeatist idea of just enjoying the little privilege I have while it lasts, and the idealistic one of going out fighting even if it's hopeless. The problem with the latter idea is that frankly I have no idea how to. It turns out that studying history a lot has prepared me well to recognize the rise of fascism, but not to know how to fight back. The material conditions we live in today are so much different than in past iterations of fascism that there's not a lot of actionable lessons I can learn from looking at past resistance movements. The grassroots activism I do feels increasingly pointless, and I don't see any serious organized resistance movement I could join anywhere.
It's bleak out here. The only real argument I can make against you doing it is, frankly, spite. Don't give them the win. Stay alive to spite them.
Yeah India is rough for solo-travelling fems. Most fems I've met who've been to India without issues traveled with masc companions (partners / friends / travel buddies met on the road).
I can confirm that continental South-East Asia is a lot safer.
Shitposting from the Rojava frontline really does give you bragging rights few in the world can claim
Brace makes me want to stop posting for good because I know I'll never even get close to his level
Nah, Egypt has too close a relationship with Saudi Arabia to meaningfully change their stance towards Iran.
Marx referring to himself in third person is a good bit
Nah it pretty much does mean "I don't give a shit", the level of rudeness is the same though
Echopraxia is still really good, maybe doesn't hit as hard as Blindsight in comparison, but it's still a great book IMO. The writing style is similar, it's kind of a smoother read because the POV character isn't as much of a "machine" as Siri. The plot is a bit messier than the first one though.
I NEED that image, badly
MAINbe this is the wrong comm for this but I just wanted to say I've never found an online space that has as deep of an internal culture as this one. This place has the 21st century equivalent of a fucking oral tradition. This place has heroes and myths and legends. New youngling users are told the stories of heroic posters from past generations. Memes live and die a thousand inane lives until any memory of their origin is lost. 
has always been and always will be.
Every now and then I see someone reference the 
and I have a moment of existential dread as I realize I've lurked this space or its various iterations for a significant portion of my lifespan. I tear up as I remember that the first time somebody here called me a 
and told me to read theory was many years ago on a different site. I light a candle for the posters martyred in the fight against slaveowners.
Anyway whatever I'm drunk and having a nostalgic moment. Death to the tank comms and long live c/main. You can use this thread to remember the posters of ages past (unless they've returned).
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He's one of the few cases of indie artists that I'm genuinely glad went big, because he fully deserves the reach and recognition he's getting. The only sad thing is that a lot of his humor and slang probably gets lost in translation.
Shit, I just realized I don't think I've read No Sleep Till Shengal yet... Thanks for the reminder, I'll go grab a copy!