Diva

Mostly based with bannable characteristics.

Sounds like a lemmy.ml user

hey that's me

what's the appeal? I've run into no reasons to switch, and I don't even use any apps.

yeahhh between the zizians and the fertility clinic bomber, at this point if I run into a vegan that's not a communist/anarchist I'm going to be suspicious

None of these bozos are going to actually do the fasts- which are traditionally essentially vegan, no meat (other than invertebrates), no eggs, dairy and only sometimes you get seed/olive oils.

I'm actually the highest level of orthodox, vegan 24/7 💅 meanwhile these guys are just treat hogs chasing the latest fad.

Shall I run for office? Shall I take up arms against the government? Should I abandon my family to do those things? I will have to in order to be remotely successful at either.

Start by being honest with yourself about what the problem is. That's why I raise the point that the political economy is at fault and won't be fixed by simply purging the people you see as engaging in wrongthink. Personally I organize with like-minded people and do direct actions.

The original work you quote talked a tough game:

Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whatever-the-fuck-kind-of-stupid-noise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.

No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh.

which you immediately walked back:

within the specific constraints of voting and engaging in political discourse as a U.S. citizen.

If you really think that out-groups should not be getting ruled over by in-groups, then you really need to recognize that US hegemony has been the most powerful 'in-group' in history. Workers in America get paid more not because their work is more valuable but because money can flow freely over borders while people cannot. Labor aristocrats are the workers who are given a small share of the spoils from the rest of the world in exchange for their political inaction. Capitalism is wildly authoritarian and much of what you take for granted as 'constraints of US political discourse' are predicated on the US's hegemonic role within that system.

This entire line of argument seems like you're trying to pose as if you're maximally defiant against the status quo, but you also want to continue being anti-communist.

Furthermore, I believe wildcat strikes would be far more effective at dismantling the machinery of disenfranchisement, subjugation and oppression than armed revolution.

Revolutionary organizing has been far more effective, historically speaking.

madoka is great too but same problem lmao

Personally, I like the “Anti-Conservative” label as defined by Wilhoit because it more accurately describes my own political position within the specific constraints of voting and engaging in political discourse as a U.S. citizen.

So as someone who doesn't actually want to address the systemic mass inequalities, because it might require something other than voting, got it.

G but on my left shoulder

the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

it's a nice sentiment, but you really need to have criticisms of the political economy if you want to address the root cause. the reason "the law" doesn't protect everyone is because the law is set up to prioritize the will of people with money and property over everyone else. I think the more common through-line is anti-capitalism rather than "anti-conservatism".

yeah I'm a centrist:

Don't forget that the soviets are also devious mind controllers. Still love the game, it's like every trope all at once and a childhood classic.