My perspective, I will admit is quite a unique one; I grew up underclass, born in the early 90s. This pov is from 2010 to a single abusive mother in a small town; my dad was a gang member.

This put me on the road to socialism though, I saw from a young age the havoc and confusion that right wing governments played on my parents through the state apparatus, and the consequences of it.

It was a common rhetoric around 2010 in the run up to the Brexit vote. News papers would pump out daily stories about polish rapists and immigrants stealing housing, jobs and women; Polish people got the brunt of it as they where the most visible nationality who would come and fufill jobs working class people here wont do because they are too exploitative.

I would work on the same farms as the polish people and talk/make friends with them; they got 700 quid a month for 6 days of back breaking labour in strawberry fields, then the farmer would deduct 400 quid a month for renting them a caravan on site they would sleep in 5-6 a peice, with a few people having to sleep on the floor; in total they would send what little money they had, usually 100-200 back to there famalies.

Understandbly, no one but the poorest locals would do these jobs.

seen, heard.

I saw first hand the radicalizing right wing effect the tabloid newspapers had on my small town parents. They would pull there car over and throw rocks at immigrants returning from farms working for 2-3 pounds an hour, yelling at them to return to there own country; right after reading a newspaper that had a 18 y/o’s tits out on the 2nd page and on the frontpage ‘RAPIST POLISH PEOPLE STEALING YOUR JOBS’

Both are permantly unemployed…

Next to none, as well as a 90% outright ownership rate.

I know trans comrades here in the UK who have been forcibly no-fault evicted 6 times in the last 2 years when the landlords found they where trans out. They suddenly ‘decided’ to move in, usually leaving them homeless and having to scramble to rent somewhere at half there monthly income while working two insecure jobs and being unable to access health care.

How is this better?

Lets not even mention how China has entire 200+ million population zones that have been openly tolerant and accepting of trans people culturally, forever (Shanghai) and that China isnt even actively oppressive towards LGBT+ people, just ignorant in some areas.

Nowhere in China are politicans debating actively genociding trans people, they are in Florida. Trans people are also the medias current beating horse in the UK.

outright bigoted

Just because they take a different approach to improving peoples conditions that is more concrete than the paper thin protections offered by capitalist societies gay acceptance doesnt make them outright bigoted. Which is basically a ‘we wont put you in an insane asylum or prison anymore but we will use you as moral panic bait forever in our newspapers to turn a profit’ approach.

LGBT+ liberation must include improving peoples material conditions, countries actively being genocided or deprived because of western policies deserve our support as victims of our own aggression too; If you actually care about LGBT+ people globally it means stopping our devestation of them, then letting them heal.

I’ve been to China, I felt much more safe there as a openly bi man with my male partner at the time than I ever do in the UK; our news whips people up into a frenzy and makes people attack each other physically, you dont get the same undercurrent of rage in socialist countries towards LGBT+ people, just a lack of understanding.

go back to reddit

Honest question, is there a good alt to discord?

The double standard that applied to this while allowing redditors to daily bay for the blood of russian people is telling.

My user name is literally based on Thomas Sankara lol, but ok nice strawman im sure the person you just invented in your head is scary.

I also have a degree in sociology and read up to date sociological studies, I’ve read most of Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Marx and I’ve read most of what Sankara, Fred Hampton, Angella Davis and Claudia Jones have to say for one.

What have you read?

never forget that /r/jailbait existed

reasonable take, if redditors dont like it they are free to go back to reddit where saying slave owners are bad actually can get you a full removal and the CEO is literally someone who used to work for the CIA.

Ironic that the liberal doesnt think the system they defend isnt an extreme to the vast majority of the world.

both kinds of extremists never make any sense, are complete snowflakes, and live in some sort of weird alternate reality where in some cases I can’t even tell of they are extreme left or right, they both trend towards extreme levels of authoritarian dick sucking

this weird alt reality we inhabits portal is found by reading books, engaging with reality and talking to people outside the first world

and those induviduals dont shape the structutres they inhabit that are causing these issues, they are born into them and compliance to these structures is enforced ideologically and through force and prison.

really, cause last time I checked housing was completely unaffordable to even rent in my country, nevermind buy

https://www.independent.co.uk/money/nurses-quitting-as-pay-leaves-them-unable-to-afford-a-house-rcn-b1867475.html

Because you only advocate for ideas that dont exist in reality, and deride actually existing marxism as ‘tankie’, you can continue to advocate for idealist positions, but it requires you to build a coherent movement around it otherwise its just masterbation and contrarianism.

You can be, but that would be called ‘idealism’ and no one outside of western liberal spheres will take you seriously.

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