@WizardOfDocs i think the capitalists can be included in Pride when they start showing that they genuinely give a fuck. it's not about them, and it's not for them. acting with basic respect should not earn anyone a gold star or a cookie.

just like May Day isn't about getting corporate sponsors for the labour movement. we don't need them, cause we know what they're about, who they are, and what they intend to do.

the bosses always need us more than we need them. capitalism is never liberatory.

@burnitdown if they needed us, they wouldn't be so eager to roll back the diversity programs.

We gotta keep making them pretend they need us until it becomes true.

@WizardOfDocs it's never going to become true. gay and trans workers aren't exempt from being looked at like a tree that isn't toothpicks yet.

capitalism is an exploitation machine. it's not going to become not-exploitive by giving them space where none is owed.

if they aren't employing you and profiting by paying you wages, they're profiting from paying you nothing at all. capitalists need both surplus value, and surplus labour, to keep their power. that means keeping a certain amount of people unemployed is profitable.