Brandon Lighty

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Researcher, Writer, Activist — all content is a spicy overzealous emotional outburst — he/him — one of these days I’ll get around to putting links to my published stuff here - follow me over on BlueSky if you’re bad
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It’s been a minute but howdy

I've decided I'm going to translate the MEGA as a personal project to both reteach myself German and read through as much of Marx's work as I possibly can in its original language

I’ll be putting up the translations on my Substack semi-regularly

Although I’ve worked with Russian more recently than German, German just remains way more approachable for me. If it goes well though, in a year or so I’ll move into translating Lunacharsky’s Religion and Socialism

Woah I started a #substack

I wanted to start getting my #thoughts on #political_ideology #theology and #philosophy written down somewhere so I can better grow and develop in an honest and #nonsectarian way

My first piece is an introduction to my general thought process around all these topics by way of deconstructing #hegel and #dialectics

I hope you enjoy

https://itcanbedifferent.substack.com/p/towards-anti-dualism

Towards Anti-Dualism

Who Hegel? Why Hegel? How Hegel?

It Can Be Different
Biden's sell-off to BP encompasses almost exactly the region known as the "Gulf Dead Zone", where pesticide and fertilizer runoff from the midwest has started destroying the Gulf ecosystem. The sale avoids massive cleanup. The Mississippi and tributaries are tied to some of the largest ag regions in the US. Admitting responsibility for a dead zone would mean sweeping changes in national agribusiness. Instead, sell off the pollution and then claim either it's BP's problem, or better BP's fault.

Still trying to formulate this idea but I think there may be something to be said about post-USSR the American left movement splitting into two sections, with the Marxist vein moving towards the French philosophical tradition and traditional anarchists taking up German idealism

This of course is not including whatever the post-left is because it’s hard to legitimately describe it as a left wing ideology

The year is 2021. Joe Biden is president. You earn 410,000 dollars. 10,000 of them are taxed higher than the other 400,000. Your fist clenches. The communists have won.

Gender-affirming care—for ADULTS—is now predictably under attack in #Texas. This is part of a Republican plan of genocide underway against #trans people. We need cis allies to be loud and angry on our behalf. Pay attention, this doesn't end here or with us:

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/25/transgender-health-care-legislature/ via @texastribune

#LGBTQIA+ #transgender #transphobia #HumanRights #Healthcare #news #Politics #TXlege #USpol #gender

Trans Texans’ access to transition-related care threatened by Senate bill

The Senate advanced a bill that could create such high financial risks for doctors and health insurers that they’d stop providing or covering gender-affirming care — even for adults.

The Texas Tribune

ChatGPT sucks but it sucks in a way that if you haven’t written a paper or read/summarized a book since high school it’s probably going to be better at both than you are

It’s more of an indictment on how our society has wholly discarded the pursuit of knowledge once you’ve entered adulthood than it is some scary dystopian AI tech that’s smarter than humans

Genuinely the funniest paragraph to come out of the SVB failure media cycle. A perfect example of history repeating itself but this time as a farce
The amount of Hegelian material I’ve read and listened to over the past five days is absolutely disgusting and honestly, if I do say so myself, I need to be stopped
Forest defenders have taken over the police surveillance outpost on the power line clearing near Intrenchment Creek. Police retreated after crowd arrived at barbed wire fence and shot fireworks into the area. People are smashing and destroying the outpost’s remains, sirens can be heard in the distance. A security light post is on fire.