IDK how mastodon works. I have 3 accounts for 3 servers because the search function in the 1st server i signed up for was frustratingly empty. I'm hoping this goes well.
i'm a trans woman, i'm disabled, i'm bi, i'm poor, i'm white, i'm muslim. i'm currently studying abolitionism, decolonization, the school-to-prison pipeline, famines.
Pfp: "captive genders" 2nd edition anthology & "late victorian holocausts" (2002) by mike davis
i haven't been here for about a year, can someone explain what #nobridge means?
I've seen it in conversations about blocking transphobes since bluesky is currently acquiescing to fascists like jesse singal. / i've also searched the tag on mastodon, but i'm still confused.
I have no words.
Here's what Rula Jebreal had to say about this video: 'Fascism is thriving+socially acceptable in Italy. As Senate President La Russa recently bragged, “We are all the heirs to Mussolini.” Now, in Milan—Italy’s most cosmopolitan city—Mob of Neo-fascists are seen giving the Nazi hate Salute, without hesitation.'
Source: https://twitter.com/rulajebreal/status/1653499761113157643
#Fascism #Populism #Nationalism #Authoritarianism #Italy #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion
“Fascism is thriving+socially acceptable in Italy. As Senate President La Russa recently bragged, “We are all the heirs to Mussolini.” Now, in Milan—Italy’s most cosmopolitan city—Mob of Neo-fascists are seen giving the Nazi hate Salute, without hesitation.https://t.co/b9M9m8YaiD”
@unusualplan @simon @e_urq yeah like similar to how alien themed sci-fi & racism are related, when you consider how there's been master/slave nomenclature for technology, it opens up a lot of insight into how a lot of the discourse on humans vs AI is a re-up on discourse from enslavement eras.
(A little bit of a tangent, "60 minutes" has been called out as conservative before, and that still held up in their reporting on AI. -- For example, consider Christianization narratives, slavery-to-freedom narratives, mtf/ftm narratives, ableism,betc, in regards to their recent reporting on AI.)
@b9AcE yeah so I'm in USA & was in the school to prison pipeline from the late 1990's until the early 2010's. I was also subject to conversion torture over being part of the TGNCIQ+/LGBTQIA+ community as well as having autism (via ABA "therapy" for the autism specifically).
Likewise I was thinking of USA's military instead of Sweden's, but since they're both racial capitalist states to say the least, (USA is patriarchal, I'm not sure how the patriarchy works in Sweden.) I'm pretty sure there's a lot of overlap since the heirarchies obviously involve gatekeeping
I'm editing the 1000ish characters to reconcile with the context you provided because a lot of it was like WTF, and you've helped give context for that.
I do want to mention, that I know poverty makes it to where in USA, native Americans enlist at rates like 75%. I'm not sure how they survive it, but still.
I'm also going to use we pronouns based on how the earlier thread was going. "We" isn't inherently inclusive or exclusive in English, so interpret as needed.
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There's a 3rd outcome not mentioned from the 1993 discourse: I don't think we can trust the state train us for revolution, as if we can rely on the same state people are trying to be revolutionaries against.
Bootcamp is a form of gatekeeping. Getting trained by the dictatorship one wants overthrown is subject to survivors bias. The people who are revolutionary or already visible as revolutionary (let alone targeted by the racism, capitalism, sexism) get discharged, disabled, or killed. (Dishonorable discharge comes to mind too.)
Fat broken arm syndrome & trans broken arm syndrome originates from military hospitals where it was basically a euphemism for sending someone to their deaths for canon-fodder instead of treating them. (They ain't treating us because discrimination, send us back to our deaths.) This is why fat people are told to lose weight for everything, and trans people are told a variety of transphobic microaggressions.
What prevents their anti-revolution military from killing us while we're their captives?
@b9AcE regarding this tangent, there's a 3rd possibility to that debate that I'm wondering why you didn't bring up: the military kills & or disables the revolutionaries it drafts.
(I had originally written a 1k character message elaborating on this before, but the thread seems to be critical of the military overall so.)
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