anarchists are, I think, my least favourite type of political extremist because they’re just so annoyingly convinced of their own utopianness.
like, there have been a lot of absolutely vile ideologies and states through history. empires. monarchies. dictatorships both red and brown. theocracies. but at least they all have like. a coherent idea of how the world works and the realities of power and real political theory and actual successful (in some form) societies that they can look back on. and for the most part they recognize that those societies were not perfect utopias, but are able to argue that their actions had some purpose beyond simple malice. to put it another way all these ideologies have some idea of the social contract and the greater good and realpolitik. some liberties have to be given up. some people have to be hurt or killed. some morally repugnant things have to be done so that most people can go on living a relatively good life.
whereas anarchists are just like “everyone will be nice to each other 🥰🥰🥰 and we’ll all share everything and everyone will be happy 😊🥰😌 and all the problems in the world will just be fixed ❤️🥰🤗🤗 no law or justice? that’s ok! no one will commit crimes 😇😊☺️ no international trade? that’s ok! we’ll return to an agrarian society, those are always good 🥰😌😁 no central authority to stop anti-anarchists from seizing power and reverting the whole thing? that’s ok! they just won’t 🤗🫠🤭”
obsessed
R u a rage baiter be honest
no, these are my genuine beliefs. sorry to disappoint. not everyone’s a commie.
being a masochist with a low pain tolerance sucks
like yes! hurt me! but also don’t actually because then I will cry and it won’t be fun for anyone.
did I prove OP’s point? I don’t think so
I offered that anecdote to draw a parallel between two people who I thought were similar.
Horner disliked tyrannosaurs because he preferred hadrosaurs, and thus tried to prove that tyrannosaurs were Objectively Bad.
Op dislikes lottienat because they prefer mistynat, and thus in this post attempted to prove that lottienat is Objectively Bad. *Are you picking up what I’m putting down?*
My point was that it’s fine to dislike something but going this far is just… kind of pointless. Let people enjoy things. I don’t go around posting about how mistynat is evil and bad and no one should ship it ever, even though I prefer lottienat.
can we talk about how lottienats disregard travnat/ mistynat/travis/misty as characters for their ship? they're insanely important to nat. and disregarding them means disregarding nat's development, drives, and ideals. they literally changed nat's perspective and character. like do you even care about lottienat as characters? and the whole 'i hate men so i'll ignore him and misty's a freak so i'll ignore her' like way to strip natalie of possibly the narratively two most important people to her
and i fear lottienats have a super surface level understanding be another thing is like. whether you like travnat/travis or not he's important for her characters development and drive for her entire life. there's a reason why travis haunts her story, whether you like him or not you gotta understand why he's fundamental for her character
The current geopolitical rivals of America are Russia and Red China. If America falls, one of them will take its place as global hegemon. I don’t know about you, but I would rather have a liberal-progressive republic as the world leader than a fascist dictatorship.
America is not perfect. No state currently in existence is (except Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 ofc) . But American hegemony is a damn sight better than hegemony of any of its rivals.
as trans activists we have GOT to get more comfortable with embracing the idea that we are a threat to the usamerican status quo. no more of this "we're the real america lovers, we make america great" shit. usamerica isn't and should not be made great, because it is a racist imperialist patriarchal state that has caused huge amounts of death and devastation worldwide. all our struggles are interconnected.
we should not be licking the ideological boots of a political system that gives zero shits about any of us, we should be dismantling it and replacing it with something that does. if trans existence is a threat to this country, then GOOD. I'm fucking proud of that. and you should be too.
I think I’ve been so conditioned by my friend group and my little corner of the internet that I’ve started being like. the opposite of heteronormative. homonormative. I was driving today and I saw two young women standing near to each other and went “omg lesbians!!!”
nothing about them remotely suggested that they were queer. I just saw two girls and automatically assumed they were gay and in love.
Oh how I yearn for a simpler time, when a young man would simply give his paramour an intricately crafted wooden spoon to show his affection and ability to provide for their future family, especially if they ever ran out of spoons
Montagnard, Liberal, Radical, transfem. Autocrats of all stripes are not welcome here, be you fascist, communist, or monarchist. Current obsessions:YellowjacketsYes MinisterTESThe French RevolutionPoetry
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