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  • i am trans. but i am also a communist, and i place anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism as the most important battles that must be won for the liberation of all humanity, and then also my community. for that reason, i stand always with the anti-imperialist cause of palestinian liberation unequivocally. anyone who doesn't see things this way is not my comrade.

  • To my knowledge, this is not the "real" bad empanada. He posted on YouTube a month or two back that he has no presence on twitter anymore. If he posted differently or said differently then alright. Otherwise, assuming this is someone pretending for whatever weird reason (he's had a ton of pretenders ranging from basically the same as him to Nazis)

  • The virgin lib white queer: nooooooooo we have to support genocide abroad or else we'll get genocided at home!

    The chad leftist poc* queer: even if it brings genocide down on us at home, we must stand in solidarity against the victims of the empire and resist genocide abroad. If the Enemy tries to genocide us here for it, let them try -- we will fight them to the last.

    *and to their credit a bunch of queer conrades who happen to be lowercase w white, who've rejected capital W Whiteness.

    • This reminds me of the famous "paper tiger" Strong-Mao interview I recently read(short read btw, like a page or two and honestly lots of parallels to the current Palestine/Israel+USA can be made).

      If the "paper tiger" concept is useful and general, which I am not sure it is tbh, certainly dangling the threat of removing/lessening trans rights (of imperial core people) at the expense of many thousands of Palestinians lives is a type of "paper tiger" pointed inward(Mao's case seems way more dire, one of the poorest most exploited countries in a war with US supporting one side and the fear of nuclear weapons is in the air... huh sounds a little like Palestine/Israel). Trans rights are not given by a couple of politicians, they are decided and fought for by the people as pretty much all rights have. People should be a little more brave, and not be put into a box of "we got to vote blue or else our rights" and maybe that isn't the way to get trans rights and maybe we can get both trans rights and not genocide Palestinians at the same time...

  • If anybody in the US, I pray that you vote blue in local/state elections. National, I really don't care, they can all be as equally as shitty. However, I am *barely *able to hold custody because I'm trans and in a Republican state. Yeah, America is starting to enter straight Nazi territory. But the Republicans are unapologetic fascists. I don't particularly care about federal elections, they are jokes. But I could not look my nephew in the eye and tell him I didn't vote dem to keep him in my home because "republicans are just as evil" while him and I literally have to live the consequences of the local Republicans weighing down on us every day. It's a minor fight I ultimately have no real weight in, but I'd still rather put all my weight forward for these kids.

    Edit: Wanna say I'm not anti anti-electoralism. There were many ways on foreign policy that Trump was objectively better than Biden. On one hand, Trump's crazy brand of right wing isn't particularly special. However, within the rest of America it breeds more people who want to be like him. Normal America won't suffer too much under modern republicans, but we're seeing trans and queer people not just being discriminated against, but fully targeted within these far right states under Trump era republicans. I'm willing to put myself on the line for anything, I'm willing to put my entire next 10 years on pause to adopt a child who needed me this week. However, I also have an autistic (non-verbal, in life skills classes, the likelihood of him not depending on his parents is very low) 7 year old who can't have major shifts in his schedule for stability reasons. Maybe it is selfish, but I'm willing to read about stuff that will provide positive change to his life and stop reading after that, and just support him before there's anything whispering in my ear over it. I'll keep digging on other things for months, but if it's going to change the life of someone that I can't expect to understand the change, I'll just leave it there and support my little guy. I truly think 99.9 percent of parents would feel the same way.

    I'll explain literally anything that I think they're able to handle in adult words. My foster son's mom just got arrested for meth and crossing state lines while out on bond. At BEST, she's gonna get a year of prison and 3+ years of probation. I explained that to my foster kiddo, just telling him that his Mom is going to be in prison/time out for a long but, but she'll have to take drug tests very often so she'll probably be sober for a while when she comes out. He understood that and started smiling and giggling because he knows he loves his mom when she's not on every drug she can get. I think these two stories properly sum up exactly why I value stability so much. I'd be more than willing to participate in a revolution or even a shitty revolt that went no where. But I would need to be 1000 percent sure that it would provide some stability to the children I care for, who have already seen so much instability within their lives. If it were just me, I would just lean into my beliefs 100 percent and eat the consequences. But as a parent? I'm willing to start trading quite a bit, more than I even should be able to trade, to guarantee his stability. Maybe my decisions are right, maybe they aren't. But that's up to my children decide when they grow up to be adults, not me.

    • This really comes down to individual people in local offices and regional politics in general. For instance every single local democrat in my area runs on a platform of being "tough on crime." They're also always talking about diverting public funds into subsidies for tech companies to lure silicon valley investors. They get away with it since it's a Democrat stronghold city and the courts are all democrats.

      But democrats in deep republican areas tend to be better

      • Yeah, wanna make it clear that I'm not disrespecting people that have the logical choice of not voting. You're perfectly fine in not voting if it truly makes no tangible difference.

        I just live in Missouri. For reference, our schools have started doing 4 day school weeks because of funding cuts, but also won't increase cigarette pack tax whatsoever, even if it means 5 days of school a week. Cheapest smokes in the nation at least! I live in an area where Republican brainworms have gone beyond brainworms, and have gone into destroying the people around them.

        I live in an area where the difference between democrat and republican is funding schools or not funding schools (among many other issues, but that's the biggest domestic issue). I'm okay with people not voting for president, that's perfectly okay because both candidates are just as awful in different ways. But when the comparison is Claire McCaskill (averagely corrupt dem) vs Todd Aiken (guy who said that women's bodies had a biological reaction to stop r*** to counter abortion and DNA evidence), I do genuinely look down on people who don't participate in keeping their small area of home safe through the few means we're given. Even Missouri people picked McCaskill because they couldn't stand the idea of such a disgusting person being in office. In deep Republican areas, people should 100 percent be voting Dem. In some states, its literally the difference between trans parents being abusive for exposing their children to the "contagion" and being able to keep your children without being harassed. The difference between r*** victims being considered liars because they got pregnant from it, against being able to get some justice. A real example, the difference between paying MILLIONS of dollars to keep trans kids out of their schools vs just letting them use the bathrooms.

        I don't hold any love for the Democrats. I just live in a situation where they often have a gun to my head, so I'd rather a Democrat be the head of the school board than the crazy ass Qanon Republican Evangelical. Even if they're awful, they're not going to be malicious. They're not going to consciously try to make my children's life worse.

        Local and State elections are the only form of electoralism worth anything. But they're the little power some of us have in truly hopeless situations

    • Mayors don't decide foreign policy, so it's really a different question

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