Doom is certainly not our inevitable future but it is where we are going given our direction. Perpetual deterioration is its own doom. Drowning in discourse is its own doom.

I don’t believe people actually think we are fucked. I don’t think they believe we are doomed. No one even knows what that means. I think denial is far more palpable than any other sentiment. And I would say helplessness is more potent than doom as well. People that understand the problem are drowned out by denial, not doom. Far too many still hold faith in traditional avenues for me to believe doomerism is anything but disingenuous.

My issue with the fantasy (civil war/ww3) is that it can not mean anything positive. These are ungrounded fantastic scenarios where we can’t hope to take a meaningful victory. We can only hope to continue our cause and protect our communities to the degree we can prepare and organize ourselves.

My faith is shaken. I wouldn’t involve myself with a big tent unless I wanted to torture myself further. I don’t care about the interests of imperial parasites and those are the ones that are protected by a big tent. We need to take our gloves off.

We have stopped believing in self criticism.

Exactly! And things are only getting more dire. I remember at one point years back it became taboo to even discuss his wealth.

I don’t know but your question does add to my skepticism of what streamers, even the less toxic and ostensibly revolutionary ones, are actually doing for us. Discourse feels so hopeless right now. A lot of people are in denial about the severity of what’s happening and when I see folks caught up in streamer drama it makes me feel a deep sense of impending doom.

The opportunity cost is that we waste time on streamers, corporate discourses, and it often centers imperial actions instead of the futures we actually need to figure out how to make. But I agree that if we are going to basically give people pacifiers that they should had least not be laced with poison.

I agree. I am just skeptical of the whole streaming complex. I’m skeptical you can really learn revolutionary things primarily from a screen and even though we know there has to be more there often isn’t. But in the meantime I suppose it doesn’t salt the soil the way the neo fascists obviously can.

Something about autism

I stay away from relationship and health advice because it is usually nonsense.

Honestly I’m fine with it. I need people to tell the truth about who they are. Most of the time this is done with sanctimonious grandstanding on one caliber or another. Yesteryear it was crocodile tears for children they never cared about. Now it’s pearl clutching about nationalism for their beloved empire, or at least their understanding of it.

At least I can rest assured that I’m not just paranoid about what is happening in the world. That is an invaluable gift.

Deeply unserious people are dangerous to me and I’m not going to allow that. I’m not going to disrespect myself by silencing my gut. I’ve been trained my entire life to sense ableism because it is the only way to ever be safe. Make yourself clear and known. If you are going to use autism in that way, what choice do I have than to see you as an unserious agitator? No games. I don’t care what you think is “autistic” only that you know autistic people aren’t going to tolerate being in danger. Either admit you don’t have any respect for autistic people or their experiences so we can all draw lines and hash out what happens next. Or, move and speak with serious intentions and make known that eugenicists and ableists are your sworn enemies and that the cause of destroying ableism is a cause you are deeply enfranchised in.

I’ve been permabanned since the oct 7 thing happened and voiced my opinions to some zionists. I’ve been frothing at the mouth ever since. I like it here and have been here since well before, but there are few opportunities to insult the zionists and I greatly desire to do so.

Not sure really why anyone cares about Hasan at all. You can’t be led by the mouth if you don’t keep a horse bit.

It makes it hard to say Trump is following the law and the Dems are just Trump haters when he literally said he was an authoritarian live on TV. =)

This is embarrassingly and radically false. It remains just as easy as it always was. Have we learned even a single thing in the last 10 years?

Capitalism isn’t what’s crashing out the United States, it’s these fucking monopolies and mergers.

Incoherent slop

I agree. I never want to hear it and more than anything I definitely don’t want to hear it as a joke. There is no safety with someone whose ontology can hold the meaning of that word.

But likewise I resent those who would refrain from saying the r-word but would express and enforce ableism regardless. If I ever use that word it would be in private to make their ableism more clear and ironically shock such people out of their ableist stupor. But even this is just a discursive risk that I would never advocate for such a tactic in good conscience.

This seems exhausting and pointless at best and sheer bigotry otherwise.

I’ve never not heard it used in an ableist way.

I’d rather people just use the slur.

“Cracker” is also a slur used by wealthy whites to refer to poor whites that they viewed as dangerously close to “going native.”

White people should not refer to other whites as crackers unless they desire to insult whites based on colonial bourgeoisie sensibilities. Or maybe if they want to do digital black face.

I only “reclaim” it by using to make ableism more obvious. “Just call me a r-word” Or to express that someone I trust has betrayed me in particular ways that exasperate the effects of disability. “That makes me feel r-word”.

There can only be discomfort and severity when it is used in my opinion. It’s meant to be shocking because I am referring to the specific ableist violences that can only be understood if you believe the word is a slur.

This being said, I do not endorse the word at all. It’s the nuclear option for getting people around me to know I’m being deadly serious about very real dangers I am being subjected to. I would never actually defend it’s use even if I was pushed to use it for reasons stated above.