axont [she/her, comrade/them]

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Cake day: October 4th, 2020

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    1. that’s never going to happen, they’re an explicitly genocidal party.

    2. you vastly overestimate how much Democrats actually want to win and govern. They do not give a shit. If anything they make far more donor money when they’re the underdogs than when they’re winning.

    3. i don’t know where you’ve been for the past 50 years, but Democrats don’t learn lessons. If they lose because a bunch of people withhold their votes over Gaza, then the Dems will simply blame the left like always. They did it in 2000, they did it in 2016, they were preemptively doing it in 2020 before they won.



  • Yeah this is what it really is. The average American conservative has become so mentally deep fried that Trump comes across as quaint in comparison. He no longer hits the same for them. Or at least, they’ve gone so ass deep into trans panic and anti-wokeness that Trump’s 2016 rhetoric just isn’t doing it. He doesn’t cater to the same cultural grievance politics that DeSantis and Vance try to lean into. I’m remembering that one time Charlie Kirk was interviewing Trump. He was trying to get Trump to say there’s a widespread conspiracy on universities to censor conservative speakers, but Trump wasn’t having it. He said stuff like “No they’re doing great. Everyone loves me. The speakers get a lot of listeners.” Just didn’t play into it at all.












  • Yeah policy exacerbating the problems of the famine through mismanagement still shouldn’t be described simply as man-made. At best you could call it a mismanaged famine. Man-made ascribes something deliberate to it.

    It would be like calling the deaths by covid in America man-made. Which is sort of true, the US government engaged in negligence and let a million people die. But if I said “covid is man-made” that would be a poor way of framing it, right? It would sound like someone deliberately designed the disease.


  • I don’t think you could define this as strictly not racist, since “race” constitutes arbitrary characteristics decided upon largely by white hegemony. It’s how Africans became a singular black race despite being different cultures and language groups. It’s why Jews are sometimes white, sometimes not.

    It’s absolutely why most Americans consider a native Spanish speaker a different race, no matter how white they are. We’re in a moment where being Muslim is a racial marker excluding a person from whiteness.

    Here’s a trick I do. Go show an uniformed white American a picture of Bashar al-Assad. Every time I’ve done this, they’ll say he’s a white guy. Then tell them he’s the president of Syria and a Muslim. They instantly flip.