also by even scheduling a debate between say… Bill Nigh and a creationist, the illusion is created that these are equal things, equally deserving of our attention and time. before you ever get into the moderator bias creating an impression that the truth lies in the middle of these two people when in reality only one of them is speaking in good faith.

is it pre-emptive in a war that’s been going for 12 years and a full scale invasion that’s been going on for 4 if there’s credible intelligence that Russia is using these facilities for war?

you believe that no country should ever attempt to arrest people that are illegally spreading misinformation directly to sow racial division, arming malcontent separatists, and funneling money towards extremists specifically so they commit terror acts and specifically so they can sow racial discontent and separatist movements?

No, I do not believe this. But moreover, I do not think this is what this law does, in function. The bigger issue here, to me, is that China is declaring that they have the right to enforce Chinese law outside of China. While States (capital S intentional) and borders are intrinsically bullshit, the idea of one State enforcing compliance on people living outside of that State is a nightmare scenario. I think there are more effective ways to counter misinformation than what is being proposed here. One of the biggest things they could do is address structural issues within the China that have established a hegemonic racial hierarchy in which some people receive preferential treatment from the state and others have to fight to maintain their cultural identity and language. In particular Blang, Nu, Gelao, Yi, Achang, Daur, Fuyu Kyrgyz, and Ili Turkic people face total cultural erasure. These cultural traditions need not be erased for a Marxist eutopia to be achieved. In fact, these people demand our solidarity with them in order for any of us to be able to achieve a positive pro-social outcome for any of our societies. When Marx wrote about international solidarity, this was the sort of thing he meant. We cannot claim to have class consciousness if we erase some people’s cultural identifiers in service of some hypothetical positive outcome.

I’ve been talking to some of my Cambodian friends recently, and something struck me. I tend to think of colonization as being predominantly a process by which one population erases another in order to steal their resources. They all talk about colonization in terms of one population stealing another’s resources with the predominant aim of erasing their culture through homogenization. It’s still something I’m processing and working through, but I think it’s something we should all take into consideration as we combat colonization.

I know anarchists are a bit on the naive side

You “know” this and yet I perceive things like what you’re saying to be naive. This is something we’ll have simply disagree with because I think our perspectives are completely irreconcilable. We are looking at the same set of problems and seeing a different set of root causes and actions to take based on that.

and historically haven’t exactly been victims

This though I’ll need to push back on. In my country identifying as an anarchist is considered reason to have your citizenship revoked if you hold dual citizenship or are naturalized. Anarchists in Israel do not receive due process, the act of identifying as an anarchist is considered to be an act of terrorism that is met with being shot on sight. Mikhail Bakunin spent 2 years in solitary confinement after being sentenced to death before being imprisoned for another 3 years before being exiled to Siberia for 5 years (which he escaped, not released). Ukrainian and Russian anarchists who supported the reds against the whites were ultimately crushed and largely put to death after the Russian civil war. Spanish anarchists in the 1930s faced persecution from both forces supported by Italian and German fascists in Franco and Soviet forces supported by Stalin. Rojava was destroyed by forces supported by both Turkey and Russia just earlier this year. The US national guard and police forces have bombed multiple anarchist workers’ movements throughout Appalachia and the Pacific Northwest.

Yet still we organize under these principals. For me, it’s because I’ve known the pain of being hungry. I’ve known the anxiety of being homeless. Many of my friends and allies are the same. We know what it means to experience poverty, and we know the value of community supporting each other. So we spend our time building a coalition of allies that can resist and defy the state because for us this is a matter of life and death. I think your analysis of anarchists is at least a little reductive, however my read on this is that it’s not coming from a place of malice. I just ask that you meet and talk to some anarchists, and consider adding some anarchist theory to your reading. Whether you add any of that to your praxis is of course up to you (since the ultimate Anarchist philosophy is that no one is more equipped to determine what is best for someone’s self determination than them).

one would think you’d pay some attention to how your enemy actually operates and why your movement will always fail if you do not have plans in place against these tactics.

I do. Which is why I’m skeptical about this situation and its positive benefit for the people. I’ll be thrilled if it turns out I’m wrong, but if my country was passing a law like this I’d be fucking horrified.

bunch of white supremecist states and turkey, a fascist dictatorship. doesn’t make this acceptable

“that’s good”

One is foot-pokeystick. The other is mounted-pokeystick

EDIT: I’m a moron

Congratulations! You’ve re-engineered Jousting with that first one

EDIT: This is why I should’t comment on things before I’ve had my coffee. Jousting, not Fencing

i know one person who’s interesting in hosting some queer focused fediverse infrastructure, however they wants no part of the threadiverse since they considers reddit and reddit-alikes to be intrinsically prone to toxicity

@LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone , when your instance is online again let’s have a discussion about what resources i can make available to you that will center your community’s needs without someone like me colonizing the discussion.

(unless i have the wrong ladybutterfly, then my apologies)

i know this isn’t my place as a cis white dude, but can anarchist.nexus be a resource for a women’s space? i’ve been looking for gaps in the threadiverse we could nurture and foster. my #1 concern lately with the makeup of the hegemony of the threadiverse lately has been:

• eurocentricism
• authoritarianism by default
• black and white thinking (see above)
• unchecked and unchallenged mysoginy

my commitment to you as a cis white dude admin would be to stay the fuck out of the way of moderators looking to host a women’s issues community here, within reason. obviously it wouldn’t be okay to break instance rules against bigotry and such, but i can offer my commitment to shutting my mouth and knowing my role

edit: also, i bet @poVoq@slrpnk.net and @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net from my second original home instance would be happy to have a women’s issues community hosted on slrpnk.net, i’m still figuring out what my new relationship and responsibility to the threadiverse is now, but i think just like how there’s more than one world news community, there could be more than one women’s issues community so that people have a preferred and fallback space on days like today. the one thing i don’t want to diminish in this comment is the incredible work people like @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone have done in creating a welcoming space on the threadiverse for marginalized people. i just don’t want that to be work that is only done alone. we should be collaborative towards a better, freer, world

at least 2/3 of the global northern empires have fallen for the dictator’s trap

your dad is probably the most technically proficient person i’ve heard of. most people i know using slackware are only using it in an enterprise server environment with a team to support it

for real! this should be about how we are on the precipice of letting people with debilitating conditions enjoy their lives and spend time with people they care about instead of immediately saying “just think of the implications for shareholder value!”

for real. it’s 2026. everything with social features is tiktok. instagram, facebook, youtube. they’re all tiktok

it’s a mnemonic to help people remember, not pedantry

epstein class needs fuckable battle twinks

toootally get that. the 5 brands i listed in that long post are the only ones i feel comfortable recommending for a reason

i don’t have anything specific on them. i’ve bought plenty of altra’s so clearly i’m not above buying wolverine

all of the major athletic shoe brands are up to shady shit because they profit from slave labor in the global south.

• nike donates to conservatives in the US
• adidas (who owns reebok) and asics furnish discounts to the IDF
• puma stays out of politics directly, but should still be side eyed for how fairly their laborers are compensated. of the majors they probably win the “most least evil” award
• under armour’s founders have been very active promoters of CPAC
• new balance has a recent legacy of their ceo backing conservatives in the US but has since replaced him. side eye them
• brooks outright provides shoes to the IDF

the only shoe companies that i feel genuinely comfortably recommending:

• luna sandals
• enda running shoes
• veja
• wildling
• xero if you’re into court sports like pickleball or basketball

they were both ranking nazi party members