EM POC ONLY!!!

This is home for me.

I love all of my comrades on c/em_poc, but I wanna especially give a huge shoutout to @sweet_pecan@hexbear.net for doing a lot to help me keep my composure. I don't know if they quite realize how much I appreciate them!

Each and every single one of you makes me feel less alone through these struggles, though.

I hope all of you are well! sankara-bass

  • Neptium@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 days ago

    Anyone finds the over-use of "fascism" absolutely tiring?

    Like genuinely it feels not only intellectually dishonest but delusional. Just because an individual disagrees with your western sensibilities does not mean they are fascist.

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    If you were to be born in the Global South on average you will live 10 years less than if you were born in the Global North.

    In other terms, if let's say you, an average Global South citizen, live to around 70 years old, that means Global North citizens would live 14% longer.

    But this apparently is not "fascism" (or insert any Big Bad buzzword), just the "normal state of affairs" of the world.

    Westerners surely care about your "rights", maybe in it's name, in it's superficiality, in the abstract, but never in reality, because it obstructs the very fundamentals of the capitalist system, accumulation. In this case, the accumulation of literal years that you live in this finite world.

    • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]
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      3 days ago

      Anyone finds the over-use of "fascism" absolutely tiring?

      Like genuinely it feels not only intellectually dishonest but delusional. Just because an individual disagrees with your western sensibilities does not mean they are fascist.

      Always have. My perennial response is "do you think the hood has ever lived under the 'democracy' you claim we have? Have the tenements ever not been subject to what you'd otherwise call 'fascism' and crypto-Jim Crow? You're just scared you're next."

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      3 days ago

      What's especially silly is fascism has primarily manifested in the Imperial Core and the times it manifested in the Global South it was backed by a government from the North. The go-to example of fascism in the 3rd. world is Pinochet, who was backed by the US. Pol Pot is iffy because he was a weird Anarcho-Primativist "third position" dictator, but (again) he was also backed by the US and his crimes escalated with American support rolled in.