comrades, the Protracted People’s War against the liberal hive and haven for bigoted chasers that is lemmy.blahaj.zone has succeeded! blahaj has fallen! or at least fallen off.
really tho, i just checked in on their site to see how its been since defederating. that was only 3 days ago btw! it feels like its been a week lol. their daily user count has fallen by over 1/6th since defed. and while this could be attributed to less traffic during the work week, the posting situation there is abysmal. in the past 24 hours, 78% of the posts came from c/196, making it difficult to tell that their instance is a dedicated queer space. and while they have gained ~30 users since defederation, we have gained over 200! its pretty much just 196 at this point.
while its sad to see a queer space fail, i suspect its for the best. i hope all the anti-capitalists there find their way here, as many already have. especially the trans folk there, its genuinely sad that they feel like they have to accept chasers in their space in order to have a community that accepts them. that is the difference between liberal tolerance and socialist liberation— tolerance allows for objectification and marginalization, while liberation demands dignity and equality. may all the blahaj gender diverse who oppose capitalism find their way to c/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns!!!!
stuff like this are the best “dunks” the 196 reactionaries can manage:
this meme is weak and displays their ignorance. you cant have a conversation with ppl like the OP. they will just bombard you with thought-terminating cliches. gulag gulag! Uyghurs! hologramodor! no food! purges! NKVD KGB Stasi! free Tibet so they can have their wholesome slaves again! Taiwan is a legitimate state!
countless hexbears would be willing and even enthusiastic to have a good faith, respectful, nuanced discussion about these topics with them. but they dont want that. they want to roll in their own shit like a pig with massive balls. the good ones will find us, or other socialist spaces. but for such a small instance, there are too many scratched and soon-to-be scratched liberals for us to do any good with federation.
tbf russia did pass a trans genocide law recently. but i used to help trans refugees leave ukraine before the war even started in 2014, it is not good there for queer people, at all, and anyone who says otherwise is a giant piece of shit
you are genuinely one of my favorite people on Hexbear, thank you for all you do
there is just so much incredible violence against queer people in russia and ukraine
In Russia, being trans without gender marker in the documents changed and watching news about Argentina is terrifying. While the Ukraine does not currently prohibit getting F64.0, it may do that very quickly, using the "they are doing this to dodge the draft" rhetoric.
I am afraid that some of my friends (or, in the worst case, everyone) won't be able to get out.
Ukraine simply drafts diagnosed trans women when they do not have their papers changed yet, and Ukraine still requires bottom surgery to even enter the legal name change process. I don't want to think about what it's like to be queer and at the frontlines of this war, heard too many stories about gay men in Ukraine marrying a woman who's their lovers' best friend so at least somebody close to them and their lover can visit them in the hospital when something happens, or so they can plan the funeral in the worst case.
I'll go and send more hugs to my friends over there. I don't have any more words.
what happened in argentina, their laws have largely been good
It has not happened yet, but Javier Milei had won the primary election, so he may become the president in October election.
Here he is
In daily life maybe the levels of homophobia are similar? I can't judge, and I can imagine especially in the east it can get pretty bad. But the ukrainian government has been publically going pretty hard on rainbow capitalism from what I can tell. Their official stances are certainly much better than the shit we have in Russia lol
i wouldnt be able to say, we worked with obviously extreme cases. like one was in north eastern ukraine near kharkiv and the cops were regularly giving death threats to a trans woman so we got her to prague. we also worked with Chechnya a lot. there are worse spots in every country