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.
Let's not pretend Taiwan is not a settler-colonial state in living memory, unlike the PRC. It's no coincidence that the biggest support for reunification by ethnic group is the Formosans (yes, they are actually several Formosan ethnic groups, but they make up a tiny portion of the population now and have a great deal in common as non-Han colonized peoples).
The Formosans are the biggest supporters of reunification‽ Why'd I never hear of that‽
They are a tiny population that people don't talk about generally. Libs basically talk like the Han populations are indigenous to Taiwan. To be fair, the pre-KMT Han have at least been there for centuries, but it's still fucked up to forget about the original inhabitants.
Legit! I still don't know nearly enough about Taiwan's original inhabitants: only the most cursory of history, only the most superficial of culture, and any more specific knowledge is just Wikipedia rabbit-hole fun facts, like how the Cou language is the only language in the world which uses the letter X as a vowel. And even this is more knowledge of Formosans than most people have.
By the way, do you have a source for this? I want to mention it to someone.
I am looking and struggling to find any information on how Aboriginal Formosans respond to surveys on this topic. I'll keep looking, but the closest thing that should be pretty accessible is the sunstantial Formosan support for the modern KMT, currently a minority party and the only one of the big three to take a more conciliatory stance towards the mainland rather than rallying for full independence.