Well the point is your claims are patently false. Neither of these projects were ardently anti LGBTQ like you are claiming. Both of them had or have issues but by and large the fact of the matter is these projects were founded broadly on expanding equality for these classes of people.

Hell the Bolsheviks were fuckin pro Trans people in their fight for power.

Not to mention that there are complex geopolitical reasons for why homosexuality in particular were (incorrectly I will add) targeted for repression. For both Stalin and Mao these were tactics aimed around stifling western imperial influence on their plans to further build and free their peoples from the chains of capital. Homosexuality was viewed as trappings of Western imperialism. Let’s remember at this same time in the US gay people are treated pretty fucking terribly as well we don’t really have room to criticize here as much as we’d love to.

Like you have to understand these decisions in context of the historical upheavals surrounding them. Soviet Russia was under constant attack from the entire world as the worlds first functional socialist nation operating in entirely uncharted waters. Which is not to lend approval to the misgivings of the USSR but to somewhat contextualize them and see how they make some sense from a different perspective. Likewise with Mao they were working to solidify power after an intense revolution and civil war - the logic was very similar.

Obviously China has moved much more towards acceptance but there’s still work to be done. LGBTQ culture just isn’t expressed the same way the culture just isn’t as hyper individualistic as we are used to.

And again let’s take a look at the state of the US and how every rights for LGBTQ people are backsliding before we start throwing stones.

Lmao thanks

You get that the USSR was actually incredibly accepting of LGBTQ people post revolution, right? It wasn’t until Stalin changed that when he took power that they were vilified.

And the PRC they literally have pride parades in Shanghai and Chengdu is like the unofficially accepted LGBTQ home in China. What are you on about?

I use Summit

I have an LSC comrade who I was talking about this with a bit recently. I shared that my perspective on the future, as a CS guy myself so probably in a more similar boat to you than not, being one where we will achieve some form of higher technological automation to free people from work (to some appreciable degree at least). She expressed a position that I hadn’t considered before and need to read books on to learn about more, but essentially was one of degrowth and prosperity through a more Eco focused future rather than a technologic one - I need to read more but that seemed to the gist. Now I don’t think her perspective precludes technology but it’s not the primary focus.

I think it is an interesting perspective from someone who leans more anarchist than me and one I want to substantively engage with. Maybe that’s what your comrades were talking about.

Technology is a tool we should use to further our ability to do our work and organize more people into the movement. Good luck in your efforts with coalition building. Our chapter is fixated doing similar but those who advocate for it want to be junior partners with other orgs in the area and I just largely don’t see the point. We do some mutual aid work as part of them but its never something that drives engagement back to the chapter. I personally think our effort and capacity is better spent on places where we can organize and agitate people back into DSA because that is where our power comes from. Not in being allies with liberal bourgeois NGOs. Now these orgs can be allies but just be careful. DSA should not be a clearing house for activists but rather a home for organizers building an alternate to the maligned systems we endure under today.

Anyway sorry for the little rant. Wish you all the best comrade.

Steven Universe has a really special place in my heart it’s really a show for all ages with the themes it grapples with in many episodes.

IP and copyright law is just used to stifle creativity and steal. Fuck Spotify.

IP and copyright laws are just used to justify theft fuck Spotify

People who want to use the word are gonna find endless ways to justify it. Like I said I’m not out here policing the usage but I think it’s cringe and I don’t use it. Tbh I group y’all somewhat with people who still use the r-slur.

I feels fascy to me I kinda agree with your wife. It’s like a new slur the internet invented but its cool because to use because none of us are in the out group. Idk I don’t police people over it because I understand this is maybe a fringe perspective but I don’t use the word. It makes me a little uncomfy.

True AI will happen one day and clanker will be basically the n word to dismiss and discriminate. And like again I get this is almost like policing the language of a fantastical sci fi world we don’t live in but its just kinda the principle of the matter in some ways.

Congress will never “grow a spine” they are doing exactly what they are supposed to do via the design of our government. The US was explicitly founded on defending the interests of private property (which is to say capital) against the common masses. Our government is inherently undemocratic and you will never see permanent gains in rights while it exists this way. Everything will inevitably backslide towards capital interests no matter how much we try.

In the past we were better about couching class disparity in culture war shit but that tactic has worn thin. As we have ripped off every remaining performative guardrail on uplifting the average person (performative because the goal is not to give you a good life but one just good enough you’ll keep your mouth shut and your head down over) this has only become more apparent to everyone.

There is no prosperity for all no matter how much we try to work for better within this system. LGBTQ rights (and everyone else’s rights for that matter) are inextricably tied to this oppressive system we live under while we capitulate to the interests of capital. We will only be free once we can dismantle these systems in favor of something truly democratic and truly for the common man, woman, and enby.

Until we are all free none of us are free. LGBTQ rights are no different. If we fight for one we fight for all.

This is just anti China westoid slop. The framing of this article in so many places is so fucking stupid.

Elaborate for me. What do you mean?

Surely we can link to a site that isn’t AI curated slop here eh?

How about an actual news article not an AI summary. Like the sources are right there you can’t read and link one of those?

We really gotta come up a with new name for this.

Everyone yelled at me for Brave being dogshit. Go to Firefox they said.

It seems we are stuck just accepting the least bad actors in this realm which just sucks.

Just let browse the goddamn internet without being spied on how much is that to ask? (Actually its asking a ton bc of the multi billion dollar industries predicated on predatory data harvesting but ya know)

Opt in for now. Just wait for that to change. Once the decent down the slippery slope to enshittification starts it rarely ends.

This is a really weird take

When I say demand more I mean this attitude of “oh well at least they tried” needs to go. And I mean if the people who are running for these positions aren’t working for us then we need to build people to run for those positions ourselves.

And sure I suppose I dont know what kind of work you do or what mutual aid/direct action organizations you’re part of but typically I find people who are espousing what you are are liberals who don’t believe we can do better than some modest reform in the systems we already have on an incredibly modest timeline.

What happened that our expectations for our elected officials is “they could be worse” on a good day? How is that an acceptable standard? Is that the kind of standard you hold yourself to in the things you care about?

Demand more from your electeds. This attitude is exactly how they’ve gotten away with fucking us for so long.

“…I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” - MLK Jr, Letter from Birmingham Jail

He’s talking about you, bub.