Full time smug prick
What to watch: “Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?” Musk asked in a poll of his millions of loyal X followers.
Um, in the …middle? What middle?
Middle like MAGA (who put nazis to shame)? Middle like the dark enlighment (a reactionary movement)? Middle like the AFD (the German neonazi party)?
I am fucking losing it rn, Elmo thinks he is a fucking Centrist. Now I have seen in all.
I am hijacking this thread to bring to your attention that Musk just admitted he rigged the election and the week is not even over yet.
Edit Yes, commentators, I stand by what I said. Axios would not frame it as “nuclear” if he merely meant he poured millions into the elections. His statement “Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate.” is oddly specific, isn’t it.
You’re not making yourself clear though.
This tirade against language use written in Anglish leaves room to the interpretation that you paint a picture of linguistic purity by whom exactly (very white people from Northwestern Europe?) against whom exactly? The Roman Empire? Medieval post-Roman institutions? The French?
The very idea that there is some loss power for English speakers in using a Germanic-Romance hybrid language is possibly problematic.
I have commented elsewhere on constructed languages, and I hold Anglish as one mental experiment that is mildly interesting. For linguists maybe. Because this is some wildly white shit I wouldn’t care much about when there are so many Southeast Asian and African languages we can look to when talking about opening our minds to other worldviews and intellectual traditions. I personally find Gaelic more interesting than Anglish in that effect, but that is just my opinion.
Your essay makes some points similar to discussions that many scholars have developed about how language shapes thinking. But it also has a twist that is only too common in nationalist (and before those, romantic) movements, a view that projects huge loads of magical thinking onto the “purity of our ancestors language”. Just throwing the word anarchist in there does not change this.
Now community-wise, I believe that your choice of language to address an international community using English as a common language was in bad taste, similar to using a jargon or an obscure slang to address a non specialist crowd.
Acting in good faith, I will refrain for now from moderating this post, but I will leave this criticism here instead. If you, however, come out with views that more explicitly clash with this community’s standards and ideological foundation, have no doubt that immediate action will be taken.
In good faith, folk: Is this the most suitable community for your content?
I’m going to bring it up.
Isn’t this the same asshole who posted the “Woke racist” meme as a response to Gemini generating images of Black SS officers? Of course we now know he was merely triggered by the suggestion because of his commitment to white supremacy and alignment with the SS ideals, which he could not stand to see, pun not intended, denigrated.
The Gemini ordeal was itself a result of a system prompt; a half-ass attempt to correct for white bias deeply learned by the algorithm, just a few short years after Google ousted their AI ethics researcher for bringing this type of stuff up.
Few were the outlets that did not lend credence to the “outrage” about “diversity bias” bullshit and actually covered that deep learning algorithms are indeed sexist and racist.
Now this nazi piece of shit goes ahead and does the exact same thing; he tweaks a system prompt causing the bot to bring up the self-serving and racially charged topic of apartheid racists being purportedly persecuted. He does the vary same thing he said was “uncivilizational”, the same concept he brought up just before he performed the two back-to-back Sieg Heil salutes during Trump’s inauguration.
He was clearly not concerned about historical accuracy, not the superficial attempt to brown-wash the horrible past of racism which translates to modern algorithms’ bias. His concern was clearly the representation of people of color, and the very ideal of diversity, so he effectively went on and implemented his supremacist seething into a brutal, misanthropic policy with his interference in the election and involvement in the criminal, fascist operation also known as DOGE.
Is there anyone at this point that is still sitting on the fence about Musk’s intellectual dishonesty and deeply held supremacist convictions? Quickest way to discover nazis nowadays really: (thinks that Musk is a misunderstood genius and the nazi shit is all fake).
Of course, this goes without saying. People fight for prisoners’ conditions right here and now in the belly of capitalism. People support improvement of working conditions and compensation right here and now.
This is in fact in the heart of anarchosyndicalism. I don’t remember when it was the last time I heard that “I do not support X (worker unions, incarcerated rights, homeless people, etc) because they are reformist, and X’s (workers’, prisoners’, homeless people’s) problems will automatically vanish when we reclaim the means of production”.
This is like the quickest way to lose your friends in the anarchist movement. But replace those terms with “women/black/gay/trans” rights and the same incredibly void argument suddenly gains traction lmao. Then there are the edge cases, like trans people are more likely to be unemployed, homeless, and/or incarcerated.
So this is outright hypocrisy, because if you frame the question as “anarchist support for prisoners” they go “yay!”, but if you frame it “anarchist support for trans women” some go “meh”. Well assholes, a trans woman is more likely to become a prisoner, and at that she is more likely to get stripped of her humanity and dignity. So, although there are so many other problems scourging the anarchist movement, I believe in the 21st century an intersectional analysis is essential, an analysis according to which being multiply classed into oppressed groups has a cumulative effect, that can lead to extreme marginalization and even loss of health, and life.
Compared to that even the unskilled blue collar worker of the “ethnic majority” (as per the linked articles terminology) can be seen as privileged, in other words let’s make sure that all human beings can have at least the standard of living that they can be exploited for their manual labor, before we say that all issues are labor versus capital dialectics.
And that having been said, better not get started on American exceptionalism and privilege extending to trans issues as well. There are trans people in Africa, Middle East, South America, and everywhere else, where the stakes are life or death, not whether you get hormones before or after puberty. There are so many people who will just say “this is just so fucked up, there is no point in discussing it, say, about trans rights in Egypt, for instance”.
All these headlines we read about the christian nationalist crackdown on trans rights have a silent part that reads “in America”. There have been tragic crackdowns on trans people in other places and even the trans-focused media won’t write much about.
Don’t get me wrong folks. The intersectional analysis is essential to include feminist, POC, Indigenous, and LGBTQIA+ voices into anarchism and unionism. But it also has to be internationalist, and have less of a First World constitutional democracies bias. This fits in well with an internationalist humanist understanding of anarchism, that sees human dignity as inalienable, regardless of national borders. At least this is the version of anarchism I grew up with.
It reminds me something Noam Chomsky said in an interview. The media are designed so the principles of the system never gets questioned. The so called liberal media, which Trumpists nowadays consider as “radical left”, are just the most left extreme of an extremely right-wing landscape, which is entirely manufactured. In other words, criticizing exploitation is left out of the discussion completely. “Identity politics” and “equal opportunity” is the only way the media will discuss about minorities, because it perpetuates the myth of individual merit and achievement. Collective oppression and collective action are deliberately outside the public discourse, because it challenges the cornerstone of system justification. This is the long and short of it. If you go back to the roots of racism, you will find exploitation. If you go back to the roots of sexism, you will find exploitation. When too many people in legal studies look too deep into this type of thing, it is time to move the window further right: they then crack down on academia.
Oh you big snowflake, you might not originate from the specific region of Bavaria, but you are a eugenicist, transphobe, technofascist, great replacement theory subscriber, who thinks that Western civilization is in danger because of brown trans people, and use your corporatist power to back an extreme neoliberal government of racists and Christian nationalists, who want to replace the rule of law with institutionalized white supremacy. “Nazi” does not even begin to describe the kind of heinous dumb fuck you are, but fear not: you will have lots of opportunities to catch up on history classes in the re-education camp pal.
Oh snap. Fixed it.
https://www.desmog.com/jordan-peterson/
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/12/06/jordan-peterson-we-who-wrestle-with-god/
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4LqZdkkBDas
I personally cite Jordan Peterson as a red-flag interest for new people I meet, but that’s just me.
The. Burn.
The fact that while many look to flee the US fearing a Holocaust, and this guy is yet another fossil-fuel backed right-wing anti-trans manosphere guru touring the world whining about his free speech getting cancelled.
Criticizes gatekeeping of science by showcasing it shares the premise of the very laws that were used in 1934 to bar Jewish people from citizenship in Germany. The table used for the adaptation is from Wikipedia, a summary and breakdown of an actual 1930’s poster explaining the new rules to Germans.
This is such a good analysis. It sets the record straight on so many fundamental issues of American global politics.
Things are just as bad as expected.
Remember the trick at play here is:
These are modern day concentration camps, there is no two ways about it.
Sure, I think the Chomsky article you cited clears things up.
This is some great feedback. I got a hunch something was off about this video, but I posted it anyway. At least now I learned something.
A very interesting take I read recently:
Trans rights are reproductive rights if you focus on trans men.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-trans-denationalizing.html
It is still the patriarchal state trying to control its citizens wombs.
And trans misogyny is essentially misogyny, so there’s that.
Taken together these two insights leave no doubt that TERFs are a chauvinist movement.
Brilliant!
This is a cool way to protect a belief, narrowing the scope so that the refuting data do not apply anymore. Perhaps I can write a fucking essay about it, but do you have data to support this narrowing move? There is like a ton of data that the West has been invasively spying of possible threats to the status quo (from Cointelpro to undercover UK cops like recently), not just people “acting on it”. Furthermore, actions can fall under protected free speech as well, like putting up a poster, demonstrating, and protesting. So your proposal is inherently undemocratic if you roll back freedom to only protect oral expression, quite similar to a “Don’t ask don’t tell” attitude towards gay people. What you just said is simply counter-factual. Blanket surveillance is a staple of Western societies in the 21st century, and it blows my mind that there are still people oblivious to what is more or less spelled out clearly in the Patriot Act and all laws modeled after it across the globe.