Welcome to political organizing.

I think the most effective method is to do some sort of organized boycott. We all know well enough how sheisty these companies are. Time to start encouraging each other to quit them en masse.

I think your analysis in pretty on point. In my circles, we call this problem “gender essentialism.” I see that it stems from neoplatonic thought as derived from Christian puritanism, and it desperately attempts to reconcile a kind of cherry-picked modernism with traditionalism. And it fuckin’ sucks.

Transfemme enby here. I hear what you two mean, but I wanna make sure we also resist medicalizing gender nonconformity. While many trans folks undergo bottom surgery to alleviate dysphoria or to simply be “safe” from the scrutiny of the cis gaze, surgery is not what qualifies a trans woman as a woman. The issue isn’t about genitalia, it’s about transmisogyny.

TERFs have so deeply internalized the misogyny that it’s all they know, woman TERFs and man TERFs alike, cis or not ('cause Caitlyn Jenner is still a TERF).

Yes.

Sure! Maybe we can be called Survivors of Poking the Campist Hive lmao.

Alas, I’m not sure how to do that here on Kbin.

First it was fun watching the argument unfold. Now it’s annoying lol. Thank you, kind stranger.

It’s necessary to do more than just put in bike lanes to make for a bike-friendly city.

Classic. Though my entry to the series was via Need for Pede III: Hot Pursuit Lotsa Foots.

Looking through some of these comments and their downvotes and thinking: some need to go back to the “punk” origin of solarpunk, js.

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This may be the most Dutch thing I’ve ever heard. (I’m Dutch.)

I did not say money is capitalism. But I will say creating a new currency without first abolishing capitalism will just lead to more ways to do capitalism.

Both things can be true: cash is a scam and so is crypto. The reason I despise crypto is because they just reinvented capitalism, when the old one was working just fine (in the sense that capitalism is not a broken system: it is functioning just as designed, benefiting the ruling class). So now we’ve got two ways they’re scamming us.

“The US two-party system functions like a ratchet, with the Republican Party steadily pulling public policy and permissible discourse to the right while Democrats, in seeking to acquire power by chasing the political center, serve as a mechanism that prevents policy and discourse from shifting back.”

Best description of the Dems’ role in the shifting of the Overton window.