Like a 3 or 4 LMAO. I’m pretty set in my ways, I’m willing to hear most people out but only in an effort to change someone else’s mind, not really to change my own. That said, if you are on the left (i.e. identify as anti-capitalist, at minimum), then I will legitimately take your perspective and stances into consideration.

This doesn’t mean that I’m not empathetic or that I shut people down, I’m very conflict averse as well. I just take in what people say, push back maybe a little, and try to understand their perspective while mine still remains unchanged.

I feel like your piece abour unionization is a bit pessimistic. “Non-essential” industries have unions and go on strike already (e.g. actors, writers, coffee shops, liquor sales come to mind from my view, maybe I’m biased bc I’m in the imperial core but this shows organizing sex work in the imperial core at least could borrow from these industries). Also, it’s good to still have worker collectives even if they cannot directly make demands in cases of attempting general strikes, or if “essential” unions wanted to do solidarity strikes with sex workers to help their cause, no? Also also, I do think there currently exist various sex worker unions already, although they’re small scale.

To be clear, sex work is like one of the worst things to be, but this doesn’t mean that we should admonish the people most acutely affected by this precarity (sex workers) for their circumstance. If we acknowledge that sex workers are exploited on such an extreme level, we should support these workers in their demands.

Average “whataboutism” fan vs average “comparative analysis” enjoyed

Nice! I’m glad you found smth that works for you. But like that still required you to get off ur ass and do smth about ur ADHD knowing it was impeding ur ability to read (and even then, you were diligent enough to read beforehand).

Imo, if more people tried reading in the first place, they’d uncover things like neurodivergence or learning disabilities and get the help they need to read more. But they don’t, and it really is cuz they’re lazy. We have physical copies at bookstores and libraries, pdfs, audiobooks, and lectures and explainers on youtube. There’s even ML children’s books. Atp, if you consider yourself left wing and don’t engage with the material, it’s on you for not finding a format that’s best for you to engage with.

My hole after spending independence day in Atlanta (jkjk I’m taken and also not American)

Nepal wanted to put like base level regulations on Facebook and when it didn’t comply they made Facebook illegal, and Facebook fomented a colour revolution in response 😭😭😭

I’m SICK of these people!!! Just say that you’re lazy 😭😭😭 no one will be mad

Ok so Tiananmen square had two main elements in the protest:

• Liberals who wanted to go down the US Road entirely instead of just the Dengist approach.
• Maoists who wanted to revert the Dengist reforms entirely.

I have way more sympathy for the second group than I do the first. A more ideal path would have been a re-education of the first group and an integration of the second group into the CPC more directly, but unfortunately this did not occur as protestors became militant.

This is not to excuse the CPC response of course; even in the face of political violence, even reactionary political violence from the first group, the military should have as light of a hand as possible in response, and I don’t think this was abided by in the events of 1989. However, I do think it was correct to suppress this movement in the first place in some capacity. The alternative would probably be colour revolution. Look at places like Venezuela and Nepal and Bolivia; they haven’t purged their reactionary elements upon socialists reaching power and capitalist coups/regime change become inevitable.

Yes

(Or at least I hope so lol)