JackRiddle

Right, of course, we should never try anything new. All things should stay as they are always, never put faith in a better future. I guess I am a monarchist now or whatever.

I know I am not being totally fair here. I know "go vote" is the advice liberals often give and that electoralism gets used as a way to divert from direct action. Voting will not change the system. It will not get us out of the clusterfuck we are in. It is not a substitute for action. I understand your perspective in this. Voting for someone who will not do anything about the fascist policies that are being introduced and who supports an active genocide feels bad, it feels like buying into a broken system and giving it legitimacy by your participation. But it frustrates me. Because people who discourage voting are playing into fascists hands. Because anarchists, marxists, syndicalists, communalists and the like cannot effect change by voting. But fascists can. Fascists already have enough power to sway the system in their favour, to use the government for their ends. Voting is not change, it is harm reduction. It is trying to cede as little ground as possible to fascists for as much time as possible, buying time to effect real change before we are all disappeared and shipped off to some concentration camp somewhere. Taking real political action gets exponentially harder everytime the fascists get more power. And in the last election, they have gotten a lot more power.

Of course there are naive anarchists, but there exist workable and well-defined systems of anarchism that have seen some forms of success, and there are theories on anarchism beyond "shit will regulate itself". I would reccomend picking up some of the work of Murray Bookchin on municipal libertarianism an communalism to see such a theory.

Right, yeah, I am a liberal, Of course. I am a cis, heterosexual liberal who does nothing but tweet and whose only effective political action is voting once every two years. I believe that we should never do anything but vote, which is exactly the sentiment I expressed in my comment. I said "we should vote and only vote and do nothing else because the market will solve itself and the system would function perfectly if only we were to participate". These are my words, and they are what I believe. Yes. Very much so. Very much so.

My actions are inspired by the tactics of smart active anarchists because I am a liberal and not an anarchist and I assumed you were inactive because you did not vote rather than assuming you missed one of the venues of activism that is exceedingly easy to reach. Because I am a liberal.

I said nothing about being nice. I said you should take action. All people should take all possible actions they reasonably can to prevent this kind of shit. That includes voting. Being complacent is not an option.

Enjoy your real trans genocide then, I guess.

Sure the entire political system is being dismantled and nobody has to vote next time around, but at least you didn't vote for a genocide that is only getting worse because you didn't.

We musn't speak it's name, lest we be errata'd

How the fuck did I not know this,
I have gone my whole life awkwardly writing with white lines between everything and only now do I learn this?

Why use a d20 instead of a coin? Do you always have a d20 with you?

Only tangentially related rant. Sorry.

I do like the idea of getting an x gender marker on my official id, as that also kinda feels like the "none of your fucking business" marker. It moves you closer to gender being just a social factor. The non-specificity working in its favour there. I won't change it because there is no option to do it selectively, and having a passport with an x is really inconvenient.

I feel like gender and even sex at this point is almost fully obsolete. Really the only reason to keep using them as constructs is because they are being used as constructs, and that needs to be resolved first. And yeah, there's a lot of other social classes and constructs that need to be dealt with. There needs to be an overarching change, not just "let's not use gender anymore but essentially keep everything the same"

Sorry for rambling

This is one of the first where I struggled to read it correctly. I think the colours are making the effect worse here.

However, mailbox can still be encrypted with pgp, and has some built in supports which make this easier.

One problem I had with proton/tuta is that you cannot use a third party app due to the encryption, which you can with mailbox. A problem I have with mailbox is that it does not support fido2 for login or 2fa, which could be a security concern.