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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military (newrepublic.com)

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

your material surroundings determine your politics

-- paraphrased from marx

i shudder at the thought that i would be one of these fucktards if i were straight, or white passing or neurotypical.

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

great paraphrase, cause that's about the gist of it. i often think back on my own childhood and youth, being raised neurotypical, straight, white, male in a culture of neurotypical, straight, white, male supremacy; and yet as i've grown older i've learnt that i actually might be only one of these. neurodivergence should have been evident long ago (but alas, the material realities of my childhood/youth didn't support this happening); as should have non-straightness (but homophobia seeps deep); race isn't real, but one can't escape their pale complexion; and after coming out of the closet with my sexuality i've began to suspect my gender also but this is an ongoing process of sorts, so i've settled on nonbinary.

it seems the marginalized find the liberal society fascist first. "funnily" enough, my political deprogramming started really happening after working with the local LGBTQ+ group for a while, and finding comrades among them.