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It was a video he made and removed that was about knitting and programming and how theyre connected in some ways. But he spent the entire video making very overt comments on how "simple" and "unimportant" knitting is. Even implying it requires no thought and even kids can do it. Its really fuckin weird honestly. But obviously he got called out for comparing a historically predominantly woman owned skill to something that takes lil to no effort and anyone can do it with no thought.

He then deleted the video and IDK what he said in response. Never liked the guy so idk. There's tons of videos of people reacting to it.

I was very lucky and despite growing up in the middle of nowhere, with conservative homophobic parents and going to church 3ish times a week. I just didn't buy into it, I wasn't really engaged in politics till I was older but I always carried the golden rule and I thought it was dumb how queer people were treated over something that doesn't matter. Then I spotted tons of contradictions in the bible that I never talked to people about because I didn't trust them. I constantly touched onto communism even as like a 10 year old but was constantly shooting myself down with typical rhetoric; "Too bad it doesn't work" "shame it always leads to dictatorships" etc. Even was harassed by our police chief when he though he was being funny many times and arrested for carrying wooden sword on the side of the road as I was walking over an hour to the park.

The final thing that tipped me though, one of my friends said they were communist and I finally had someone to talk with about it who was actually educated and was able to get me past the self policing stage. it was just a landslide from there, constantly questioning what I thought I knew about everything. Researched Che guevera and Cuba's revolution got me revolutionary, turned this into a life path for me.

All I needed was someone educated on this stuff to exist. But I got very very lucky by being empathetic and not trusting adults around me early on.

Speak to real people and deprogram them, its a fuckin lifelong effort apparently but each one you convince joins in your efforts. I've convinced tons of people of how awesome cuba is before and now theyre all rightfully pissed at this shit.

TBH Wish i could join efforts like this if i wasnt outside of the americas rn.

When I return?? its fuckin instant action.

Often during meetings a new comrade will bring up why we run services to help people if we could be helping people who are racist/homophobic, etc. One of my comrades in my group wanted to discuss something just between us so I set time aside for it.

This discussion was essentially; "Why don't we create a apartheid like state where queers receive decent human rights and straights and cis people aren't allowed."(not a quote) Likening it to a commune. There are so many issues with this I could write a book about it. The land that would need to be taken, the heavy surveillance people would have to face to confirm queer status, the argument of who qualifies as queer, is being therian enough, is transitioning mandated, the oppression of an entire demographic of people, most of whom never got the opportunity to be educated within America's oppressively poor education system, ETC.

But one thing that reflects yours, the previous point, and theirs is that there are people who do need help that will fall out of your arbitrary lines. There are bourgeoisie trans people, and gays and lesbians that exploit others to the same degree. Being part of a minority often gives you a chance to better understand these issues and educate yourself but its not guaranteed. There's a well known (in revolution groups) transwomen in my area who hates leftists and volunteers to infiltrate and spy on leftist groups for state security.

The sentiment here is falling back into chauvinism and I understand the sentiment (I'm a transwomen), but you will not find an effective solidarity among any particular group but the working class. Oppressing one group does not make things "equal". You're coming into power and instead of using that power to deconstruct contradictions of capitalism and fight against it you're appropriating it for your own use.

That being said, I'm all for just trying to house trans people with your available assets. I am currently living in a situation where i often house trans people who's leases were up or homeless in my area to help them get on their feet. I do this for free because I can. It doesn't mean you have to do the same thing, circumstances are different.

Support for the LDP, sanseito and conservitive ideas is mostly within the youth in japan https://mainichi.jp/articles/20251026/k00/00m/010/303000c

日本共産党 is notoriously an old people thing. If you just search this term on Japanese websites youll find tons of people saying the usual anti communist bullshit +Japanese. When the election happened I saw a couple that were "日本共産党は日本の敵です" "The communist part is the enemy of the people" It had a picture of a pamphlet from them that simply acknowledged US aggression and called for lessening japans reliance on them. It also called for a higher tax on the rich. and "こいつらを逮捕できないのは何かのバグだろ…" "It's a (programming) bug that we cant arrest these guys" There was even one I'm not sure how it was worded that called for 京都 Kyoto to be burned because its "where all the communists are" even though i think southern Tokyo was a hotspot

Not to say all older people do, its just their usual crowd is older because they've become less effective at actually reaching people over the years and their supporters have simply aged...that being said they can still be reactionary. There was a street interview I saw where a lady was in support of the communist party but was considering going with Sanseito because she hated what "chinese and indians were doing to japan" and that "white people were okay"

Its just Western/Imperial propoganda rotting the minds and a really ineffective incompetent left party. Which lets be real is basically just liberal, the actual revolutionaries branched off and arent in the party.

Also Takaichi is just seen as cool, she had a lotta hobbies before like being in a band, liking metal, riding a bike, she's just a cult of personality and pulled with it. Talking about politics is frowned upon by older generations but most younger ppl dont care about many traditions. It's just a theory, but I wouldn't be surprised if this helped her gain notoriety because people just talk about the cool stuff rather than the political stuff.