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Absolutely, kind internet stranger - I don't want it any other way, I also appreciate your kind comments to me and willing to engage with my viewpoint, however imperfect they can be (no one is perfect, except for cats, of course).

I try my best to signal my intentions, and that any disagreements or points I make are in good faith and it is in the struggle against all forms of oppression, like sexism, ableism, racism, classism, and all sorts of hierarchies we experience in the workplace, public or private spaces, etc. that are well known, or also not well known, unwritten and novel.

It's difficult enough for getting people to switch from whatsapp to signal.

I don't know how successful i'd be to get people to switch to simplex.

Is there a particular reason that you don't recommend signal?

that's truly sad, you're right... I think bluesky is a waste of time and mastodon varies by instance.

yes i definitely agree with your point here, systems don't just live in the abstract, but are carried out by people who carry on fucked up prejudices, and all that.

I 100% agree with this, but the burden should not be placed on the oppressed. Men must dismantle patriarchy too. They don't get to sit around and do jack shit.

Obviously you don't want the privileged to steal the cause and speak for the oppressed and marginalized, and this has always been an issue. But it's not because of 'men' but because of capitalism and patriarchy that declaws any effective challenge to oppression. There are similar examples to this like green washing and the environmentalist movement.

I get what you're saying but I don't think it's higher birth rates either. This falls into a neoMalthusian trap that assumes that we don't have enough resources when it's the privatization of goods and services that makes production and access to goods stagnant and inefficient.

The implication of saying it's birth rates will shift the blame on those who have children, and those are historically poorer people in rural areas/less affluent communities/the global south.

Besides, if you look at consumption per capita it is the richer areas and less populated areas in the world that are using the most energy, polluting the most, and consuming the most.

If these are just random ideas to brainstorm for a project, you could just assign a unique hashtag... like #2025project1

Then you can view that specific page and see all the references. The page is created and you can start working permanent notes to that page or continue using journal mode to collect ideas.

I don't think I will have much success trying to work on a project in journal mode, so permanent pages are important, but the journal mode lets you collect ideas so you can later organize and make official in its dedicated page.

or, you know, men who don't cat call and consider themselves feminists and allies? This is not hard.

it is either edgelord useful idiots who think saying edgy words make a fuck all of a difference or they want to let out steam because of patriarchy, or a prolonged and sustained psyop to completely discredit ferminism or to divide progressives/the left.

I think it's both.

If there's anything the ongoing massacre and genocide against Palestinians have shown is that you can never trust so-called democratic states to stop a genocide, and in fact either do nothing to stop it, or actively arm it, or suppress activities, journalists and students protesting this genocide.

This is a horrific stain on the so-called virtues of 'democratic' states and it will never be erased. This will forever be remembered and it will NOT be forgotten.

One of the many lessons of all of this is that the oppressed have only themselves to protect and support.

Until the world disarms this genocidal state there will be no security or protection or human dignity for the Palestinians. This is an essential task, to completely pressure states to embargo the genocidal state.

Twitter is filled with trash bots, fake engagements, right wing copers.

Lots of progressives continue to use twitter but I just stopped going because it's just a trash site anyways,

open borders does not lower wages when you consider the whole imperialist dynamic of wealth transfer that has forced migrants to find work elsewhere. Furthermore wages get lowered because of the capitalist profit motive.