i think the point here is that a manifesto or a document should come out of collective practice within an organisation, not via mixing together labels from the ideology store

half hidden camera is just a joke!

glad you enjoyed it! i always worry that the humour doesnt translate well

do you prefer tall buildings without windows?

i think you should rather just look into the history of the region, read some books on the topic, apply materialist analysis. you should not take everything at face value, neither from putin nor from a propagandist doc

im just not sure you should base your political analysis on a doping scandal documentary

Why are you watching a propaganda sports doc for your political opinions

workers party of belgium has a podcast called Fakto, they usually cover local and global events in an accessible way.

I actually would argue that we’re in a long Soviet civil war period post 1991 (counting all post Soviet conflicts)

Where is the line of playing the game though? If an org is effective, no amount of optics will protect it from the state. It is also kind of patronizing to say to people who are acting in self defense against ICE to “not take the bait”. Like cmon, we’ve been through this with BLM.

maybe watch it

they dont need to say it

Do you have polling data on that or what

I think you are thinking of socdems for the phrase. DSA seem to be a bit more left than that

I would you are correct. I’ve never heard of the arguments that you are talking about, but it just sounds like someone who is trying to get out of the responsibility of making a more accessible environment.

The Panthers were largely Maoist. They lost.

What is Maoism to you, because I don’t think that the BPP would describe themselves as that.

Do you know how wars work?

I understand where you are coming from. I am offering an alternative point of view to explain why many of us identify as transsexual. I don’t think it’s super useful to police language that people use to self-id.

“Sex” is a biological classification. “Gender” goes beyond that and encompasses what somebody wants their place in society to be.

I feel like you are really hung up on sex as to mean “biological” but I want you to consider that this (perceived) distinction between sex and gender is precisely the part that’s harmful to trans people. By separating sex into its own “biological” “scientific” reality you are missing that sex is as arbitrary as gender. Who is to decide what are sexual characteristics and what is not?

Transsexual refers to trans people in an explicitly sexual way and puts a heavy emphasis on genitals and sexual characteristics

i think most people use it without the emphasis on genitals (notice how there is not mention of genitals in the word transsexual). and even if they do, who cares? how does this erase identities or empower transmedicalism? just because you are uncomfortable with a word doesnt mean it cannot be used by anyone