johhnnnn.bsky.social
25 | they/them | social democracy and cats
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“a broad front for walking towards utopia” is an alien concept for too many
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cringe well-meaning types who aren’t that deep vs actual fascists wowwwww what a tossup! time for another infographic story 😌
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they spend every big social movement waiting to be foisted onto their pedestal after All Their Work, and never do :)) turns out the politics of endless antagonism is a dead fkn end
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i think the root of their problem is that they cannot conceive of any activism that isn’t their own, historically couched, maximalist variety being any good
like sorry! it’s not always about the ideological trappings of a protest — no kings meets the moment where insta activism doesn’t
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bruh a friend of mine is posting about how we can’t get trans rights without sho*ting cops and i’m like, wtf? also, you’re posting this to 300 followers on insta while sitting at home? get fucken real
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it’s feeling very ~paramilitary/nonstate actor~ violence in a way that makes me think it might last a while
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i disliked him after his trans remarks and now love him again 😭
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they sound like catholic social teaching anti-abortion arguments
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“The Democratic Party should abandon trans people.”
People on an app with a huge trans user base: go fuck yourself.
“They’re so uncivil!”
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french smoking is hot. brit smoking isn’t. case closed
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i visited a week after their election & decided that whole mess rendered the place unserious
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she really didn’t do much
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im so glad europe has ripped away shame like this
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was this before or after the election 😭
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a lot also comes down to the funding structure of these places — like should fund them properly, not force their aircon consist to be reliant on guilt-tripped donors 😭
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ppl are not ready to learn the history of how fractious and cooked NYC ethnic politics can be. it isn’t usually nice uwu multicultural politics like in other places — but often deeply pragmatic and almost cynical
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museums asking for donations when i was a stones throw of buckingham palace was… interesting
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drone piloted by a femboy
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i love how they whinge about patronage and ppl who fly, then can’t take the slightest bit of criticism bc trains too expensive like…, ffs
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i feel like it’s sorta devolved from an anglo quasi christian-democratic movement (obvs idiosyncratic for english-speaking places) into just acquiescing to whatever RW culture war is around
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an abundance of woke…
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no it’s not a ‘burn’, it’s a healthy glow ✨ 😌
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oh sunscreen alone will save u in the future — mediterranean UV is bad, but not australia/SE Asia-level bad
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that shoulder area can get painful 😭
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“democracy is a marketplace of ideas” ohhh thanks normie, time to kms
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it’s shocking how much worse you become after a certain age. the idea people well past their prime should hold office is wild
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i feel like anti-trans radical feminists were/are a thing in the UK in a way they just kinda aren’t in the US. the american media transphobe is just generally a right-winger, not a Simone de Beauvoir reader with a Labour membership
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true, i remember even the Guardian kinda jumping on it from some more left POVs
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damn is london THAT nimby?
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same!!
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how come TERF stuff spread across the UK so specifically? like it went from even the Tories kinda accepting gay marriage to Labour hating trans in ~4 years
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they won’t get back together as quickly as some think, either. this might take a while…