Lilah @NightRose@eldritch.cafe

@Pixley @radicalrobit @laser

David Brooks: Our society has become far to individualistic, and it's harming our communities. We have to work to build structures that nourish interpersonal relationships.

Me: Okay, this sounds good. I totally agree: we need to build communities of trust and caring which will act both as our weapons against capitalism and our replacement to it.

David Brooks: ...
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no not like that.

@NightRose @Pixley @radicalrobit @laser "when I said interpersonal relationships, I was referring to ones in which my superiority is acknowledged"

alright yall i wanna know how many of you csme out / realized u werent cis after joining mastodon boost for visibility pls !

@NightRose cursed

Hey did y'all know that David Brooks has a new book out today

@Pixley @radicalrobit @laser this so-called "doctor" seuss is putting ideas in the smallfolks' heads, giving them airs and pretentious about the kinds of Italian sandwiches they think they're entitled to

📛 📛 📛 here is an article about antisemitism that should be MANDATORY for every leftist to read: 📛 📛 📛
https://opensiddur.org/readings-and-sourcetexts/mekorot/non-canonical/modern/the-past-didnt-go-anywhere-making-resistance-to-antisemitism-part-of-all-of-our-movements/
no, seriously, read it. ALL of it, NOW (okay, it's very long, you probably don't have to read it all at once). if you don't read it, i will officially revoke your status of being on the left and call you a liberal ;P.

📛 📛 📧 please boost the hell out of this toot and talk about this important topic! (also, consider copying the contents of this toot and putting then into a toot of your own, like those chain letters everybody hates) 📧 📛 📛

I think there's enough social science research about the empathy-dulling effects of wealth to justify a ban on extremely wealthy people taking public office. No more multi-millionaire congresspeople.

People are free to give away their wealth before taking office if they wish to be an elected official, but "wealthy" should never be a protected class. Wealth protects people from the bad policies they have an out-sized opportunity to influence.

Just in time for TDoR, my transition ceremony is now on OpenSiddur: https://opensiddur.org/prayers/secular-calendar/international/transgender-day-of-visibility-march-31/ceremony-of-gender-affirmation-and-name-change-by-lilah-rosenfield/

This isn't a new phenomenon, either. There's a reason why we say "antisemitism", and it's because a bunch of racists realized "Judenhass", literally "Jew-Hatred", was a terrible brand and they could do better with the more scientific-sounding "anti-Semitism".

That's the ancestors to today's "race realist", "identitarian", et al. Reactionaries have been doing it for literally centuries.

So, no I don’t strike every Friday, because I can’t. But that doesn’t mean my activism is not valid. That doesn’t mean that the activism of thousands of youth across the world is not valid.

The climate movement needs more people like me https://grist.org/article/the-climate-movement-needs-more-people-like-me/

https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1111000585484951552

I hate the "NASA needs to be funded because of the return on investment" shit. Get out of here with that Morganite nonsense. We explore space because space is worth understanding and only spending labor on things that return on investment is nihilistic unto death.