LadyAutumn

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

This election was lost in every measurable way. She did not lose because of leftists who didn't vote on principal. She lost because the working class overwhelmingly chose not to vote for her. Many of them voted for Trump instead. Many first-time voters voted for Trump. She thoroughly lost to him in every possible way.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

It's not punishing anyone as much as asserting our bodily autonomy, but go off. Targeting Republicans means no pressure is applied to anyone else to change society. Not every woman will participate in the strike. The effects of it have to be wide reaching.

It's a widespread denial of the institutions behind gender relationships. Saying that the system is dangerous for women and refusing to participate in it.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

To Trump. Her platform was essentially a "stay the course, maintain the status quo" platform which has been terrible for a lot of people.

The average voter doesn't know or understand what the word fascism means, what project 2025 is even if you explain it to them, or what trans rights are. They don't know whether illegal immigration is a problem or not. They live within massive propaganda machines that often confuse them and are taught to believe anything else is wrong on principal.

For many of those people, including many minorities and many women, the status quo has not treated them well. And someone who's entire campaign was built on maintaining the status quo was deeply unpopular with those people. Trump offered a radical restructuring of society. He offered a dramatic shift in status quo and a government with entirely different priorities.

That appealed to those people, who both do not understand politics and are confused about what any of it really means anyway. All they know is that life under Biden saw their lives get much worse and the other guy says he's going to change that and says he knows how. He doesn't, of course. But they don't know that. They don't live in the echo chambers we do discussing these problems. Their primary use of social media is sharing pictures with friends and family. They're annoyed by their friends who keep talling politics online, politics confuses and frustrates them.

Obama's campaign was built on change and it's what one him 2 elections. The first one by a landslide. Lessee of two evil politics, staying the course politics, is never going to drum up support enough to defeat fascism.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Kamala's participation and enthusiastic support for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine was a significant factor in her losing. As was her enthusiastic support for border militarization and conspiracies about illegal immigrants.

She dug her own grave. We were told to shut up whenever we mentioned how unpopular those positions are with anyone who's not a far right nationalist. She drove millions of voters away from her by being a neoliberal conservative. This outcome was entirely predictable.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Yeah, everyone who spoke up was told to shut up. Already white middle class liberal Americans are scrambling to blame anyone but themselves and the democratic party. Liberals are not a challenge to fascism.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm extremely fortunate to live in Canada, cant say the same for many of my friends and loved ones. I would definitely say forced conversion therapy is a real concern. If it comes to it escape networks may have to be formed. We have to be proactive. We can't lose sight of each other. This is the reality of the world we live in now. So we have to resist it.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That is probably the most immediate pressing concern for most trans people, yes. Violence against us is a possibility in many ways, but denial of healthcare is almost guaranteed from their rhetoric. Denial of hormones will end in dead trans people. A lot of them. People like me who are post-op do not even produce their own hormones. Denial of my medication would have significant negative consequences for my health.

This is a post about medication as well, you can't fault me for responding about medication.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The trans community will look after it's own. If you feel like helping, there are many guides online to producing hormones and helping already existing networks of distribution for them. The entry cost is relatively low and once setup is easily repeatable for very low costs.

Abortion pills is another thing altogether. I don't know if those are feasibly produceable with supplies that are easily available.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You seem to be a bit confused about what exactly capitalism is. Capitalism is the ideology of private ownership, specifically with regards to the means of production. It is contrasted with socialism, which is the ideology of public ownership of the means of production.

Capitalism is the ideology that allows for someone to own a factory, for example. It allows for them to possess it, in some nebulous way, and to therefore be entitled to the fruits of labor produced there. Even if they themselves did not work to produce those products. Capitalism is the ideology of private wealth accumulation and the ideology of class. It is the ideology of wealth inequality (as opposed to wealth equality where capital is shared equally among all). It is the ideology that creates markets out of supply and demand, specifically designed to collect as much capital as possible from people seeking products. Capitalism is protected by the state, which creates justifications for its existence and prevents the working class from uprising against capitalists. The state colludes with capitalists. They exchange political power for capitalists' labor power. In this way, any party that is not explicitly anti-capitalist is necessarily pro-capitalist. To allow capitalism to exist is to protect it. In this way, capitalism is not just private ownership itself, but it is also the politics that protects such ownership and the states that choose to allow it.

Contrasted with socialism, the ideology of public ownership. Socialism is the classless ideology. Socialism is social welfare, including ideas like social assistance or UBI. Socialism allows for means of production, like factories, to be publicly and equally owned by all. It allows the fruits of labor produced in those factories to be shared by all. Like capitalism, socialism produces its own political ideologies. Socialism as a state of being requires some form of protection (much of the debate on the left can essentially be seen as "how should we protect an established state of socialism?"). As socialism is classless, and as its production is communal, it is open to encroachment by capitalists who will seek to establish private ownership and markets there. Most agree, some state or state-like entity must be established to protect the socialist society. In this way, any politics that are explicitly anti-capitalist must be socialist.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 week ago

Wow, who knew the fascist party supporters would be against women having political autonomy.

Not related at all to the article. We really need to stop invoking the US election every single time we encounter news of the ongoing Palestinian Genocide.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

See in the start you're right, yes, Trump and Harris have the same policy in regards to the Palestinian Genocide. But you act like that means they're identical human beings who have identical intentions and who will make identical political actions.

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