I have some Nietzsche but it's so low on my list it might as well not be there. I have Thus Spake Zarathustra and maybe some other stuff by him. I'm conflicted on reading him for the same way I am about reading Heidegger since they both have a history with fascism. I do wanna read Being and Time and Heidegger's essay on technology and those are probably first before Nietzsche for sure. But that's all lumped in with my next bout of philosophy. I have this anarchist theory kick I'm on, then revisit Marxist works, then possibly gender and queer theory(not sure what is gonna be in that yet), and I have a neurdivergent block I wanna get to some time in the future so philosophy might be after that? Lol. I need to read more.

I'm sure he'd hate that, which makes it all the better.

Also, this is praxis lol.

For Foucault, I have Disipline and Punish, recommended by a friend. And I grabbed his History of Sexuality vol 1 and 2 because it caught my interest.

1. Mostly movies from yts . mx, and movies and tv shows from watchsomuch . to.
2. Mostly for convenience and I think information should be free. I cam back to the high seas after they decided to have 4,758 different streaming services and kind of hate exclusive as an excuse to get you to pay for one service over another.
3. I have a dedicated 6TB hard drive(wish I would have paid a bit extra for an 8 or 10 though). I also used it for rsync back ups but that's it.
4. I switch back and forth between Jellyfin and Plex. Jellyfin is a bit fiddly but open, Plex "just work" but is closed source. I try to use free software as much as I can.
5. Both JF and Plex will keep track, but I've had issues with JF if a movie or show doesn't want to run(I think it's a transcoding issue) sometimes I lose progress of my most recent watched stuff. Kind of sucks. I've had more issues with JF than with Plex which sucks.

but I just want to gently remind you that for some people, gender is really really important.

Absolutely. That's why I don't want to step on the toes of people who are in that camp. Their gender identity is as important to me as it is to them. Something that stuck out with that gender accelerationist manifesto is that just because we may strive for gender abolition, doesn't mean gender identity will go away, it just means it will not longer be a tool to be used by the ruling class(of course ideally the ruling class will be gone) in order to put us in arbitrary boxes. My genderness is gonna be completely different to the next person's genderness. I don't wanna seem like I'm coming as if I'm saying someone's else's genderness is pointless or anything. Apologies to anyone that might have read it that way.

I'm enbie and to me, on a personal level, gender is genuinely unimportant to my own identity but when I talk about the abolition of gender I try to frame it in terms of something like abolishing enforced gender or abolishing gender norms because I don't want to unintentionally signal to anyone, least of all to certain trans comrades, that I'm coming to steal their gender from them. All I want is for gender to be optional and based on exactly how the individual feels at that particular moment; you can look how you want, you can act how you prefer, and you can be the gender(s) that you feel and none of these things have to "align" and anybody who tries to tell you that you aren't permitted to do something/that you have to do something/that you're doing it wrong can go straight to hell because unless they abolish that attitude immediately then they're gonna get their dental record abolished.

Ok it does sound we are on the same page :)

because unless they abolish that attitude immediately then they're gonna get their dental record abolished.

I have Foucault on my list to read but it probably won't be for a year or 2 because of how backlogged I am but now I'm eager. And you dragon analogy is powerful. I guess at the end of the day, just because my genderness isn't that important to me(I'm probably 60% AGAB and 40% meh, for comparison) doesn't mean others' gender identity should be invalidated.

I read this last night and was having a hard time coming up with a worthy reply lol. I think my hesitation about being an abolitionist about anything is from pushback I've gotten online. I mentioned one time on /r/latestagecapitalism that I was a money abolitionist and people just weren't having it. Bizarre behavior from a sub that was supposed to be "ran by commies" but in the end I marked it up to libs being on there wanting a reformed government instead, and people that just haven't read any theory. I might have to be more in your face about it to others. I have close friends that are on various paths to the left that probably wouldn't bat an eye if I said I'm a gender abolitionist.

I'm mostly an armchair philosopher and it's somewhat a special interest of mine but more so with how it functions as a foundation to socialism. But I did take a side street into phenomenology and existentialism this summer. With that said, you Buddha line actually weighs quite a bit on some stuff I've been thinking about. Probably not in the Buddhist sense but I've had a really weird relationship with "the self" and I think "ego" because I mostly just feel like a thing in a human suit and I didn't realize that was a thing until I started seeing it get brought up in autism spaces online. It almost feels like there is a conflict between what I am physically and what I am mentally. I'm not spiritual or anything but I just don't know what that conflict is.

I guess this turned into more of a ramble. I'm so confused lol.

I'm basically a gender abolitionist but I hesitate to say that even in disabled spaces. I mentioned as much in one of the many weekly "I don't feel like my assigned gender" posts on /r/autism and someone got all spicy saying "here we go with patriarchy bad again" and I just didn't have the energy for it lol. They were trying to defend gender from the perspective of feminism activism, but like if the patriarchy didn't exist, social constructs like gender wouldn't exist, therefore, we wouldn't have a need for activism in the way it exists currently. Basically gender is a tool by the patriarchy to arbitrarily assign oppression to certain classes in society and now I can't paint my fingernails pink without chuds side-eyeing me lol.

But that's all to say I don't really wanna minimize our comrades who are on their own gender journeys. I just want people to be allowed to be happy as the people they are. I just think I'm sometimes kinda "girly" feeling but I donno what that means.

The US is deeply unserious.

I finally got to get back to FNB this last weekend and we all hung out and talked a bit after we ran out of food(always a good sign) and I feel like a super judgey bastard because, originally, I was like "I'm probably the furthest left person here." I guess I was just going on internal biases due to where I live, but turns out, a lot of those running it are anarchists and other flavor of socialst. I was both humbled and extremely happy that I got to shoot the shit about the current political climate with handful of IRL legit socialists. I love it. I'm a bit shamed that I just assumed. But I was in the presence of people that have been at this since the 90s. Super fucking humbling.

Also we are all introverts that suffer from major social anxiety lol.

One of them that I actually met a few weeks ago at my vegan food truck place, was introducing me to her friend and threw me off because she asked me for my pronouns. Def not used to that IRL because I'm pretty male presenting but it was the first time I got to try out "he/him but sometimes they" since I've been doing some personal soul searching and think I might be demi or agender. I've always been male presenting cishet but I've also never really cared about my gender all that much and do "girly stuff" that I like. And a lot of "guy stuff" I kind of hate. I'm not really sure where I land but I'm gonna talk more with my therapist this week about it and try to figure it out. I might just be suffering from patriarchal bullshit.

Other than that I do have training officially lined up for this weekend so we might have a tiny bit of financial security coming soon. I have a job interview for that Facebook/Meta for a software position that I'm still hoping to get some study time in on. I'm not really qualified for it but I'm not gonna turn it down if they offer it to me. Not gonna keep my hope up though because I can't really afford to do that mentally anymore.

Anyway, I hope everyone's week goes great. Politics right now is a fuck so don't forget to take care of yourselves.

I need a hug.

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I hate consumerism and try not to sell things to people, but seriously, if you are gonna be pressing tofu, get a tofu press. It really is one of the most used tool in my kitchen, like right behind my dutch oven and rice cooker.

I'm balls deep into hyper-fash Trump land and am gonna be trying to do the impossible too. We fucking got this.

My political pipeline was Dem > DemSoc > Marxist-Leninist > something akin to Left Unity(currently closer to anarcho-socialism but I float)

I joke about it but I'm the meme where you go into college as a lib and leave as a socialist. But I also took a lot of econ, polysci, and history classes. They are a bit more gloves off in their history classes when they are behind a paywall.

I've been a redditor for like 13 pathetic years and gravitated towards /r/latestagecapitalism pretty early but I was still lib-brained and a reformist. Sometime during the Bernie era, I became a socialist but at that time I only heard bad things on reddit about all those tankies on /r/cth and /r/genzedong. And certainly a tankie I was not!

I kept reading theory and at some point, It sort of clicked and I was like, I'm a Marxist. It's me, the communist, etc. Basically I was radicalized at this point. Last year when reddit was killing 3rd party apps, I caught wind of Lemmy and went to look into it. I saw a bunch of horror stories about how bad the evil tankies were on Lemmygrad and Hexbear and sort of just went with Lemmygrad since it was federated with the wider server network. I hung out there for a few months, then y'all federated and I just sort of found myself on y'alls comms more and it felt more like home to me. I still love my 'grad comrades but the 50/50 split of shit posting and effort posting here jives better with my personality.

I stayed because I've never seen a more inviting place for marginalized people and leftists. I'm pretty serious about Left Unity and that include my brown, queer, trans, and fellow disabled comrades, and really everyone that just wants to see socialism realized. I hate seeing other "leftist" spaces close the door on people just because they don't fit their perfect mold.

Just like I said to UlyssesT, the light will be on if you wanna come back. I don't know you as well but if you are out putting boots to the pavement, that's what matters.

I'm gonna try to organize in my town too but I wanna try to see if we can organize online too. I have seen a lot of us really learn from each other in just the short time I've been on this dumb bear site and I think there is a spark there that can be lit too.

We all got work to do and that's what you are doing. Stay safe out there.

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Sick wobs mate.

I can look into it when we get the auto-draft thing fixed. I think calling them is on my list of things to do this week.

Any bit helps. Thanks so much.

Thanks!

Thanks friend.