The Separatist movement

I'm very anti-Republic and decently Jedi-critical depending on my mood. I still love the clones, Jedi characters, some aspects of Jedi culture and the idea of the GAR but in reality I understand that the Republic was a few steps away from the Empire, even during its golden days. That's the issue with having such a massive power structure, it's going to rot from the inside even without the influence of a Sith Lord.

But at the same time, the Separatists commit a bunch of war crimes and are a collection of corporations at its core (basically the same as the Republic). There's also the issue of the Confederacy of Independent Systems possibly being an allegory for the Confederates in the American Civil War, being power-hungry capitalists who exploit the natural resources of planets and mistreat native species.

However, TCW did do a good job of expanding the worldbuilding behid the Separatist movement. We see that they have their own senate, all of its representatives being people who grew dissatisfied with the Republic and wanted to strive for something better.

So I'm wondering what the original creative vision was behind the Separatists. George Lucas probably had his own inspirations in the prequels but he and Dave Filoni then decided to give them unexpected depth and explanation in TCW, showing that they really could be right sometimes.

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Regions with former or active separatist movements in Europe.

Seperatism needs gatekeeping. It's not for every women and that's ok.

I see separatists on here wasting their precious time and energy trying to get OSA women (mostly) on board. Trying to appeal to them with "separatism will benefit you too!!!" Sis they don't care. I'm like when people show you who they are believe them, remember? It applies to women too. The ones who get it will get on board by themselves.

And also you can't reap the benefits without doing the work. If you're not willing to disengage from XYs, you have no business being in separatist spaces

As a fellow seperatist, what do you think?

I'm not a separatist but I agree 100%. Spoke on this here.

when people show you who they are believe them, remember? It applies to women too.

I think a lot of separatists, feminists, and other women that constantly make excuses for maIe identified women do so because they dont want to be lonely. Similar to how women will keep making excuses for maIes because they love them & dont want to be alone.

Besides realistically speaking; things like separatism going mainstream full of women who aren't serious will be a disaster & end up the way feminism did. If women aren't fully committed they'll just be a liability so it's better off without them.

Other trans people are not your enemy.

This goes for both trans women & fems and trans men & mascs. There are popular trans women twitter accounts telling young trans women that trans men do not care about them and simultaneously denying trans men face any transphobia, there are popular trans men on tumblr telling young trans men that trans women do not care about our oppression, pointing to the lack of talk about murdered trans men as proof.

And some of these points are fair, we should listen to each other more about our struggles. But you are making that difficult. Do you think a trans woman wants to listen to someone who accuses all trans women of hating trans men and not caring about our struggles? Do you think trans men want to listen to someone who says tells people that trans men are future terfs and will never care about trans womens struggles?

Are we not all just sides of the same dice? Are we not all facing oppression from transphobes? Terfs write books about how trans men are mutilating themselves and articles about predatory trans women in bathrooms, republicans fund legislation targeting trans surgeries and hormones, which affects all of us.

And even if we did not face the same struggles, why are we divided? Again, are we not all the same, simply trying to be ourselves in our own bodies? We can each talk about our own struggles, the difficulties we face and the joys we experience without the opposite being true of the other, infact more often than not it's extremely similar and I think we'd benefit from listening to each other more.

Once you notice that the Empire's (and by extension the Republic's) military capabilities are modeled roughly after irl 1970s advancement you can't unsee it. Super embarrassing for the Separatists (90s/00s equivalent technology) to do so badly against an enemy whose honest to god go-to for air-to-air combat is dogfights 💀

have such an issue where bi lesbian identity discourse always makes me really apprehensive and I don't know if that's a personality flaw on my part because like at the end of the day I do not and will never have control over how individuals identify or apply labels to themselves nor is it something I want to have bother me but I also get nervous because it's the kind of thing that's usually grouped with like, extending the discussion to say that lesbianism as an identity that excludes attraction to men is unnecessary which deeply bothers me. I've said this before but most of the aggression I've faced both directly and indirectly for my sexuality has been not because I love women but because I don't love men and I get really uncomfortable when people diminish the impact that lack of attraction has on oppression. it feels like the discussion always starts leading away not from how individual people identify but to how lesbianism as an identity that excludes men in itself is unnecessary and it always feels really violating to me and makes me remember men who spoke explicitly to me and threatened to turn me bisexual. I dunno shit is weird man, it's hard to tell if I'm right or wrong most of the time but its something that always starts getting me stressed

A much larger group than South Korean radical feminists is "South Korean women who don't have the time or money to have kids right now"

the free nations of post-russia need to pick some less ass-ugly flags, i tell you what. this map is a vexillological catastrophe

i do think its kinda funny how my follower count fluctuates so much bc ill gain a couple followers one week and then lose like 3 the week after lmao

Fourth, leaked Pakistani intelligence reveal that the far-right Hindutva government in India has an extensive assassination program and death squads with a global reach to kill Sikh separatists and other opponents of the Hindutva regime.

i feel like the problem a lot of marxfems have is the assumption that you can work with marxist men without first demanding your dignity from them, without having a robust feminist consciousness in place so that you can struggle against the chauvinistic attitudes that impede the revolutionary solidarity needed to build trust, particularly in a society that doesn’t have a national liberation struggle to build off of. a lot of marxfems fall short of establishing the sort of feminist consciousness that can truly hold men to account because we don’t organize amongst ourselves as women and have to tailor our feminist development to the comfort of the men we organize with, which makes it easier for them to treat us poorly while keeping us in a submissive mindset that limits our effectiveness. Revolution in imperial core countries won’t happen unless we start doing real militant work to materially address patriarchy, same with white supremacy and imperialism, and any attempts to build working class solidarity in the absence of movement building against hyper-exploitation within the working class will drive the oppressed away from the movement while encouraging male/white/western chauvinists to pursue class alienating tactics that will fail without the support of the oppressed. i think a lot of marxists bristle at the idea of this and consider it identity politics, but there’s a way to promote these things to the working class that comes from a solidarity building mindset rather than allowing itself to be diluted into non-threatening mush or resorting to the alienating insular bullshit the left is marketing itself with at the moment

France if all separatist movements gain independence

pink 🩷 for winwin

listen this is nothing particularly against madrid i swear but I just feel like accusing another club of being fascist would work a lot better if your stadium isn’t literally named after one of franco’s generals

If America balkanized it wouldn’t be just red vs blue states. It’d be more complex than that.

For example, if Hawaii seceded it wouldn’t be part of some new nation consisting of liberal, blue states. Hawaii would try to revert to the Hawaiian Kingdom. This would upset some Democrats since we are a Democrat state. But, when you look at it from the perspective of the Native Hawaiian activists who hate the government, the Democrats and Republicans, they’d jump on the chance when given.

California would lose a chunk of Northern California to Cascadia. And maybe to some of the native tribes. So, California would not be this bastion of progressivism shining on a hill. It would be a shadow of its former self, even more so than it already is.

The point is balkanization would not go the way the libs and cons think it would. It wouldn’t be one country of red and one country of blue states. It would divide further due to the cultures and histories of various regions of the United States.

The same applies to conservatives in red states.