I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

What happens when you defend a drag show from the armed transphobes who threatened to murder attendees? In Texas, first you get arrested on bullshit charges, then a "Christian fascist fraternity" sues you for violating their "right" to attack drag queens and their fans. When two people facing this situation contacted the International Anti-Facist Defence Fund, we stepped in to help them with their legal costs, because we have the backs of anyone willing to protect people from transphobic violence. You should too, here's how: Chris' crowdfunder Aeshna's crowdfunder If you also think that having a standing fund to come to the aid of anti-fascists in emergency situations like this = a good idea, you should contribute to that fund right here!

Honte à la FNAC

La police et l'extrême droite ont fait pression à coup de tweets sur la FNAC pour qu'elle retire de son catalogue le jeu de société "Antifa" où l'on incarne une personne de gauche qui est dans une asso antifasciste... et ça a marché ! La honte sur la FNAC qui propose par ailleurs "Mein Kampf" d'Hitler et "le grand remplacement", ouvrages ouvertement racistes et fascistes ! Alors la FNAC ? On va faire le ménage dans ses articles ? Je tiens à préciser que "Antifa le jeu" (de la Horde) est disponible dans des librairies indépendantes ! Vive les petites librairies et, sérieusement la FNAC... on va juste arrêter d'aller acheter chez toi ! ;)

Words to remove from your vocabulary:

•Degenerate (literal nazi rhetoric. using fascist talking points invites fascists to have a voice in your community)

•Predator (posits abuse as something that occurs due to the perpetrator's nature rather than the choices they make)

•Monster (divorces us from the reality that anyone can be a bad person or make bad choices by instead relying on an "us vs them" mentality)

•Narcissist, Psychopath, etc. (further stigmatizes marginalized disorders and upholds the idea that being mentally ill makes you a bad person)

The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product 

"how u gonna be on the wrong side of history while it's repeating itself like bro ur failing an open note test"

- @_hiphoptalk (account currently suspended)

He’s an evil son-of-a-bitch. He’s the richest member of the Senate and spends his summers cruising around Italy on his private yacht which is the size of a battleship. He once spent over a million dollars to make a revenge video against a random woman that criticized him in a Florida coffee shop. Bat Boy needs to go.

Leif put himself on the line successfully defending attendees at a drag event from a physical attack by armed transphobes. His reward? Criminal charges and a trial this month. The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund has stepped in to help Leif pay to have a decent lawyer with him when he steps into court. You can help too - send Leif some support here.

The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund has helped more people defending drag shows and trans rights than probably anyone. You can make sure the Defence Fund is still around to do that by making a contribution here.

At this point, talks about "mutilated bodies" tell me everything I need to know about people's politics. I truly don't believe you can combine the idea of mutilated or degenerate bodies with anything even slightly progressive in terms of autonomy. If you believe yourself to be progressive or anything left of an unapologetic fascist, you frankly cannot truly entertain the idea that some bodies and people are inherently mutilated or degenerate. It is an inherently fascist idea.

2024

HAVE HOT TRANSEXUAL SEX

ORGANIZE LIKE HELL

JOIN YOUR LOCAL ZINE MAKING COMMUNITY

FALL IN LOVE WITH LIFE AND COMMUNITY

TEAR DOWN FASCIST MONUMENTS

Also I think it's awesome Oppenheimer (the movie) made such a strong connection between Oppenheimer being Jewish and deciding to make an atomic bomb. I'm sure that won't lead to any insane discourse or antisemitic conspiracy theory bullshit in the coming weeks.

Tired of running this Russian psy-op against Biden for free. Suspending operations until Putin sends my check in the mail. Can't keep giving freebies in the gig economy, even for a stand-up guy like Vladimir. I need to feed my cats.