PSA - IMPORTANT FOR CHANNEL OWNERS

there is a scheme going around, the average claim is that there are "ukrainian nazis" trying to hack LGBTQ channels by using "private channel IDs" or something like that. random users will text you offering to help and the solution they propose is to add a sketchy bot that claims to "hide your channel ID". that is a SCAM and you should NEVER in ANY circumstances add a random bot to your channel. even if it seems to be safe in a separate testing channel, do not do that!

the people doing this are the actual homophobes trying to hack your channel. if someone texts you out of nowhere for something that sounds like this scheme, block and report

Like these posts, but want to add on that radfem =/= equal terf

In all honesty, I dislike the term terf (even though I still use it lol) because it presents trans exclusion as a property exclusive to radfems. While there certainly are radfems who are transphobic, (and some big names as well) let's be so for real, liberal feminists (such as JKR) are almost always the biggest offenders

To quote Gillian Branstetter:

"Trans exclusion is more often a shortcoming of liberal feminism than an excess of radical feminism"

Diseases such as measles, rubella and polio could become endemic to the US again if vaccine rates decline, according to researchers at Stanford Medicine. Even at current immunization rates, researchers predict that measles may become endemic again — circulating in the US — within two decades. 🦠💉🇺🇸

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A question of definitions: What is fascism?

Gonna start off by saying that this is a HOTLY contested academic subject, and that my take is in no way authoritative. It's easy to see why it's such a cause for argument too, as the "fascistic-ness" of many regimes labelled as fascist has been disputed, and while those regimes often have common qualities (emphasis on nativism, almost messianic leader worship, etc.) they've varied significantly on policy. The hard principles of ideology for fascism, I would argue, are not what's relevant to labelling a movement fascist or what defines it as such. A better endeavor then, would be to define the fascistic impulse, as I will attempt to do in the following post.

What is the fascistic impulse?

The fascistic impulse, in my mind, is when anti-intellectualism reaches its natural coupling with an emphasis on aesthetics, due to the anti-intellectual's tendency toward surface level interpretation. Fascism, as it derives from the fascistic impulse, is an ideology driven by this pairing, one in which the perception of strength, order and unity supersede any policies intended to create such. This allows for extreme variance and agility in politics, so long as the necessary signification is performed, as the fascistic anti-intellectual impulse discourages deeper investigation of substantive policy. As such, you can have both hyper-capitalist fascism as well as fascism implementing the language of the left, even to the extent of co-opting some of its policies, although rarely those that meaningfully disrupt the social order.

It's also why fascism is so naively obsessed with culture wars and loathes modern art to the extent it does. Fascism is unwilling to engage with art on a conceptual level, but needs image to maintain its legitimacy. Therefore, art that requires investigation and interpretation (i.e. conceptual art) operates in direct opposition to the fascistic impulse. It's also why I believe that many have predicted that ai art is bound to become the new aesthetic of fascism: It is art *never* created with meaning or depth by virtue of the medium and, as such, is the perfect vehicle for maintaining the fascist system.