except this player values their own long game at the expense at the rest of the world

he and marjoree taylor green have been outflanked the democrats lately and all it took was getting canceled.

this hits very close to home for me and reading it felt like the same copium that i had the displeasure of learning from:

The activists were particularly worried that Mushingi could undermine their efforts to put a stop to the anti-gay law through behind-the-scenes advocacy.

the queer liberation we have now in the global north and it’s periphery took root during the brief period when the ruling class hadn’t yet developed countermeasures against progressive protests of the 1960’s and 1970’s and it later became solidified by hollywood via popular culture in the following decades. now-a-days that the ruling class has significantly better countermeasures to any revolutionary or progressive movement.

in the united states, specifically, it came as a result of members of the ruling class pushing for it in episodes like lawrence vs texas in 2003 and obergfell vs hodges in 2015. and they had to do it through the courts because americans also took behind-the-scenes advocacy that culminated with bill clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992. every single grass roots organizations between act-up to the log-cabin-republicans expended their entire political capital and focused all their efforts to expend them on clinton and it ended up with clinton instigating don’t-ask-don’t-tell (which banned queers from the military) and defensive-of-marriage-act (which banned gay marriage as well as invalided all other behind-the-scenes efforts across the country up until then).

Despite the absence of legal sanctions in Burkina Faso, Brahima said many people in his country view homosexuality as “a sickness” or “a curse” and even believe gay people “need to be killed.”

Several incidents in the past few years have highlighted this hostility, delivering a clear message that gay people are unwelcome even though the country has refrained from formally taking action against them. In 2013, the imam at the Grande Mosquée in Ouagadougou used his sermon marking Eid Al-Adha, or Tabaski, one of the biggest Muslim holidays of the year, to stress that homosexuality, and gay marriage in particular, was against the country’s values. “Men who marry men, just like women who marry women under the pretext that it’s the law, we do not agree,” said the imam

The previous year, a case of anti-gay harassment caught the attention of the U.S. government. According to the State Department’s Human Rights Report for 2012, on March 18 of that year, hundreds of people from the Ouagadougou neighbourhood of Wemtenga “demonstrated to demand the departure of a gay couple within seven days,” claiming “the couple set a bad example for neighborhood children.” After two weeks, the couple left, and “no legal action was taken against the perpetrators.”

mexico, cuba and venezuela have confirmed what the united states has already proved true; that the liberation of any queer minority will not came as a result of behind-the-scene efforts nor the goodwill of the majority. clinton proved that no amount of meeting people where they’re at will change this fact and each of those countries share a similar colonial and homophobic background to burkina faso.

like it was in mexico or cuba; the government has to lay down policy via its courts to protect any minority and it MUST follow through with it or else you end with a venezuela or burkina faso; a place that already has a strong pro-revolutionary environment, but still homophobic AF and paying lip service to their ideals as much as the united states does to its own ideals while never fully living up to them.

this bubble is going to hit so much harder than the other ones and i bet it’s because the next bubble is going to take a REALLY long time to catch on.

– and difficult; things are so much more unaffordable and difficult to get when you won’t use amazon or walmart.

i couldn’t delete mine and i wonder what it says about me.

boycotts are like the fork in the dinner place setting of civil action; there’s also the spoon, knife, plate and cup each have its use.

there’s very little chance that the redistricting will happen before the midterms and newsom knows it.

reminds me of the videos of that guy who sits in wheeled bucked ostensibly pushing himself with an umbrella and a leaf blower; guy carries a leaf blower, umbrella and bucket around all the time just to make people look at him. lol

seizing the means of production. lol

Knowing this makes me feel better about being off the veganism wagon.

thank god! i was thinking this was going to kill postmarket/lineage/graphene/etc.

eat your dogfood I guess

i’ve been hearing this for decades and i still can’t get over how bizarre it is.

i get that people use to make their own dog food, but why would anyone eat it?

their responses are definitely more measured and my americanized brain keeps going “wtf” whenever they don’t exact retribution like the american gov’t does.

oic, more long game strategy.

let’s both hope it bears fruit before the american gov’t decides to employ its nuclear weaponry advantage; launched from filipino, japanese, and south korean military bases.

the chinese have the ability to cripple nvidia via its control of rare earth minerals combined with sanctions and i wish i could understand why don’t use this leverage.

not if you never learned the text book definitions and descriptions of concepts/structures and ESPECIALLY so during interviews; ask me how i know.

same here with my family; half of them are white-passing that they’ve all intermarried with maga-white people.

and i know it’s the maga thing because my extended family is not white-passing and they accept me and my political views without conditions.

and there are others who have it worse that i do, so i don’t think it’s entirely about hardship.

for me: i think it’s about experiencing being a stranger to the “tribes” that the people who were close to me belong to. eg. my white-passing family members discluding me from the families they’ve started with maga-white people; or the leftists groups being wary of me because autism-affected socialization makes them suspect that i’m an infiltrator of some type; or autism support groups that think that i’m not “autistic enough”.

don’t get me wrong: hardship is definitely part of it; if i had a thousand dollars for every time a manager or interviewer suspected that i was incapable of doing a job because of how i look and/or how i think, i would be a millionaire who wouldn’t need to work.

i think it’s understanding (or atleast being aware) that social and political hierarchies exist and are perpetually on-guard for outsiders. after all: there are maga brown/black people and gay republicans who are clueless about their places within these hierarchies.

i suspect that being brown, autistic and queer did it for me since this trio guarantees that i will never fit into the dominant social groups within this country.