This sort of comparison goes back at least as far as 2016 (“Imagine if Frodo was all ‘Sauron’s bad, but Gandalf’s done some morally gray stuff, too, so I’ll stay home.’ Don’t get eaten by orcs. Vote.”), and to liberals who like to situate themselves as being the ultimate good and voting as the ultimate […]

“I’m non-violent. I can’t support that form of protest.” Then how are you squaring your support for the violence of the status quo? Not just the actual violence we choose not to count in our statistics, like robbery, theft, simple and aggravated assault, sexual assault, and murder (so long as it’s being committed by agents […]

One of the things that’s immediately apparent about white supremacy is that it badly hurts non-white people. Perhaps less obvious is that an effective secondary purpose is to hurt almost all white people, as well. The bribe of white supremacy is not that it will improve your lot any, just that it will worsen someone […]

Tumblr @hater-of-terfsStuff like guerilla gardening, stickering, wheatpasting, lifting, graffiti, pothole-filling and other minor illegal acts aren’t only important for their primary effects, but because disobeying your capitalist programming helps break down the internalized worldview that comes with it You start seeing society as it is: a collection of flawed, limited, man-made institutions that can be […]

When we say “crime is a social construction” we don’t mean that the harm done when someone is killed, robbed, or assaulted, including sexually assaulted, is subjective or all in your head. We mean U.S. cops execute an unknown but thousand-plus people per year, and it’s never murder; it’s a “good kill” or, with enormous […]

Tumblr’s @aylonit [now @disabilitiez]From a physically disabled, wheelchair user: stop using the word “crippled” to describe your experience with anxiety, depression, etc “I have crippling anxiety” “i have crippling depression” “the stress from it all is crippling” you are using a slur. You are disrespecting every physical disabled person. Just use “disabling”. Why are slurs […]

Dr. CBS [Charisse Burden-Stelly] @blackleftafThe interconnection of anticommunism and antiblackness is not about whether Black people like or dislike communism, but rather how anticommunism is a powerful technology of repression used to uphold white supremacy and Black subjection and, of course, racial capitalism.Dec. 9, 2020 In the power centers of the United States, specifically, it’s […]

Reaction to Mitch Horowitz’s “Good, Clean Satanism,” a review of Anton LaVey’s “The Devil’s Notebook” It’s interesting that Mitch Horowitz found The Devil’s Notebook to be inspiring when it, along with Satan Speaks show Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey at his most obvious crankiness. A short version of late-stage LaVey can be be summed up […]

This is a non-theistic space, not an anti-theist space. We don’t talk about negatively about “religion” because the problems we have with particular religions are not located in their beliefs in the supernatural or their rituals. We oppose harmful superstitions, like gender essentialism and white supremacy, beliefs that people believe in and act on to […]

You also are those moments, of course. “That’s not really me,” “that’s not who I am,” or “deep down, I’m actually…” this nonsense. There is no, “But I’ve changed.” There is no “born again.” You are what you do repeatedly, and you are everything you’ve ever done; you always will be. All of the harm […]