You’re not making demands

I’d say “stop the sale of Palestinian land” is a pretty clear demand, Cole.

Mostly, yes. The difference is that they actually inconvenience the state enough to make concessions, both due the higher level of militance and the wider public support they can rely on when needed. Protest movements in France are also really good at general strikes for the latter reason. What it boils down to is that they actually inconvenience the state enough to move the needle and get concessions. But the state is very aware of that and good at recuperating the dissent, letting the masses blow off steam and then walking some decisions back in a way that makes the general public think they won - all of this backed up by the state also being able to call on what’s probably the most violent and militarized cops in all of the Western EU.

So i’d say the key differences i see compared to the US are both broader and deeper organizing and higher militancy on the side of the people and a more calculating, flexible and pragmatic cynicism on behalf of the state. But this is absolutely not a revolutionary movement. Ofc the French haven’t had an actual revolution¹ since 1871, so who knows, maybe some day this’ll change. The odds of that are probably better than elsewhere in the West.

¹This only goes for the French mainland. The colonies are a very different matter, as evidenced by the Algerian civil war in the late 1950s.

To most of them, whether you agree or not, it’s just a childhood series they grew up with and enjoyed like Star Wars or [Insert Disney Thing Here] and don’t treat continuing to read/watch or otherwise engage with it as a political statement.

Yeah, that’s the point. There’s a fascist billionaire who acts as the public figurehead and a major donor for the unpersoning of trans people and they do not give a fuck because childhood nostalgia from an incredibly mid slopfest is more important to them.

This is basically how the French do liberalism. A little bit of rioting is how the general populace negotiates with their ruling class whenever they plan something. This does mean that they have suffered way less under neoliberalism than comparable nations in Western Europe, just look at the French vs the German age of retirement, but it is very much not revolutionary even when it involves street militancy.

They regularly executed POWs and the ones who weren’t were sent to concentration camps to be used as slave labor.

This is glossed over so frequently. The USSR casualties include three million POWs who were taken prisoner by the Germans and then systematically starved and worked to death. There’s no other POW population on no side of WW2 that comes anywhere close to suffering casualties like this. When you were in the Red Army and taken captive by the Wehrmacht, it basically meant you were being put in a death camp.

I think that’s just a large regular wheel dolly combined with a straitjacket, a muzzle and some of the straps hospitals use to fixate patients.

Source: I’ve been Hannibal Lecter wheel dollied before, although i wasn’t restrained.

Today is October 7th, so what other aspect of the conflict should be the headline today?

“Israel pretending their war on Palestinians started on Oct. 7th enters 3rd year.”

Being on any news site open to zionist propaganda today is gut wrenching.

Russia had a pretty big revolution or two in 1917 and was part of the imperial core at the time IIRC

Debatable. Russia barely had any industry and therefore barely any proletariat in the stricter Marxist sense, burgeois liberalism was much less advanced there, it skipped key steps that according to Marx would have been a historical prerequesite for a socialist revolution, which is part of why Lenin and later Mao developed their theories of imperialism - to explain why Russia and later China had a successful revolution as largely pre-industrial societies while the UK or Germany didn’t. At that time, no Marxist in the imperial core would have argued like us, they were convinced that the world revolution would start with them.

Cuba might not have been an imperial core country but it’s 90 miles from the imperial core so pretty close.

Cuba was literally a post-colonial brothel / plantation island ran by a puppet government. Imperial Core is not a geographic designation, it’s entirely an economic and political one.

Injections are reliable, very easily allow you to do monotherapy without antiandrogens if you dose high enough (which is theoretically possible with any form of estradiol, but easiest with injections) and if you have no problem with poking yourself a little bit they are by far the most convenient. I’ve switched from gel one and a half years ago and never looked back. Only having to dose once a week (enanthate) or twice a week (valerate) is something i appreciate a lot.

Pills have the downside that a lot of the estradiol is metabolized to estron (especially if you don’t take them sublingually), which is less effective and can be hard on the liver, especially if you need to take a lot of them to get to good E2 levels (which applies to a lot of people). Pills also have the shortest half-life, meaning that most people need to dose 3x a day.

Patches can be finnicky to use and they are often dosed really low, but i don’t know much about them because the most common transdermal route around these parts is gel.

It’s a way for the Russian intelligence service to show that people are being monitored

Newsflash: When you spy on politicians, you want the kind of surveilance that people don’t notice because it’s actually about gathering information, not about controlling the general populace by means of a panopticon.

So we can safely conclude that joining NATO has made Finns so unhinged that now they’re blaming Putin when they forget to flush their own shit.

OH WAIT now i remember you, you’re that stupid trot who admins the 4tran comms on dbzer0. Go fuck your transmed ass you brainwormed piece of terfshit.

As if trans people are responsible for harmful stereotypes and not transphobes. That’s what i mean when i say that you sound like an assimilationist loser, you’re playing the respectability politics game way too hard.

Awwwwww no am i embarassing you in front of the cissies?#

To clarify, i haven’t been on reddit in about 4 years or so and i’ve never set foot into r/MtF because it was obvious at first sight it’s full of truscums like basically all trans subs on reddit.

“Please be a good little assimilationist without kinks” is kinda cringe tbh.

Same expression of betrayal on their face i had when i learned that social democracy is a sham. That dog is about to get radicalized.

certified transfem post of all times

Martinez was not driving at Exum when he shot her five times, as he had previously claimed, the attorneys said. One of the bullets, they alleged, went through the side of the rear passenger-side car seat, which showed Exum could not have been standing in front of the car when he shot.

Every. Single. Time.

My “I can be trusted with high powered beam weapons” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

telling on yourself.

It’s from AmeriKKKa’s chief lynchmob organizer, archzionist and real estate cannibal Libs of Tiktok, kinda hard to tell on yourself when your entire career is to proudly and openly be the most hateful piece of shit imaginable.