NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]

i mean he’s been hugely influential in linguistics and it’d be dumb to pretend he hasn’t made contributions of value, but it’s fun to dunk on him and there’s definitely a fair bit that’s somewhat controversial and that i disagree with

you hate chomsky for his political opinions, i hate chomsky for his linguistics opinions (and also his political opinions). we are not the same

and then alcohol ended up getting loaned back into arabic as (al-)kuḥūl

Yeah this is kind of the conclusion I’ve come to. I don’t really know what it is that ‘see’ is really supposed to mean. I mean very obviously I don’t see it in the same way as I see an object in front of me, but at the same time there is still an apple that has various characteristics and exists in some way within some sort of mental space, and whose attributes, including ones which for a real apple would be visual, I can be aware of and understand

Sadly I can’t rotate a cow in my mind because it always just wants to dance to that Polish song instead

And then I’m vegan with two different kinds of ED 😎

It may not be strategically important but it’s a crucial symbolic victory that will keep morale high

Really not beating the supporting Nazis allegations with this

They played All I Want for Christmas at pride here and that was like the 2nd or therebouts this month so yeah…

I’ve been putting off finally deleting my account for good for a while now but this would actually be it because it’s 100% unusable on the redesign

I’m T4T so I’m pretty sure being a communist increases my odds of getting a date actually

I’ve seen literally one of those shows lol, definitely know the feeling

Leftists who sort of follow a sport are the most oppressed minority

That may be, but the fact of the inequality remains (and it remains a bad thing imo)

If the romantic poets were complaining bitterly about how they’ve been wronged by women because they don’t want to date them then yeah maybe they were

Socialism is when you ignore the fact that tropes can play out in many different ways and that particular manifestations of it can in fact reflect broader social issues

I know everyone here is doing China discourse here but the honestly not insignificant inequality that remained in the USSR is kinda interesting to see.

It’s really striking to me how the climate has shifted online since Biden won. Obviously libs have always been anticommunist, but under Trump I feel like there was at least a vague understanding that the far right is a legitimate threat in the way that the far left is not. Now though, it’s like the the far right has been forgotten, it’s a spectre conjured up only for its utility for slandering the left. I guess this is probably because Trump is viewed as an aberration, and one which was dealt with in 2020 when the system worked and people realised he wasn’t fit to be president. The libs cannot imagine that Trump could be re-elected, nor can they imagine that the issues run much deeper, just as they couldn’t in 2016. So if the far right no longer exists, it’s only natural that they should fall back into their default focus on demonising the left.

Unfortunately I could never really get that into playing and practising solo and although I continued for a while regardless I eventually dropped my lessons, something I now kinda regret, but being part of an orchestra was always my favourite part of playing the violin.