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Researcher of anti-trans harms. Moody anarchafeminist. Just some dickhead. Sin is treating people as things. She/her. https://damselindystopia.ghost.io

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · Apr 11

If there are three things I want to impress on everybody who reads anything I write they are:
* It's about power
* Don't take fascists at face value
* I am literally just some dickhead

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · Apr 11

I cannot empahsise this enough; I am just some dickhead. If you have experience living in the world as a trans person and a baseline level of intellectual curiosity about the world you have the same qualifications to do this stuff I do.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 15h

Now me, I'm consistent. I think judges are scum, no matter how they rule. Sometimes their rulings coincide with things that are morally good, but I will never pretend a court ruling is the last word in a political or ethical question.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 16h

Don't believe me? See the Mail's "Enemies of the people" front page. See Kier Starmer decrying rulings that refugees shouldn't be deported to Gaza.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 16h

The status of FWS vs Scottish Government in media discourse is so interesting because so many people are suddenly pretending to believe that a court ruling determines reality. If the case had gone the other way they'd be screeching about woke judges.

Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.bsky.social · 16h

1/🧵 As a trans lawyer, I say that @zackpolanski.bsky.social gave the legally and politically perfect answer.

“Of course they’re wrong. Their job is to look at what has been legislated for. The legislation is wrong and we should get back to parliamentarians who actually stand by trans people.”

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 20h

Really my point is that a lot of people fundamentally misunderstand both militant antifascism as a movement and the concept of movements writ large and that's worrying during a massive resurgence of fascism in the imperial core.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 20h

By "interesting" here I mean "mildly annoying", ofc.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 20h

I find it interesting that this attracted replies that assumed I was taking aim solely at journos taking the Trump regime line here when the main misconceptions I was addressing were "antifa isn't real" and "allied soldiers during WWII were antifa."

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Normie journalists trying to describe antifa hit the very specific barrier that they don't really understand radical left politics and stumble over very simple concepts like "a movement, not an organisation."

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

No, we will not be doing "there's a dang cheeto in the white house" in my menchies, thank you. Replies go off.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

I mean that's mass politics for you tbh.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Antifascism of this kind is also definitionally done by non state actors. Militaries are not antifa, even when they are at war with fascist enemies.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Like if I were to try to pin down the core principles of militant antifascism ("antifa"), they look something like
1) fascism is bad and an ever present threat in capitalist societies
2) we should use a range of tactics, including but not necessarily limited to physical force, to defend against it

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

That doesn't mean there have never been groups or organisations calling themselves Antifa or that antifa is just a generic word for anybody who doesn't like Nazis in the abstract. It's a movement, a thing made of specific ideas and tactics and loose networks between groups and individuals.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Every October I come up with a goofy Halloween name and every year I regret it when trying to make a serious point lmao.

Duchess Van Hoof @duchess-van-hoof.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, there it is. Thank you,*checks notes* Scary Corpse.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Uh huh...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environ...

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

Uh huh...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environ...

Wars have a direct impact on climate change by increasing carbon emissions and destroying infrastructure. In October 2023 alone, the Israeli army dropped around 25,000 tons of munitions on the Gaza Strip, roughly 1.5 times the explosive force of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.[34] The climate cost of the first 60 days of Israel's military response was equivalent to burning at least 150,000 tonnes of coal. The emissions from the first two months of the Gaza war exceeded the annual carbon footprint of over 20 climate-vulnerable nations. Over 99% of the 281,000 metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent generated in the two months following the October 7 Hamas attack was due to Israel's aerial bombardment and ground invasion, according to UK and US researchers.[7]

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Netpol @netpol.org · 1d

One of our team was arrested yesterday for allegedly breaching protest restrictions, even though they weren't protesting – because wearing a keffiyeh while walking down the street is "reasonable suspicion".

This is the result of Starmer's crackdown: we're back in time to Nov 2023 under the Tories

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize thing is literally because he's mad they gave it to Obama one time isn't it? An entire fascist political project driven entirely by the petty resentments of a racist toddler.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d

Not in Leicester but will have a think.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating people. They should be studied.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d

Is...is that not what you're supposed to do?

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah we set that up during one of the early Mastodon booms for all our volunteers at the time. I never used it for personal stuff tho.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d

One of these days I'm going to have to remember which Mastodon instance I last made an account on.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d

Also this is what an actually good acoustic folk version of The Internationale sounds like.

youtu.be/PtAfIjRKUak?...

Alistair Hulett and Jimmy Gregory Internationale

YouTube video by John Hamill

youtu.be

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d

It's really fucking weird of you to bring somebody's trans status into an argument like this.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously, he has always been Like This. He has a crashout like this every few years over people correctly recognising that England, as a political entity, is evil and starts screaming about football.

Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 3d

It's reassuring to know that even in these tumultuous times, some things are constants, like Billy Bragg showing his arse trying to do progressive English nationalism.

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