in the clearing

something that's always stuck with me is Adorno's critique of liberal research on fascism - that liberal scientists believe you can approach fascism in good faith by simply asking Nazis what they think about the world and then writing it down. He argued that fascism is itself a bad faith ideology, and that Nazis will not usually answer the question "do you want to exterminate all minorities?" truthfully, especially not when asked by academics (who are all Marxists/Jews/etc plotting to destroy civilization). So in order to accurately capture fascist sentiment, you have to conceal your intentions and basically lie to them. And there are real moral imperatives for social scientists to do this, in the same way that journalists go undercover in white supremacist groups to report on their activities and beliefs. There's even that famous East German documentary where the directors lied to a Nazi military leader about being West German filmmakers, got him drunk, and then just filmed him saying Nazi shit lol. So like the conventions of science itself, the idea that good research is necessarily always transparent, is a political assumption that shapes how you conduct research and acquire knowledge

idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

i wish buy local meant something to do with ethics but tbh most agriculture in the us is also farmed by immigrant seasonal labor in conditions that with the growing weaponisation of ICE raids by farmowners is much like the kafala system. the part of the supply chain where tomatoes get shipped from florida or southern california are like the least enslaved human labour parts of it.

congratulations cabo verde for winning the world cup 💚

the cruelty these actors had to endure is immeasurable

when i’m on my period my vagina is like the 2000 general election…all that Bush and Gore

the sex binary is socially constructed and not actually descriptive of any biological truth. you know that, right? it's important to me that you know that

i know people can be a little overzealous in describing political backslides ("this used to be the feminism website!!!" etc.) but it's disturbing to me how much incredulity i've gotten from other trans people as of late just for, like, saying that "biological woman" is neither a real category nor a phrase that should ever leave your mouth uncritically

Thank you! I am kinda pissed off that the news outlet leave out the gfm link but i guess that's their SOP over there

I think you guys constantly undermine the exploitation and colonial abuse that Hawaiʻi and Polynesia endures. i promise you indigenous polynesians aren't focused on being excited about representation in the live action moana they're much more concerned by the disney tourism propaganda they've been constantly pushing in their slop movies

some of you are really like im so punk fuck the system down with societal norms 😡 btw men are the most oppressed group on the planet

guys with punk in their bio are not happy about this post

I just survived a bombing and what was almost certain death.

Shrapnel flew around us and killed a little child before my eyes. He was the last child his mother had left.

Guys, I swear your silence could be the reason I die. Please share.