What’s the Donbas Alley of Angela?

To be anti-zionist would be to deny that the state of Isra*l should exist, right? I genuinely do not think there are any anti-zionists in office in the U$.

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Were you notified that your return was accepted? Do you have any reason to worry it wouldn’t be?

How did you file? How did you elect to get your refund?

So fuckin jealous rn

Well that’s just the thing, there’s not really a single skin color, right?

I’d say peach-ish, but there’s a lot of differences.

None of the parties in the U$ are going to be the one that “wins” the revolution, but they all have people and do organizing work that will contribute to it.

I think they’re all kind of bad, but as long as a person is making sure to educate and protect themselves, it should be a positive to organize with one like CPUSA, PSL, or FRSO.

The alliance of fighters waging decolonial war against the genocidal fascist occupiers.

Yeah, it’s really fucked up.

The bit I quoted was basically the whole thing here, I wish I could find the one I’m thinking of!

The “focus on the family” style punishment focuses on telling the child that you’re doing it for their own good, that you’re purging their badness through pain, and focuses only on ritualized spanking on the buttocks.

Moving corporal punishment from a thing done in anger - like cuffing a child in anger (which is still awful) - to a thing done calmly, for “love” and “holy purpose” twists it into a whole other thing. There’s a lot of weirdness with shame, nudity or forced disrobing, and pain that gets dredged up there.

"And spanking IS sexual abuse.

“While the buttocks is not a sexual organ, it is a sexual part of the body, similar to women’s breasts. Children are not sexually mature, but that does not mean they are incapable of feeling sexual sensations. Spanking can greatly interfere with a child’s sexual development, modesty, and their understanding of bodily autonomy. Spanking an adult would be considered a sexual offense and it should be the same for children.”.

https://archive.ph/hajCY

This is just an opinion piece. I read a much better piece about it before, but I’m having trouble tracking it down.

I don’t necessarily agree that spanking is always sexual abuse, but there are accepted practices in modern evangelical Christianity centered around spanking that very much are.

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Where will you be? The Maiden Tower in Baku is neat

Aight, fair enough. I’m not always great at catching tone.

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Idk I think this is a kind of weird ask. I don’t think people choose to be the way they are, mostly.

but still having some levels of mercy would make me a lib.

Castro talks about how vital it is to treat enemy fighters with kindness and respect, and release them back to the enemy side - even if they come back and fight again.

I think it’s an acceptance of the enemy’s framing to think that great Marxists were without mercy.

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.” - https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1965/03/man-socialism.htm

I read the Bhagavid Gita, the Upanishads, and a couple of different Buddhist texts. I think there’s a lot of very interesting things there, but I’m very very distanced from it both culturally and as an atheist. It might as well be Greek mythology to me.

I got introduced to it through white-people yoga, and tried to back-fill the real details with my own research. I’m very interested in ancient cultures and writing, and there’s a lot of that there.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your perspective! From my view, Christianity has a pretty oppressive institutional function currently. I think there are interesting cultural/historical bits there, but I similarly don’t fuck with it.