lizzy ☭

@faithisleaping@anarres.family

I identify as X. One Y2X transition, please.

haha i wish this is how it worked. because that was me. but no, gotta do 8 months of therapy first 🙄

kids & teenagers use free software and free operating systems. they contribute to free software. they maintain free software. stop excluding them from our communities. banning people under 16 from your distro is completely out of touch.

well, i really like my home. i like the city i live in, the nature, the parks and the river and the surrounding forests, the hills, the historic buildings, the churches, old houses and the castle, the infrastructure, the buses and trains, the cozy mall. my friends and my family. the mostly open mindedness towards someone like me of the people here. i like some aspects of the culture i grew up in, the food, the poetry, the music - not exclusively, but they’re home to me. i am scared of losing those things.

my home is also part of an empire. the entirety of europe has colonized the global south for centuries, has extracted vast amounts of wealth, has never repaired any of the damage, and continues to extract without admitting any fault. america itself is built on stolen land. the us-european empire is the most evil force on the planet by far.

the justifications for the supposed “superiority” of white europeans are ever evolving. in the past, it was flat out race science. today we hide behind “freedom and democracy” because the wealth built on centuries of colonial extraction has made it so that our capitalist class allows for a relatively high amount of civil liberties and a relatively high material living standard domestically - they can benefit more effectively from exploiting the global south abroad. this has lead to an alliance between the western capitalist class and the western working class: a labor aristocracy that has an economic interest in maintaining the global status quo has formed. the very countries that we have exploited - and often continue to exploit - are painted “authoritarian” and a “threat to our democracy”, especially whenever they stand up for themselves - china being the worst offender, because they have actually managed to emancipate themselves - but also most african countries whenever they do anything that limits the influence of western imperialism. this is the new whiteness meta.

almost all of the “left-wing” politics we have here are focused on demanding better conditions for the domestic labor aristocracy while ignoring that our current wealth is also entirely built on colonialism.

all of this needs to burn. there is no way to reform or reframe the empire, and the structures that its wealth is built on into something positive. the very identity of europe, america, and of whiteness, needs to be destroyed.

and the unpleasant truth about this that when imperialism dies, almost everything we have based our lives on will collapse. because that’s how our economy is set up.

in fact, imperialism is already dying, slowly. amerikkka and europe are losing more and more influence. the US dollar is losing its monopoly, the US military is no longer as all-powerful as it was, there are alliances like BRICS and AES, the world is becoming more multi-polar.

and there is no friction-free transition. the empire is going out with a bang. with wars and genocide and disasters. domestically, fascism is on the rise everywhere in the western world. if the national bourgeoisie cannot do enough imperialism abroad anymore, it will do fascism domestically. no, I don’t think the working people here deserve that, it’s awful. but they also turned a smug blind eye to when it was happening to everyone else for centuries, which is why everyone else hates them now.

i am so scared of all this. i just want to live my life. i want to work and consume modestly and be part of a interconnected, peaceful and just world. but this has never been a reality, it has only been an illusion that euroids have deluded themselves into believing for decades because their part of the world wasn’t the one on fire. reality is simply catching up with us. eventually, this will affect my own life awfully. this shift in the global status quo is actively against my class interests.

and yet.

we must side with the oppressed people that are standing up for themselves. the working people of the west must break their alliance with imperialism better sooner than later. primarily, because it is the right thing to do, it has always been. but it is also the only way we can do any sort of damage control whatsoever now.

yes, our lives will go to shit.

just like the lives of all the people we have exploited for centuries.

but if we learn from the examples of those that shook off their chains and have built a future for themselves, and the examples of those that have tried and failed somewhere along the way - often because we made them fail - we can eventually build something new, something just and communal, something that can actually sustain itself without brown children dying. there are more than enough resources for everyone in the world - if we actually try.