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4·2 months agoOnly if you eat them raw. Agaritine breaks down with cooking, drying, etc
4·2 months agoI just found this and didn’t read it all but it looks like it covers what I’ve seen a gay imam discuss on another video that I can’t find right now because the search engines are only showing me AI slop videos
https://reformationproject.org/was-homosexuality-the-sin-of-sodom-and-gomorrah/
Edit: here’s a different gay imam than the one I was trying to find talking about it: https://www.gaytimes.com/life/as-a-gay-imam-i-know-that-islam-is-not-anti-lgbtq/
Plenty of religious people contradict the blatant teachings of their religions, Abrahamic religions most of all. Love, compassionate, selfless service to those in need, destruction of oppressors to liberate the oppressed, these are all themes in Abrahamic religious texts that are often ignored today.
The story of Lod is the reference that Abrahamic religions use to bash queer people but queer scholars would point out that the story of Lod is not at all about queer people and is about people doing sex crimes and assault. Religious people misinterpreting and misusing religious texts to justify their personal positions is pretty common, and it is no different here. We live in an age of war and hyper capitalism, and have suffered centuries of colonialism which has enforced very specific ways of thinking on the whole world. People being ignorant and wrong about things is to be expected
Not really, the only writing about that is by him and the clique he split with doing a lot of PR control in anticipation of a write up from the party that was announced and never materialized. He wrote dozens of pages blaming everyone else for how things went and erasing the fact that the party’s structure and constitution were designed almost unilaterally by him, with a small amount of input from the other CC members who were all his friends and D&D party members for the game he DMs which is how the whole thing was started, by and for role players who spend more time in a fantasy world than they do organizing in the real world. For all of them, this party was the only organizing they had ever done and decided to start with “let’s make an underground vanguard party that will manufacture a revolution,” because they were so full of themselves that they thought they could be the peak of political consciousness without even a few days of attempting to organize with people on the ground. This arrogance is the dominant flavor of their newest project where they are cold emailing every small ML group they can find to coerce them into joining their “national labor federation” which is just a new micro party cult built around someone who lives on twitter. It’s a great grift because these young organizers are too inexperienced to know they are being preyed on, it’s a pyramid scheme for communists.
Edit: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoUKAJhaUAIDusX.jpg?name=orig
This is the announcement of the party ending and a document being written which was never released
To my knowledge, over here, many people generally agree with Red Clarion’s analysis, and see it as a worthwhile org to read.
Yeah this is why I make it a point to comment about how they are run by an abusive, wealthy Twitter power user who started a cult around himself in the guise of a party and then rage quit after the women and particularly trans women complained about him being a misogynist too many times. Red clarion is his attempt at starting a new cult around himself
I don’t think their article is the main point of contention, Syke’s article is. here’s a comment I made about his article 8 months ago: https://hexbear.net/post/4043628
I think anyone here can read Syke’s article and come to the same conclusions without some grifter larper’s newspaper being circulated.
I know you are just seeing an opportunity to be helpful, I’m not criticising you for it and give you much props for always being helpful
They are just doing the classic class reductionism analysis, I don’t think they are pat docs. They just want to think of themselves as equally exploited as everyone else instead of as the labor aristocracy that they are inherently as settlerz
Worth noting that Red Clarion generally considers FRSO to be one of the better US orgs, but is generally negative on the present state of orgs in the US, both theoretically and strategically.
And since they don’t organize and have no organizing experience their heavy handed criticisms of people who do organize are virtually worthless
The anti settler colonial issue is their national position written by their thought leader, the liberal local politician could certainly just be a local chapter issue but also a good national org would know about it and push back on why the local chapter is using resources that way instead of in another manner. It’s a ML org not DSA, there should be more oversight over these things.
Yes I am familiar with the PSL issues you are describing and they were also a primary reason why I never joined. I was lucky enough to have a local org option that worked for me. I will say that I haven’t heard of new cases of this happening in years and hopefully it was resolved quietly by the organization with the individual problematic members. For an org as big as PSL, there hasn’t been enough cases to suggest it’s really a widespread issue, although I think the way the specific cases were handled should have been better. It’s a valid criticism and reason to be wary but it would also be chapter dependent. I know a lot of non-men organize in PSL although I’d love some hard data on these things
FRSO are settlers who reject the theory that the US is settler colonial. A comrade joined and their chapter recently organized for a local liberal political candidate, this plus their org’s line on decolonialism was enough for the comrade to leave.
If they are the only ML group in your area, might be fine to try, but I would choose PSL over them if they were both options.
7·4 months agoPutin has been known to exert psychological tactics to expose adversaries’ points of weakness. The award was likely given as a means to provoke questions as to why relative of a high-ranking U.S. intelligence official was fighting for the Russian military.
Gloss, who reportedly suffered from mental health challenged, was killed fighting for Russia at aged 21 after moving to Moscow and voicing his support for Russia’s military.
they decided that the answer to their own question was ableism
Is it the Europeans who colonized and ransacked the developing world which caused the migrant crisis or the nations that had little to nothing to do with the downfall of every nation that the migrants flee from?
2·5 months agoAt least 3 billion people still cook with open fires, and there are surely variances in other cook types like induction vs gas vs electric.
Either way, while there is certainly some truth in an efficiency gap for cookin, the vast majority of our climate issues are not coming from individual daily choices but rather industry wide decisions at scale. It would be much more simple and effective to nationalise industry and end profit driven decision making than to change the daily habits of billions of individuals
I would start a reading group and put up flyers around your college or distribute them at protests, use the reading group to get people in the door and tie the reading to contemporary issues in a way that leads to thinking of what could be done to work on those problems and then begin organizing around those issues with the reading group crew.
This one also doesn’t seem to include township village enterprises (TVE) which is probably 10-15% of economy
This is from 2009 but provides a lot of good data on the subject.
An important note from it is that most private companies in China at the time had less than 10 employees so it’s not big Bourgeoisie just because it is private. The majority of the GDP at the time came from SOEs
Edit: some more recent data says “The total capital of firms with some level of state ownership has risen to roughly 68% of total capital of all firms (40 million) in the economy in 2017. The share owned by the central government has declined while that of local governments has risen.” https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/reassessing-role-state-ownership-chinas-economy#%3A~%3Atext=The+total+capital+of+firms%2Cin+the+economy+in+2017.
Note that SOEs doesn’t include township village enterprises which are publicly owned at the local level
All porn is illegal in China. There are hundreds of queer romantic novels and such not being targeted, because they don’t cross the line into graphic pornography. This is being framed as anti queer but it is actually anti porn
The main driver of the work is a criticism of the trend towards reform as the strategy for social change, reaffirming the notion that revolution is indeed the strategy, even if fights for reforms can be viable political maneuvers in certain scenarios.
In a time when the overwhelming trend is still that reform is the only option, western leftists deciding “reform is good” is the point of Reform or Revolution is incredibly on the nose.