Grainne

u/Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Not everyone on the left wants to build communism, I want to build anarchism. And I want to do that through not empowering authoritarian governments, even if they are a mythological dictatorship of the proletariat.

We can agree on fighting capitalism and fascism, but when the disagreement is on authority things fall apart. Which is why I don’t call for left unity, I call for unity with anti-authoritarians.

Left Unity is a saying for Marxists, because it never translates to what we’re fighting for.

MAGA is far right/alt right, liberalism is right. Stuff like Bernie and Mamdani would be centre.

Left is stuff like anarchism, communism, socialism, etc. Systems that aim to completely replace capitalism rather than reform or keep it.

Caring for other people is not a “decision”, it is care. That’s like saying looking after an elderly parent or disabled family member is simply the way people wish to spend their free time.

Equity matters, not equality. Not everyone’s circumstances are the same, and if we have decided everyone deserves a break we need to realise those who spend their time caring for others are not getting the same opportunity for an actual break.

So parents should get extra time off to make up for the fact that their “breaks” are often spent caring for their children.

In which case people will complain and say they should fake being parents to get the extra time off.

on Alternatives be like: · c/fedimemes · 10 pts · 13d

He’s radically anti-left, with a block list of leftist users and instances that is only dwarfed by Tesseract.

Codes in censorship features and tries to sneak them by people before getting called out and making them optional for other instances while acting like he’s such a great person for doing so.

And really random stuff such as coding memes and gifs to be hard to discover and sort lower, putting limits on how often people can vote, making the software harder for the people who contribute the most content to try and force them to be less active.

on We've All Been Here · c/lemmyshitpost · 7 pts · 13d

Would the better option not be to directly help the child?

The police are just likely to force her back to a physically abusive household as they are to hurt her in the back of their car.