Squid Luxemburg @Zekkary2@sunbeam.city

Libertarian Fandom weirdly quiet about rent and surplus labor value.

"THE GOVERNMENT KEEPS TAXING ME FOR LIKE ALL MY INCOME!?!" well maybe if you didn't have to spend half of that income on being alive in someone else's house and then also not even be paid anything close to the amount of labor you produce, then that wouldn't matter as much.

"your take is bad and you should feel bad" says local Twitter user with North Korea flag in their display name

Some guy on Instagram saw me make a "cisphobic" comment on a political page so he went to my profile and saw my "they/them pronouns" bio and was like "LMAO okay but you're obviously a girl" and that gave me the most confusing euphoria. Like, uncool that this person went out of their way to make me feel bad about my pronouns, but also, was it really that ambiguous??? Cool!!!

hell yeah babey I did makeup and put on a dress and got all dolled up just for the hell of it.

leftatlondon is fucking great tbh

part of me is pretending I'm boycotting Eurovision right now but the other part of me knows that I'm an American who has literally never watched Eurovision and pretty much only found out what it was two years ago

Cons of trans military ban: most things about it, such as rise in transphobia, progress for bigoted agendas, etc.

Pros of trans military ban: TRY AND DRAFT ME NOW MOTHERFUCKERS AHAHA!

Popular opinion: you're a fantastic person who deserves more love

This is why anarchy and capitalism are fundamentally opposed, because capitalism has hierarchy engrained into it. Social Democrats like Bernie are opposed to many, but not all hierarchies. For this reason, they should go just about dead center in the middle of the political spectrum, yet they are often characterized as being far left and extremely libertarian.

The authoritarian/libertarian axis is a bit skewed as well, though not necessarily in any specific direction, just nobody seems to understand it. A radical libertarian (anarchists) want to eliminate all hierarchies.

Let me repeat, the furthest left figure in American politics, constantly accused of being a communist, is a centrist at best. This is why actual white supremacists and homophobes and transphobes are able to claim that they're "actually centrist" when in reality they're extremely far to the right.

Here's the simple stuff: socialism is the redistribution of the means of production, and is left wing. Capitalism is the opposition to this, and is therefore right wing. Therefore social democrats like Bernie and Corbyn are right wing (although center-right would be more accurate)

The way that the political compass is understood is really a bit wrong, in my opinion. It's influenced by our culture and way of talking about politics. For example, back when my ideology was closer to "social Democrat" Bernie Sanders, the test placed me as a libertarian leftist, but (back then) I was not a leftist.