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i mean if you have a sinceer love for Christ and gather to express that with your fellows thats what matters but on the other hand ive seen a few places that are just cubes inside a building that also a phone repair shop and a tatoo parlor. i mean, it is fine. keeping it humble, love that. but damn if i aint a sucker for stained glass

maybe it's because i was raised catholic but churches shouldn't look like furniture stores

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This is all very much contrary to what people who are currently in the trade want or think. Things like this, its all very condescending and paternalistic. Prostitution is no more demeaning than any shitty job is (id contend that back of house at a restaurant feels much more soul crushing), and its no more "selling your body" than any job under capitalism.

that first paragraph, particularly the quotation from that union organizer, is deeply dishonest. Criminalizing prostitution does nothing to protect anyone.

i went to a leftist festival last month and there was a panel dedicated to prostitution, why abolition is the only road to go for leftists and how to help and support prostituted women exiting the trade, and i keep thinking about that union organizer who said, "we hear more and more that 'sex work is work', but if that were true, then there'd be professional trainings leading to a qualification for prostitution, then there'd be prostitution diplomas, then high schoolers could send applications to follow those trainings and become prostitutes. but we all know that all these things don't exist, and if they did exist we would all recognize them for what they are: a grooming business encouraging pedophilia and violence against women and girls." and what she said later; "trade unions that argue that 'sex work is work' never engage in legal battles against pimps or brothel owners. they don't even recognize that pimps are the bosses of the prostitution market. "sex workers' trade unions" don't fight pimps because sex workers' unions don't represent the alleged "workers" (prostituted women), they represent the bosses: pimps."

and that made me think of what Kajsa Ekis Ekman said about the trade unions that consider prostitution to be work and prostituted women to be workers: they offer trainings about condom use and spend millions of dollars funding "worker peer education" about "safe sex".

So one again, it's prostituted women who are held responsible for the spreading and the prevention of STDs - not the johns, not the pimps. the prostituted women, many of them victims of sex trafficking. "As human trafficking expert Malka Marcovich has pointed out, this means a return to nineteenth-century ideals of hygiene, where the onus was “primarily on the women to take responsibility for the health of ���the customer’, so diseases would not be spread to their families” (2007, p. 347)."

It's quite obvious to any trade union organizer that prostitution is not work and the sex trade can't be organized as a trade union. a few months ago, the biggest unions in my country (which included the traditional left-wing trade unions as well as students' unions) issued a paper condemning the 'sex work is work' narrative and the pimp lobbies got so mad about that because they know their strategy isn't working because leftists know what left-wing politics look like and they know women's liberation doesn't come from prostitution. Now it's interesting that the biggest voices of the "sex work is work" movement come from the USA, where the anticapitalist left doesn't exist. American liberals love to pass reactionary politics as revolutionary but not because they are stupid in their own country does it mean they should influence the actually left-wing labour movement in other countries, right?

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I have an encyclopedic knowledge of gender bending media for entirely Cis reasons.

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thats just bullying

im a uh loser virg- i mean, asexual queer biromantic demisexual touch repulsed individual haha..

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cannot stop thinking about this genuinely. the ref……

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as opposed to capitalism, which has killed no one, im sure.

A sign that your post has journyed too far from its home

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Steve From “Blue’s Clues” Just Checked In On “The Kids He Raised” And Gave Them A Safe Space To Offload After Donald Trump’s Election Victory.

Interestingly, Steve doesn’t even speak in the 59-second video, but appears to give viewers a comforting presence as he enters the outdoors shot and “offers them” a hot drink.

And many of the comments thanked Steve for offering them this safe space, with one person writing: “As a trans man, I felt this to my core. I took the breath with you then started bawling. Thank you.”

“The man who is a staple of my childhood didn’t say a single word and it brought me to tears. Steve, thank you. I don’t know where we go from here,” somebody else wrote.

Another popular comment reads: “He didn’t say A WORD and said everything at the same time. This man should be guarded at all costs.”

“Neither of my dads checked in on me today. But you did Steve. Thank you,” one more acknowledged.

“So much responsibility on Steve’s hands to make sure we are okay. We need to make sure he’s doing okay too. I mean I’m not doing great, but he’s still looking after the kids he raised,” somebody else added.

While another concluded: “I bet you didn’t think you’d still be raising us all these years later, Steve, but thank you for still being here.”

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incomprehensible

Big oof for being a Christian and anarchocommunist. Given all the shit communists did to Christians.

Eat rocks, jew hater

all earthly authorities are fallen and sinful, be they of capital or stately title. It is my divine mission to seek their destruction. I will never recognize any king other than Christ, no matter what colour of cloak they wear. Nationalism is a particularly awful scourge on the soul of humanity. It causes people to do awful things to eachother. May the Lord see fit that it withers and dies.

Peace and love to my brothers and sisters under Abraham. May God strike down those who seek to defile their peace.

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this is beautiful

I’m a lesbian and a Catholic which means the only man I’ll ever marry is Jesus Christ the Son of God Bridegroom to the Church and I eat his literal flesh and drink his actual blood every week through the transubstantiated Eucharist in remembrance of when he was here on earth and looking forward to when he will come back

“You just need the right man” I found him. It’s Jesus. We’re one flesh now. Yeah he died for my sins and in doing so united me to the creator God Almighty. He was dressed up for the occasion and everything. He kissed me on the forehead and led me to my girlfriend and said go love her as I loved you be happy. My husband is seated at the right hand of God from which he will come to judge the living and the dead if you care. Yeah I tried to pray the gay away but he cupped my face in his hands and said “there is nothing about you that needs to be fixed. You are holy as I am holy.” He had me nail my internalized homophobia to the cross and he carried it for me. The Holy Spirit gave me the rizz to flirt with my girlfriend when we met well enough that she fell in love with me and when we get married and she’s my wife I’m going to thank my husband Jesus Christ.

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Big oof for being a Christian and anarchocommunist. Given all the shit communists did to Christians.

Eat rocks, jew hater

all earthly authorities are fallen and sinful, be they of capital or stately title. It is my divine mission to seek their destruction. I will never recognize any king other than Christ, no matter what colour of cloak they wear. Nationalism is a particularly awful scourge on the soul of humanity. It causes people to do awful things to eachother. May the Lord see fit that it withers and dies.

Peace and love to my brothers and sisters under Abraham. May God strike down those who seek to defile their peace.

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a thousand painful deaths to the fascist scum, may their presence never be tolerated.

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Once, Babylon seemed an invincible threat. Babylon is gone now; only archaeologists remember it.

We're still here.

Once, Rome seemed an invincible threat. Rome is gone now, only tourists remember it.

We're still here.

Once, the Crusaders seemed an invincible threat. The Crusaders are gone now, only historical dramas remember them.

We're still here.

Once, scapegoating for plague seemed an invincible threat. Those who scapegoated us are gone, long forgotten, the plague slain by antibiotics.

We're still here.

Once, the Inquisition seemed an invincible threat. The Inquisition is gone now, only comedians remember them.

We're still here.

Once, the rise of exclusionary nationalism seemed an invincible threat. Those nations have risen and fallen, the political movements that forged them remembered only by historians.

We're still here.

Once, the rise of Eugenics rendering us inferior vermin seemed an invincible threat. Eugenics has fallen, only historians and the scorned remember it.

We're still here.

Once, the Tsars both White and Red seemed invincible. The Tsars of both colors are gone now, and only a pale and thinly stretched shadow remembers them.

We're still here.

Once, the third Reich of Germany seemed an invincible threat. The Third Reich is gone now, and only desperate fools remember them.

We're still here.

Now, old new dangers have risen, those same desperate fools and former friends seeking scapegoats, who together seem invincible and inescapable.

But they, as with all things, will pass, in time.

And we will still be here.

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a people having been victimized by hitler and his ilk are not justification for some of those people becoming neo-hitlerites themselves. israel is a genocidal aparthied state and should be destroyed. Nothing of the terrorism and reactionary ideology by some proportion of the population under occupation by the third reich made them at all comparable or comparably blameable to the evil of the thing actively trying to destroy them.

Death to the state of israel, life to the people of Palestine!

all pro palestinian arguments FOR THIS POGROM (and in general) boil down to: “everything we do to you, no matter how horrific, is justifiable. everything you do is condemnable.”

you would all make the SS proud.

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allready doing that. its a fun hobby, more people should go for it!

Anyone got any tips for local organizing? ive stared a local libertarian socialist group (its for all intense and purposes anarchist but the posters say libertarian socialist to scare people less. Potato potato.) and its been going pretty well so far! People are interested, and we've done some things. But, though I have some experience, I could allways learn more!

Any advice?

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its just gross. beautiful artwork, op

Shana Tova!!! May your enemies, haters, and those who wish evil upon you be cut off. The blessing for the leek has always felt resonant but this year it's been on my mind a lot. For me at least, 5785 is a year of practicing healthy boundaries and taking care of myself - even if I have to run on spite. I hope everyone has a safe Rosh Hashanah ❤️