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You're ok with abortion?

Only when it’s completely necessary, like when a woman is pregnant and doesn’t want to be anymore. 

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The worst thing about formal English is that it offers these wonderful suffixes, then only lets you use them in prescribed circumstances. I should be able to describe things as meatful or leftly or falsewise without departing from the formal register if I darn well please.

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guy who eats different Kellogg cereals each week and documents how much he masturbates in an excel spreadsheet

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VETTED CAMPAIGNS LOW ON FUNDS

all of these campaigns have been vetted by mohammed ayesh, who helps run @gaza-evacuation-funds. all of these campaigns are in dire need of our support; please consider donating to even one of them!

mohammed zaatar was severely injured by shrapnel last year, and is now displaced with his family and in need of our help to afford basic necessities. €458 / €30,000 GOFUNDME HERE * mohammed mabruk is in europe, separated from his family who are trapped in gaza and unable to reach them. he is trying to raise the funds necessary to evacuate them, but in the meantime your donation will allow them to buy daily necessities. €350 / €35,000 GOFUNDME HERE * reema and her husband ragheb and five year old son taim have been displaced more than six times and are struggling to provide themselves with their daily needs. your donation will help them as winter approaches, please consider contributing. €2,071 / €50,000 GOFUNDME HERE * eman has helped mohammed ayesh, who helps run gaza-evacuation-funds, by translating many posts into english for our benefit. she does this despite being displaced and living in unimaginably difficult conditions. please consider helping her and her family, as she does so much to help others. $6,700 CAD / $50,000 CAD GOFUNDME HERE * imad is raising funds for his family, who are displaced in gaza and living in woefully inadequate shelter. your donation will help them afford food, water, medicine and winter clothes and shelter. €1,319 / €30,000 GOFUNDME HERE * qusai atef and his family have been displaced from their home in northern gaza, and are now completely lacking in basic necessities. they need to purchase winter clothes and other supplies. please consider helping them. NO DONATIONS YET! GOFUNDME HERE * rania is a talented artist and a geographic information systems graduate. she is raising funds to support her and her family. because they are in northern gaza, they are in particular need of your donations to afford food and water, as we know supplies have been cut off for a long time, and people are facing starvation. please consider donating to rania's paypal, as this will allow her to access the funds she and her family needs more easily. €3,508 / €60,000 PAYPAL HERE GOFUNDME HERE please, please consider donating to at least one of these campaigns! it is important that we get momentum going, so please share and reblog. i hope we can all work together to help these families as much as we can!

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genuine question, cause i think i didn't get the tone of your post about this: do you oppose UIB? i completely understand as a measure it's just a reform that does not change the ownership of the means of production etc etc etc, and if you're seeing people praising it like it would (i haven't seen that as of now) i get the annoyance, but i also think it would make *a lot* of people's lives materially better, particularly disabled people who aren't "disabled enough" to be on benefits as per the state's evaluations. so yes it's just a reform and definitely would not solve the vast majority of issues within capitalist production, but in an imaginary world where there was, idk, a referendum about it, i'd definitely be voting yes

So the point about the UBI post is not as simple as "it doesn't achieve the revolution immediately so it's worthless", it's more nuanced and essentially twofold

The post focuses on the fact that UBI is unfeasable regardless of the economic system, I explained this more on detail here. Capitalist welfare states more often than not force the dependents of said welfare measures to bend to specific demands in order to access said welfare benefits, more often than not leaving them in a state of struggling to survive, and if you argue that things like disability welfare is badly managed/insufficient, do you think something as demanding as universal basic income is going to be handled better? or that if there is no will to improve existing welfare systems, that it will be somehow more realistic to implement UBI?

Communist practice is not about asking for the best way to be exploited, it's about educating the working class in scientific class consciousness to emancipate them, by incising into demands such as UBI. Again, it's not really about being for or against measures like this, it's about leading or attempting to lead the proletariat beyond social demands, trying to show how the only real path is beyond any reform of capitalism. If the proletariat ask for better wages, communists should participate in those demands insofar as they benefit the proletarian class in their path to liberation, but never losing sight of what these reforms actually are, taking those demands to their logical prolongations to expose the limitations of reformism. More synthetically, the short-term goals that predominante the will of the working class do so because of the subjectivity of their class consciousness, and in the exercise of going alongside the proletariat in these demands, and trying to carry that thinking beyond the short and medium term, the objectivization or their consciousness is possible.

Apart from all of this reasoning, that post was vaguing a communist I follow who I saw uncritically and seriously explaining why UBI is perfect

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>hear frantic clicking and the sounds of exertion

>must be a rhythm game player

>genuinely impressed at the apm

>look outside

>crabs are pinching a man to death

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Inflation is so bad I bet $20 isn't even enough to turn a straight man gay anymore that's gotta be like at least $40 in today's economy

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I could be either oldest or third oldest depending on how you slice things, so I know this isn't always cut and dry. But what position are you and do you think it effects how you interact with people in general?

And, while you are here, please share and donate for Mahmoud and his family. He's been trying to raise money since August and still hasn't reached $10,000, dispite being on here night and day trying to get help for his family.

Vet (#190)

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Remember when someone got really mad at me because I said calling trans men bitches and fujoshis is misgendering.

“Bitch is gender neutral” yeah okay whatever helps you pretend to be a good person

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Posting “I think I broke my foot when I fell. I can’t walk.” And then 15min later a mutual sends you a DM saying “sorry I have to soft block you >_<, I don’t want to interact with people who self diagnose”

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Honestly if you haven’t had your birthday yet this year give it up it’s over

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recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

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gotham is filled with evil homosexuals so I think having a buff dude in high-tec latex underwear pinning them to the ground doesn't really help the crime situation actually

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the Shehab family has been fundraising here since May, and they just had to start over due to issues with the previous campaign organizer's bank — because the organizer was helping multiple families, the bank falsely accused them of money laundering and seized the funds!

here is the new campaign link, please circulate it widely:

their previous campaign was vetted here by el-shab-hussein, and by the Butterfly Effect Project (#764). you can check Fahed's blog @fahedshehab-new for the paper trail connecting their new campaign.

this campaign supports an extended family of 13 people, including 8 children between the ages of 5 months and 14 years, who are now suffering symptoms of malnutrition.

this family has been displaced 15 times and they currently live in a dilapidated tent, exposed to the cold and rain in addition to bombing, starvation, and disease. they need a new winter tent and warm clothes for the kids, as well as food, medicine, and other daily essentials.

please contribute anything you can spare. the Shehabs are counting on our support! they've only received $277 CAD so far, and their monthly cost of living is $5000 CAD, not including GFM processing and bank transfer fees (see the GFM page for a breakdown of all their expenses).

exchange rate: $5 USD = $7 CAD

tags for reach, thank you!

@tortiefrancis @starstrucksnowing @timetravellingkitty @flouryhedgehog @jinnazah

@mazzikah @irhabiya @watchnpray @stuckinapril @feluka

@soracities @bloglikeanegyptian @handweavers @trans-axolotl @plomegranate

@briarhips @dirhwangdaseul @mahoushojoe @rhubarbspring @schoolhater

@pcktknife @transmutationisms @sawasawako @anneemay @bedufairy

@libraryposting @geeseareassholes @wellwaterhysteria @deepspaceboytoy @edwordsmyth

@chilewithcarnage @psychotic-gerard @post-brahminism @bringmemyrocks @arslanjae

@determinate-negation @khanger @kibumkim @qattdraws @brutaliakhoa

@sharingresourcesforpalestine @neechees @mothblossoms @handsworthsongs @mangocheesecakes

@reduxskullduggerry @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness @kyra45-helping-others @log6 @7bitter

@toiletpotato @fromjannah @palms-upturned @omegaversereloaded @vague-humanoid

@capricornpropaganda @communist-ojou-sama @xinakwans @heritageposts @velvetys

@ot3 @amygdalae @ankle-beez @communistchilchuck @dykesbat

@watermotif @mavigator @fairuzfan @feluka @ethioirhab

@lacecap @littlestpersimmon @socalgal @ghelgheli @northgazaupdates2 @vakarians-babe

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my friend @mohammedhaboubsblog is back in school full time, while also working to support himself and his sister as refugees in Egypt, as well as their parents who still face genocide in Gaza.

Mohammed hoped to raise enough this month to evacuate his parents, but donations have been very slow, so he's adjusted the goal to $2000 by November 20th to cover his parents' rent in Gaza so they're not displaced to the streets again.

if you have anything to spare, please help keep Rania and Adli out of the cold. every $5 counts!

November 11th: $295 / $2000 (short term goal for rent)

tags for reach, thank you!

@tortiefrancis @starstrucksnowing @timetravellingkitty @flouryhedgehog @jinnazah

@mazzikah @irhabiya @watchnpray @stuckinapril @feluka

@soracities @bloglikeanegyptian @handweavers @trans-axolotl @plomegranate

@briarhips @dirhwangdaseul @mahoushojoe @rhubarbspring @schoolhater

@pcktknife @transmutationisms @sawasawako @anneemay @bedufairy

@libraryposting @geeseareassholes @wellwaterhysteria @deepspaceboytoy @edwordsmyth

@chilewithcarnage @psychotic-gerard @post-brahminism @bringmemyrocks @arslanjae

@determinate-negation @khanger @kibumkim @qattdraws @brutaliakhoa

@sharingresourcesforpalestine @neechees @mothblossoms @handsworthsongs @mangocheesecakes

@reduxskullduggerry @magnus-rhymes-with-swagness @kyra45-helping-others @log6 @7bitter

@toiletpotato @fromjannah @palms-upturned @omegaversereloaded @vague-humanoid

@capricornpropaganda @communist-ojou-sama @xinakwans @heritageposts @velvetys

@ot3 @amygdalae @ankle-beez @communistchilchuck @dykesbat

@watermotif @mavigator @fairuzfan @feluka @ethioirhab

@lacecap @littlestpersimmon @socalgal @ghelgheli @northgazaupdates2 @vakarians-babe

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Please do whatever you can to help Hilda

Hilda is 28 years old and struggling with the war in gaza while pregnant, her campaign is currently at €3,185 out of the €50K goal

She wrote this to share her situation:

"400 days of war and genocide. There is nothing in the markets, and if anything is found, it is extremely expensive. The weather is very cold, and the tents are worn out from the summer heat. The children scream from the intense cold and the darkness of the night. There is no electricity, the water is contaminated, no education, no healthcare, and no medicine. Pregnancy has exhausted me, and I wonder how my child will survive in these conditions if they arrive. There are not even vaccinations or clothes for children. Some of my relatives are covering their children with pieces of plastic to protect them from the cold due to the lack of any income sources. In addition, the sounds of bombing, gunfire, and drones mimic the sounds of wild animals and screaming to frighten people in their sleep. We don't know how long this suffering will last or if we will truly be able to endure it."

Donate here

Vetted here

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fuck your magic castle academy aristocratic bitch. im going to state-run magic polytechnic