Initial-eclipse - You Force It To Yield

Pardon?

the liberal-idealist view of 'outing' that i often encounter is so deeply unserious -- the act of exposing someone's queerness, opening them up to (often state-sanctioned) social and physical violence, potentially severing their familial and communal ties, in many cases genuinely risking their lives, is conceptualized as an ontological sin because of some metaphysical and intangible violation, rather than being bad because it is an act of violence, and so you get liberals genuinely arguing that it constitutes 'outing' to tell trans women the person they're asking advice from is cis, or to wonder whether a dead person could have been anything other than cis, or to point out that some people are the targets of transmisogyny and some aren't. just a totally useless way to think of the concept, reducing it from language that describes a specific and targeted type of violence to an superstitious ingroup social taboo

one of the people on harris' campaign, DNC finance committee member and DNC content creator lindy li, was infamous for going on air in 2020 and saying she'd rather vote trump as president instead of bernie in an argument with a bernie surrogate. in an act of incredible foreshadowing, that interview was hosted by mehdi hasan and the bernie surrogate who said she'd vote for biden was linda sarsour, a palestinian-american

re: holodomor reblog i think the generic term 'genocide denial' is deeply pernicious because 'holocaust denial' is so heinous and an obvious declaration of genocidal intent precisely because the holocaust and its scale and intentionality is so well-documented at literally every possible level. the evidence is incontrovertible, and so the only possible way a denial of that can be interpreted is as a declaration that jewish suffering and death is fundamentally invalid, doesn't count, is even desirable. denying the holocaust is a statement of genocidal intent.

& so even if you do believe that e.g. the ukrainian famine or china's oppression of the uyghur people constitute a genocide, treating people (who often, you will find, agree on you on the majority of the established on-the-ground-facts) who don't think either of those things constitutes a 'genocide' as somehow equivalent to holocaust deniers is, like, tremendously and irresponsibly downplaying the magnitude of holocaust denial. & this is going to remain the case until people can come to understand genocide as a specific type of action rather than the extra special bad word for when a crime against humanity is Like, Really Bad This Time

i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

ITS TOO EARLY I MISREAD THIS AS "SELL HEROIN"

in a alien abduction documentary i was watching they noted that havana syndrome actually sounds just like an unexplained ailment experiencers have been reporting for decades. and i did not like that as it felt like an attempt to agree with the existence of havana syndrome. and also to say that cuba is using alien weapons on people. neither of which seems true to me