People who think War isn’t a Woman’s Business utterly confound me. Have you not met a woman? Have you not looked into the history of Feminism in the diversity of forms it has taken all over the world?

It is not for me to demand people go to war, rather my point is that the idea that Women aren’t fit for War is borderline delusional to me. Almost all of the hardest fighting, most practical, resilient human beings I have met in my life are women, I would be terrified to try to fight them on a battlefield and I am thankful most of them were good people.

The point really in the end though is nobody should have to go to war so russia should stop its illegal war and occupation of Ukraine.

In this absurd moment I am reminded of my favorite novel Ulysses and how Ezra Pound once declared the problem with publishing in english at the time was it wasn’t masculine enough… and then proceeded to be unable to find anyone but anarchist women who were brave and militant enough to publish James Joyce with their printing presses because they could not be beaten and intimidated out of doing so in the US like the men were. You point at these people and say “they are unfit for war!”. What are you crazy?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/women-behind-james-joyce-ulysses-180980398/

https://www.wttw.com/playlist/2026/02/12/margaret-anderson-biography-little-review-ulysses

https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/in-depth/peggys-friends/emma-goldman/

^ do you want to tell me Emma Goldman wasn’t a soldier…???

It makes me feel like when people insist it would take an astronomical amount of effort to move their community off of discord.

I know it will but you are worse than wasting your time putting that decision off because it will limit your community in ways you cannot even perceive yet.

Stop wasting everyone’s time, don’t build houses on top of destabilized sinking mud and expect people to move in, and if they do now you have a MUCH bigger problem on your hands than the challenge of building a new building since you have to convince people the old building which looks fine is not safe.

Exactly, the Hormuz Strait is already open… to people who aren’t beligerants like the US.

I would say that poor foundational choices are also the enemy of progress too.

HEY HEY that is different ok!

This is why I love hearing large businesses complain about all the fake low effort job applications they get with AI as if this wasn’t the inevitable end state of fakeness and inauthentic corporate language they have been pushing for decades.

Inkscape!

It isn’t really Open Source if it can become not Open Source.

RIP

Part of the reason you organize is so you don’t become complicit in authoritarian violence enacted by your workplace and find out only too late you are powerless to stop it alone without a union.

I think most people agree but when we slip into trashing social media as a concept and lose the nuance I get concerned.

Social media is a terrible for us. Me included. It’s addictive - that’s why I’m here.

If that is how you feel I encourage you to start from a position of curiosity about what draws you here beyond a simple thought terminating comparison to an addictive physical substance or our sex drive.

It’s the combination of an individualized engagement algorithm and user-generated content that defines modern social media.

This is precisely what is supercharging this moral panic, people don’t automatically think critically about this and will bandwagon on social media = bad because it feels righteous and is easy unless WE force a more nuanced conversation.

You are bad at arguments.

No, when you just say social media = bad you feed into the moral panic with your intellectual laziness.

Try harder with formulating your arguments please.

:)

Ok so sounds like the problem isn’t actually social media then?

Rather it is a question of the choices we make about the architecture and design of social media.

Why are you here then?

I hope Australian kids annoy adults enough that this moral panic about social media dies from adults just giving up because kids resort to even more annoying behavior, that would be poetic justice.

People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world.

Weird cus that is exactly how centrists sound to everybody else lol

They have managed to make being rational and level-headed a curse word. "

No, it is conservatives that despise rationality and level-headedness and it is precisely centrists that sat by and let this mode of thinking proliferate even as leftists were sounding the alarm.

Centrists were busy wringing their hands in nervousness about all the things conservatives told them about leftists and barely noticed when January 6th happened. This pattern can be demonstrated ad naseum across modern neoliberal societies.

You are mistaking a worship of the status quo with a sense of reasonableness and a desire for justice and equality.