Deeply satanic country

But I have since changed my mind after I saw for myself gender abolitionists who are ultimately transphobic, and they didn’t come to this conclusion by accident. Can we say that they are only using gender abolition to confirm their transphobic views?

I imagine these people are the same or close to those who say “they don’t see color”.

That’s why I don’t think it necessarily follows that gender itself is a product of oppression, which also puts into question whether it should be or will be abolished/wither away (not exactly the same thing for some abolitionists, but not all). The premise of the essay is that gender can exist without an oppressive structure. It also means it doesn’t automatically follow that abolishing gender (in any way) will also destroy the oppressive structure built around it and the answer must be found somewhere else for proper praxis.

In reference to my previous comment, by gender “withering away” in a communist state, I don’t mean gender will not exist, just as race won’t disappear. I mean the distinction between class won’t be really relevant anymore. A communist state will likely be in the distant future, a society we can only predict under science fiction. I imagine technology, social relations, cultural and social norms will evolve to a point we may not be able to perceive very well today. I imagine that we may have the ability to change our DNA, or maybe go through transhumanism and become cyborgs/machines, etc. The concept of gender may not be as relevant because people will be able to easily change to whatever they are comfortable with using future technology, and there will be cultural acceptance of everyone. There won’t be a denial of trans/gender-fluid/non-conforming people, but it may be ubiquitous that the distinction and class differences/exploitation between people won’t exist as it does today. Before then and when we are still developing in the early stages of socialism, we won’t be “abolishing” or “withering away” gender, nor will gender completely not exist.

As for now, I agree that so-called “gender abolition” is irrelevant and out of scope at this time.

I had a similar thought that you put into words better than I would have done. I have seen “gender abolition” in a Marxist sense as the result of achieving a classless society where class (in any form, including gender) no longer exists and class exploitation is eliminated.

Yeah it’s logarithmic because nobody should need over $2 million. You are stealing exponentially at billions of dollars.

I’m surprised China is still only 2nd in computing power, trailing behind bumfuck US. How is the US still first on this metric, and how much longer?

I’ve been wanting an Ushanka. I already have a silver Lenin bust.

Sometimes I will switch my feed on newest first so I can find more content before it gets buried amongst the popular threads. Regarding communities, I honestly feel Lemmygrad has a great variety communities, which is necessary to be able to post to relevant communities. I often have issues making posts in the right hexbear community because my topic doesn’t really fit into the small list of communities. For example, the Funny community here is great because it covers a wide range of humorous content, but hexbear…memes, videos (though that community is better for sharing more interesting content or showing videos of one’s interest), maybe news if news related, I don’t even know what chapotraphouse is for and it gets treated like a niche community, not sure if chat is really equivalent to our comradeship/freechat community which helps covering any other niche posts.

The only issue with many communities in small instances is that the moderators for those communities often are not active anymore, but the community is still useful. I would like to create a community, but I really don’t have the time or capacity to handle moderation. That’s why I think a lemmy like social media where tags are used and a more centralized but larger group of moderators could encourage more equally distributed activity across different niche content.

Local on lemmygrad and hexbear

Subscribed on lemmy.ml because many communities, instances, and users are filled with toxicity and liberal/fascist brainrot

I rarely use lemmy.ml anyway

Small, wholesome, humble communities FTW

Lemmygrad and hexbear feel like geniune forums with great camaraderie. I’ve longed for an online community that wasn’t filled with toxic morons. Most social media is repugnant for me, and I missed forums from back in the day. I’m grateful that lemmygrad and hexbear have brought wholesome forums back on the menu.

It would be nice if smaller communities were able to get more attention. I wonder if making a lemmy-like federated social networking site that uses tags instead of communities to allow people to give multiple categories to posts without spamming small instances would help other content get more attention. Moderation would likely have to be more centralized, though.

I had a feeling there was a story of Nazis doing this. Thank you for the source.

Shortest socialist answer

I want to get rid of ProtonMail eventually because they may be a honeypot.

1. Protonmail Behaves like a CIA/NSA “Honeypot”

Protonmail has an Onion domain that allows users to visit their site using the TOR browser. Protonmail even has an SSL cert for that onion address even though it’s completely unnecessary. When a user makes a new account with Protonmail on TOR they are re-directed from Protonmail’s “.onion” to “.com” address. This breaks your secure encrypted connection to their onion address, enabling your identification. There are absolutely no technical reasons for this feature. In fact, the only other websites that operate like this are suspected NSA/CIA Honeypots.

This is a huge security issue that was either created because Protonmail is managed by Particle physicists who do not understand computer security OR they have been forced to operate their website in a similar way as CIA/NSA honeypots. Both possibilities are serious concerns.

https://encryp.ch/blog/disturbing-facts-about-protonmail/

I’m planning to self-host my own email service, but that comes with its own problems, including major email services banning most IPs that are not other mainstream email providers for the sake of “spam protection”.

https://vadosware.io/post/its-never-been-easier-or-harder-to-self-host-email/

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

To hopefully counter this and to have a separate email for payments required to be able to host my own email service, I have an email on macaw.me and monocles.de (about monocles).

Sole downvoter just mass downvoted OP on her post about being burnt out. In fact, looking at her history, she seems to have a “friend” always giving her some dedicated appreciation by hitting the wrong arrow on most of her comments and posts, lol. I take that as a way to feel massive vindication for being able to attract someone for so long. I’m kinda jelly; OP is apparently pretty based.