The pandemics are what really get me right now. Long covid brain fog is basically early onset Alzheimer’s disease. My grandma died from that in 2007 after a long struggle and it was a horrible time for everyone involved. And for me, being trans and transitioning later, I especially can’t afford to get it. When you get Alzheimer’s the memories leave you in reverse order. That means that one of the first things I’d forget is my new name and my real gender, and the only things I’d be able to remember would be from the dissociative haze before my transition. That’s terrifying to me and I’d rather die quickly and painfully.

And the chances of this excruciating, slow undeath go up every time you catch Covid. And people are catching Covid again in less than a month in some cases. And once you catch it, it doesn’t leave your body. I’m immunocompromised already, maybe because of getting Covid at the start, maybe because of something else. How am I supposed to be able to live a good, long life like this? It’s impossible. And to top it off, we have a second pandemic ongoing (monkeypox) that most countries are taking almost no precautions against. And climate change will be constantly sending more things our way while everyone gets acquired immunodeficiency from Covid. It’s insanity to allow this virus to spread as it has and we insist on spreading it as much as possible. The only thing that gives me hope among all of this is that this pandemic will hasten the decline and fall of the American empire. May it go quietly and a socialist state grow quickly from its rotted corpse.

Meanwhile the US is preparing to cross the red line for Taiwan. It’s reasonable to prepare for war in such circumstances.

https://nitter.net/GonzaloLira1968/status/1544238104869048320

Ascendance of a Bookworm is pretty good imo.

It’s not Marxist or anything but it acknowledges that class exists in the world. The protagonist is disabled and has to get help from others. There are many horrible nobles who get their comeuppance in a limited way.

Neoliberals don’t have coherent politics in general.

“Left-wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder is exactly that, for example.

infiltrators are a fact of life for all communist orgs, that’s why democratic centralism and avoiding theoretical mistakes are so crucial. you can do a lot without doing anything illegal.

TSA - touch some ass

ATF - arm transfems

going on a date just to get free food under capitalism is wealth redistribution. a woman’s gotta eat and we make less money