CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]

Tlaib is the only member of the so-called far-left “Squad” that has not endorsed Harris. The other three members — U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley from Massachusetts, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — endorsed Harris in July after Biden announced he was dropping out of the race.

I missed that Ilhan had endorsed Kdolf Hitler, very disappointing.

Would you support him banning AmeriKKKan and Isn’treali developers too, given that their countries’ war crimes are far grander in scale, horror, and devastation than Russia’s?

Nah she could still get my vote. It’s just that the longer the genocide goes on the higher the price rises. At the start, she could have earned my vote by denouncing Biden and the genocide and demanding an arms embargo to the genocidal ethnostate, then consistently held that position, resigned from the VP position in protest, attempted a citizen’s arrest or Genocide Joe, anything. Instead she’s steadfastly supported genocide. Now at this point, to earn my vote, she’ll have to do all that AND sign legally binding documents promising to invade Israel on day 1 of her presidency to overthrow the genocidal apartheid regime and turn it over to a coalition of all Palestinian resistance groups

Your fear is correct, I’ve seen liberal Nazis salivating about it on reddit. They really hate Muslims.

Nothing to be done about that though. They were going yo turn on Muslims anyway. There can never be safety in collaborating with Nazis

If only. I’d rather they sit around and do nothing than imprison, torture, and murder refugees at the border

Hey quick question what are you doing minimizing genocide with “owl” in your name?! 'Round these here parts “owl” signifies someone of exceptional integrity and basedness, which you clearly lack.

What did Audacity do?

Love to see it. Even my mom, who used to call herself a “proud democrat” since getting citizenship here, won’t be voting this election.

7% too many, but inshallah the Democrats lose for embracing genocide.

Obviously not. Voting for Genocide Joe is scabbing for genocide.

Typical capitalist rag trying to trick us into thinking we won so we stop demanding better treatment while giving them what they want.

“Hybrid” isn’t really a win for workers. One of the biggest advantages of remote work right now is that it significantly decreases the risk of getting Covid and Long Covid. Work is a big transmission vector, especially now that liberals have killed mask mandates. Having to go on site 3 days a week means taking on a risk of bringing home a deadly or debilitating disease 3 days a week. This is how a coworker got multiple family members hospitalized with Covid over Christmas break this past winter.

For the most part if a job can be done hybrid, it can and should be done fully remote. Even if there’s a bit more friction or more logistics to work out to make the job remote, it should be remote, because people’s lives matter more than anything those companies can possibly get out of burning us up.

America is not a democracy

Oh awesome! Yeah more options is handy.

Is there a problem with VeraCrypt?

new atheists seem about as racists as any other random grouping of westerners

Maybe it’s just that discussing religion lets the racism show more clearly anytime Islam is brought up. Perhaps “founded on” wasn’t the right word, but the racism is inextricable from those spaces because they’re so white and refuse to be antiracist.

Now? Ok whatever, maybe it’s changed.

12 years ago when I was on there? The racism was recurrent. It wasn’t everywhere, but it was frequent enough and offputting enough to poison the space, and like I said, it’s not a surprise how many prominent New Atheists ended up being reactionary shits. Christopher Hitchens supported the destruction of Iraq, Sam Harris is vile, Richard Dawkins is an asshole, and the people who venerate them without acknowledging (or perhaps because of) their reactionary bents are sus as hell.

Or maybe you’re not as good at noticing it because you haven’t been forced to become hypervigilant about it. Are you Muslim or from a Muslim family?

What made me leave was a purely emotional shattering of my ability to have faith. It wasn’t intellectual. It was the agony of having my family broken by the white supremacist racism of AmeriKKKa post-9/11. I’m sure we’d have been hit hard living in my parents’ home country, but living instead in the imperial core was rough. I don’t want to go into details too much because it’s really upsetting, but my siblings’ lives are ruined, my parents’ lives are ruined, I got out but with major scars and PTSD. We keep living and suffering and I think we woupd be better off dead – better to have died on 9/12/2001 than to endure what came next, and then live with the permanent damage that came from it. And where was Allah for any of that? He didn’t protect us. We were just little kids being tortured by an evil, racist system, and he didn’t help us. I hoped for years that our lives would improve but they just got worse and worse, because trauma compounds and compounds. My ability to believe in a benevolent omnipotent god broke by seeing how he abandoned my family, then by noticing how much other and frankly far worse horrors were occurring globally. What my family went through is nothing compared to the torments that are visited upon the innocent people of Iraq and Palestine. And Allah did nothing to protect anyone. If I had the power of God I would fix things immediately, here on Earth in the present, defend the vulnerable and execute their oppressors. God does not do that. The promise of an accounting in the afterlife is empty – too little too late, we’ll be racked by PTSD which can make a Hell of any Heaven.

It’s the old Problem of Evil – cliche, but true. He cannot exist, belief in him is just cope.

I grew to hate him and turned to Satan, then realized the entire framework of Gods and Devils is just a fantasy to help people cope with how horrible the world is, and that is when I went hard into New Atheism before getting turned away by how racist it was too. Now I just don’t believe in any religion. I want to, but my capacity for faith has been brutally broken. I wish I could believe, because my faith brought me comfort and the hope that Allah would see fit to make things right kept me from killing myself. But it was all a lie and now I’m so allergic to false hope that I’m peobably overly pessimistic and apocalyptic. Both my parents and one of my siblings remained religious and their faith hasnt helped anything. So I see I was right.

I didn’t make my way back to the theological part of it, but as I’ve developed as a leftist I’ve noticed how much my old religion set me up to become a Communist. From Islam I learned to fight oppressors, to stay true to what is right no matter how outnumbered, to care for the vulnerable, to pursue liberation for everyone regardless of ethnic or religious affiliation, to never bow down to oppressors even under threat of death. Maybe I’m ethnically Muslim? A secular atheist Commhnist Muslim? I don’t know what label fits. I just call myself an atheist and a Communist. But I’ve used religious language to pull a Catholic friend further left

Reddit Atheism is built on Islamophobia and racism. I get having a fondness for it, I found /r/atheism helpful at first when I left Islam. But there was so much racism and support for imperialist wars of aggression in the middle east that I quickly got turned off that sub. It was toxic and the toxicity came from racist white people who couldn’t see how their racism was leaking through.

It’s disappointing that New Atheists end up swinging right now, but it isn’t that surprising having seen this.

Yes. Ultimately both parties serve Capital and Capital alone, and Capital decided that killing and disabling workers was more profitable than protecting us. It was going to happen either way. I hate them so much

As for what Biden is running on, he is running on Fascism-with-better-optics-than-trump. Biden’s domestic policy is to inflict death, disability and poverty on people. Biden’s foreign policy is genocide. Biden’s immigration policy is to let migrant children starve to death in detention centers. He does it all without eliciting as strong a popular response. These are things his rich, racist, white supremacist base loves.