The real answer is measured in how your actions have affected the lives of the people you claim to be an ally of.
No, this isn’t always practical to measure, but if someone is saying “I’m an ally because I identify as an ally”, I’m certain they have done absolutely nothing to protect/advance the rights of LGBT+ people.
OK, that person is on their way to becoming an ally.
There is still no physical difference in the world brought on by thoughts that exist only in their head. Theory without practice.
Posting is not praxis. You have affected nobody’s lives or material conditions through posting.
I should have been more clear, I meant it’s irrelevant to whether one is an ally or not, because that is determined by practice.
Or they can just be boring and do “Huh, we have an array of telescopes, it’s very large.” OK, what do we call the small one?
We’ve increase the frequency for radio, lets call it High Frequency. We’ve increased it further, what do we call it? Even further. Surely it can’t get faster than this. God dammit. Fuck it, just use numbers.
It’s kinda crazy how supporting war isn’t seen as a betrayal of veterans.
If you’re not actually doing any allyship, in what sense are you an ally?
Theoretical allyship is irrelevant.
Become a communist, then you can call him a liberal.
What have you done?
.world communities do the same thing, just banning someone for “misinformation” looks much less suspicious than showing posts of me linking people the Wikipedia article on Tienanmen Square and describing what the article said and surrounding context instead of joining the china-bad circle-jerk.
Wait, you’re DroneRights?
Can you point at me where it says you were banned for “American propaganda”? I tried ctrl+f “propaganda” to see what you were saying that got you banned and nothing came up.
Nobody is going to disagree that a bourgeois democracy is a democracy, only that bourgeois democracies represent the people instead of bourgeoisie.
Modlogs are public, everyone can see why you were banned.
Also no ml would disagree with that, here’s Lenin explaining the difference between a capitalist democracy and a workers democracy.
States don’t have rights, humans have rights, and the existence of Israel as an apartheid settler colonial project is incompatible with the human rights of the groups they are oppressing.
progressive liberals outnumber Leninists and are far less likely to deliberately betray us.
Progressive liberals eventually realize the conflict between capitalism and progress and drop the liberalism. Then they either check out or they join whatever group is organizing in their area. Ideology is secondary to building power and actually improving people’s lives.
That’s why MLs always equate Liberalism with fascism; if people can ally with Liberals MLs have basically nothing they can bring to a coalition, and so they can’t seize power
I fixed it 4 hours ago on my end, but lemmy.ml is slow with updating other instances right now.
bandwagon
There’s no bandwagon, just the person correctly angry about being misgendered, and Drag’s alt.
It was an honest mistake, I mixed up drag and drag’s friend in the story.
It has been fixed now
I am realizing I mixed up Drag and Drag’s friend in the story.
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No, indirect action is a form of action, stopping a transphobe from being transphobic is a form of allyship, because presumably, you’ve saved a trans person from feeling unsafe around that person.