LAST #PrideMonth thought

the billionaire mafia want a #famine in places like #Texas, to sell #slavery as the only solution; when just issuing more farming visas is the rational one:
https://www.reuters.com/business/immigration-raids-leave-crops-unharvested-california-farms-risk-2025-06-30/

thank Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for selling out #immigration reform for the gay billionaires’ marriage wishlist. guys like Tim Apple didn’t want #CIR even for migrant gay spouses, so they paid for the #SCOTUS decision.

that’s #kyriarchy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy

"When we talk of “white men” we are describing an institution."
- Sara Ahmed, White Men

If you haven't read Sara Ahmed, you're missing out.

Her essay "White Men" goes a long way to making sense of how institutions work, and how their behaviours diverge from their stated mandates.

I read this essay 8 1/2 years ago and I have never stopped thinking about it.

https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/11/04/white-men/

MAGAzuelans have become the perfect victims of not just #kyriarchy, but the typical racist and classist triangulation of latinamericanos by the USA political aristocracy.

this 2021 article fails to explains one important detail:

Magazuelans: How Venezuelan Americans Embraced Trump as Their Savior | NACLA -
https://nacla.org/venezuelan-american-trump-voters

Chávez wasn’t a fascist seeking to protect the old-colonial money interests. that’s why he can be easily vilified as a DICTADOR and not called a CAUDILLO…

#DemocraticParty fascistlites are playing a dangerous game of chicken; thinking they can let Trump burn down the country for the next year, and then swoop in as saviours after the 2026 midterm elections.

and their strategy is to triangulate #kyriarchy to muscle out the progressive youth of the party.

fuckers have a smear campaign against David Hogg, who famously won a #DNC vice-chairship and declared his mission to primary mediocre incumbents in “safe” seats:

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2025/native-american-woman-gets-a-chance-to-topple-hogg-at-dnc

The patriarchal culture really does not care if men are unhappy.

bell hooks, The Will to Change

"Social psychology has found that:

The more you reward people for doing something...

the more they lose interest in whatever they had to do, to get the reward."

(Which makes a bit of a mockery, I feel, of both our education and employment systems.)

_________

Quote from Alfie Kohn's book, 'The Schools Our Children Deserve'

New instance, new #introduction. Edit: I have supplemented this introduction with replies to this post.

I see this instance has a *nice* *long* character limit for posts.

I have a Ph.D. in Human Science (2016, Saybrook University), which is about the experience of being human in social contexts. It is the mother of the social sciences but is now, at least in the English speaking world, and at least as far as I can tell, a dead field.

I studied #conservatism for my #dissertation. And yes, the #Democrats are far too #conservative for me.

Once upon a time, a very, very long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a computer programmer. It was the wrong career choice.

I am a #vegan #LibertarianSocialist (recovering #anarchist) mostly from the #SanFrancisco #BayArea in #California, presently residing in #Pittsburgh, #Pennsylvania, hoping to move to #erie

In #kyriarchy, I mostly focus on #classism and #ageism, but since arriving in Pittsburgh, have been confronted with blatant #racism (and yes, many white people here do see it). But #SocialJustice has to be for everybody; to focus on any one identity, to the exclusion of others, is nothing more than to elevate that identity over that of the predominantly wealthy white males who are now in charge.

I oppose all #imperialism and #SettlerColonialism, not just U.S. and NATO imperialism and settler-colonialism. Having lived on the underbelly of #capitalism most of my life, I am #anticapitalist and ferociously opposed to #neoliberalism. I oppose physical and structural violence.

Human beings have #HumanRights. These rights are not constrained by their governments' failures to ratify certain human rights treaties.

#Borders exist to mark off territory controlled by elites whose competition accounts for most if not all wars and to deny human beings on the "wrong" side of an arbitrary line rights and privileges available on the "right" side. This cannot be justified ethically. I am hostile to #xenophobia

Finally, I am pessimistic about the future of humanity. #COVID19 and the #ClimateCrisis demonstrate our unfitness for survival.

@adamgreenfield you're welcome

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110754817029065186

#kyriarchy
#Barbie
#Barbenheimer

The #kyriarchy (racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) is the default. In Twitter, in Mastodon, in the U.S., in Europe, in Asia, in me, and in you. It's what we do effortlessly because we've been raised to do it. But with effort, we can reduce the harm we cause and protect the people who would otherwise be oppressed.

So we have to make an effort. Raise up oppressed voices. Don't *splain to them. #TipYourServer and help moderate it. Learn to do better.

#introduction

Generativist—#anarchism-adjacent #criptheory—#lumpentheory of #RentierSociety & #tensegrity fetters of #classposture #kyriarchy, with interest turning increasingly to societal #grief and collective acts of #mourning.

#cripplepunk meets #solarpunk

#abolitionist by way of #STS, #NVC, Pirsig.

#neologism by way of #neurodivergence.

Team #emdash.

Old school #programmer from before dotcom bubble, lately busy with weekly refresh of #ThisIsOurPolio #dataviz.

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