Thursday open thread: Well, bye?
So, I was going to write something very different for today. And it's something I will write about for next week. But as I arrived home and checked Bluesky, I saw that the above person added me to a "transphobes" list. Probably because in the past I have expressed the opinion I did above, unable to fathom why anyone LGBTQ+ would take up the cause of a movement which sees them not only as subhuman, but as animals fit only for slaughter. When I was on that benighted social media site, Counter Social, a trans woman with whom I had been friendly went absolutely apeshit the day after the Hamas pogrom when Israel retaliated. Her antisemitic filth led me to block her, and soon she was gone, either of her own accord or shitcanned.
Now, there's this great little app called ClearSky, where if you type in a person's username, you can see who they are, even if they've blocked you. The person above has her account set so that you have to be logged in to see her posts. Poo. But I went looking for other block lists to which she subscribed, and boy howdy, it's been comedy gold.
Here's one:
Why yes, she's a tankie! How dare we say bad things about Russians?! How dare anyone choose the Middle East's only democracy over a medieval death cult?! The shame!!
And then there's this one:
OK, that's hard to read, so here's what it says:
BAD LIST MAKERS: People who put me, a militantly anti-racist transsexual woman who is a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of the United States and who has no romantic or sexual attraction to kids on to list that claim I'm one of the following: Nazi, pedo, fascist, right-wing, MAGA, transphobic, anti-semitic etc.
Again, I'm not mad that Beanzie put me on her little list. I mean, how can you be mad at a child for doing childish things? But am I going to have a little bit of fun? Yes, I am.
Leftists like the ones above have never evolved beyond a childish understanding of the world. Existence is Manichaean, divided between light and dark, and they've convinced themselves that they're on the side of light, and 99% of the world is in darkness. And it is their job to lead humanity to the light. If it involves mass slaughter, like eradicating all of Israel and all the Jews who live in it? Then so be it.
They have a fantastical conception of their heroes like Hamas. "No one is free until everyone is free!" Except if somehow Hamas were to take over the West, they would all be put to the sword. They, like their MAGA siblings—and yes, the horseshoe is real—worship and adulate the worst possible people in the name of "freedom". What was the last time Hamas subjected itself to a vote? Or the Palestinian Authority? Or Russia? It doesn't matter! In their conception, these are "freedom fighters", seeking to resist the West, so nothing about what they do can be gainsaid. They are so blinkered that they casually elide the fact that they support people who would put them in a gulag.
Of course, these people on the left are not to be taken seriously. Unlike their MAGA brethren and sistren, they have absolutely no power or influence. And they know it, which is why they think making little lists like these is a strike against Empire. I will get a little chuckle out of this episode. And, I got a blog post out of it.
This is your open thread.