bringing up Spain is such a funny choice. I just recently finished reading Matt Christman’s ¡No Pasaran! and one of the things he repeatedly points out is that the sectarianism from the anarchist factions against the communists, while facing down the full force of the fascists backed fully by Germany and Italy, absolutely cost them the war. There is zero reason to fight someone on your side when the guys shouting “I’m gonna fuckin kill you” are bashing down your gates to fucking kill you.
It was great! I went with a few friends and it was first time I’d been swimming around other people since I started HRT so that was nice to rock a swimsuit in public.
Hell yeah! That’s still a goal I need to achieve. Bottom dysphoria is the main issue for me in that regard, and a discouraging thing when I think about swimsuits. I overcame my aversion to shopping for bras, now I need to overcome my aversion to swimsuit shopping.
The biggest hurdle for me it was mostly wanting to deal with all my body hair, getting a course of full body laser has felt life changing when it comes to being out in public.
Copays suck, you go through the trouble of getting insurance to cover and then you still have to pay.
I found a esthetician/electrology school near me that does an hour of work for $20, which was a decent price point for me so I’ve been doing that all out of pocket so far.
I can only imagine how great that must have felt. As a kid I didn’t like the beach at all, I found the sand annoying () and it felt like a body show, which felt awkward and made me feel worse over how pale and skinny I am. And that’s without any gender anxiety.
But in recent years I have nurtured a wish that my life and self-esteem improves to the point that I can have an experience like this too. It’s become a kind of final proof of how much I would have grown as a person.
This is the first time I’ve seen people push back on the Spain thing, because our friend there is right that the way db0 characterizes it as some “stabbed in the back” story is truly ridiculous. Like, there are no shortage of stories around the world of much more credible transgressions by communists against anarchists, and the communications building in Spain is not one of them.
It’s interesting because I’ve never seen someone push back on it, so I’ve always assumed it was just one of past communism’s L’s that future commies will just have to learn and do better from, like the USSR migrating populations around or not producing small commodities.
Yeah, I’ve even seen some apologists identify the conflict as starting with the capture of a communications building but with no context as to why it was being captured, as though it was some sort of Spanish anarchist “shot heard round the world,” when it really was just that the anarchists were sabotaging Republican communications in the midst of the war against Franco, so the Republicans took the building over with the help of the communists. You get all sorts of people (revealingly, Trotsky included) waxing poetic about how unforgivable it is for the communists to be working with the Republicans instead of trying to immediately overthrow them while fascists were at the gates, but people still tend to not mention the sabotage by the anarchists. To be fair, the first time that I did see it, it was from an anarchist who defended it, so credit to them for being transparent and at least minimally informed, even if their priorities are terrible.
Edit: I should further clarify that I am sure many anarchists today disagree with the decision to sabotage the Republicans, even though I’ve never personally seen one say so. I think most of them would either change their mind if they knew more about it or would at least drop it as a talking point because they understand how bad it looks (though for someone like db, it might be more of a “can’t use it here because the crowd got wise but still uses it elsewhere” kind of thing) (but most people aren’t db).
I never really thought about it, but there is an awful lot of “Judeo-Bolshevism lite” going on with these anarcho-libs, they blame “tankies” for every bad thing ever and treat tankies like a perpetual “man behind the curtain” destroying everything good in society.
Probably explains why a lot of the people who never grow out of this phase and into actual anarchists or communists end up going full fash themselves.
Here’s the original thread: TRUE COMMUNISM
it was clearly bait, but people responded in earnest
how it started:
two minutes later:
Example of something that isn’t ablism:
“I don’t want to be seen as conceding the point”
bringing up Spain is such a funny choice. I just recently finished reading Matt Christman’s ¡No Pasaran! and one of the things he repeatedly points out is that the sectarianism from the anarchist factions against the communists, while facing down the full force of the fascists backed fully by Germany and Italy, absolutely cost them the war. There is zero reason to fight someone on your side when the guys shouting “I’m gonna fuckin kill you” are bashing down your gates to fucking kill you.
Sectarian anarchists
sectarian Trots
Always fighting potential allies
Ah, silly boring bullshit then. Glad I missed it.
It was extremely silly, I went and had a nice day at the beach after I stopped checking that thread
I fucking love the beach. Hope it was nice.
It was great! I went with a few friends and it was first time I’d been swimming around other people since I started HRT so that was nice to rock a swimsuit in public.
Hell yeah! That’s still a goal I need to achieve. Bottom dysphoria is the main issue for me in that regard, and a discouraging thing when I think about swimsuits. I overcame my aversion to shopping for bras, now I need to overcome my aversion to swimsuit shopping.
The biggest hurdle for me it was mostly wanting to deal with all my body hair, getting a course of full body laser has felt life changing when it comes to being out in public.
Yeah, I need to resume electrolysis at some point, but I’m stressed enough about money as is without worrying about biweekly electrolysis copays.
Copays suck, you go through the trouble of getting insurance to cover and then you still have to pay.
I found a esthetician/electrology school near me that does an hour of work for $20, which was a decent price point for me so I’ve been doing that all out of pocket so far.
Get a big thick wetsuit so the bottom is like barbie and ken dolls with hairless neoprene skin
I can only imagine how great that must have felt. As a kid I didn’t like the beach at all, I found the sand annoying (
) and it felt like a body show, which felt awkward and made me feel worse over how pale and skinny I am. And that’s without any gender anxiety.
But in recent years I have nurtured a wish that my life and self-esteem improves to the point that I can have an experience like this too. It’s become a kind of final proof of how much I would have grown as a person.
This is the first time I’ve seen people push back on the Spain thing, because our friend there is right that the way db0 characterizes it as some “stabbed in the back” story is truly ridiculous. Like, there are no shortage of stories around the world of much more credible transgressions by communists against anarchists, and the communications building in Spain is not one of them.
It’s interesting because I’ve never seen someone push back on it, so I’ve always assumed it was just one of past communism’s L’s that future commies will just have to learn and do better from, like the USSR migrating populations around or not producing small commodities.
I didn’t know the story was different.
Yeah, I’ve even seen some apologists identify the conflict as starting with the capture of a communications building but with no context as to why it was being captured, as though it was some sort of Spanish anarchist “shot heard round the world,” when it really was just that the anarchists were sabotaging Republican communications in the midst of the war against Franco, so the Republicans took the building over with the help of the communists. You get all sorts of people (revealingly, Trotsky included) waxing poetic about how unforgivable it is for the communists to be working with the Republicans instead of trying to immediately overthrow them while fascists were at the gates, but people still tend to not mention the sabotage by the anarchists. To be fair, the first time that I did see it, it was from an anarchist who defended it, so credit to them for being transparent and at least minimally informed, even if their priorities are terrible.
Edit: I should further clarify that I am sure many anarchists today disagree with the decision to sabotage the Republicans, even though I’ve never personally seen one say so. I think most of them would either change their mind if they knew more about it or would at least drop it as a talking point because they understand how bad it looks (though for someone like db, it might be more of a “can’t use it here because the crowd got wise but still uses it elsewhere” kind of thing) (but most people aren’t db).
I never really thought about it, but there is an awful lot of “Judeo-Bolshevism lite” going on with these anarcho-libs, they blame “tankies” for every bad thing ever and treat tankies like a perpetual “man behind the curtain” destroying everything good in society.
Probably explains why a lot of the people who never grow out of this phase and into actual anarchists or communists end up going full fash themselves.
Hell yeah. I made the screenshot.