Oh my g-d just let me fantasize about a universe where I don’t have to go to work in the morning and someone gives a fuck about my wellbeing and I don’t have to pay through the nose for gender affirming care in peace.
Why you gonna ask for all that, and then also add in an uncritical reproduction of the white settler benevolent slavery myth?
I kinda get it, because slavery is hot, but if you’re putting slavery in a story you’ve gotta examine it critically. You can’t have all of the fascist apologia and none of the left wing perspectives, otherwise you’re a fascist too. You gotta admit the affini are fascists and interrogate why you want to be a fascist’s property.
Are you sure? They definitely could be seen as an empire, but I don’t know about fascist. They economically speaking have communism in the compact. In fact they appropriate all the billionaires toys and redistribute as needed.
People I think are forgetting that slavery and fascism aren’t the same thing. Not even close. It’s also not the case that this is traditional slavery, they don’t take florets for economic reasons and most are volunteers.
and interrogate why you want to be a fascist’s property
Because under capitalism not having one’s needs met is viewed as moral failure, we have little agency but are told that we do, and trans people are generally reviled. Thus, fantasies about having ones needs met, being stripped of agency in such a way that it is clearly not a failing on our own part and being able to express and be viewed as an object of desire without shame are attractive. Bodice-ripper type beat.
Those goals are perfectly achievable by writing Culture fanfiction. You can write about a communist society where everyone is completely free and has all the agency they want, where trans people are completely normal and people who get to their 200th birthday without at least trying a sex change are seen as primitive.
The fact that some people want to achieve those things with slavery and imperialism is deeper than that. And the fact they don’t want to talk about why they want it that way is sus.
Or maybe multiple works/bodies of work can exist and demanding everything meet some standard of ideological purity is a boring way of engaging with the world. I read the original because of the memes, it was kinda comforting in some ways, a little off putting in others, overall a worthwhile use of the time spent. It’s not any deeper than that to me.
Well I’m a communist and I don’t have a submission kink. I believe in collective ownership of the means of production. We should have a classless, moneyless, stateless society with a gift economy, where goods are organised from each according to ability, to each according to need.
Because appropriating imperialism and slavery as a white person to make yourself the slave (excuse me, I meant “floret”) is despicable and just a revival of the benevolent slave owner myth
Oh my g-d just let me fantasize about a universe where I don’t have to go to work in the morning and someone gives a fuck about my wellbeing and I don’t have to pay through the nose for gender affirming care in peace.
Why you gonna ask for all that, and then also add in an uncritical reproduction of the white settler benevolent slavery myth?
I kinda get it, because slavery is hot, but if you’re putting slavery in a story you’ve gotta examine it critically. You can’t have all of the fascist apologia and none of the left wing perspectives, otherwise you’re a fascist too. You gotta admit the affini are fascists and interrogate why you want to be a fascist’s property.
Are you sure? They definitely could be seen as an empire, but I don’t know about fascist. They economically speaking have communism in the compact. In fact they appropriate all the billionaires toys and redistribute as needed.
People I think are forgetting that slavery and fascism aren’t the same thing. Not even close. It’s also not the case that this is traditional slavery, they don’t take florets for economic reasons and most are volunteers.
Because under capitalism not having one’s needs met is viewed as moral failure, we have little agency but are told that we do, and trans people are generally reviled. Thus, fantasies about having ones needs met, being stripped of agency in such a way that it is clearly not a failing on our own part and being able to express and be viewed as an object of desire without shame are attractive. Bodice-ripper type beat.
Those goals are perfectly achievable by writing Culture fanfiction. You can write about a communist society where everyone is completely free and has all the agency they want, where trans people are completely normal and people who get to their 200th birthday without at least trying a sex change are seen as primitive.
The fact that some people want to achieve those things with slavery and imperialism is deeper than that. And the fact they don’t want to talk about why they want it that way is sus.
Or maybe multiple works/bodies of work can exist and demanding everything meet some standard of ideological purity is a boring way of engaging with the world. I read the original because of the memes, it was kinda comforting in some ways, a little off putting in others, overall a worthwhile use of the time spent. It’s not any deeper than that to me.
Further evidence to support that communists are just fascists with a submission kink
Well I’m a communist and I don’t have a submission kink. I believe in collective ownership of the means of production. We should have a classless, moneyless, stateless society with a gift economy, where goods are organised from each according to ability, to each according to need.
Eh its a stereotype joke anyways lol
Because appropriating imperialism and slavery as a white person to make yourself the slave (excuse me, I meant “floret”) is despicable and just a revival of the benevolent slave owner myth
Wrong.