Soulism has been the target of a lot of satire and people who don’t understand it pretending they do. Gravity is a law that nobody consented to, but it’s not high on the soulist agenda. Natural laws we’d rather dismantle include old age, infant mortality, capitalist realism, and what transphobes call “basic biology”. Note that the latter two are very clearly myths, but reactionaries claim they are natural laws. Soulists don’t believe in reality, so we don’t need to draw a semantic distinction between fake natural laws and real ones. We think reality itself is fake.

Except that the word community and the word community both have important uses within the context of Lemmy, so context doesn’t help us.

I don’t like overloading words that much. Too vague.

Think Marxism is scientifically flawed? Think anarchism lacks vision? Think infighting is too much? Then it sounds like you’d agree with soulists.

Soulists follow a scientific paradigm that centers psychology and solves psychological problems of human nature in tandem with what Marx called material problems. We view capitalism and the state as social constructs, building upon intersectional feminist theory and addressing them as problems of propaganda and informational warfare.

We don’t need to have a revolution to start doing praxis. Overthrowing Capital and the state is one of our big goals, but there’s tons we can do to build our society before then, and we’re already doing it. We know exactly what our end goal looks like, because we’ve already done it on a small scale. All we need is to amplify our warfare.

While we have plenty of issues with reactionaries infiltrating the community, our position in these struggles is always to side with the marginalised. Queer, BIPOC, disabled, neurodiverse, etc. If someone has a different perspective than us but still stands with the oppressed, then we stand with them. That’s because we don’t believe in a single reality, so there’s plenty of room for differing views to coexist. It’s common for us to believe in all the gods, of every religion, just to be tolerant of everyone. Of course, we leave behind any exclusionary parts of all religions.

Most of us generally agree with this manifesto explaining soulism: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/a-soulist-manifesto-4d0456dcb75a

The utopia of Star Trek was only able to happen because they had a WWIII and the communists won

And CO2

I never forgot that I had Warframe but I just got back into it after 7 years of not playing and it’s still great.

Israel and Hamas are on the same side. That side is war. They’re both the bad guys. The good guys are the civilians.

You forgot about the third side of the conflict again. The innocent civlians Israel (and Hamas) are killing are the good guys. The two theocratic pro-genocide states are exactly the same and both on the same side. That side is war and death.

If we do that, they’ll still kill unaligned civilians

The problem is very simple. Israel and their neoliberal allies want you to think the only sides are Israel and Hamas. But you and I support the third side, the civilians. You simply have to redefine the argument. You tell them, “I am against Israel. And I’m against Hamas too. I’ve picked my side, and it’s the innocents”.

Israel wants you to think the only two sides in this conflict are Israel and Hamas

There are three sides: Israel, Hamas, and the innocent civilians dying.

Your mistake is making heroes of real people. Reality is crap. Your heroes should be people like Superman, Yoda, and Atlacatl. Ideas will always be purer than a person can hope to be. Ideas can give you inspiration that will not be corrupted.

That’s a technical argument. Technical arguments don’t work on transphobes because transphobes aren’t motivated by logic, they’re motivated by emotion. The correct argument to use on a transphobe is one that humiliates them in the eyes of all onlookers. The only way to reform a transphobe is public shame.

They’re saying it in this article because Elon is being transphobic on purpose to manufacture controversy on the same day it’s announced that he’s now halved the value of Twitter. He doesn’t want people talking about what a financial loser he is, so he’s trying to make people talk about what a transphobe he is

There’s an episode of King Of The Hill where Hank makes Bobby dress up as a girl for a drag show. He even helps Bobby buy a bra and gives lots of advice from personal experience.

Hank is also incapable of saying the word “gay”, and was mentally incapable of understanding that a trans woman and her boymode persona were the same person.

That sounds dangerous. Most people don’t reach their ideas through reason. I don’t want to lose empathy for all humanity no matter how ignorant they are.

You need to watch Glass Onion

Yeah, so why is Bill Gates 5G microchip the conspiracy? Why not Elon Musk Starlink Neuralink? There is an actual evil mad scientist selling the technologies they are actually scared of, why don’t they just point their fears at the actual danger?

In my country, your birth certificate has both your deadname and your new name on it if you changed your name. When I signed up for PayPal, I had already transitioned, so I put in my current, legal name. PayPal asked for proof that I am who I claim to be, to prevent fraud. Fair enough, I gave them my birth certificate. They looked at it, and then changed the name on my account to my deadname, which was no longer my legal name. When I told them to change it back, they said I’d have to submit a change of name form.

I knew Musk was transphobic sooner than most of the public did after that experience.