axont [she/her, comrade/them]

Sometimes people tell me I’m an insufflator. At least that’s what I think they’re saying

And if they start to burn a flag on the streets right on front of a random person, that random person will probably think “What a f*cking idiot”.

One of my first moments of awakening that led me to becoming a leftist was seeing a protestor burn an American flag in response to the American intervention in Afghanistan in 2001. It aroused feelings in me that my stupid child brain had trouble putting into words. So at least in my case, a burning flag had a positive outcome, and I’ll always thank that anonymous person who I’ll never know. My greatest love of my nation’s flag is its flammability.

I genuinely believe in all the things I just said

Why is it so much easier to assume I’m joking than to confront the idea there are separate worldviews than yours?

Death to America, Death to Israel. Liberation to trans people. From the river to the sea. China is socialist. Stalin shouldn’t have stopped in Berlin. Uncritical support for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in its ongoing resistance against the genocidal American empire.

Stop being such a pearl clutching liberal nerd

I’m gay

my personal fav

I don’t think you could define this as strictly not racist, since “race” constitutes arbitrary characteristics decided upon largely by white hegemony. It’s how Africans became a singular black race despite being different cultures and language groups. It’s why Jews are sometimes white, sometimes not.

It’s absolutely why most Americans consider a native Spanish speaker a different race, no matter how white they are. We’re in a moment where being Muslim is a racial marker excluding a person from whiteness.

Here’s a trick I do. Go show an uniformed white American a picture of Bashar al-Assad. Every time I’ve done this, they’ll say he’s a white guy. Then tell them he’s the president of Syria and a Muslim. They instantly flip.