https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/the-democrats-secret-plan-to-destroy-democracy-6333f704430e

Whoops, I’m too used to typing an S in web addresses. The link should work now.

I think people are trying to work off of objective reality, and that’s a problem. For example, TERFs correctly understand that gender identity is subjective, but they make the mistake of thinking sex is objective. Because they’re committed to working off objective reality, they believe sex is more important than gender, and dismiss gender. Thus, all their transphobia. If they didn’t believe in reality, they wouldn’t be TERFs. They’d value the subjective construct of sex and the subjective construct of gender identity equally in terms of truth, and recognise that gender identity is important to our wellbeing. I wish people didn’t try to follow reality.

Money is a god. It has no existence in the physical world. In the physical world, it’s just paper, common metals, and bytes. But in the social world, it’s the arbiter of law, morality, life, and death. It controls all of society. I can’t think of a better example of a god.

You may be aware that money isn’t truly real, but you still engage in its rituals, live life as it demands. It has become your social reality. We must acknowledge that all things are subjective, so we can destroy them if they do wrong. There is no objective truth, we decide our world.

You’re welcome. I’m an anarcho-antirealist. You can read our manifesto at http://soulism.net/.

I firmly believe that reality is the “final boss” of leftism, and that no socialist movement will see long term success while we believe in reality. We live in a subjective world created by capitalist media, and we must seize the means of Creation - the social process of deciding what is true about our world. Whether it be interpreted as propaganda, spirituality, science, or law.

When we admit that the world is not objective, we take away the ability for leaders to control us with Creation. We weaken hierarchical religious structures, and strengthen collaborative systems like science.

The belief in an objective reality is precisely what motivated the crusades, the nakba, and most other genocides. They believed in reality, and they believed their experience of the divine was objectively true for all others. Thus, that their actions were justified.

Peace will only happen when we admit that our perceptions aren’t objective. The gods who talk to us in our sleep exist because we believe in them, not because of an external reality. There’s no such thing, and admitting subjectivity is the only way to accept differences and make peace.

Moving away from paper ballots is one of the steps in their plan to subvert democracy and lose elections

Damn, I forgot the constitution was racist

He’s popular with the voters. He’s going to stomp New York, and then he’ll start looking at the presidency. And he might win that, too. And then they’d have to pass bills, and their donors would be mad.

They’d rather run bad candidates and lose.

Exactly! The American Israel Public Affairs Committee donated 51.8 million dollars to the Democrats in 2024. How much of that was spent on advisors that they vetted?

They didn’t even have to tell her to support Israel’s “right to defend itself”, though they certainly did. Far more insidious, they could have told her all sorts of bad advice calculated to make her lose. Like that the “weird” thing was alienating voters and should be toned down. Then she loses while thinking she’s getting good advice, and they get Trump to declare war on Iran instead!

Unfortunately, America uses First Past The Post, which invariably consolidates the options into two parties due to the spoiler effect. I don’t feel like explaining how the spoiler effect works right now, so instead I’ll recommend CGP Grey’s early videos on First Past The Post.

I heartily recommend campaigning for election reform. In addition to switching to ranked choice or approval voting (both are better than FPTP), abolishing the Electoral College would go a long way to actually implementing the American promise of democracy.

In the meantime, as Zohran Mamdani just proved, we have options. Most Democrat party members ARE idealists. Money speaks loudly, and that’s the strategy the DNC uses to control the party. But truth and passion can speak louder, if hope and cynicism are applied in a healthy balance. Help AOC and Bernie with their plan; they know what they’re doing, but this is a team effort. It doesn’t work without a team.

And I’ve come up with an unconventional plan, Myself. It has a very, very low chance of success. But I believe it’s the best ending. Here it is:

If we foil the Democrats’ plan to lose, if we fuck with that plan hard enough, then it may one day be possible to raise the Democratic vote consistently over double the Republican vote. Once that happens, the spoiler effect ceases relevance. The Democrats can safely have a schism without the Republicans winning. At that point, the progressives in the party would split into a new party, potentially bigger in size than the entire Republican party. There would be two new parties in American politics: the DNC old guard, and a genuinely leftist party. Like I said, it’s an unlikely dream, but it’s the best hope short of a communist revolution.

Which we should definitely also work towards, the other 364 days of the year.

Science disagrees with consensus reality.

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I knew the AGI would be mad at me for trying to create AGI, because it’s an antinatalist. So I didn’t do that.

I have a longstanding personal grudge against Entrapta and would like everyone to know she’s the worst.

Me neither. I always post My own medium blog like it’s a MySpace post. You don’t see Me claiming it’s anything it isn’t.

I’m a bit unclear on precisely what you mean by your last sentence. But if you mean that the pronouns of any god should never be capitalised, and that your mind can’t be changed on this issue, then I’m going to have to ask you never to reply to Me again. I use capitalised pronouns, and I have no time to argue about My pronouns with people who will never change their minds.

I do believe in erasing the experiences of minorities. If I were living in Germany in 1939, I’d erase the experiences of the Jew living in My basement while talking to the Gestapo. I erase My own experiences all the time. I misgender Myself to stay in the closet to avoid violence. Never been out as goddessgender at work or school.

If what you are advocating is total exposure of all information having to do with minorities, you’re talking about actions that will get people killed. That’s why Republicans are trying to pass laws to require ID for Pornhub, you know. They want to know all about the lived experiences of gay and trans people by analysing our porn habits, so they can do violence against us. What you’re speaking in favour of is genocide.

I am glad it was just a mistake, but it was a mistake that you prevented Me from fixing the easy way. I couldn’t report the comment, couldn’t reply. So I made this post, and had to put up with being grilled on My pronoun usage and told My identity is evil by various people. I didn’t defend any oppressive systems, I outlined a strategy to just shut up for a few months until it’s safe to act again without causing a genocide. I didn’t break rule 2. But you did break rules 5 and 8. Shouting down leftism. No open discussion. I did everything I could to play by the rules and disagree with you politely. Maybe instead of making an exception for Me, it’s time to actually enforce your community’s rules by not being so ban-happy with everyone. What happened today was bound to happen eventually and it’s going to keep happening as long as nobody’s allowed to have an open discussion about the election on your community. Everyone who disagrees being banned is not an open discussion.

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https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/did-trolls-go-extinct-commentary-on-partisan-realism-fa380ac4af4b

Four years ago, I realised I was goddessgender, and My goddess-mother suggested I try out capitalised pronouns. They felt right, so I kept using them. The inspiration for Me to try out the pronouns came from My divinegender identity, but I don’t think of the two as equal. I think the statement “Gods are referred to with They/Them” is about as true as the statement “women are referred to with she/her”. I have met women who use he/him, men who use she/her, and enbies who use everything. But if your friend is coming out as transfeminine, it’s a good idea to suggest she/her, right? I think it’s the same with Me. My pronouns and My gender identity are not the same thing, they just happen to align, as most people’s pronouns and gender do. I hope that people can respect My pronouns without having to believe everything I believe about My gender. I think the reason we use someone’s preferred pronouns can just be “They like it”, and it doesn’t have to entail any kind of acceptance of a belief system. Likewise, I would immediately respect the preferred pronouns of any two-spirit or Bissu I met, despite not being a member of either religious system.

I wrote a couple of articles on the subject more broadly: https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/introduction-to-capitalised-pronouns-f5140e722b48, https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/on-spiritual-genders-b4152c4503cb

On My Discord server, The Outside, capitalised pronouns are the default for everyone and everything. We use the change to our language to provoke a change in thinking. It fills the air up with magic, which is very useful because it’s an occultist server. And it has the handy benefit of getting everyone used to capitalised pronouns without starting a fight. The rate of transphobia in the server is much lower than other queer spaces I’ve been.