The top quote is refering to borders as a state construction. Nobody denies the existence of boundaries between things in general

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

• Jean-Paul Sartre

The very facy the Dems won in an election is a demonstration that they weren't battling fascists yet.

Trump and crew literally attempted to overturn the election and the Dems did next to nothing. If we can't recognize fascist actors before they've fully seized control of government then we will never have effective resistance to these types of movements.

If the Democratics run Harris or New some I might actually lose my mind. have we learned nothing from the past decade?

Is that real, or some arcane memery I fail to comprehend?

pretty sure accelerationism is a different thing. basically the idea that to get to a better world the one we currently live in needs to break. unfortunately they don't seem to care that the manner of breaking is really quite important. capitalism collapsing because workers established networks to feed and house themselves, and capitalism collapsing because the oligarchs decided they'd rather be kings are very different situations

All of our street cops are also carrying guns around, which (if I'm not mistaken) is not the case everywhere.

people aren't saying that Kamala wasn't the lesser evil. They are saying that running evil candidates suppresses voter turnout and that doing so is a loosing strategy (unless doing evil is your gole, like the GOP)

the return of landlines is nigh

Absolutely love that recipe! works great in a 12" cast iron, and much less clean up than a lot of baking projects

fell prey to the same blunder literally yesterday

I was thinking of British TV when I posted that so not too surprising if its mostly a thing there.

The terms in question being anti competitive. Steam being very good is not an argument against them using there prominent position in the gaming sphere to do the same monopolistic shit Amazon did to enshitify shopping

really the only actual use-case for AI

Patriarchy and the State are too faces of the same social form. It should never be surprising when the strengthening of one empowers the other.

is it possible to unreact emojis on this platform? cause I did not intend to click that