Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

An anarchist here to ask asinine questions about the USSR. At least I was when I got here.

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: August 18th, 2023
  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Finally the algorithm is servingEnglish
    11·
    18 hours ago

    I still think about the Jacob Geller video “Games, Schools, and Worlds Designed for Violence” sometimes. Like when I learned that all houses in the Zionist Entity are mandated to have bunkers, and that families often put cribs for their babies in these bunkers… Well, really, what the Hell does it do to your psyche to literally spend some of your earliest days in a space designed for war, to regularly practice for your whole life going into bunkers with childish art painted on the walls? It frankly probably does the same stuff to your psyche as schools in Seppoland designed around school shootings, where there’s a strange “lockdown” rhyme on the wall to help kids practice the procedure. It’s one of the many ways in which children are taught to see the world through a violent lens, to analyze spaces in terms of how they may be used for violence, to see violence as an omnipresent eventuality.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettoneurodiverse@hexbear.net•Warning to Undiagnosed Autists in America: Do not seek diagnosis at this timeEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Let’s be real, whoever can claim to know how to do a lobotomy — it’s the type of surgery you can literally learn to perform from a five-minute YouTube video, it takes ten minutes to do, and if it goes wrong-er than usual then that’s “all the better” for certain parties.

    Incidentally, I’m just now learning about Howard Dully, one of the youngest survivors of a lobotomy and co-author of the memoir My Lobotomy. He apparently died in February of this year at the age of 76. He had two YouTube channels, apparently the one channel was made to try to raise support for making a feature film based on his life, which evidently never came to fruition; the other one has much more varied content, including interestingly enough a lot of pirate uploads of shows from his childhood. It is in any case very striking to hear a lobotomy survivor in more or less modern times talking about his life in a very lucid manner — because he got the procedure so young and was otherwise very fortunate for a lobotomy survivor, brain plasticity allowed him to with time regain a lot of function.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.nettoSlop.@hexbear.net•My Wholesome Fascist Empire would never condone SA! Cw: SA and Andor S2 spoilersEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    SA in SW feels unnecessary

    Sexual assault in sex work “feels unnecessary”…? Well, yeah, all SA is unnecessary, it’s a horrible thing to do to someone…

    You can portray power dynamics and make the audience hate

    OK, so this is a work of fiction depicting a sex worker getting sexually assaulted, then? The power dynamic between SW and client, SW and pimp, SW and police?

    the empire in other ways without taking it to such a disgusting place

    The empire…? So this is an anti-imperialist story? Is it like depicting the precarity of migrant sex work, and how this industry is created by imperialism?

    Vader wouldn’t tolerate that shit

    I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING ANGLOPHONES TO ADOPT KANJI SPECIFICALLY FOR WRITING ACRONYMS

    Edit: Obviously it’s my problem for not reading the username and not connecting Andor to Star Wars