Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸

25 he/him
MPP
Communist Environmentalist
Free Palestine, Tiocfaidh ár lá, 조국통일

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@mousetrapchedda @reveyelyah That’s without even mentioning that the majority of our uranium is in an area of perpetual drought and it needs a LOT of water

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@stevemce5433 @reveyelyah There’s give and take here. Yes extractive industries as a whole are exploitative and that needs to be fixed, but there are inherent risks associated with nuclear energy that do not exist for lithium. Imperialist actions in Iran are ostensibly to “prevent nuclearization”

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 They were insisting he agree with the whole discussion wholeheartedly without his minor disagreements. He was presenting his counterargument while largely defending her and the rest of the panel. It is annoying to browbeat someone over that.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 Calling someone annoying for willfully misinterpreting your words and intentions is not silencing in any way.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 “You should do your best not to alienate people from the cause” is not the same narrative as the oppressor.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@singingsox Maybe we’re talking about different people here, but nobody called you mask-wearing freaks on the left afaik. Annoying is about the nicest thing I’ve been called for my advocacy.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 I’m not engaging in bad faith. You are claiming he cannot criticize her tactics because her advocacy is just and that is plain wrong. As I said, she fights for the right things but you cannot be immune to criticism

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 You are allowed to criticize people. He mostly defended her nonetheless.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 It's not productive to tell people that attempting to be healthy is a waste of time, generally. My intent in commenting on your post in the first place was to dispute your framing of what Piker said. Again, he was defending the panelists with minor critique interspersed.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 Why? Nihilism is a defeatist attitude. Maintain revolutionary optimism comrade.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 That part is correct, but they expound on that saying that one should not attempt to be healthy without addressing the underlying causes. Browbeating people who agree with the first part because they engage in the second part could be perceived as "annoying", no?

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 Let me rephrase, within the panel the speaker claims that attempting to be healthy without addressing the root causes of unhealthiness is a tacit acceptance that being unhealthy is an individual moral failing. (Word limit is the cause of this confusion). I disagree with this.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@timeisaflat0 If you watch the entire discussion he was defending the panelist from the socialism conference and this person was criticizing him for having any disagreement with her. The person was being annoying. Not all criticism is unfounded, identity does not make you infallible.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 I watched the panel live. I also watched the analysis that he did the next day. I agree that fixating on physical health as a symbol of self-worth is reactionary, but the claim was not as cut-and-dry as you claim. He spends more time defending the speaker throughout.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 Not about how they are marginalized, but some of the claims made on the panel. I.e. the claim that working on your health tacitly accepts the framing that bad health is a moral failing.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@halfkeldeo I definitely flubbed that sentence and did not double check. I meant *Class is the most important form of politics. I did not mean that most of politics is class, but a plurality perhaps.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 In this context, he was explaining his worldview, that exercise saved his life and was part of building his confidence and self image. He was defending the panelist, explaining that having disagreements is healthy. The person he yelled at was saying that you must agree with them.

[Blaze ☭🏜️🇵🇸 @BlazesInferno13]

@thediabetic86 The question wasn't in good faith. The blathering I was referring to was *not* discussing disabled marginalization.