which is not to say that you don't find authoritarianism wearing clothes they have stolen from socialists on occasion. i'm sure we can all think of some examples.

but any project which rests on authoritarianism, on dictatorship, on rigid societal control? that's a right wing project. whatever it says to get people on side.

@thamesynne Is Stalinist Russia not actually authoritarian or was it not actually communist?

@USBloveDog false bifurcation alert! there's at least one other possibility to consider - that communism, at least in an imposed, top-down, Leninist model, is not actually left wing at all; it just wears the clothes of dead workers to attract support

which is basically where i land.

@blockchain
since posting that reply I've unwittingly encountered not one but TWO "rationalists" on tumblr whose greatest joy appeared to be insinuating to this multiply disabled person that their life is objectively less worthy than abled folks' lives. *sighs in hypermobile double-gay autistic*