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thinking the revolution's success is contingent on numbers of workers convinced or a "marketplace of ideas" thing is incidentally liberal democracy with extra, violent steps when many failed conflicts in history, such as the paraguayan war where the male population of paraguay was nearly completely genocided, show that numbers do not make the difference. the russian revolution was anemic, starving soldiers against an even weaker state, a complete fluke of a victory and china and others were arguably much the same. the next revolution, if it is to be against strong state forces, must be built on the backs of people who are surviving, thriving, defending what they love. (and in a country with nukes, they have to have the nuclear football) (an attempted reactionary military coup against a civilian government is a good example of that)
what i'm saying is that in the face of a strong military/reactionary force, the revolution has to have a force even stronger, and that does not boil down to having more lemmings to throw
(just floating this, fully expecting some people to take strong objection. i'm more curious on what grounds, i guess is why i'm doing this)


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what i'm trying to say here is that if you think the government deciding to make things less bad is a bad thing because it delays a concept of the revolution designed to flatter the sensibilities of misanthropic know-it-alls, you have lost the plot. the revolution is for the living, and not one unnecessary life can be laid down in its name
ok i'm done talking about this a


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I'm almost a month late here but; I'd agree with that. Reactionary types talk big about using the 2nd ammendment to keep the government in check here or just waiting for society to end do they can justify murdering random people, but even if the "rifle behind every blade of grass" thing is true. The government can easily monitor any attempt to organize and destroy it.

More importantly, I think a large swath of the world has traded freedom for comfort for decades so a potential revolution would have to occur in the worst possible state a government has ever seen. If not the US, global powers might very well intervene on the side of capitalism. Hell, China of all people supported the Communist Party of the Philippines in their rebellion until 1976 and in 2019 they started supplying the government instead.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegramgate

the economy of the island was paralyzed by striking and protests, and a guillotine was wheeled out in front of the head of state's official residence. ricky eventually resigned and immediately fled the island. he also attempted to cheese the chain of command by appointing a secretary of state before resigning, but the president of the puerto rico senate refused to confirm him after the puerto rico house of representatives did, and the extremely reluctant secretary of the judiciary was recognized as governor instead. pierluisi beat her in the primaries, and won the next elections with less than a third of the vote and is our current governor. he is forecasted to lose the primary, just as wanda lost to him. all three of the people involved in this story as well as the then-president of the senate are corrupt scum of course, but schatz (and by proxy wanda) came from a faction within the then-ruling party different from ricky's and presumably pierluisi's.

some would say this isn't a revolution, but i would classify it as one as the goal of the movement was to force the state to vacate. one ruling cabal was substituted for another, and the state's chosen successor was only successful through elections under questionable regulations. hence why i say a revolution and a partial success. i suppose some people would take objection to the fact the legislature, which is also part of the government, was not really the subject of these protests, and they're the ones who picked the replacement, but it's important to remember that wanda's resignation was demanded by the public before she even took office (as well as pierluisi who was unable to) and the outcome the public wanted was immediate elections, which ended up happening a year later as scheduled. the ruling party suffered a devastating defeat in the next elections anyway. so to me, in character, this was as much a revolution as what happened in, for example, bolivia against evo morales.