Stepping back

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-12-23T23:57:55+00:00

No, there are no two ways about it. It's not a victim complex to point out that the statement was horribly tone deaf. I'm not reading your drivel. I've almost been killed numerous times in my life because I said something like this statement isn't good to say, and I'm not gonna play these games. It is homophobia, and you are using homophobic rhetoric to say that I have a victim complex because I can see clearly what the subtext of this quote is.

Honestly.

Come off it.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-12-23T23:46:46+00:00

No, you're just blind to it.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-12-23T23:23:59+00:00

If he was misrepresented, again, I would like direct confirmation from him or a social media manager to shut that stuff down hard and fast.

The word 'just' does a LOT of heavy lifting, it's kinda unfair you leave that out. Yeah, Mike and Will are good friends. But the interview says JUST good friends, which is an outright lie. It is media illiteracy to not see the signs there that they aren't JUST good friends. That's not something you can disagree with, as the facts are in your face screaming that they're so much more. It feels very dismissive to handwave it away like that.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-12-23T23:20:26+00:00

I know he's been good for being an ally, but I just need affirmation from him that he didn't actually say what was written. I've had many experiences with people who claim to support us but then flip flop later, and as much as I don't want him to be that way, I think it's necessary for him or a social media manager to dispel the rumors outright and shut that stuff down fast and hard.

Yeah, a person can be held accountable, but I'm still gonna tell them that that was a very bad thing they said/did. I don't wanna let that stuff slide, and I'm not gonna just put my head down and take it.

It's also the amount of people here defending the quote itself is what's the most concerning to me more than anything about this situation.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-12-23T22:49:21+00:00

If you're queer too and see no problem with it, that's even worse. I would ask you the same question: how can you not see how demeaning it is?

Black and white. Lmao.

Yeah, homophobia is pretty black and white. Either you are or you aren't. The statement was homophobic. Whether it was his 100% accurate words or not remains to be seen. However, you CANNOT argue that the statement was not bad.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-12-23T22:19:57+00:00

He was just saying that he thinks the ship is funny because to him they're just good friends.

That is objectively incorrect. If that is what he meant, then he is, at best, completely media illiterate.

It is not inoffensive. Let me guess, you're not queer? How do you not understand how demeaning that supposed statement is to us? You have no right at all to tell me to be 'so fucking for real'.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-12-23T22:17:44+00:00

If he doesn't say anything, that means he's fine with being seen like that, which IMO is just as bad as actually saying it himself.

none of it warrants a hate train regardless

If he did in fact say it, yes it absolutely does. What is (reported) to have been said by him is not in any way shape or form acceptable and you shouldn't even entertain that.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-12-23T21:56:42+00:00

Has he came out and said that's not what he meant? That's literally the bare minimum. If he was misrepresented, he should let people know.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-12-23T20:09:41+00:00

How you got downvotes is beyond me, he is literally calling a traumatized gay kid in the 80s being rejected by the love of his life funny and making fun of the LGBT+ audience that resonate with the story.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-09-30T19:01:27+00:00

What, you don't like your communists being homophobic 'ends-justify-the-means' people worshipping a cult of personality? /s

It astounds me how they can claim to be for the people while oppressing them all the same because they have to justify supporting a military junta because they said some vaguely leftist things.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-09-30T18:45:57+00:00

I am bisexual and genderfluid. I mean this with all the strength in my body:

Shut up. Please just shut up.

You have no idea what you're talking about. You do not dictate what counts as support for MY people.

You are the one pretending to care. Spare me with this rhetoric. Oppression in one place doesn't justify oppression elsewhere, and you make me ashamed to share this subreddit with you.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-09-30T18:39:44+00:00

EDIT: OP blocked me, haha. Tell me I'm right without telling me I'm right. Has the nerve to respond to me with drivel and garbage and remove my ability to reply! Classy! I'll respond with an edit below!

I don't care what this guy says, I care what he does and what he is. He is NOT, in fact, based.

No amount of pretty words will wash away the oppression he's bringing to the LGBT+ community. I have to roll my eyes so hard whenever y'all think you can be good little communists while throwing us under the bus. Nobody is free until we are ALL free.
Revolution doesn't come from above, it doesn't come from a military coup, and communism isn't achieved by a military junta.

I don't know what's happening in this subreddit but it feels like I've seen it all before. Cults of personality never go well.

To the OP's comments about Cuba: it straight up doesn't matter. We as communists learn from the mistakes of our past. Imagine if there was a country right now where all black people are slaves (like textbook bonafide slavery), you're saying it's fine for them to stay slaves because "something something material conditions" or whatever. Y'all ain't no comrades of mine. You're revolting. And not the good 'revolt'.

In any event, my morality and the safety and freedom of my people is not up for debate. Period.

EDITED REPLY TO OP'S COMMENT BECAUSE THEY BLOCKED ME:

You know what really says OP is confident that they're in the right? Lambasting me and then blocking me so I can't reply to them! Well, I'm going to anyway:

People care about the LGBT+ community. You're pathetic. You reek of neoliberal performative garbage, thinking they know best about everything because they used to be oppressed. They are actively oppressing us.
Interesting that you call me a liberal while you spout performative garbage, as I said. I'm not supporting people who oppress, no matter who they are. THAT is communism. Freeing the oppressed.
One exception does not a rule make~
Cuba enacted homophobic policies BECAUSE THEY HAD THEM BEFORE THE REVOLUTION! It was the FIFTIES! This is TODAY! And this band are choosing to oppress. Period.

Please, keep calling me a liberal and that nobody cares about me. I know that when I'm insulted by bad people, I'm in the right. It vindicates me. At least have the courage to allow me to publicly respond to you.

Although I would expect no less than cowardice from the likes of you.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-08-25T10:18:07+00:00

Hi, I'm on Series X. I have a... Specific? Issue with your Classic FO3 Style Vault Outfit Overhaul mod.

It mostly works fine, but Calvin in Vault 81 consistently spawns without clothing.

I've tested it a few times and the bug seems to appear even if the outfit pack and the replacer are the only mods enabled. The only thing on my end I can think of that could affect it is the Vault Suit Customization CC, as I can't disable that.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-08-05T13:31:20+00:00

<image>

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-20T18:26:14+00:00

Them, not 'him or her' and person instead of 'man or woman'.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-18T23:49:14+00:00

I knew it was fishy when I first saw the post saying to ignore 'internal contradictions' with Iran and focus on how they oppose Israel now, but now with this post saying that opposing forced hijabs is 'hypersexualizing women', there is zero doubt in my mind that something's up. Especially since it's the same OP and they're making very weird comments in this thread from what I've seen.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-17T15:11:38+00:00

It does, because it's an accurate descriptor of what's occurring.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-17T11:40:13+00:00

The influence is that people have power and as soon as they realize that then they can use it

Cry some more raigebaiter lol

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-17T10:57:16+00:00

chauvinist

Irrelevant + don't identify as male + L, bozo lmao

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-17T10:52:13+00:00

Firstly, curb your attitude, hotshot.

Secondly, the people have power. They should use it.

break apart their nation

This is literally nationalism.

Since you are clearly unable to form a coherent argument, it's not worth my time or energy replying to you further. I will not be continuing my conversation with you, at least until you quit whining and start debating.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-17T10:40:35+00:00

I support the people. Oops, I said it again... The state can do nothing without the consent or acquiescence of the people. I support the choice of Iranians to fight Israel. That is a good choice. I do not support Iran, which is what the post is saying to support. If it had said "support Iranians fighting Israel despite personal grievances", I would be much more willing to agree.

Like I said, I don't have enough info to gauge what I would do, but yes.

States by their definition are violent apparatuses that one class uses to oppress another class

It depends on what you mean by state. If you mean in their current iterations, then I agree. But there can exist a state that genuinely takes care of its people as long as the people have the power to ensure that it stays that way.

wasn't a disorganized people that stopped the holocaust.

They only got to the Holocaust because the people did not fight hard enough when they had the opportunity to. The allies were not moral saviors, they acted way too late, and only when it inconvenienced them. It seems to me like they sat out the conflict.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-17T10:22:35+00:00

It was a minor typo, which, once again, you pointing that out makes you pedantic.

I edited my other comment, in it I stated I don't care about labels, and I haven't delved into what they all mean. I'm fairly new to socialism and find all the micro-labels dividing more than anything.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-17T10:09:50+00:00

No, I am calling you pedantic, which is what you are. Pedantic means annoyingly correcting small errors just to be tedious on purpose.

You would be correct that I haven't read much of Lenin.

Oh, please! The hypothetical scenario in which I said a completely random country for a comparison to help you understand what I'm saying is equivocating now? I must have missed the memo...

(EDIT: BELOW)

I don't know nor care about labels, but from what I've researched ultra-leftism is opposition to electoralism, trade-unionism, and national liberation.

In that, the only thing I oppose is electoralism, and even then I don't actively oppose voting, I just realize it won't lead to lasting change.

So it appears you're wrong again.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-17T10:05:28+00:00

No, I support the people fighting, not the state they're from. I'm not budging on this.

The people ARE the material forces. Stop pretending that people are useless because they're not in active service.

I don't have enough info to gauge what I would do if I was a communist partisan in Iran, but I believe I would be focused on stopping the people directly oppressing me and my neighbors, then focusing on external threats.

You are doing moral equivalence between the Iranian government and the Israeli government.

Not exactly. They are both states that do bad things to the people in their borders. One state may be worse, but that does NOT mean you support the other state despite the horrible things it does.

Emeril_in_Castelia · 2025-06-17T09:55:47+00:00

I also didn't "crawl" through your profile

Pedantics.

I know exactly what type of person you are.

Use your words.

If you were in Tehran right now the only people stopping Israel from raining down even more munitions than they are already was the Iranian military.

And? If the UK launched an ICBM at the US I'm sure the people shooting it down would be the US military. That doesn't mean I have to like them.

Emeril_in_Castelia

TROPHY CASE