"School lunch debt" is one of the most vile phrases in the English language.

I can't wait to see polymarket and coinbase ads on the white house lawn

archive.is just gave me a QR code captcha what the fuck. thankfully i could opt for an audio or visual challenge, but seriously what the fuck. things are getting so bad so fast for internet privacy.

Still have yet to see an instance of a zionist fragging their fellow war criminals before taking out the trash

I'll grant that the use of "very" there is overstating it, I have a tendency to do that, but a number of people here have mentioned that a noticable amount of people in their orgs cite him as a factor in them starting to move left and organize. I didn't mean to imply that he's the end all be all of moving someone left. He tries to move people into spaces where other socialists pick these people up and keep moving them along and keep them engaged in the work. That, plus seemingly the entire mainstream media trying to paint him as a demon means he's not completely ineffectual. The political establishment is afraid of him to some degree, maybe if only because he's started to really lean in to promoting candidates.

Echoing what TheFinalCapitalist said, Hasan is for left liberals and progressives begining their journey towards becoming communists. He is acutely aware of his role in this capacity and therefore his message is tailored as such. He isn't perfect and has his share of bad takes, but he is ultimately a ~~very~~ valuable piece of the pipeline pushing people leftward and encouraging them to organize IRL via unionizing and getting involved with orgs like the DSA and PSL. If you're already on Lemmygrad/Hexbear, you probably don't have anything to learn from him. You may or may not like his content as commentary or entertainment, it's certainly not for everyone.

Judging by the above, he is very influenced by the post-WW2, nazi-influenced western ideas about LGBTQ people, rather than the pre-nazi Berlin progress.

I didn't include it as I felt I was already getting very wordy, but Huneke mentions that the book was widely criticized. It's moreso that the state sponsored a study at all that was the groundbreaking part. Quoting Huneke on page 209,

True, the book had numerous problems and was widely criticized. One Stasi report noted that, "among hetero- and homosexual individuals there is an overwhelmingly deprecating view" of the book. Not only had Werner devoted the vast majority of the text to gay men, as Ursula Sillge, among others, complained, he had also invented a nonsense term "lesbicity" ("Lesbizität") with which to discuss female homosexuality. Yet, for all its flaws, the book signalled a rupture with decades-old taboos.

And even though he was cooking up some wack ass ideas, it was the first domino in a serious of efforts towards public education.

Other authors pressured the regime to adopt school texts that addressed homosexuality more tolerantly. A doctor in Jena campaigned for the publication of a book that would help the parents of gay and lesbian children. Although authorities initially resisted his entreaties, by 1987 his manuscript was under consideration at a press.

A state sponsored text aimed at parents of queer children! In 1987!!! This is so wild to think about given the tantrum the right wing in the US is throwing over the mere implication that children could be queer 40 years later.

First of all, thank you for the replies and interest! Second, sorry for the late reply, I didn't have time to give it the attention it deserved until recently.

Was the activity you describe completely disconnected, like how in the west the "new left" was severed from the "old"?

Unfortunately the vast majority of my knowledge of queer history lies in the "Hirschfeld era", for lack of a better phrase. Pretty much everything I know about the GDR queer experience comes from States of Liberation, which is the only major English language source on the subject I am aware of, but I haven't dug into this in a while. There seems to be a fair bit more literature on the subject in German, but I unfortunately cannot read German, let alone at an academic level. The only mentions of Hirschfeld Huneke makes in the book outside of his brief historical context of pre-war Germany is to two groups in the FRG, the "Magnus Hirschfeld Centre in Hamburg" and the "Magnus Hirschfeld Society." Hirschfeld's work would've certainly been in living memory, but only relatively recently (as in the past few decades) has there been a great deal of scholarship on his work as parts of his archive are found in various estates. Heike Bauer's The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture talks a bit about that. The caveat being that I can only speak from an English-reader's perspective. All this to say that I do not know the answer as to whether queer GDR citizens were looking back towards Hirschfeld specifically. He certainly would've made a good figure to turn back to especially for the GDR as the Insitute for Sexual Science was documented to at times allow Comintern members to reside there. States of Liberation is on Anna's Archive if you want to take a look yourself, but a Ctrl+F through it only brings up those couple of instances where Hirschfeld is mentioned aside from his activity pre-war.

What do you mean by macros? Do you have shortcuts for like specific words or phrases you use commonly or something like that?

i thought that was tom scott for a second