Mark Koster
@markmix1.bsky.social
He/Him
📚 Studying Philosophy at Oslo University
📚 Studying Philosophy at Oslo University
Yeah I've just been puzzled looking at these responses haha
August 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Yeah I've just been puzzled looking at these responses haha
Faux opposition to oppression is also a large part of the problem. Thinking that we have to always support one side because otherwise one supports the other contributes to keeping the system that is oppressing people in power. It's not either or in politics, we shape the possibilities too.
August 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Faux opposition to oppression is also a large part of the problem. Thinking that we have to always support one side because otherwise one supports the other contributes to keeping the system that is oppressing people in power. It's not either or in politics, we shape the possibilities too.
But I am not willing to debate whether there should or should not be trans rights, or whether trans people even exist at all. I don't know why you're talking to me as if that is the discussion I am interested in having, or have been having. Again, I am not, and never will be.
August 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
But I am not willing to debate whether there should or should not be trans rights, or whether trans people even exist at all. I don't know why you're talking to me as if that is the discussion I am interested in having, or have been having. Again, I am not, and never will be.
I didn't say the word hard enough. Don't know what I can say now that will convince you that I do care, but yes, it would be *way more than hugely dissapointing*. It would be awful and nasty.
August 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I didn't say the word hard enough. Don't know what I can say now that will convince you that I do care, but yes, it would be *way more than hugely dissapointing*. It would be awful and nasty.
I really don't know what gave you the impression that I think you owe me a discussion on anything. I'm just discussing something on a social media website about a topic that I care deeply about. I'm not discussing the merits of LBGT liberation itself. It is not a discussion, it is a necessity.
August 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I really don't know what gave you the impression that I think you owe me a discussion on anything. I'm just discussing something on a social media website about a topic that I care deeply about. I'm not discussing the merits of LBGT liberation itself. It is not a discussion, it is a necessity.
Thanks for the advice, but I'm not trying to talk over trans people to support a party! I just wanted to discuss specific arguments.
August 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thanks for the advice, but I'm not trying to talk over trans people to support a party! I just wanted to discuss specific arguments.
I wasn't responding to people who say 'I'm gonna wait and see until I support the party'. I agree with this... Just wanted to discuss specific arguments is all.
August 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I wasn't responding to people who say 'I'm gonna wait and see until I support the party'. I agree with this... Just wanted to discuss specific arguments is all.
If the pitch of the party is that trans issues are up for debate, while things like economic policy are not, then yes that would be ridiculous!!
August 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
If the pitch of the party is that trans issues are up for debate, while things like economic policy are not, then yes that would be ridiculous!!
2/2. Corbyn or Sultana. I will never back a party that wavers on their support for LGBT liberation, and that includes one that Corbyn has made, because it does not matter who made it.
August 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
2/2. Corbyn or Sultana. I will never back a party that wavers on their support for LGBT liberation, and that includes one that Corbyn has made, because it does not matter who made it.
1/2 I am not expecting anyone to back them, so apologies if I gave that impression. I was merely trying to discuss the arguments about interpreting the relative silence on the LGBT issue as a tactical measure to win over transphobes and leave open whether to support them at all from someone like
August 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
1/2 I am not expecting anyone to back them, so apologies if I gave that impression. I was merely trying to discuss the arguments about interpreting the relative silence on the LGBT issue as a tactical measure to win over transphobes and leave open whether to support them at all from someone like
Apologies, I am not trying to be obtuse. Is it the fact that I keep referring to his history? If I'm just being dense here, please help me understand!
August 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Apologies, I am not trying to be obtuse. Is it the fact that I keep referring to his history? If I'm just being dense here, please help me understand!
2/2 And for what it's worth, of course it could turn out differently and that would be hugely disappointing.
August 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
2/2 And for what it's worth, of course it could turn out differently and that would be hugely disappointing.
1/2 I'm not trying to say that it is a niche issue or that that should be up for discussion. I'm trying to say that these issues are probably non-negotiables for the vast majority of the membership incl. Corbyn, just like other aims, such as socialism, which members also get to 'decide on'.
August 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
1/2 I'm not trying to say that it is a niche issue or that that should be up for discussion. I'm trying to say that these issues are probably non-negotiables for the vast majority of the membership incl. Corbyn, just like other aims, such as socialism, which members also get to 'decide on'.
I see that! But Corbyn himself has always spoken out against these sorts of awful oppressive policies.
jeremycorbyn.org.uk/trans-and-no...
I see that LBGT issues keep getting reversed on, but Corbyn has never been someone to flip flop on issues like these. That is why I keep referring to his history
jeremycorbyn.org.uk/trans-and-no...
I see that LBGT issues keep getting reversed on, but Corbyn has never been someone to flip flop on issues like these. That is why I keep referring to his history
Trans and non-binary people left out of the Conversion Therapy ban – Jeremy Corbyn MP
jeremycorbyn.org.uk
August 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I see that! But Corbyn himself has always spoken out against these sorts of awful oppressive policies.
jeremycorbyn.org.uk/trans-and-no...
I see that LBGT issues keep getting reversed on, but Corbyn has never been someone to flip flop on issues like these. That is why I keep referring to his history
jeremycorbyn.org.uk/trans-and-no...
I see that LBGT issues keep getting reversed on, but Corbyn has never been someone to flip flop on issues like these. That is why I keep referring to his history
But isn't his consistency in his opinions and the content of them an important part of estimating the direction and content of any project that he himself is in the process of setting up? A Corbyn-created party is not exactly a black box.
August 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
But isn't his consistency in his opinions and the content of them an important part of estimating the direction and content of any project that he himself is in the process of setting up? A Corbyn-created party is not exactly a black box.
2/2 members that is always an issue. They want to avoid a top down structure that tells everyone what the party is, but if the new party ends up a conservative one, they will obv not support that. It is just my estimate, based on their prev words that transphobic positions will also fall under that.
August 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
2/2 members that is always an issue. They want to avoid a top down structure that tells everyone what the party is, but if the new party ends up a conservative one, they will obv not support that. It is just my estimate, based on their prev words that transphobic positions will also fall under that.
1/2 I just don't think that Corbyn or Sultana would want to run on a party that is openly transphobic, just like they would not run on a party that wavers support for the environment, for example. Maybe it's the tension between having principles for a party and having them being decided by the...
August 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
1/2 I just don't think that Corbyn or Sultana would want to run on a party that is openly transphobic, just like they would not run on a party that wavers support for the environment, for example. Maybe it's the tension between having principles for a party and having them being decided by the...
Which issues would that be? I might just be unaware of them. And I definitely see how silence can be an active strategy against these issues, but aren't you also filling in the gaps with assumptions about his aims here? For me, his positions on these issues in the past just speaks for him.
August 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Which issues would that be? I might just be unaware of them. And I definitely see how silence can be an active strategy against these issues, but aren't you also filling in the gaps with assumptions about his aims here? For me, his positions on these issues in the past just speaks for him.
2/2 ...that disqualify him on his positions on LGBT liberation, with the context of what he has stood for in his political career, just did not seem fair to my eyes. I really hope, like everyone else, that the party is going to be in the right here. I just feel quite optimistic about it, is all!
August 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
2/2 ...that disqualify him on his positions on LGBT liberation, with the context of what he has stood for in his political career, just did not seem fair to my eyes. I really hope, like everyone else, that the party is going to be in the right here. I just feel quite optimistic about it, is all!
1/2 For me it's not that I am desperate to sell him, it is more that it seems an exciting new avenue for leftist politics, so I take notice. And It's not that worries or criticism about the handling of LGBT issues is bad or misplaced or should not be agitated for, but the specific critiques I saw...
August 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
1/2 For me it's not that I am desperate to sell him, it is more that it seems an exciting new avenue for leftist politics, so I take notice. And It's not that worries or criticism about the handling of LGBT issues is bad or misplaced or should not be agitated for, but the specific critiques I saw...
Institutional capture of that sort I do not think will be happening for a party of these two, but you never know. The second part of what you are saying here is just an assumption. They have not even stated what their platform on all issues will be yet. I do not think it is a 'tactical omission'.
August 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Institutional capture of that sort I do not think will be happening for a party of these two, but you never know. The second part of what you are saying here is just an assumption. They have not even stated what their platform on all issues will be yet. I do not think it is a 'tactical omission'.
Why is it in his history? You only have to look up how many times he's been a supporter of LGBT liberation in the past. He's consistent on this. Talk about social justice being 'paired 'with economic inequality does not mean that other dimensions are not also included.
August 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Why is it in his history? You only have to look up how many times he's been a supporter of LGBT liberation in the past. He's consistent on this. Talk about social justice being 'paired 'with economic inequality does not mean that other dimensions are not also included.
2/2 ...not because he does not care about the issue or is leaving the issue open for others who would be swayed away, right? It could all still be the worst case scenario, as everything could, but with Corbyn's political history, it just seems incredibly unlikely to me. But we shall see!
August 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
2/2 ...not because he does not care about the issue or is leaving the issue open for others who would be swayed away, right? It could all still be the worst case scenario, as everything could, but with Corbyn's political history, it just seems incredibly unlikely to me. But we shall see!
1/2 That's fair, but they have also talked about social justice. Of course someone like Starmer could use the same words, but coming from Corbyn, with his political history, doesn't it seem likely that this includes trans liberation? He also has not talked about anti-semitism explicitly, but that's
August 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
1/2 That's fair, but they have also talked about social justice. Of course someone like Starmer could use the same words, but coming from Corbyn, with his political history, doesn't it seem likely that this includes trans liberation? He also has not talked about anti-semitism explicitly, but that's