violetmadder

Disturb the comfortable; comfort the disturbed.

Agnostic: I don't know, and you don't either
Agender: Binary thinking is BS
Asexual: Your kink is not my kink and that's very okay
Anarcho-communist: Party at the bottom left!

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2024-07-04 23:42:23

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Sure, because big banks pulling big scams is right up there with bigfoot?

2024-07-01 23:25:57

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I'm asking what WE could do about it. That's who we're going to need to rely on from here-- each other, beyond a broken system.

2024-06-30 19:12:44

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When the big fires hit, power and cell service went down for a WEEK in a large region with about a million people.
A region where fires move so fast people often get NO evacuation warnings.
How else is anyone supposed to communicate, figure out where is safe to go, or anything at all without radio??
I want to learn and get a license myself.

2024-06-30 04:40:44

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You're directly advocating for war criminals and fossil fuel cronies.
You can rationalize it and insult me all you want, but that's still what you are doing.

2024-06-30 03:43:59

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Vote for somebody who isn't a planetwrecking fossil fuel crony or war criminal.

2024-06-30 02:17:39

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The thing is, the Democrats are buying the Republicans ads and working their Pied Piper Strategy to enable the rise of the overt fascism they're using as cover for the less overt fascism that's steadily destroying most life on earth. National elections are mostly kayfabe, dramatized Reality TV show fights between puppets that keep us distracted from the deeper horrors that have been cranking under EVERY administration since at least the 60s. ("Electoral politics cannot be allowed to change financial policy", Larry Summers explained to Yanis Varoufakis when he got his seat at the table with the big boys). The overall trajectory stays more or less the same no matter who's winning, while different cliques of predators wrestle over our entrails.
So my answer stays pretty much the same if Trump wins, with extra doses of scapegoating and insults and "so have you learned your lesson yet" browbeating for people like me, and more fash assholes feeling emboldened to lynch their neighbors-- which may inspire a bit more urgency from people realizing we'll need a lot more than pink hats to deal with this, though a lot of them will stay bogged down in the fantasy that "if only a Democrat had won we'd be at brunch right now" and so on.
It's going to get worse before it gets better.
HOPEFULLY over time more people will be recognizing the games being played on us, getting fed up, and working to organize major strikes and other direct action while building mutual aid networks to help each other where the system fails to do so. The system (regardless of who's in office at the time) may actually kick off WWIII or a major terror attack to use as an even more extra excuse to crack down on protests. How fast and hard that hammer gets brought down depends on how energetic and effective our struggles are, which will be used to feed the propaganda instructing us to save each other by submitting (and collaborating and turning in our dissenting neighbors).

2024-06-30 00:41:59

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Inaction? I was at City Hall on Tuesday. I'm attending a DSA meeting on Saturday. I've already been tabling and will be canvassing for a local issue very soon-- plus volunteering in community gardens, and working in mental health care.
You want me to name one candidate so you can drag me back into that familiar establishment frame where all of your arguments (and prepared contempt and mockery) are built to work, and you're getting frustrated when I refuse to be led back in there. If you can't even see outside the hegemonic box, you won't ever be able to escape it. You're currently dedicated to strengthening its walls.
I'm an anarchist, I believe electoralism itself is so prone to corruption NO candidate can actually save us and a fundamental change of the ENTIRE system from the ground up (starting with the end of capitalism) is our only hope in the face of these horrifying global waves of fascism and catastrophe.
But if you really can't or won't engage with any part of that bigger picture, fine. I'm still wishing Cornel West and Jill Stein had run on the same ticket and trying to make up my mind between them. Go ahead and laugh, not sure what good that does anyone though.

2024-06-30 00:01:20

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If everybody who says 3rd party candidates aren't viable actually voted for one, they would be entirely viable. Overnight.
The core of this entire battle is in the framing. The moment we relinquish our moral center, and allow it to be moved to a place where we accept the normalization of genocide, we're fucked. When we're actively trying to help and defend war criminals, we've already lost the most important struggle and we're getting dragged along carrying water for the protofascist neoliberal agenda-- helping make its claims that no other candidates are "viable" a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The system keeps the focus of our discourse on arguing as if the most important fight is already over and forgotten-- deliberately. People rush to accept that distorted frame in order to debate the extremely compelling issue used to bait it-- should we eat half a bowl of shit or the whole bowl of shit?? -- instead of stopping to say, WHY the hell are we eating this shit.

2024-06-25 19:27:37

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If everybody who said 3rd parties can't win voted for one, guess what they'd win.
And guess what else, there are more effective ways to affect the world around you than checking a little box every four years.
I never said a damn thing about staying home. Shit, I'm about to climb in the car and go to a rally at a board of supervisors meeting RIGHT NOW as I type this.

2024-06-25 16:58:34

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People who believe the magnitude of the threat posed by Trump shouldn't have helped "elevate" him to a "serious candidate" in the first place. They shouldn't have squashed a candidate who was beating Trump in the polls by double digits, or forced on us one of the least popular candidates the country has ever seen, someone SO bad she actually managed to lose to the rabid orange clown. They shouldn't be alienating their base by funding war crimes.
The Democratic Party itself is feeding the monsters they supposedly believe are so threatening.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/democrats-spend-millions-on-republican-primaries

2024-06-19 01:46:08

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Wow!
Looked em up, apparently it's an eastern thing and California is worried about what they might do if they get loose here. Guess I probably won't be trying them anytime soon.

2024-06-10 21:11:19

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And the other reason kayfabe fits perfectly, is how resistant people often are to believing it.
What do you MEAN wrestling's "not real"?? Look how much they hate each other! Look at the fighting! The blood!
What do you mean they actually drink together after the show and collect their paychecks from the same oligarchs?? That's ridiculous!
When the rumors really started to break through into common knowledge in wrestling fandom, some people were highly pissed off-- and some people probably STILL don't realize the big match outcomes are scripted.

2024-06-10 21:02:47

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It first occurred to me when I realized that Trump's trials were turning into just one more horrible Reality TV show. TUNE IN NEXT SEASON FOR THE SENTENCING!! *dramatic music, closeups of shocked faces, oh the suspense*
And kayfabe is the perfect term because I swear Vince McMahon must be writing our political storylines right now, that's how absurd and grotesque the whole mess is.

2024-06-10 19:00:02

Potting soil!
Does anyone know of any resources that talk about DIY potting soil?
Not, "purchase large bags of unsustainable materials created through energy intensive processes and shipped long distances, then mix them in X proportions" DIY potting soil. Which is the ONLY kind I seem to be able to find now that searching is borked.
I mean, are there recipes, methods of composting, techniques to PRODUCE stuff with the proper characteristics?
At the community garden we've been sifting what's small enough out of the compost heap and just kinda using that, but comparing the results to what's happening at the school farm greenhouse with fresh bags of commercial stuff is a pretty stark example of how important it is to have a proper potting mix, if you want cuttings to successfully take, or for seedlings to germinate well.
Peat moss is NOT sustainable yet everyone still seems to be using it, even people who really should know better. Almost all the online tutorials list it first thing. The alternatives most commonly mentioned are coco coir and rice hulls, which are better but if a person doesn't have access to supplies of that type, what's the solution? What do we grow and how do we break it down to the consistency we want?
Then there's the ubiquity of perlite and vermiculite (both of which have to be mined and then baked in industrial ovens, and both of which are not renewable resources). Perlite crumbles to sand so darned fast, too. And you don't want to breathe the powder kicked up when you dig in it.
There's got to be other ways to do this.
#compost
#pottingSoil
#pottingMix
#sustainable
#renewable
#DIY
#gardening

2024-06-04 05:16:11

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In a just and decent society those places wouldn't even exist. 😞

2024-06-04 04:41:35

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Or the police tearing people's masks off and laughing, then chucking them into overcrowded jails where they get no protection and they die at a significantly higher rate than the rest of the population.
How many thousands?

2024-06-04 04:11:25

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I've been thinking about Typhoid Mary.
She is literally THE reason we figured out being an asymptomatic carrier is a thing. It was a major scientific breakthrough.
And then she went right back to what she'd been doing before, infecting more people. More people died.
They locked her up for it.
And once she got out, she went RIGHT BACK to what she'd been doing before (namely, preparing and serving food with infectious fecal matter on her hands), and more people died.
So they locked her up AGAIN.
All because she couldn't even be bothered to wash her fucking hands after using the bathroom.

2024-05-24 05:44:40

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“I just assumed you hadn’t really looked”
In a world that actually makes sense, really looking would actually work.
Too many people find it much easier to assume their own friends and family are lazy fools, than face the fact that the world doesn't make sense and the lazy fools are the people in charge.

2024-05-23 15:32:16

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I also very rarely block.
I use the feature for putting a note on a profile, to track who's said something particularly objectionable or just to remember where they stand.
I don't like blinding myself to the nasty stuff that's being said (especially to people who might be new or vulnerable) or the types of arguments being used in general discourse.
And I don't like helping people avoid the important issues I talk about that they don't want to think about.

2024-05-14 18:17:42

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Oh, for fucksakes. Enough with the pathetic excuses. The fact that Trump exists doesn't magically make murdering children an okay thing to be complicit in.
If Trump didn't exist, the people running this nightmare would have to invent one. Get it?

2024-05-14 16:23:59

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Fuck that. When the "mistake" involves killing children we have a duty to interrupt.

2024-04-27 23:50:49

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[@FantasticalEconomics](https://geekdom.social/@FantasticalEconomics)
Manipulating hearts and minds?
Okay, the original post here was specifically asking for examples of student movements that were on the wrong side of history. Got any examples of student-led protests that were wrong, manipulative, abusive etc?
As for sensible and effective problem solving... You might want to read up on the labor movement, for a start. Civil rights, suffrage, etc etc, all pushed forward by massive protests that faced real bloodshed. Arguably NO major, heavy-duty change in history has happened WITHOUT major protests.