i love when out and out misogyny just gets repackaged and absorbed by the bigoted antibigots
cant stand it when people act embarrassed about being nude, cant stand it when people bait being vulnerable, cant stand it when i can tell that something is being twisted to fit some weird sub/dom framework. it's such a boring fucking script that produces genuinely disgusting people on the other end of it
@exiliaex it takes one historical instance of a government not doing what it said it'd do to dispel this type of thinking unless you believe yourself to be capable of wielding some of that social power (which they do in discourse, in the workplace and in the family unit). in 5-ish years they might need to be abusing their child to fit in in school and they cant do that without the bluff of authority
@reiko i need to get back on element at some point
@Remigius i mean i specifically said what i'm critiquing isnt a moral statement it's a statement about the meaning of the term "violence" and everyone is reacting to it like a moral statement because they're fascist zombies
Thread: #OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless. https://t.co/oK3OfSUSWP
@exiliaex it was cloudy for us
believing in slurs is a skill issue that makes you pointlessly predictable and it's easily exploited by reactionaries on all sides of a culture war, you can just look at someone's attempt to make you upset as something they do when they're on the backfoot, not reacting can often just give you massive advantage in the conversation too. reactionaries arent literate, they throw words like blunt objects for the reactions they produce in others, trip them up, they're not very good at deviating from the script
@reiko sometimes the shittiest places are those that need green the most. i'm not sure exactly what the situation looks like but there's a number of ways to try and create buffers or grow things that arent going to accumulate toxic shit in the part of the plant you eat. i also think it's just nice to help make more habitat for creatures in general if you can
@reiko easily one of the worst people on that website
One day there was a big march against fascist conspiracies.
It was to start at the university, and all the left-wing intellectuals had been invited to take part.
Magnificent police presence, but apparently the tacit understanding was to let things take their course.
Typical of those days: the demonstration had no permit, but if nothing serious happened, the police would just watch, making sure the marchers didnt transgress any of the unwritten boundaries drawn through downtown Milan (there were a lot of territorial compromises back then). The protesters operated in an area beyond Largo Augusto; the fascists were entrenched in Piazza San Babila and its neighboring streets. If anybody crossed the line, there were incidents; otherwise nothing happened. It was like a lion and a lion tamer.
We usually believe that the tamer is attacked by the lion and that the tamer stops the attack by raising his whip or firing a blank.
Wrong: the lion was fed and sedated before it entered the cage and doesnt feel like attacking anybody. Like all animals, it has its own space; if you don't invade that space, the lion remains calm. When the tamer steps forward, invading it, the lion roars; the tamer then raises his whip, but also takes a step backward (as if in expectation of a charge), whereupon the lion calms down. A simulated revolution must also have its rules. - Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco
grinding to disappear