doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

"Big Brother" isnt protecting YOU

its protecting its own systems which it has designed your life around. the roads and schools, factories, farms, oil rigs, and infinite cubicles at infinite offices.

Big Brother is only ever protecting the version of you it tried to create.

@IxDrums sign up?

To Our Friends

https://anarch.cc/invisible-committee/

Merry Crisis

@eris yeahh i assumed other places had it. its such a simple concept.

everyone on both sides should stop whining about the ability to quote tweet posts here

you can still grab the URL of a post and stick it in the text box. thats all a quote tweet is. unless im wrong, it wouldnt be all that difficult to make a masto-fork that has the browser display posts linked inside of other posts.

either build it yourselves and shut up, or stop petitioning the void and shut up

either way shut up about it and post something normal its literally the holidays drink some hot chocolate, watch a stupid movie, get warm under a blanket. post about a nice memory or something anything but this

@Parasite yeah; i definitely feel like my political framework is inherently intertwined with my more base ethical beliefs, but i suppose i'm more critical of the concept of justice itself. what it implies about the forms of living we can become with one another, and what tends to come hand in hand when other people speak "justice." It so rarely stops there.

to me it always seems that Justice, even when spoken by those who claim to be anarchists, quickly morphs into "the right to force others to behave in a way i find acceptable" by The Right of the Community, the Right of The People, the Right of the Norm against the deviant and transgressive. Justice as the status quo enforcing itself as radical and "restorative."

this certainly isn't universal or anything; i suppose i just have a tendency towards thinking that "the fulfillment of justice is its abolition"

@Parasite i shouldve said, i dont disagree with what youve said. i apologize for not acknowledging that.

@Parasite what i am cautioning against is using justice as the reason for your politics... like, believing "a 'system' is anarchist if its the one which produces justice"

a lot of people talk about anarchist philosophy as if there is some failure if an unjust action is "able" to occur "without balance/oversight/etc"

Anarchists should stop seeking justice as the foundation for their politics.

The legal system, the so-called justice system is a mockery of the living traditions that used to bind the patriarchal peoples, gathered together through the thin bonds of blood. Justice, for them, has always been The Right To Punish The Transgressor.
And here, what is the Right?
We know Sovereignty; head of the body, power and responsibility necessitated within.
On the one hand, that the head is responsible for the body, and that there can be only one head... ane on the other, more personal scale, just that no one would fault them for it. They would not be considered to be transgressing anyone else's laws.

So, justice? A world where the wronged rule as righteous fist against the wrong? The wronged is only discovered after. Are the transgressors not wronging the traditions? And is that not what we see at play?

There are traditions and transgressions.
Imbued with histories and powers unique to each.

And is that not the basic freedoms each anarchist desires? The freedom to transgress the past, the history that determines us in law, in schools, in the very layouts of the land we are born into. And The freedom to build our own traditions, our own history, our own community, the ways we want to, which, for many of us has been a transgressive break from the communities and traditions we were raised in?

To mend the world.
That remains the only goal I can see.

And I dont think it possible to plan the mended world, only to let it live.

@dennisthepeasant@kolektiva.social i think the next layer here is "who determines 'wronged'" and beyond that "in what way can we overcome oppressors utilizing the veneer of "wronged" to commit their violences"

@FalmerFlamingo24 im just fine! it was more embarrassing than painful

all our roads are literally encased in inches of ice

we're out of milk and its tooooo icy to even walk to get more sooo im using ice cream in my coffee

As queers and exiles of all kinds, remember that it's up to us to preserve the memory our love and living practices.

Many of us had no practices instilled in us by any queers in our lives, since many of us grew up in an era without queer elders, without a history being communicated by anyone trusted in our lives. Instead, many of us were struggling alone against the heavily Christian-coded practices of capitalist, consumerist hegemony.

We had to develop our own practices.
To keep ourselves and each other safer.
To accept and express ourselves.
To develop community, and love.

It's up to us to protect the memory of these practices, their living history. We cannot expect our memory to be kept by the textbooks of machine that produces workers.

We keep the memory of our love, our life, alive.

And we have the power to do more than those that came before us, so that those after us can walk with our knowledge, our failures.

Celebrate around shrines of your love. Let them burn as bright as your heart.

Build temples of rest for exiles. Let them be sanctuaries of self-acceptance as endless becomings.

be a faggot! 🌈
it's fun and it feels good!

i keep seeing stuff like this and my belief in owning your own shit is reinforced

https://mastodon.social/@jsrailton/109559563563724796

@dennisthepeasant@kolektiva.social according to the kolektiva code of conduct and stuff, you should be fine without being euphemistic; just yknow, don't post your crimes and stuff.

@eris you just got based, that's all