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All it means when people say âyouâre speaking from a place of privilegeâ is that youâre likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. Itâs not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.
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âthrift stores in my area donât sell punk/goth clothesâ YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT PUNK/GOTH YOURSELF. GET OUT OF THE MINDSET THAT ALT FASHION IS JUST PRE-MADE WAITING FOR YOU ON A SHELF. BUY THAT âWORLDâS BEST GRANDMAâ SHIRT AND CUT IT UP FOR PATCHES AT LEAST!! MAKE IT YOUR OWN!!!!!! FUCK
poem, âthereâs laundry to do and a genocide to stop,â by vinay krishnan (x). transcription in alt text
The thing I keep coming back to, with all the *gestures expansively* is that real life doesn't have peaceful epilogues.
Every single win has to be defended. Forever. I'm sorry. It sucks. The Nazis lost until they stopped losing. The US had abortion rights, and then 50 years later it didn't. Empires fall, and then they invade other countries again. Oppressive regimes are overthrown and replaced with other oppressive regimes. You will never finish the work etc etc etc. Which is why it's so fucking important to be able to acknowledge and celebrate progress, when it happens. The people who came before you didn't put in all that work for nothing, and you aren't, either. You can't save it all for the Ultimate Victory because there is never going to be an Ultimate Victory. There's no such thing as a time when everything is good, and ours shall not be the commune of Heaven.
Itâs all a cycle. A constant struggle. But that doesnât mean itâs not worth it.
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When I was in ninth grade I wanted to challenge what I saw as a very stupid dress code policy (not being allowed to wear spikes regardless of the size or sharpness of the spikes). My dad said to me, âWhat is your objective?â
He said it over and over. I contemplated that. I wanted to change an unfair dress code. What did I stand to gain? What did I stand to lose? If what I really wanted was to change the dress code, what would be my most effective potential approach? (He also gave me Discourses on the Fall of Rome by Titus Livius, Machiavelliâs magnum opus. Of course heâd already given me The Prince, Five Rings, and The Art of War.)
I ultimately printed out that phrase, coated it in Mod Podge, and clipped it to my bathroom mirror so I would look at it and think about it every day.
What is your objective?
Forget about how you feel. Ask yourself, what do you want to see happen? And then ask, how can you make it happen? Who needs to agree with you? Who has the power to implement this change? What are the points where you have leverage over them? If you use that leverage now, will you impair your ability to use it in the future? Getting what you want is about effectiveness. It is not about being an alpha or a sigma or whatever other bullshit the menâs right whiners are on about now. You wonât find any MRA talking points in Musashi, because they are not relevant.
I had no clear leverage on the dress code issue. My parents were not on the PTA; neither were any of my friendâs parents who liked me. The teachers did not care about this. Ultimately I just wore what I wanted, my patent leather collar from Hot Topic with large but flattened spikes, and I had guessed correctlyâthe teachers also did not care enough to discipline me.
I often see people on tumblr, mostly the very young, flail around in discourse. They donât have an objective. They donât know what they want to achieve, and they have never thought about strategizing and interpersonal effectiveness. No one can get everything they want by being an asshole. You must be able to work with other people, and that includes smiling when you hate them.
Read Machiavelli. Start with The Prince, but then move on to Discourses. Read Musashiâs Five Rings. Read The Art of War. Theyâre classics for a reason. They canât cover all situations, but they can do more for how you think about strategizing than anything youâre getting in middle school and high school curricula.
Donât vote third party unless you can tell me not only what your objective is but also why this action stands a meaningful chance of accomplishing it. Otherwise, back up and approach your strategy from a new angle. I donât care how angry you are with Biden right now. He knows about it, and he is both trying to do something and not doing enough. I care about what will happen to millions of people if we have another Trump presidency. Look up Ross Perot, and learn from our past. Find your objective. If it is to stop the genocide in Palestine now, call your elected representatives now. They donât care about emails; they care about phone calls, because they live in the past. I know this because I shadowed a lobbyist, because knowing how power works is critical to using it.
How do you think I have gotten two clinics to start including gender care in their planning?
Start small. Chip away. Keep working. Find your leverage; figure out how and when to effectively use it. Choose your battles, so that you can concentrate on the battle at hand instead of wasting your resources in many directions. Learn from the accumulated wisdom of people who spent their lives learning by doing, by making mistakes, by watching the mistakes of their enemies.
Donât be a dickhead. Be smarter than I was at 14. Ask yourself: what is your objective?
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hey white leftists
seeing a lot of white people and i just have to say
I need all white people to read this like 10 times, just because you see yourself as progressive donât mean you get to talk over people of color and what we side eye
A Goodbye Kiss on the Pavement
quilted wallhanging by Eilidh Weir (All That Is Braw)
girls will be boys
boys will be girls
fascists will be shot
from river to the sea
Three months, thatâs all it took THREE MONTHS for McDonaldâs Malaysia to lose $1 million, Starbucks to lose $11 billion in stock value, Disneyâs shares to fall by 0.59% on 12/10/2023, KFC to lose its stronghold on Egypt etc. I cannot empathise this enough, all this happened in THREE MONTHS.
Turkey's parliament removed Coca-Cola and Nestle products from its restaurants, McDonaldâs Malaysia is suing BDS Malaysia, in a desperate attempt to win back customers Starbucks is offering multiple discounts and sales etc. Boycotts work, keep up the pressure!
this is so compelling and heartbreaking and important and i wanted to share it. this is the reality of getting an abortion even with roe v wade in place and it's about to get worse.
people calling deer Old Gods or whatever are silly but some people go far the other way. they are wild animals over a hundred pounds. sometimes when i get home around midnight they'll be sitting on the lawn, staring at me. i know that they'd rather flee than fight but man there's something about seeing an animal almost as big as you are and knowing that it sees you.
Reminds me of when i was talking to a guy in college who had only ever lived in city suburbs. I was talking about hunting and mentioned how sometimes deer in rut will just stomp hunters to death and he laughed like "wow that's an embarrassing way to go" and i had to tell him no, it's actually pretty dangerous. It's harder to shoot smth right on top of you esp with a hunting rifle, and an angry deer in rut will easily stomp you to death even if you get a heart shot while it's charging. Adrenaline alone can have a deer sprint a mile without a functioning heart.
Like, they're not spooky greater beings or laughable pests, they're wild animals in all their silly, annoying, dangerous beauty
Every living thing has a little bit of cosmic terror, a little bit of silly little guy, a little bit of legitimately dangerous rage and a little bit of sitting around chewing grass enjoying the mundane. It's like the four elements of being alive or something.
Is this about how ppl born in the late 20th century have a unique and fluid experience of navigating barriers to information access and its our responsibility to teach the younger folks how to tinker with technology to avoid being spoonfed everything we experience in order to have critical skills that keep us informed, autonomous, and able to hold power despite looming threats of authoritarianism or..........???
i love love lOVE the additional element of âthe only information thatâs free is the âhow weâre going to hellââ BS. Chefâs kiss.
