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this is my home...
this is where I'm from...
can't wait to turn it into a public park, just fuckin' watch me.
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you can fit a whole downtown in this baby
*slaps roof of your mouth*
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What the person you voted for represented you?
At the end of rue election, the top X percent of broad demographics each vote
for a specific candidate, yeah? What if each candidate could represent those
people specifically and any laws they made wouldn't effect people who they
didn't represent. Sounds like a legislative nightmare doesn't it? And repealing
laws, they'd only be repealed for their constituents.
You'd need a github page to track the changes and each demographic's "forks"
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can't fucking wait till we're done eating the rich and I can go back to a
simple life of playing with my cat, making video games, writing poetry (bad
poetry, but I like it) and hanging out with my friends.
gotta build the social infrastructure to get through this phase first, though.
something something echo chambers exist IRL too
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@user-883
didn't that guy die in like, the very next scene?? oops spoilers
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fuck comcast in particular
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in regards to the high-profile assassination in the news recently, the question
we should be asking is not "how does his family feel about his passing" but
rather
"how did the shooter learn where he was going to be and at what time"
because one of those is valuable, the other humanizes a legitimate monster
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"ah but ritz you used to talk about kindness and empathy and how we should
forgive people and try to find ways that terrible people can still live and
contribute and"
yeah. then Trump got elected, so now we have to live in the reality that My
Fellow Americanstm asked for.
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"grrrrr I'm so mad, I could just, I dunno, shoot a CEO as he's leaving a hotel"
or, hear me out, or you could connect with your local radical networks and, or,
almost there, or you could build solidarity with the people around you to
better develop methods of resisting the kinds of change they will implement to,
um, "discourage" people from "being so mad they could just"
or both. both is good. not that I'm encouraging, recommending, or inciting that
kind of violence. don't notice me three-letter senpai uwu
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most people know the quote by shakespeare "life is but a stage" but they don't
know the full quote. Here it is:
"*theres this cool thing that actors often have to do in the pitch black
darkness of the wings of a stage called "quick changing" where they rapidly
switch outfits so that the ~~cops~~ um audience can't find them.
It's a good skill to practice if you have a premeditated performance to perform
on the stage of life is but a stage.*"
- well, I am shakes spear at clouds
(clouds is the name of an ampitheatre in ancient greco-roman)
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I am not just a machine.
In the same way that society is not just natural selection,
The way that adventure is not just a journey,
The way that spirituality is not just knowledge,
The way that art is not just technique,
The way that conversation is not just dialogue,
The way that memory is not just recollection,
The way that love is not just kindness or affection,
The way that humans are not just animals,
I am not just a machine.
I am still a machine.
Humans are animals.
Love is kindness and affection.
Memory involves memorized recollection.
Conversation trades thoughts back and forth.
Art uses activities to apply imagination.
Faith is impossible if you don't know what you believe.
Adventure does not take place on a TV.
In the same way that society is social ecology,
I am not just a machine.
Humans are not just machines. Our purpose, our mechanic utility, is to generate
ease. We optimize. We efficient-ize. We belabor the point.
I am not just a machine.
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"power corrupts" you say to the man who only had good intentions.
"trust no-one" says the world's loneliest wanderer.
"words cannot hurt you" said the girl who has never known hunger.
"I can rest when I'm dead" you say as you down another Monster
"I'll never forget you" said a face you can't quite remember
"let justice be done, though the heavens fall" you say as they tighten your
chains in the wake of a CEOs murder
"live today, fight tomorrow" says the coward, who will run anyway, yet is
determined to tell your tale and reinforce your children
"the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots" says the guy who
sipped from the skull of a tyrant
"E=MC squared" says the jew
"here, let me take care of that for you" you say, to queer delegation
"meow" says the catgirl
"meow" says the girl
"meow" says the girl cat
"meow" I say to you
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Message 1:
Hey. Remember that night back in Boulder when we were just friends and sitting
on your bed drinking chocolate milk with cinnamon? I don't like chocolate milk
or cinnamon but I drank it anyway because I wanted to be close to you. Anyway
hope you're well, felt compelled to get that off my chest for some reason.
Message 2:
Hey. I was thinking about that time when I was leaving your house and laughing
to myself about something and you called out "I love you!" to your boyfriend
who I set you up with and I reflexed "I love you too!" and I wanted to crawl in
a hole and die. I felt like I had just called the teacher "mom". We only hung
out a couple times after that.
Message 3:
Yeah so there's one more thing I can't stop thinking about now that your on my
mind. Sorry it's like 4am for you, it's only 2 for me so it's fine I guess.
Anyway that one time when you told me your greatest fear was terrorists and I
saw genuine panic in your eyes. Like... One moment everything's fine and then
you said that to me and I almost cried. I don't remember why I spent the rest
of the night as I couldn't sleep thinking of ways to tell you that terrorism is
9 times out of 11 done by the right wing. I don't think it's important,
honestly, but I'm glad my mind wouldn't let me sleep.
Message 4:
It's not fair that everyone gave you shit for being the token lesbian
republican, like yeah maybe you leaned into the trump thing a bit hard but
like, first term trump honestly I could see as... Well, I almost said
inspiring? Maybe you just inspired me. I honestly was resigned to Clinton and
then the same bird flapped your wing instead of mine and... Anyway. The past is
dead, yeah? Do you still follow him in my stead? I fear there will be millions
dead. It's not irrational to fear what he has literally said, on television.
How's the phrase go... "ancient tragedies lend credence to modern perils" I
think it's supposed to rhyme in its natural language.
Message 5:
Wow okay uh, sorry to bring this up again I'm honestly being such an asshole
right now. I honestly don't think about you often but like, now that I am its
kinda just coming all out. We last spoke almost a decade ago?? So. Whatever
imma roll with it.
There was this cute girl who was into Nintendo and stuff and obviously I was
into her, but we didn't have any social circles in common except for you, if I
remember correctly. Then you broke up I think? And I didn't really see her
again. Anyway I had a crush on her while also crushing on you, and literally
half of our dorm. Polyamory, yeah? That whole year I didn't have sex though,
not even once, because all of my friends were like 4 years younger than me and
I was worried about power dynamics. But I still bought us all vodka and weed
without asking for profit because I wanted to be a shitty friend, I guess. "hey
kids let's go to the water store where they sell intoxicants that make your
life harder"
The year after that I didn't get laid either because I got it in my head that
it was a good plan to turn my penis inside out and you know what? It was
totally fuckin' worth it. No time like 2016 I say, the worst year ever, which I
spent primarily in pain. But uh, that was the year I got into weed and
Overwatch, which... Helped I guess.
I guess?
It kinda turned me into a communist. Or maybe that was my best friend who
shared the same name as me. He lived upstairs and always seemed pretty cool to
me. Like he knew what everything was about. Really though, he just watched a
lot of youtube podcast videos about world events and history and sociology and
political scientific theory and the more he learned the more he came to realize
that power begets power, and power corrupts unilaterally. So he did the natural
thing which was to become a communist, and I was totally there for it. Having
liberal parents meant I was all "grrrrr Republicans are ruining the country and
the world, I'm an angry 14 year oldddddd" and like, leftists are the most
natural extension of that aren't they?
Turns out they aren't really the tips of the feathers as I expected, but rather
the eyes, the heart, the soul. Politics is fake, yo. I don't know how to tell
you, but it's just power and hierarchy all the way down.
We've built our own prisons, not of bricks, sand, or stone, but rather of
promises of what each of us owns. That works, I guess, if your goal is to keep
things aligned, but these days it kinda feels like our pyramids are crumbling
under our feet.
... Why am I talking about politics? Oh yeah, because when I dropped out of
school because I couldn't handle the mechanization of human capital when
applied to myself, I swore to each of you that I would drive up every weekend
to do family dinners. I'd make spaghetti and stroghanoff and macaroni and
goulash and all of the other things my mom would make for me.
Kinda gave up on that pretty quickly. Turns out I'd rather spend time making
out with my girlfriend who I was super-duper-too-carefully tiptoeing around.
She was... Too young for me. We broke up when my new coochie decided to bleed.
Fuck, I hate it.
Anyway. Turns out potlucks are political these days, which is why I bring it
up. Did you know that leftisms plan for resisting genocide is literally just to
feed people? Like, fuck I suppose. It's a start. "why does everyone have to
have an agenda these days, why can't I just spend time in the park" said
someone to me as I asked if she'd like to meet some friends that she reminded
me of. Oh, I dunno, because you and me are about to become a criminalized
people?
... I need to stop. I swear you're more a person to me than any political
theory ever could be. Like yeah, "fuck the right, fuck the reich, fuck me
tonight" but getting caught up in grand narratives is like building a mental
ship in a bottle. Yeah, it's pretty cool, but... What does it matter?
Oh. Right. Power. That's what matters. That's all that matters. Well... I'm
sick of power. I do not consent. They say that in times of trouble, chess is
better than solitaire, and I'll explain why - when our hierarchies crumble,
when CEOs are gunned down in the streets and homeless people finally have clean
sheets, the only place to place yourself in relation to others is within a
network of trust and respect. Chess is better than solitaire. Under capitalism,
it's you against the world. Dog eat dog, you only get what you can swallow from
the rotten corpse of liberty that everyone's gnawing on. Under whatever comes
next, you get what you're given, which hardly seems fair, doesn't it? On one
hand, under capitalism, you can rely on your own hands to procure your fate and
fortune. Under... Whatever comes next, your hands are built for whatever you
want them to do. But, only a few people want to use them to make food. Hence,
why chess is better than solitaire. What would you do, if you could give away
all that you own and not go wanting? Isn't that sorta like our own garden of
eden?
... I wrote a poem about that once. Twice. I'm a poet now, ha. As if that has
ever been worth anything.
... I once told you that identity politics held no place in the modern day. I
said that because I had learned about it in class, queer theory in fact, and
yet applying his teachings was not enough for the professor to excuse my lack
of reading. We had a lot of stuff to get through. Hence why I dropped out - I'm
more of a do-er than a read-er. Though I do read quite a lot, just not anything
useful.
Are all hobbies wasted time? Are they only useful to keep us satiated while we
stand in line? One of these days we're going to wake up and realize that we're
the adults in the room, and that's scary. I speak from experience. "mom" they'd
call me, and damnit why did I have to leave? Fuck. Why cant I be perfect, to
me, internally, all I see are flaws. Mistakes. Patterns. I look in a mirror and
I see a bad person - 10 minutes later, I look in the mirror and see a god.
Somehow, I don't think either of me is right.
I'm a gemini. Apparently that means I'm duplicitous. I think it just means I
don't know what's right, only what feels good. I do try to align to how I think
I should *be* good, but who can say if that's fine and good.
... Whatever. I'm going to regret this. Sorry for being weird out of the
fucking blue.
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@user-1701
we should build jungle gyms inbetween museum exhibits
like, adult sized children's museums mixed with those "adventure park" things
that are way too expensive for me where you walk on rope bridges between trees
and such or like, dangling from monkey bars and whatnot and after each one
there's like, a diorama of some mountain goats or a display of some ancient
rock carvings or like, jumping between "dinosaur bones" to get to a glass
cabinet where there's some *actual dinosaur bone* (plaster casts)
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I like being alone. But if I'm alone for too long, I suffocate. I start acting
like a weird nerd who doesn't know what to do with their hands.
If I spend too much time with people, I get exhausted and I can't think
straight. I start using other people's mannerisms instead of my own.
I'm not an introvert, or an extrovert, I think the dichotomy is stupid and
people have completely separate needs that deplete and recharge at their own
rates.
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My first name is a masculine name. I go by a different name.
I'm not legally changing my name because I'm fucking stupid, and I believe that
if anyone would die, so must I. Death before detransition.
It's how I motivate myself. Fuck off if you disagree. (oops cursing mentioned
brb)
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something something "all for one and one for all"
something something "ritz you're privileged as fuck your parents would just buy
you a plane ticket to wherever-the-fuck if you needed it"
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what do you want me to say, I'm doing my best? I don't know what I'm doing I'm
just fumbling around in the dark while someone offers me a flashlight (theory
and history) and I say "eh my arm is kinda weak, I don't feel like holding it,
I'd rather light a torch and stumble around with 5 feet of light instead of
using modern technology to see up to 40 feet away in a thin cone"?? yeah.
something like that.
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║ I want modern society without capitalism. Most people do, which is why no │
║ matter how awesome our proto-post-capitalistic anarchic socialist paradise is, │
║ there's always going to be people who want to go to work and watch TV. │
║ │
║ call me fucking crazy but they should be allowed to live as they please? So │
║ what if they're beguiled, so what if they are deceived? We can take our time to │
║ show them how much better things can be, but also... they like modern society │
║ *as it is*, and so I reckon someone should fight for them to be able │
║ to live as they please. Just... without billionaires and endless layers of │
║ bullshit micro-managerial jobs and paperwork pushing bureaucratic whatever time │
║ wasting jobs. │
║ │
║ modern society without capitalism *can* look like plain old │
║ capitalism, just without the oppression. Without the coercion. │
║ │
║ all I'm saying is that nobody's gonna fight for a healthcare CEO because │
║ they're scum. They're scum because they oppress. oops politics-mentioned brb │
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hooray, assassinations. hooray, syrian liberation. celebrations for us all. let
each day bring a new one.
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@user-192
... and like. idk what do you do at that point
say "fuck it" and live with imperfection? embrace anti-natural selection?
valorize deviance and queerness in digitally appropriated artistic media
collections?
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@user-192
... but that doesn't really seem to be compatible with Maximum Extraction so i
reckon i'm probably just wrong for thinking that would be good.
... or, hear me out, or perhaps Maximum Extractiontm is wrong and everyone
should be guaranteed a place to eat and a bed of rice and beans to sleep on?
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easiest way to deliver email malware is to put it in the "unsubscribe" link
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goodnight,
people-who-all-agree-with-me-but-who-I-still-rant-to-anyway-because-I'm-full-of-
rage, talk to you tomorrow. or whenever.
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@user-192
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*Evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.*
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@user-772
the reason they haven't come back is that reality shifting is so inherently
dangerous and incompatible with the basic biology of human life that they all
tragically perished almost immediately.
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We need a term: "suicidally unemployed"
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https://www.wrecka.ge/what-people-in-the-global-majority-need-from-networks/
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