Golden Retriever GFWhy do I love fedi?
I was raised in a time before the internet. I was a Nerd. A nerd is a geek that can actually get a girl. That meant I read a lot and was quite an intellectual. Marxism, Herbert whatever so long as it was there. That meant I rubbed up against a lot of other leftist groups.
I had a friend that was expelled for bein anti-establishment. He would play his guitar, smoke weed, and rebel against the system. We'd talk theory and about the ills of society.
I had another friend who was part of the Chess club and Gymnastics club. I'm convinced he had severe ADHD. There was a time he was circling me on a unicycle, juggling bowling pins screaming about how my dad ( a physician ) had touched his balls ( a routine checkup ). He was the kid I learned the word chode from and about Badger Badger. He was a keen strategist and a pro at disruption.
I had another friend who dated one of my exes ( think of her as a greenpeace advocate ). He was another against rules and establishment. When we graduated he tried to marry my ex, her parents refused. He bailed her out a window, eloped, and they built a farm and are environmental pro-lgbt advocates.
I had plenty of other friends, nerds like myself, sociopaths that had to mentally quantify morality. And while this might sound like a setup for the perfect heist, this is what leftism was. This is what activism is. We were a motley band that would never do well on an algorithm. Our goal was to convince others of our point of view without getting punched or expelled. I even watched a wiccan get sent to detention for protesting Afghanistan by sitting through the pledge of allegiance. We were rebels, but we weren't reactionaries.
These other leftist, reactionary, purity culture seeking leftists existed but were rather isolated. Their points of view do absolutely well on Facebook and tiktok but they don't do well here. My unicycling juggling friend had a better understanding that disrupting fascists and bad conversation was easier by yelling "You're such a chode!" then playing purity politics ever would.
Fedi feels like that. It's more patient and caring and approachable community and less purtiy driven fanatascism. And sometimes I might even get slapped by a rubber chicken when someone asks me in what kind of seat pilots sits in?
A: "a COCK pit!"
#fedi #leftism
I was raised in a time before the internet. I was a Nerd. A nerd is a geek that can actually get a girl. That meant I read a lot and was quite an intellectual. Marxism, Herbert whatever so long as it was there. That meant I rubbed up against a lot of other leftist groups.
I had a friend that was expelled for bein anti-establishment. He would play his guitar, smoke weed, and rebel against the system. We'd talk theory and about the ills of society.
I had another friend who was part of the Chess club and Gymnastics club. I'm convinced he had severe ADHD. There was a time he was circling me on a unicycle, juggling bowling pins screaming about how my dad ( a physician ) had touched his balls ( a routine checkup ). He was the kid I learned the word chode from and about Badger Badger. He was a keen strategist and a pro at disruption.
I had another friend who dated one of my exes ( think of her as a greenpeace advocate ). He was another against rules and establishment. When we graduated he tried to marry my ex, her parents refused. He bailed her out a window, eloped, and they built a farm and are environmental pro-lgbt advocates.
I had plenty of other friends, nerds like myself, sociopaths that had to mentally quantify morality. And while this might sound like a setup for the perfect heist, this is what leftism was. This is what activism is. We were a motley band that would never do well on an algorithm. Our goal was to convince others of our point of view without getting punched or expelled. I even watched a wiccan get sent to detention for protesting Afghanistan by sitting through the pledge of allegiance. We were rebels, but we weren't reactionaries.
These other leftist, reactionary, purity culture seeking leftists existed but were rather isolated. Their points of view do absolutely well on Facebook and tiktok but they don't do well here. My unicycling juggling friend had a better understanding that disrupting fascists and bad conversation was easier by yelling "You're such a chode!" then playing purity politics ever would.
Fedi feels like that. It's more patient and caring and approachable community and less purtiy driven fanatascism. And sometimes I might even get slapped by a rubber chicken when someone asks me in what kind of seat pilots sits in?
A: "a COCK pit!"
#fedi #leftism
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