Jenniferplusplus2d ago

One of the things I like about the fediverse, as a concrete network of real people, is that you all tend to at least recognize the actions of power. Not perfectly, and not universally. But on average, you can see the outcome of some exercise of power, and then point back to the power that produced it.

This means that things don't seem like inevitable, uncontrollable, acts of nature to you. You can imagine a different outcome than the one we got, even if you don't know how to bring it about.

And oh my god is that refreshing. It's something that I have found in zero other places.

Show threadNicolai von Neudeck2d ago
@jenniferplusplus Nobody here who has *no* understanding of politics. Different ones, but nobody without it
Show threadNicolai von Neudeck
@jenniferplusplus I’m very frustrated though with the tendency of far too many here to ask „cui bono?“ but not any further than that
Apr 10 at 9:36pmWeb
Show threadJenniferplusplus2d ago
@nicolai true. People here do not, in general have a theory of power. I can't expect them to know how to oppose power, to gain it, to weild it, or even to distribute it. But they can usually at least identify that it exists. The bar is on the floor. But even so, this is still the only environment I spend time in that can clear it