tools for commensality 🧿RE: https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/116393292245545697
this may be more important antifascist praxis than is currently acknowledged (the article about Mpls is strong on this point)
Oh, Chicago was doing it too!
Protesters mock ICE, Broadview police at dildo day of action outside detention center
The spectacle saw hundreds of phallic items, big and small, flood the designated free speech zone—a small barricaded area where people have been permitted to demonstrate since President Trump’s mass deportation blitz swept through Chicagoland.
TinDrum@inquiline i'd be right into this if they were paper mache or something
i'm pretty confident that this is a situation where innovation would not be frowned upon 😂
@inquiline ok sure and it's not appropriate to be getting critical on this kind of detail but it's just such a huge symptom writ large that mass protest is hoeing through plastic consumer products that're unlikely to be reused for anything (nor recycled)
@inquiline it also occurred to me the bulk of those pussy hats were made of rayon or whatever
@inquiline i mean seems to me a huge part of the joy in sharing images of protestors is the hand made signage
how would it be if all the signage were pre-made corflutes or whatever
@inquiline soz i hate that it bothers me so much but it really does
i agree with the critique but i think where i land with this is that the scale of waste here is de minimis compared to the scale of destruction (very much including plastics in ecologies) that's happening with fascists in power. so if this makes them look small and foolish, it's for the greater good and i care less than i might
however here's some papier mache protest art for you, from Mpls in January (sorry for Bsky link):
https://bsky.app/profile/douglasfarmer.bsky.social/post/3mcngyo2ijk2s
@inquiline yes, no argument but even so the point stands imo
if folks have time to get their signs made up at kinkos with text they found in insta it's not gonna hit quite the same when they could've used that time to whack it up with a sharpie and their own personal rage induced quips
jelly dildos make great missiles and they bounce and wobble and they're just great for purpose, no argument on that score. scale of destruction of th admin's not in question as against the comparatively minimal waste but it's not such a stretch to link consumer culture and indiff to petro waste to the genesis of this particuloar facist formation
@inquiline i don't wanna waste your time, i completely accept your points i just hate this particular aspect of contemp protest is all. i'll do it quietly tho, carry on
there is really a lot going on here, agree. if you're interested i like this essay by heather davis which takes up this topic, in a way.
https://heathermdavis.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Philosophia_Davis.pdf
@inquiline thank you!