Mastodawn

@vagina_museum It's not a 1 to 1 parallel to the severed dick museum, is it? I'm scared to check...

The best advice I've ever received for finding community is that "you will find them exactly where you expect them to be."

SonI always joked that my community was all disabled people who were too anxious to socialize. So I put out some feelers and whaddya know, now I have a community!

Stabbi Mar 13

It starts to make a lot more sense why Americans haven't overthrown the government yet when you start digging into the cause of death in America vs the rest of the world.
Especially when you consider how many lumpenproles die without notifying the government.
Wanna make the stats even more shocking? Have you ever questioned why the US splits 'Hispanic' apart from 'native' on every form? Same reason they say the natives are "already dead"

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Stabbi Mar 13

@dukepaaron I see what you mean. Though I have been seeing less of this mindset over time, especially when Tiktok and rednote came around. I think this is the sort of thing that happens when you are connected across the globe, but don't actually have personal connections to someone or somewhere.
Then again, this seems to also be a problem in Europe so perhaps it's part of the abusive tradition.

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Stabbi Mar 12

@dukepaaron Perhaps it has something to do with alienation. Interacting with the US government is deliberately made as difficult as possible and the people with power only socialize with others in power. So that means that the only real way we can interact is through violence, but there are two key problems. We have no clear target, and statistically speaking very few people are comfortable harming others.

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Stabbi Mar 12

@dukepaaron it gives the same vibe as the scapegoating of Hitler and the Nazis for the crimes of colonialism. They're horrible people, but they weren't Leopold in the Congo, or the British in India. I think people are attempting to launder the sins of neoliberalism onto israel and Trump in the same way.
That's kinda the problem with the great man theory of life.

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Stabbi Oct 7

@nvyoung I agree that it is unlikely to happen at this time -- because of the lack of planning, but not everyone needs to participate for a general strike to work.
Especially with a globalized economy, an economy can be tanked by a relatively small amount of essential workers. During the shutdown it took less than a week to almost collapse the US economy despite most people still working.