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Cake day: April 11th, 2024
  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyz•She-Ra Lives!English
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    2 days ago

    Didnt downvote but ill bite.

    Dont self-hate. There’s so many self-proclaimed misogynistic chauvanists to hate.

    You offer your humanity. That is unique and not about the gender binary.

    Your intrinsic traits mean people are more likely to listen to you.

    If you’re into a long form video essay, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBn5VF_On2k

    You get to be inclusivity batman

    If your up for a punk song https://propagandhi.bandcamp.com/track/refusing-to-be-a-man

    Gender is made up. A social construct used to divide, for the purpose of economic imperialism. If youre up for a book:

    https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781557100238

    Self-love is needed if you’re going to uplift others. Your intentions seem to be in the right place. Meet that with humility, humanity and accountabilty to learn and grow from mistakes and you’ll do fine.

    One more thing that feels relevant, a sentiment from a friend:

    I think that a lot of people on the left are focused on the idea of forgiveness coming from the people who were wronged, but I think that’s a misguided notion. It’s not my place to seek forgiveness from those I have wronged, and I don’t have any obligation to forgive those who have wronged me. I think that the harsh reality is that we live in an unjust world, where justice only exists if we fight tooth and nail for it, and will it into existence with our choices and actions.

    So then if you believe what you’re saying, be a part of the fight to make our grass the greener

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.world•How can we return to techno-optimism?English
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    2 months ago

    Relevant for me; i nearly changed careers out of tech entirely – being fed up with the state of the industry – but found some great folks in worker cooperative spaces. Here’s what’s kept me optimistic:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UmU1dSe3n0

    Plucked a vid off this channel and let it be known the idea of the channel name is to “reject isms/be your own ism”

    Solarpunk has replaced, for me, the plasteel+glass greenhouse skyscraper skylines. Afrofuturism offers a much better preconfiguration than anything of capitalist and anglo origins. Importantly, the dismantling of unjust heirarchies.

    I never lost the optimism, i just recognized that the root cause of our pain is not going to be addressed by technnlology (new invention) without an equal-or-greater effort into decolonizing and unlearning on the part of those building, using and promoting a given technology.

  • VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoWorld News@lemmy.world•'Neoliberal capitalism' has contributed to the rise of fascism, says Nobel laureateEnglish
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    3 months ago

    As someone who’s not a doomer, with her Rage fueled Hope, and Hope fueled Rage:

    Deep down, I know you cant believe this status quo can stand for much longer than it has.

    If someone earns a dollar they didnt work for, someone else worked for a dollar they didnt earn.

    As someone who’s transitioned out of economic privilege, I know how hollow all that iPicketFence really is.

    You cant really expect others to aspire to that plastic existence.

    You can’t really believe that endless colonization, that your comfort depending on someone of lower economic class existing, wont eventually result in fascism.

    So that’s why the “Scratch a lib and a fash bleeds” phrase rings true. Thank you for airing out all your laundry for all to screencap, demonstrating just how that when we discuss what neoliberalism pushes, we can see it for thr prefiguration of a right wing authoritarian regime waiting to cannibalize it’s own nation.

    Austerity Kills. Food Not Bombs. Housing is a human right. No Human is Illegal. Threats to the bodily autonomy of any Non-Man or Non-White are a threat for all. These are not utopia or naive, these are the bare basic conditions of humanity that have been stolen from the people, and causes for which local organizing today can tangibly improve lives being lived now AND prefigure a society that we can maybe even, someday have good reason to be proud of. Screw the fear, screw the dread, go build some connections with folks who are also putting in the work for these things, it reinvigorates the soul. (And sure helps reduce time spent with your pocket amulet)