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Cake day: February 13th, 2024

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  • I need America to not fall to the current fascists literally in power right now, who are making lists of people with genetic traits, who are kidnapping residents and citizens off the streets and putting them in black sites, and who are arresting judges, while they stiffle Congress, supreme courts, and state and city governments.

    I have one enemy who wants to kill me, and another who wears a colored shirt. I know who my enemy is and who I need to protest against.

    I know which plays a larger threat.





  • I’ll reflect on this more over time, but right now however the hermit want I think stems from three things:

    1: sometimes I do not want to be observed - I want to be loud and dance silly and be messy or more generically just be in a state that does not match how I want to present myself, and equally I do not want my loudness, silliness, messiness, etc to impact or inconvinence others even if they’re too kind/tolerant to complain

    2: I derive a lot of joy from learning and doing - be that replacing a toilet, raising chickens and eggs, creating a trail, cutting lumber and building a desk etc - and these activities are more complicated as part of a community and requires a level of communication and coordination that is hard for me

    3: I want control to do things the way I think they should be done, and not have to submit to others that have power to overrule me within my dominion - I don’t mind yielding control and power in community spaces so long as I have the option to then exert that lost control within my dominion - say I’d like a koi pond, ideally I can convince the community to work together to make a koi pond, in the event the community does not wish a koi pond, I can create one within my dominion if I’m so inclined - likewise say the community does not want to maintain safe drinking water in a bid to lower community costs, I want the ability to create my own safe drinking water

    Of course ideally all the members of the community, myself included, are aligned in the important things and willing to let accommodate individuality like in my examples - but when they don’t, and I think the reality is that for many things they won’t - is where the hermit cottage is valuable

    I would like to live in a community where it was essentially a main street and a small urban area for the trades and business workers and surrounded by many cottages that support and contribute to those businesses and vice versa

    I feel like I have a lot to offer to my community, and I have contributed in the past to my neighborhood and participate in events and meetings and projects - but still, I cannot play my music very loud, I cannot raise chickens or bees, I cannot go outside and feel alone without traveling for hours to a state forest, I cannot fix the broken street lamp outside my door on the sidewalk despite reporting it 5 months ago, etc

    I’m thinking out loud - and happy for any input you have, and maybe I’m missing something you already know


  • Something I struggle with is exactly this - of knowing that something greater than the sum can be built with a community, and that trusting in a community can lead to things unexpectedly greater than any single unit can make or design on their own - at the same time, I deeply value my independence and wanting to create my own expression and implementation of things outside of the input of others.

    I am complex enough to hold both of those ideas at the same time, but still, I want my multi acre hermit cottage inside of a thriving community and that feels impossible.

    Both a deep want to participate and contribute to the community- and to be independent and have access to solitude

    I don’t know how to connect the two yet, and I don’t want to chose one while forsaking the other.








  • From what I understand, this is a tiered boycott. Yes it starts today with a one day boycott, but there are more and longer and targeted boycotts planned. The other day I saw a flier but forgot to save it or I’d share. Hoping it pops back up again.

    I think that’s important because for a general strike and boycott to work, you need to train the people, and this is how you train the people. Most everyone can stop shopping for a day, next week they can stop shopping for two days, then not at amazon for a week, then not at Walmart for a week. Then not at any big store for a week, then a month, etc

    It dosent end with a one day boycott, it begins with a one day boycott!


  • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldI knew it
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    4 months ago

    Exactly

    This joke is literally “but what if they were gay, haha!” “I knew it!”

    Its literally the bully humor that we’ve fought for years and years to rid ourselves of, and here it is on the top with over 200 votes.

    This is hate wrapped in a virtuous wrapper at its most generous, and way too many people are just seeing the wrapper and not what’s just under its thin facade: homophobia.