Nothing I want to do is bannable for me saying it.
I just wanted empathy and a place to recontextualize failing to meet the increasingly hostile demands of daily life instead of the same blind toxic positivity that terminally individualizes all suffering and condescends empathy towards suffering outside of our immediate view while pathologically labelling every sign of collapse as just “the pendulum swinging one way before it comes back”.
while pathologically labelling every sign of collapse as just “the pendulum swinging one way before it comes back”.
I had a (actually relatively politically savvy, intelligent, thoughtful person who is aware of what’s happening) coworker try to say something like this to me a couple weeks back.
Like buddy I’ve been alive long enough to know what this pendulum you speak of looks like.
This ain’t it, boss. That’s pure copium.
It also ignores the fact that the pendulum doesn’t just automatically swing back to the left from momentum or whatever. It has to be clawed back, tooth and nail. Every single fucking time.
And it always ends up slightly further right when all is said and done and the next swing begins. Every time it goes less and less to the left until the entire fucking pendulum lives on the right.
None of those things you are indirectly gesturing at would do anything but hasten a collapse into a world even less welcoming to someone with a brain like mine.
This reads as too self-satisfied to believably come from someone who has to fight for anything. You know who you run into when you organize? People who are demoralized; a lot of them. It happens, and it especially happens now that we have liberals waking up who are bereft of language to describe a better world for themselves.
You’re also commenting this from a three-day-old, Australian account, and say you’re at the very least privileged enough to have been able to afford to leave the US, and feel comfortable not taking the risk of coming back to join in on any fighting. Is this a good example of someone who fights for the world they want to their full capactiy? Empathy is better than righteousness.
Nothing I want to do is bannable for me saying it.
I just wanted empathy and a place to recontextualize failing to meet the increasingly hostile demands of daily life instead of the same blind toxic positivity that terminally individualizes all suffering and condescends empathy towards suffering outside of our immediate view while pathologically labelling every sign of collapse as just “the pendulum swinging one way before it comes back”.
Bruh, get out of my brain.
I had a (actually relatively politically savvy, intelligent, thoughtful person who is aware of what’s happening) coworker try to say something like this to me a couple weeks back.
Like buddy I’ve been alive long enough to know what this pendulum you speak of looks like.
This ain’t it, boss. That’s pure copium.
It also ignores the fact that the pendulum doesn’t just automatically swing back to the left from momentum or whatever. It has to be clawed back, tooth and nail. Every single fucking time.
And it always ends up slightly further right when all is said and done and the next swing begins. Every time it goes less and less to the left until the entire fucking pendulum lives on the right.
What about the things you wish other people would do for you?
None of those things you are indirectly gesturing at would do anything but hasten a collapse into a world even less welcoming to someone with a brain like mine.
Well, I hope you have the world you’re willing to fight for.
This reads as too self-satisfied to believably come from someone who has to fight for anything. You know who you run into when you organize? People who are demoralized; a lot of them. It happens, and it especially happens now that we have liberals waking up who are bereft of language to describe a better world for themselves.
You’re also commenting this from a three-day-old, Australian account, and say you’re at the very least privileged enough to have been able to afford to leave the US, and feel comfortable not taking the risk of coming back to join in on any fighting. Is this a good example of someone who fights for the world they want to their full capactiy? Empathy is better than righteousness.
I’m afraid I disagree entirely with you. Thank you for your words.
Can’t say that’s surprising. You don’t have to admit it, but you should seriously consider it.
Fuck Off
Nothing on earth will make that happen.
Sure, than continue to undermine the things you care about with a righteous and naive attitude towards violence you self defeating fool.
Those are certainly words. Stringing them together with enough confidence doesn’t make them true.
The same can be said about your ignorant rhetoric.