Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"leftists don't even necessarily mean capitalism is bad"

Yeah we do tho. We do mean that.

**So what is this Defaidodon thing that people are talking about today?**

Defaidodon is a bit of a play on words, with the first part being the Welsh word for sheep (defaid - in this case a plural word), plus the second half of Mastodon, to make a new hashtag. It grew out of some silliness on the Welsh instance toot.cymru around the time when lots of people joined up.

#Defaidodon
#DyddDefaidodon
#DefaidodonDay

@nnedi “The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.” - Ursula Le Guin

Friendly reminder to wait for the remaining 45% of Californian ballots to get reported before trying to draw conclusions about the popular vote total

Suggestions, please, and reposts.

I want to develop a local network of trust for sharing care activities across households and without the intermediation of money.

Local means within a 30-minute walk from my residence.

Network of trust means each participant in the network has clear and reliable expectations about what others in the network can do

Care activities means child care, elder care, tutoring, home and garden care, cooking, household chores, shopping and many other things we tend to think of as internal to each household (or paid service work).

Across households means not bounded by individual residences or family relations.

Without the intermediation of money means no form of monetary compensation, neither directly nor through some assignment of points or other values.

Just people helping each other.

I feel like I am describing something not at all new and yet bewilderingly unknown and complex in the present.

#MutualAid
#anarchism

I am so sorry.

"A security culture is a set of customs shared by a community whose members may be targeted by the government, designed to minimize risk. Having a security culture in place saves everyone the trouble of having to work out safety measures over and over from scratch, and can help offset paranoia and panic in stressful situations—hell, it might keep you out of prison, too."

— What is Security Culture? | Crimethinc.

https://ru.crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/what-is-security-culture

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/113441442613461097

there comes a point where people need to grow up and realize that it's not people "voting with their wallets", or young men alienated by feminists who blame them for everything, or middle america abandoned by coastal elites

folks know what trump is and chose him as a weapon to be wielded against the people they want to hurt

remind yourself of the old essay "the only moral abortion is my abortion"

trump voters are exactly these people: they'll take your kindness one second and tell you you're a murderer in the same breath

they're the people who take welfare and then rail about "welfare queens" getting rich off of food stamps

the people who yell about free speech but silence everyone they disagree with

the immigrants who hate immigration

you can't appeal to them because these are, fundamentally, people whose biggest problem is with the very idea of living in a fair society where people who are Not Them are their equals

that's why they target who they target

by the way, resist the temptation of heavily drinking, smoking, gambling, or drugging your misery away. all that money you would spend has a chance of helping or even saving you otherwise, and ephemeral euphoric haze isn't going to undo the fascist reality, as much as it is a bummer.

happens everywhere

Poland, Germany, the US

only thing they can achieve by trying to become more like the growing right extreme options is loosing their voters towards the center that find it absolutely unacceptable

people supporting the extreme right will never be able to trust Kamala Harris, Olaf Scholz or Donald Tusk no matter what they say, even if they're willing to agree with certain steps they are taking (like xenophobic policies)

the only thing that can achieve is solidifying support for the extreme views they had already, with the same preference they had already

damn i wish centrist and liberal parties all over the world stopped appealing to the electorate they have absolutely no chance of convincing and instead focused on maybe not discouraging those who actually might want to vote for them lmao

happens all over the world with the rise of far-right

no guys, the solution to growing support of these groups is not shifting towards them

their voters will never trust you and the only thing you can achieve is reassuring them that "yeah, our beloved fascists were right all along" :)