Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

@coriander if you live in washington and vote democrat for president you are literally throwing away your vote

@akjcv https://musicbrainz.org/doc/LinkedBrainz is probably a place to start

@akjcv i ask these questions because i do not think that acknowledging that whiteness destroyed our homeland and erased our culture means that we should submit, call ourselves rootless, say we have no homeland and no culture. whiteness has destroyed many homelands and many cultures and most do not have the privilege of submitting. as someone born in north america, i have never seen the geography which my tongue developed to communicate within (a geography which no longer exists). but this is not so unusual. many others speak with foreign tongues.

i think the comparison to diaspora is not too far off, personally. and i think this also informs the relation to the land we are on: it is not our land; we do not speak its language. at the same time, it is the land which nurtured us; we have a debt to those who can return the favour. (we ourselves cannot, not yet.)

but i don’t see this as such a permanently sad thing, necessarily. we CAN support the caretakers of the land which raised us. we CAN build an international community which provides care and support to human beings. without being able to directly support the land, we have to make a choice as to what we WILL support. but i think we can still choose well, we can still support good things and live a life with purpose.

@akjcv i find it interesting that this person says “It is a million specific places that human communities must relate to, each of them different” and yet, (1) never bothers to actually position THEMSELVES, speaking only of a nameless forest and childhood memories which could be transposed across any number of forests and any number of childhoods, and (2) goes on to talk about “white people” as tho they are all the same, or at least, presently, mostly interchangeable. is that right? certainly, white people are bound together by their mistakes, their colonialisms and settlements, their historic wielding of power; that is what makes them white.

but were all the people who walked those paths the same people? or were they, as the contemporary american scholars would have it, a great many different people, who gave up (or were pressured to give up) their individual identities in exchange for a privileged, and more liveable, place in society’s orders?

and do all those who descend from those people form the same people? or is there, perhaps, a difference between those who grew up in the humid midatlantic swamps versus the cold deserts of the inland northwest? is the land not also, perhaps, part of what raised us, and part of the culture to which we belong? (i think the piece is arguing in favour of this one)

@coriander true in both senses of the phrase

@coriander i wish this worked in humid climates

@coriander i thought i didn’t give a shit about baseball but actually the mariners are the only team i could never bring myself to root against so

@aescling @packetcat which is to say i’m not sure stalinists would have a better take here; they would just blame the CIA and start executing people lol

@aescling @packetcat « Mao Zedong famously declared that Stalin was 70% good and 30% bad. Maoists criticized Stalin chiefly for his view that bourgeois influence within the Soviet Union was primarily a result of external forces, to the almost complete exclusion of internal forces, and his view that class contradictions ended after the basic construction of socialism. Mao also criticized Stalin's cult of personality and the excesses of the great purge. But Maoists praised Stalin for leading the Soviet Union and the international proletariat, defeating fascism in Germany, and his anti-revisionism. » (Wikipedia)

this tracks with my understanding; Stalin fell prey to blaming “outside agitators” for the contradictions within the Communist Party; Mao instead correctly recognized that there were plenty of internal contradictions even within a nominally successful communist state

@wikipediahaiku you misspelled “title”

@coriander this here was peak Madden https://youtu.be/Gx-ppcV8uIM

@coriander i enjoyed early 00s Madden but like i want to play one good football game not an annual mediocre one