Notices by Becci Cat / she (kittybecca@social.coop)

by positivity i don't mean "everything is peachy," i just mean there was more of an assumption of good faith, less blaming and shaming, more interest in solving problems rather than constantly trying to accrue as many boosts as possible by having the hottest take on the latest drama

when i joined the Fediverse... early 2017 i think... i remember a certain positivity, a certain constructiveness, a certain idea of getting away from the "perpetual outrage machine" - this is something people on the Fediverse were calling birdsite at the time, believe it or not. even queer people were saying this.

someone told me the other day that The Discourse was as old as the Fediverse itself, but in either case, i'm not getting what i came here for, or thought i was getting originally.

people should be allowed to be wrong without being sacrificed to the altar of Discourse.

i like mastodon because it's more about the social aspect and has far less to do with keeping up on big personalities and i hope it stays that way.

tolerance is always tentative; it always means that whenever the dominant group wants, they can decide to stop tolerating, because they still have all the power.

of course it is possible to get a large number of Jews to go along with netanyahu's nonsense, because a lot of them do so in israel. but it requires the sort of brainwashing that can only be administered by mandatory military service. american Jews, thankfully, are not subjected to such affronts to our dignity and soul. that's why support for israel generally comes from extreme fundamentalists and opportunistic fascists who see Jews as the ideal buffer between white europeans and Muslims.

it's fair to say israel enjoys far more support among antisemites than it does among american Jews.

apparently the u.s. congress is once again considering a bill to classify criticism of israel as antisemitism. this is, of course, more ridiculous even than ever before. whether it's sebastian gorka or steve bannon, antisemites are israel's best friends nowadays.

"Left Unity Won't Save You" https://spacegeist.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/left-unity-wont-save-you/

the fediverse is a great example of how prefigurative politics can work and work great

what if there had been no alternatives in place when the Cambridge Analytica thing happened? or when the u.s. anti-sex-worker law passed?