Notices by Shufei 🈳 (shufei@mastodon.sdf.org)

@dirtycommo It makes the hipsters feel better about themselves, though.

@dirtycommo I guess what I mean is that for the most part I’m really too tired and old for waving red banners and singing the Internationale. I don’t think checking our privilege will heal the planet either, like the identarians proffer. I want, nay, demand policy changes. I don’t care if they call it a corporate kingdom and crown Bozo emperor if the plutocrats are cast down, children stop dying from hunger, if healthcare is universal, and the forests stop getting torched. I want the policy.

@dirtycommo Honestly, and I’m highly ambivalent for personal reasons, communism as a “flag” doesn’t have a great reputation naturally because of the authoritarian directions Lenin, Mao etc. took it. But the ideal dimension yet has some merit if it is held as a worthy framework for practical policy directions. I wouldn’t mind the Gay Space Luxury Communism myself, if it had healthy libertarian / democratic lineaments, but doubt communism, ideologically, is how it might happen most places now.

@dirtycommo I think I understand what you mean... And I agree in many ways. When communism or whathaveyou becomes what Tillich called “quasi-religions”, they inherently must fail, because their aims become ideological instead of policy oriented. It’s always been a failing of the Left. And criticized by Chomsky, by the way, who similarly stresses that popular movements are not triggered by tHeOry, but critical mass of need for palpable freedom.

@dirtycommo Depends. If your instance is pleuraoma, can probably post it all in one toot due to higher message caps. Otherwise, 500 word segmented toots just like Birdsite. Or if super long, why not a journal then link?

@kemonine “I’m just a fly in the ointment, Hans. A monkey in the wrench.”

@salixlucida @fluttergirly I adore that stretch east along the river. Fun scrambling in that state park. But watch out for the big slugs! Icky.

@kemonine I almost feel sorry for them if you take the gloves off.

...almost.

Pwn ‘em, hoss!

@kemonine A bot trolling you? “For the lulz?” How droll.

@fluttergirly That’s true, and many interesting haunts, especially if you hike the hills or do some kayaking. Hard to drive there, too, natch. I hope you don’t get stuck on I5 too often!

@snowdusk_ It was rather nice wasn’t it?

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@fluttergirly Rather! Los Angeles is abysmal. Not a great representative of cities. There are more fun cities in which to tool about. Visit Venice sometime or Stockholm. Even Vancouver, if you don’t have to drive, that is. Anything but LA.

@snowdusk_ Thank you for playing Poppy! 💕