Notices by bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz), page 138

i guess that's why i find the idea of being a nomad or something similar, so interesting. it's one idea of leaving behind a life within capitalism to sorta forge your own way through life.

it's a whole other lifestyle that minimises how much power capitalism and hierarchy have over you, with relatively low risk compared to more extremist actions.

ideas like this are probably what will help bring about the end of capitalism, at least more surely than voting and protest.

we need to be actively changing our lifestyles if that's something we're capable of. everyone able should be finding ways to minimise how their lives fit into our current system, trying to eliminate any reliance on ideas that stem from abuse and oppression

you don't necessarily have to eyeball the barrel of a gun to do something to drastically alter your relationship with our current shitty society. but you do have to take risks.

tbh i think a good goal for anyone that wants to change the pattern of "always just doing what's comfortable and never risking anything" should be to think about ways in their own life they can profoundly reject the system and makes themselves more comfortable with risk and working outside of what we're familiar with.

not just political stances and protests, not just the "liberal" version of direct action where you start recycling or donate to charity.

cops kill innocent folks and cover it up because they fear for their lives and even fear for losing their privilege more than they care about protecting people.

that's not too far from our attitude of not doing anything that would put ourselves at risk in the face of atrocities like oppression and genocide

it's something that basically everyone is doing regardless of the political stance they take.

if someone held a gun on the average american (this includes DSA folks and even some hard leftists) and asked them to push people off a cliff, they would gladly push those other people to their deaths, rather than run the risk of charging at the gun wielder and potentially being fatally shot

we'd rather turn a blind eye or even do the deeds ourselves than risk our lives to save the lives of others.

@freakazoid honestly just recognising it is a good start. getting people to realise how fucked things are and asking the exact question "what do we do to change it?"

and i mean, there are plenty of ideas floating around already, it's just people see them as "too risky" and dismiss them without even weighing them against the reward

we're dealing with such horrible shit in our society but we only want to take the respectable, easy route, and we certainly don't want to address any issues that might put us at risk or compromise our supposed "freedom" despite the fact that millions of people already have few/no rights and have none of the comfort we do

our current resistance movement is comfy and privileged as all hell

and finally we come to the whole concentration camp thing of late, where everyone posts these tear-jerker articles and go all "well that's incredibly fucked up. this needs to stop!" and we all nod our heads in agreement, maybe talk a bit about how bad the articles made them feel, and then we do...what exactly? yell about trump being the problem? continue to push for DSA reps in government and yell about healthcare/min wage?

how about school shootings? we yell about how bad guns are or how all these people are mentally ill. some of the more aware people bring up how this unfairly stigmatises mental health, but there's rarely discussion about how little gun control will do to address the real problem of white men feeling entitled to take out their anger on everyone else

nor is there talk about how gun control favours the white men anyway.

think about the debates over the past few years.

we've been debating police brutality in the light of "are protestors being kind enough/is violent protest necessary" rather than "are cops being nice enough/do cops do more harm than good/are cops necessary?"

it's all a away to derail the conversation so that everyone can debate something without having to address that the system might be fucked. maintaining the comfort zone.

3) none of these big political powers are doing anything about state violence and oppression. they're just upholding the system by insisting getting representatives will do anything to change our current climate.

having different people in charge only changes how quickly and how brutal the awful oppressive shit happens; it does nothing to stop it from happening period, and it even makes the violence look GOOD because the people in charge are people we like...

we're still convinced arguing about healthcare and min wage are the most important things when:

1) mental healthcare is fucked and needs reform. making healthcare free will barely help to address the stigma against mh and the prison-adjacent facilities that hold patients against their will

2) homelessness is only increasing, people that still have places to live are able to afford less and less luxuries and amenities as time passes. min wage is barely even a temporary solution

everything is being rephrased into a debate over how respectably we carry out oppressive violence, rather than actually addressing how to get rid of oppressive violence in the first place. it's frustrating.

literally every political "party" involved is trying to figure out the best way to do things within a flawed system, while still upholding oppressive power structures, and it's just not going to work.

we're really not getting anywhere,
and things are getting worse.

again, it seems like our political climate is horrible af and declining faster by the second, everything is heavily normalised and nobody is really doing anything about it other than talk, and the only debates surrounding it are completely missing the point.

i really dig this railgun skin i got

i really dig this railgun skin i got https://i.imgur.com/vG1XFdu.png

the more i study my own behaviour and that of the people around me, the more i am both very interested and completely terrified of pursuing sociology and/or psychology to learn how the human mind works and how to deal with resulting behaviour

i feel like it's good to learn this stuff but it may also make everything out to be way more subjective than it already feels

"do we like super heroes? or do we just like the concept of super heroes, wanting somebody strong to look up to without all the extra stuff that makes them real?"