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onoira [they/them]

@ onoira @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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a lumpen creature trying their best between constant crises

neuroqueer | total liberationist

🎵 Seasons seem to see me sliding out of view.

80's through the 50's, breezes make me think of you. 🎵

  • The EU initiative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!!

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  • signatures aren't immediately validated; the identification you provide is just ticking boxes. verification happens after the signing period, when the signatures are sent to their respective states to confirm and tally.

  • What's the most copium you've ever huffed?

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  • my mother giving me an allowance and then calling take-backsies every month because she needed it to cover the bills.

  • Punch Capitalists

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  • why can liberals never criticise something without misogynistic/homophobic sexual metaphor?

    for fucks sake i wish i could go one day without the triggering imagery of sexual violence being repurposed for your moralistic magical thinking exercises.

  • [RESOLVED] hexbear defederation

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  • it seems to have happened again

  • Underwhelmed by protests

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  • is this all there is? /rh

    in Europe all i ever seem to meet are:

    • 'communists': chauvinistic pensioners, or uni trots selling newspapers
    • 'syndicalists': workaholic labour aristocrats and manscapers
    • 'anarchists': teenage punkers

    i'm either too old or too young to hang with any of these groups, and every year i get badjacketed because i wear a mask or have a 'funny' accent. i spent most of today having my fashion sense and diction mocked by 80 year old crackkkers. [nb my keyboard is broken and typed the three k's itself. i've unlocked Maoist English autocorrect on my pc.]

    all the local orgs are either clandestine anarcho-nihilists, or radlibs adopting revolutionary language but whose praxis begins and ends at petitions and performative protests.

  • Antifascist Maja's speech in Hungarian court

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  • RFC: "kicking" posts instead of removing them

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  • i like this. i think for now as a workaround: one could lock the topic and leave a comment asking the OP to crosspost it elsewhere, with grace for posts which have high engagement (as ladfrombrad suggested).

    i don't agree that crossposting works to 'move' posts. as far as i know: the OP is not notified when their topic is crossposted by someone else, and in that case they also won't be 'subscribed' to comment notifications.

  • Apparently You Can Pay at Whole Foods Using Your Palm...

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  • Not only in the US, it is a universal fiction

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  • coöps are cool, but we can't just have coöps. their liberatory potential is cancelled out by the fact that they still participate in capitalism and they still need to turn a profit.

    Even if the labour of individuals might be slightly transformed by having a vote over the methods and aims of production, the very nature of co-operatives as institutions for the production of commodities renders them a revolutionary dead end. Even enterprises seized by workers during struggle and turned to cooperative production face a dead end if the broader struggle across society does not continue to move forward.

  • Removed

    PSA: This is an astroturfing Tankie Community

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  • Being Chronically Online Is Harming Your Mental Health & Turning Activism Into Policing

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  • Being Chronically Online Is Harming Your Mental Health & Turning Activism Into Policing

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  • Being Chronically Online Is Harming Your Mental Health & Turning Activism Into Policing

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  • Sweden announces strict new citizenship policy - including proving you demonstrate 'honest living'

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  • you are probably fine without learning Swedish in a meaningful manner, but if you are planning to become a citizen it is not unreasonable a requirement.

    i had a rant all prepared for this comment, along the lines of 'yeah but they're not doing anything to make learning the language or integrating any easier; they're just adding further alientation and precarity into their lives'… but i realise all those words would be wasted because that's the point.

    the rightwing government doesn't want people to integrate. they want to give every migrant such an acute case of Ulysses syndrome that they burn out and fail.

    i have heard from people there that they just completely broke down after receiving their citizenship. they spent the years on a residency permit in unfurnished apartments with no lasting or heavy investments in society. they didn't get medical or psychological treatment when they needed it, and they didn't participate politically and stayed in their lane, living in effective peonage to their employers and trying to be model migrants and manage their energy levels so as not to draw any attention to themselves. they were too afraid to make any longlasting commitments in case it would all just be taken away from them on three-month's notice. such a weight lifted from their shoulders that all the stress came barreling out and they crashed hard. this news — that their citizenship can be taken away on vagueties of 'national security' (most of the people i know there are activists), or because of 'crimes' committed long ago in their home countries, or that the rules could apply retroäctively — have brought back their stress right when they were just recovering and finally felt safe digging into their new permanent life.

    it doesn't matter that these policies are 'targeted' at 'terrorists' and gangs. these changes affect everyone who migrates to Sweden for any reason. the government's habit of wildly changing the rules every 6 months isn't helping.

  • hierarchy

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  • Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism censure. I do not content myself with consulting authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

    — Mikhail Bakunin, God and the state, Chapter 2

    Expertise merely refers to one’s knowledge or skill in a particular field, but my understanding of CPR or ability to bake shortbread cookies does not make me an authority over you. Other than the conflation of force and authority, this is one of the most common confusions people have about anarchism, made worse by the fact that there are some anarchists who still use authority to refer to both command and expertise just because Bakunin did. Personally, I find that creates needless confusion. If you’re using the word authority to describe everything from slavery to knowing how to build a bridge, then why use the word at all? Just use the word expertise when you’re talking about expertise. Listening to medical advice isn’t a hierarchy. Having expertise doesn’t give me the right to command you unless I hold a position in a hierarchical power structure that grants me that authority. As Bakunin himself said:

    ...we ask nothing better than to see men endowed with great knowledge, great experience, great minds, and, above all, great hearts, exert over us a natural and legitimate influence, freely accepted and never imposed in the name of any official authority whatsoever, celestial or terrestrial.

    — Andrewism, How Anarchy Works » Dissecting Authority (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrTzjaXskUU)

    I highly recommend reading in full that section from Andrewism. It's no more than 5 minutes to read.

  • The union on Tesla's new signage approach: "Stubbornly ideological"

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  • I don’t like unions strongarming companies

    'i don't like it when the people who produce value for the capitalists have a say in their working conditions'

    'i don't like it when corporations are forced to comply with the rule of law'

    'i don't like it when neoliberals have to comply with local labour market practises in foreign markets'

    'i don't like it when other people pull the boot out of my mouth'

  • Speed Dating

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  • oh, this must be why i have you tagged as 'rule lawyer debate pervert'

    randian techbros, i swear.

  • Terrorism from Zionist air force continues with bombing on the outskirts of Beirut

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  • there's a bot that will do this for you over on lemmy.world. i think you'd like it better over there.

  • appearing signed out

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  • signed out, cleared cookies and cache, restarted browser, signed back in: same issue when in a new tab.