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   Flock of Nazguls (flockofnazguls@mastodon.flockofnazguls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:42:06 JST Flock of Nazguls

   I feel seen. #GenX

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     Mr. Completely (mrcompletely@heads.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:41:39 JST Mr. Completely

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     @thompsonize @blogdiva @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @flockofnazguls fwiw this ties directly into how stupid much of the discussion about mastodon relative to other platforms is. This is not a capitalist endeavor. It does not need to grow to survive or meet any other external criteria. All that matters is whether it benefits the people and communities on it. Analysis in the context of zero-sum "winning and losing" compared to Twitter or Threads assumes a profit imperative that simply doesn't exist

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     @blogdiva @mrcompletely @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @flockofnazguls It isn't (necessarily) about destroying systems that are oppressing us (though it would be nice and would make a lot of this easier.) It's about realizing we need to build our own resilient communities, and the way you do that as an individual is conversations like this one.

     Making friends, and connections, that are not mediated by money is a radical act under capitalism.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     @blogdiva @mrcompletely @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @flockofnazguls To me, anarchism is just the recognition that systems will not save us, and that when they benefit "us," they are being very selective about who "us" is, and that therefore, AS A MATTER OF SURVIVAL, we need to build our own systems that end-run government and capitalist systems as much as possible.

     The purpose of government ideally is to backstop us. It is not doing that. We need to end-run it.

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:41:47 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     @thompsonize @mrcompletely @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @flockofnazguls

     the older i get, the more i understand anarchism. if the state is the bureaucratization of oligarchic violence; the goal of ANY revolutionary movement is the destruction of all the systems of violence sustaining the oligarchy. that means, the destruction of the state.

     look at GOP-hostage states, SCOTUS, US CONGRESS and especially that fucking US SENATE. they don't govern. they just protect US oligarchic violence.

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     @mrcompletely @blogdiva @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @flockofnazguls heh I got into a fight with a city councilor this weekend I said, basically, that people should have access to clean water and bathrooms, and that homeless people are people and need to exist somewhere.

     He called me an anarchist.

     And I said...okay yeah I'm an anarchist but these are not my anarchist opinions, these are just regular-ass opinions.

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     Mr. Completely (mrcompletely@heads.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:41:49 JST Mr. Completely

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     @blogdiva @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls that's my son and his friends. Fairly extreme forms of radical left anticapitalism for my generation are their relatively centrist starting point. Some of it's idealist foolishness doomed to disappointment but some is rock hard pragmatic mutual support shit with a vibe of wholesome care between peers that's just gorgeous

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:41:51 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     proud mother of a zillennial (1997) and a zoomer (2000) @mrcompletely @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls can attest that in our slice of working class new york city, all of these 20-somethings are the most anticapitalist cohort this world has yet to see in their full glory.

     see, we GenXers thought capitalism could be fixed; just needed reforming.

     nope.

     Zoomers get it. they want capitalism all burnt down to the ground before we're doomed to environmental collapse

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     @blogdiva @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls a lot of millennials and a huge proportion of gen z are fucking awesome. Absolutely love the zoomer "all inherited categories are irrelevant, we're making this shit up fresh because it's obvious none of the existing answers are right" approach to life and identity

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     yup @mrcompletely @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls
     am in that 10%

     Sean Hannity was a classmate at NYU. used to get into shouting matches with that garden gnome. should've bashed his head when i had the opportunity (friends talked me out of it)

     there's a reason SELL OUT was the biggest insult back in the 90s. so many from the punk and hiphop scenes are now happy bootlickers

     but thanks to millennials and their OWS & BLM movements, we lefty GenXers found our peers

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     @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls I didn't read it. Too many people told me I should. But imo the thing to understand about "gen X" is that most people our age were always normies, Reagan izod mall business conservatives, and the generational image of "gen X" is about the punk/art/political 10-20% who went hard the other way. A huge part of our age cohort is maga or close & always have been & the "gen X"ers you think of were always in reaction to that lameness

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     seitz (seitz@musician.social)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:41:58 JST seitz

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     @mrcompletely @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls I was born in 81, too young to be Gen X, but I read 'Generation X' when I was a teenager and absolutely loved all the angsty cynicism and the whole vibe of it. Just out of curiosity: Have any of you read it and do you think it accurately represents your generation? I've always wanted to know if people like Dag, Claire and Andy actually exist and what became of them. 😂

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     @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls I gave up, in order, hard drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol; but kept weed, caffeine, occasional but resolutely non-micro psychedelics, Nintendo, weirdly diverse music tastes, chaotic yoga, love for regular folks' art, being better at the internet than most people, and a supposedly paradoxical blend of cynicism and hope. Feels like a more sustainable version of the same basic vibes. We were right to not trust those [gestures broadly] fuckers though

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     Alison Wilder (alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:42:00 JST Alison Wilder

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     @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls oooh this is totally my party. I feel a little disappointed in myself every time I lose one of my"vices," like I've let a little part of me die. So I try to bring them back when I can.

     Thank god for booze, cannabis and narcissism.

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     Kevin (kevin@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:42:01 JST Kevin

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     @thompsonize @flockofnazguls Same :D

     Edit: just realized this sounds like I'm also taking ADHD meds. I'm not. I just dropped one of those ingredients in the speedball combo.

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     @kevin @flockofnazguls We used to call the 5 minutes after waking up combination of caffeine, nicotine and THC a Hippie Speedball; I've subbed out one of those for ADHD meds, I leave you to ponder which.

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     Kevin (kevin@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:42:03 JST Kevin

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     @thompsonize @flockofnazguls Apparently I'm 21 forever except for the drinking and cigarettes.

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     @flockofnazguls As one of those weird gen x or millennial cuspers apparently in my early 40s: I'm going to be 26 forever.