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   Trekhausen (she/her) (trekhausen@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 01:36:49 JST Trekhausen (she/her)

   In the UK, we have increasing normalisation by institutions central to reinforcing the status quo, such as corporate media and the electoral system, of such horrific far right views and people that we have Nigel Farage on a reality TV show as Conservatives, including the Prime Minister, court Farage to join them as the Tories descend into attacking each other and resigning because the hate politics and policies - as typified by the vile slogan of "stop the boats" - aren't hateful enough. A Labour party/leader, the so called 'opposition', jumping onto this hateful right wing divide and rule politics, praising Thatcher. Let's stop wasting time building new political parties and trying to change things by tinkering with these institutions and systems of power set-up to reinforce the status quo. The way these views and voices are given such disproportionate space, it's easy to think this represents what most people believe. But it doesn't. It suits the status quo to claim the only way of change is by working in these rigged systems. It's not. There's so many people building new ways of organising, connecting, meeting each other's needs through an ethos of cooperation, interdependence, non-hierarchy, solidarity and care.

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     Trekhausen (she/her) (trekhausen@todon.eu)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 01:37:30 JST Trekhausen (she/her)

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     • Radical Communal Care

     It's also about delegitimising systems, narratives and institutions that are central to maintaining the status quo and late stage capitalism. Turn that TV show normalising a fascist off (I'm an anarchist, get me out of here!). Stop putting all that energy into electoral politics. Leave that fascist social network platform. Also, importantly, silence is always a powerful reinforcer of the status quo. Then conversely, let's keep building/being part of the decentralised fediverse, or help create/support a Mutu network (more here: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/10/15/mutu-network-challenges-media-moguls/), join, support or help set up radical communal care groups (like this one @radicalcommunalcare and more here: https://pieceoplastic.com/2023/12/08/let-us-build-radical-communal-care-collectives/), be part of/support mutual aid, wear masks, etc. One of the greatest weapons of this system is trying to convince us we have no power and then using that to encourage people to punch down and at each other through divide and rule. Actually, people have a lot of power, together. The way things are - in terms of money, work, distribution of resources and marketisation of needs - is socially constructed; it is not fixed, inevitable or unstoppable.

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