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   Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 11:18:12 JST Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄

   Framing is a problem.
   
   Take the "Culture Wars," for example.
   
   Fuck you, anyone who unironically uses this term.
   
   From the American Revolution to Thoreau to MLK Jr. and up to this moment in time, there is one, time-tested method for accomplishing broad-scale, popular social change. The kind of social change that moves mountains.
   
   CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
   
   #CivilDisobedience

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     Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 11:24:52 JST Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄

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     "Culture Wars" falsely frames social change in terms of a "war," when history tells us otherwise. Sure, social change often comes about AFTER wars, but it's unpredictable, and based in cultural forms that existed prior to the war.
     
     These "Culture Wars" are perpetual. They're Orwellian constructs, and we buy into them.
     
     Social change doesn't happen that way. It's always organic. It cannot be sourced from anywhere except US, as individuals, acting in concert with other individuals.
     
     By definition.
     
     That makes Trump's win in 2024 particularly aggravating. It means we are failing to change society. That it's changing in the wrong direction. It's reverting to old, comfortable norms.

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     Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 11:34:07 JST Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄

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     If I could convince everyone we already lived in a state of anarchy, I'd be 90% of the way to a convincing argument that political change can ONLY EVER proceed from a sustained groundswell of popular support.
     
     That's how women got the right the vote. That's how minority races won the same under a menage of white supremacist, patriarchal cultures.
     
     One thing almost all these cultures agreed on?
     
     Women are property.
     
     And that's where we're seeing bulging in the bulwark.
     
     It cannot break.
     
     We're all monumentally fucked if women lose the franchise after less than a century in most states.