Notices by Sally Strange (sallystrange@strangeobject.space)

Why drive a cybertruck when you can drive one of these?

@serenebabe well yes, that's why I say "free at point of access".

Free education doesn't mean teachers don't get paid

Free housing doesn't mean construction workers don't get paid

Free libraries doesn't mean librarians don't get paid

Free public transportation doesn't mean bus drivers don't get paid

It's the same for the rest of it!

Things that should be free at point of access:

-food
-shelter
-health care (includes menstrual products)
-education
-information (libraries and internet)
-public transportation
-electricity
-art (music, literature, visual arts, etc.)
-clean water

No worker should live at the whim of a boss.

Apropos of nothing in particular:

The word "sexualize" means to apply a sexual lens to a person who didn't want to be treated or perceived in a sexual way

The word "objectify" means to treat a person as an object

It is impossible for a person to "sexualize herself" or to "objectify herself"

Therefore you can safely, immediately dismiss anyone who's talking about this or that woman (it's almost always a woman) "sexualizing herself" or "objectifying herself"

#sexualization #objectification #TheMoreYouKnow #Feminism

What's the difference between a big corpo and a small business? When you're working for a small business, you know the names of the brats whose Ivy League tuition your broken back will fund.

that's actually something I've changed my mind on over time. Before I became an official commie capitalism-hater, even. Growing up in a small town whose downtown got fucked by Wal-Mart, I get it. If I have to choose, I'd rather shop at a small local business.

But then I met Spouse. They chose to work for corporate Starbucks over a local cafe or restaurant because they could be reasonably certain that their SB coworkers wouldn't call them homophobic or racist slurs and if they did, they'd get fired.

Small businesses have the same power dynamics that make big corpos evil. Interpersonal relationships CAN render these power imbalances less toxic, but they can also render bigotry even more powerful.

@RD4Anarchy @pixelpusher220 right, like, I was just talking about two specific defining characteristics of capitalism as we currently know it: the concept of LLCs and marginal utility theory

I'm always trying to be more precise and specific in my understanding and explanation, so no, I don't really worry that I'm muddying definitions as a habit. If things seem unclear, that's an opportunity to explore and hopefully learn.

@mmclark @RD4Anarchy @pixelpusher220 Per Oxford dictionary: "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit."

Very amusing to see capitalism apologists on the Fediverse

I mean, it's more understandable on Xitter or Macebook

But here? The place that's sustained by twine, chewing gum, patreon, and the hopes and dreams of two dozen catgirls? The place that's been going strong without a profit motive for half a decade now?

#Capitalism fucked your mind.

Y'all are passing around a quote from Sam Harris, author of "The End of Faith," among other books. It's a perfectly nice quote. And Sam Harris is a bigot. A non-exhaustive list of bigoted positions he holds:

-women avoid atheist conferences because their "estrogen vibe" makes them averse to conflict
-Islam is so radically different from other world religions that a nuclear first strike against an Islamic regime would be warranted
-racial profiling of Muslims is warranted
-Charles Murray is just misunderstood

He's not a good person and his ideas are not that interesting. Now you know.

#SamHarris #racism #sexism #WhiteSupremacy #Islamophobia #TheMoreYouKnow

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/27/15695060/sam-harris-charles-murray-race-iq-forbidden-knowledge-podcast-bell-curve

https://the-orbit.net/heinous/2014/09/12/sam-harris-estrogen-vibe/

https://www.salon.com/2015/10/10/sam_harris_dangerous_new_idiocy_incoherent_islamophobic_and_simply_immoral/

@folkerschamel @samuel @steve Wow, what a 180! From "if you do this, you're like a neo-Nazi" to "I don't understand this."

Maybe next time you should lead with "I don't understand this" instead of accusing a bunch of people who are typically among neo-Nazis' favorite targets of being neo-Nazis.

(And if you're going to object that it was the OP not you who made the comparison--STFU. You know that's disingenuous. You started by defending his post. If you didn't want to endorse the neo-Nazi comparison then you should have said so a long time ago.)

@folkerschamel @samuel @steve And yet you just confessed to not understanding the impulse behind it.

And you have not explained, even after repeated requests to specifically explain what the danger is, what the danger is.

Prediction: you will, for the third time at least, be unable to explain what the danger is.

https://strangeobject.space/@SallyStrange/110746701026870891

@folkerschamel @samuel @steve A fucking wikipedia article? Come on Folker. You can do better than that.

Explain to the fucking class how people on mastodon preferring mastodon culture to facebook culture makes them like neo-Nazis.

Fucking coward.

@folkerschamel @samuel @steve An Indigenous person: "I like my culture and would like to preserve my ancestors' language"

Folker and Steve: Wow you must be some sort of fascist

Think harder or shut the fuck up

@folkerschamel @NicolaElle @samuel @steve AND you're calling those who decide to collaborate in their choices of who to block neo-Nazis

@samuel @folkerschamel @NicolaElle @steve this is bothering me. If you don't understand why people want the Fedipact, fine. That's perfectly reasonable.

But to say "I don't understand" while simultaneously defending the comparison between Fedipact signers and neo-Nazis? To say "I don't understand Fedipact" while asserting that Fedipact could be dangerous in the same way that fascism is dangerous? You're either a fool, an evil liar, or both. There are no other options.

Last Boost: Nina is right. Listen to Nina.

I used to get confused by Audre Lorde's famous quote, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." Being a literal-minded child, I imagined people taking up the tools they use to build things for their masters--hammers, saws, chisels, etc.--it would be quite easy to dismantle a house with those tools.

Then I read "The Half Has Never Been Told" by Edward Baptist. His detailed descriptions of the new technologies invented by slavers to break people and keep them broken made me realize that "the master's tools" were not hammers and saws but rather the whip, the coffle, the police, the laws making aiding escapees a crime, etc.

Loyalty to the state is a master's tool. Punishing "traitors" is a master's tool. Making "sedition" illegal is a master's tool.

IYKYK

@JohnShirley2023 @fcktheworld587 @Blort "It's quite possible to be trans without access to hormone treatments"

Right, that's genocide. Theoretically you're right. But denying trans people access to such treatment has several genocide-related results:

-increased likelihood of suicide
-increased likelihood of nonfatal but disabling medical complications
-increased likelihood of being "clocked" by bigots which then results in:
-increased likelihood of assault
-increased likelihood of job loss, eviction, etc.

Seriously man stop with the apologetics

Even if you never read "The Dawn of Everything" by Davids Graeber and Wengrow, at least take this to heart:

What you learned about human prehistory was most likely a lie. There was no linear progression from hunter/gatherer to farmer to city dweller to modern human. Our ancient ancestors were just as creative as we are. They didn't wait until 5,000 years ago to figure out agriculture. They invented it and discarded it when it didn't suit them, over and over again. They built cities and abandoned them quickly or centuries later, over and over again. They invented and discarded socialism and despotism, many times over. And there's no correlation between mode of production vs. political freedom. The idea of a linear progression was invented by 18th century Europeans who were feeling defensive about the inequality in their societies as compared to those of indigenous Americans.