Notices by violetmadder (violetmadder@kolektiva.social), page 3

@anarchopunk_girl There's honestly no such thing as the "middle class".

The only real division is between the capitalist class who owns everything, and EVERYBODY else.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Shit, those might be the MOST dangerous radical ideas out there.

A lot of work has gone into training people to hate them.

@anarchopunk_girl Damn, yes it is!

@elilla Tom Ammiano spoke at a protest I attended, and he said something I'll never forget: "We didn't start fighting in order to get married and be miserable just like everybody else. We weren't fighting to join the military and be miserable just like everybody else. We're fighting to be ourselves, and to be FREE. So we won gay marriage-- what does that really mean for the kids under the overpass right over there? 70% of the homeless youths here in San Francisco are queer kids kicked out by their families. What have we really won??"

@anarchopunk_girl It's honest. It reveals something about your heart. Bully culture sees that as nothing but a vulnerability. The way chickens will turn on any member of the flock that has a speck of visible blood on them.

I keep thinking about that one scientist that collected and catologued something like 1 million specimens of a particular type of itty bitty wasp over his lifetime. Granted not great for the individual wasps, but the body of research was incredible-- we need people who are passionate about obscure niche interests. Anyone who loves a thing that much should be given funding and all the tools they need to work.

@anarchopunk_girl It's being mad at people for revealing the vulnerability of genuinely, personally liking something.

We're only allowed to crave what advertisements and trends tell us we're supposed to want, and if you're not the best at getting it you will never be popular and must be punished with ridicule.

Finding your own sources of enrichment and loving them for your own reasons is anathema to this system.

@oliphant It's like tug of war where one person drops the rope and walks away. Then the other person not only doesn't know how to drop the rope, but picks it up and chases the other person down the street with the damn thing. Just, why?

@MediaActivist Yes. Exactly.