Notices by clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone), page 4

So much more becomes politically possible when you don't start from the premise that obviously you're so much better than those filthy peasants. Instead you can engage in intersectional solidarity not only across space and culture but also forward and backwards in time. As Walter Benjamin said: if the enemy wins not even the dead will be safe. We have tasted victory before and we will taste it again.

@tad erase all debts, destroy the records, redistribute the land. kill the rich if they fight back and use their bodies for compost. end landlordism, transfer businesses to worker ownership, start renewable energy cooperatives, turn every lawn and every golf course into community gardens and teach permaculture principles to whoever wants to maintain them.

imagine if you could say these things about your country’s political system

The standard demands for a peasant revolt for thousands of years of human history have been: erase all debts, destroy the records of their existence, and redistribute the land. Did you know that when you say "tax the rich" that you're asking for something half-assed and moderate in the grand scheme of history?

Did you know that the transition from peasant life to wage labor was considered so obviously and immediately unpleasant and undesirable that it could only be enacted at gunpoint?

The more things I read about "the dark ages" the more radicalized I become. Like hey, did you know that slavery was abolished in Europe during the dark ages and in order for the merchant class to justify bringing it back they had to invent racism, thus kicking off colonialism?

@jplebreton yeah I don't read "it's the industrial revolution" as a fact, I read it as a threat.

really bad time to have spent any time at all studying the history of labor
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@codinghorror @gvwilson if you research the history of labor you will learn that the industrial revolution by and large replaced interesting and and meaningful work with dull & repetitive jobs (because workers had to obey the schedule and logic of the machine). often this transition happened at proverbial or literal gunpoint. not really excited for another one of these!

@annika do you think “clarity” is bouba or kiki

okay I could play this game forever but I think I get the gist. It’s a pretty good game! Lots to learn from it.

@jovialthunder an example for us all

@impactology god I mean yeah, that too!

@impactology like on top of the usual obvious classisms: many wealthy queers tend to understate their wealth in order to fit in better or will even outright lie about it, many transfemme families are a mixture of tech workers supporting unemployed partners (a challenging and tenuous arrangement that can explode violently due to power dynamics or pride). Not to mention how access to gender-affirming procedures is entirely a class thing.

@impactology queer spaces are the most class-diverse spaces I know of but also, yes, very much. It’s a constant tension and challenge.

@jovialthunder oh nooooo

@datn that makes sense!

but on the other hand, my 15-year-old gay transgender misandrist named “Sparkles” has been harassing a mild-mannered grown-ass man so much I had to take him off construction duties (Sparkles’ forte) to spare him the constant insults. I love Sparkles.

Playing Rimworld for simulation research… this is my favorite simulation game so far but also, god, so many surreal robinson crusoe ass things. Wish this genre weren’t so married to “rebuilding civilization from scratch” as an idea

@Mycroft this is the future liberals want