manuallybreathing [comrade/them]

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: August 3rd, 2023
  • manuallybreathing [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoPalestine@lemmygrad.ml•I am just wondering how far this will go.English
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    2 years ago

    that’s really terrible comrade, I’m so sorry for you and your family. I’m sure those experiences and memories have left deep intergenerational scars that linger within you and your family… I hope you can find it within yourself, to use those feelings to motivate in our work changing the world.

    Sorry if I came across like a shithead, I understand how easy it is to fall into a defencive mode, arguments online with faceless users are so easy to get out of hand. This felt like a small miscommunication that was leading to upset among people who would otherwise be close allies.

    It’s so hard to judge tone through text, and I could feel myself starting to bitter towards you. I might have said something curt and defensive myself, if I hadn’t run to catch a bus. We’re all pretty fragile, it’s a lot of practice remaing calm and to realise when we’re starting to lash out.

    I hope you have a good day friend :)

  • manuallybreathing [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•[CW: academic mentions of suicide] This thread is articulating my profound sense of despair in how Gen Z is locked in a societal cageEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I dont really see the use in arguing the semantics of what is or is not a mass casualty event, considring many of what you mention as mass shootings in the popular consciousness do start out with the shooter killing people they know (often women) in their home, workplace etc.

    this post reads pretty conspiritorialy, they’re not hiding the a mass shooting is 4 people number, it’s there for anyone who cares to look. obviously there’s some hyperbolic shit in the media, but by this statistic, someone like Kyle Rittenhouse is not a mass shooter, food for thought.

    i’m not sure if this is the mindset where they’re taking our guns, we need them, rah rah revolution is the base, but do you know what we need a whole lot more than guns? comrades we can trust. communities that are organised and ready to support each other.

    I’m not from the USA, but i’ve seen friends argue about this, and i’ve especially seen the impact these semantic like points have had on friends who have lived in the USA. Talk of condemning ourselves to pointless slaughter if we’re not armed, its unhelpful, it’s only driving us apart and keeping us at arms length.

    The individualist drive to arm every man woman and child in school, churches, and supermarkets, in their bedrooms, for their protection, does nothing but line the pockets of the arms dealers who would have us all on the frontlines sooner than you could say I will not fight my working class brothers and sisters in Vietnam

    sorry that’s scattered and a bit ranty, but I absolutely consider someone shooting their partner and child to be a part of the issue we’re up against, the conditions we face, capitalism, imperialism, white nationalism, and oppression of the powerless.

    haha dark and awful, but we’re almost discussing if a shooting is more impacting, if say, it were taken out on a large, christian family, 10 kids or something, uh, #greatreplacement or something I guess.

    whew i’m glad I’ve finally taken the time to articulate that, even for myself.