gô // allie @u2764@icosahedron.website

like that's what Living In The West means, you go down to the museum souvenir shop and buy yourself an arrowhead and never even stop to think about “hey maybe we should be doing something about all the people who were brutally murdered here and whose culture i am now consuming for entertainment”

and like that's not to say things are any better here than they are anywhere else (they're not lol) but like if you ask someone from Spokane if they know whose land they're settled on they'll be like “uhh the Spokane Indians duh. its the baseball team,”

like people know and they just don't give a shit and that's a very different situation from lack of knowledge or awareness

and meanwhile here in the PNW it's like, my city is named after the chief who gave up his land and our public square is named after the tribe who used to inhabit this land, and like, similar situation in Seattle, and Spokane, and Yakima, and Walla Walla, and Snohomish, and Snoqualmie, and Umatilla, and Puyallup, and

something i don't think gets talked about enough RE: indigenous peoples and the US is like, the incredible amount of diversity in terms of like situation and culture and knowledge? like for some folks out east it's like "duuuudee idek whose land i'm settled on" and for some folks down south it's like "duuuudee our tribes can't even get federal recognition because Fuckface Fuckface destroyed all their records"

PEOPLE CREATED MEANING AND LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OUT OF LITERALLY NOTHING AND I THINK THATS REALLY MAGICAL AND COOL AND GOOD OK

i think evil should be fought but i think what you're actually fighting isn't people but entropy and nature and the way power necessarily functions and the inevitable demise of us all? and like as a species we've done pretty okay at that so we must have some good inside us? but that's also the struggle of life against death which is never never over?

idk i'm just not a fan of this modern western idea that the reason good things don't last is because People Are Evil™ and not because it is the natural order of things that nothing lasts forever and all light eventually fades

me: i think people are fundamentally good
you: allie what the fuck

luv too see white supremacists acting up at my white supremacist alma mater https://whitmanwire.com/news/2017/09/14/nationalist-flyers-in-the-shelves-at-penrose/

#introductions

I go by a lot of names and exist in a lot of places: http://marrus.xyz/fediverse/

I created this account as an alt after ancient history made me a little disaffected with mastodon.social, then a massive rush of new users drove a bunch of other folks in the same direction and it became my main.

anymore i've pretty much returned it to its original purpose, which is posting theory and politics and opinions and stuff. i'm trans and a gender-studies major so that informs my approach~.

this is why building systems that don't depend on bigotry is extremely important lol

imo

it's not that people who demonstrate one form of bigotry are necessarily predisposed to other forms of bigotry so much as the fact that the systems that one creates when acting from a place of bigotry care more about sustaining themselves than they do about whatever one's original intentions might have been, and they'll turn on you in a second if external conditions shift in an unfavourable way

oftentimes people's explanations of this feel hand-wavey to me so here's an explanation that isn't:

power derived from bigotry cares more about sustaining its power than it does about the target of its bigotry

and which targets of bigotry are socially acceptable is unpredictable and constantly changing

this Coke is aesthetic af
https://icosahedron.website/media/UME3TQE5XCcFJDj8ZIU

i'm not on much recently cos i'm in chicago for the week woot

remember when they tried to tell us that the point of labor day was honoring soldiers' wives

you can only act based on the options available to you is all.

especially in the case of "X company is bad so i'm not using any related product so now i can't help anybody but myself because they have a monopoly on the business." just doesn't seem like your ends are lining up with your goals there.

it'd be super if there were lots of avenues for helping people outside of capitalism but uh. there aren't. learn to compromise imo.