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artemis

@artemis@dice.camp

#horror and #ttrpg enthusiast.

I'm a bisexual anti-capitalist, and I strongly believe in (at bare minimum) punching Nazis. Reproductive rights and civil liberties for all! Trans rights are human rights. The Palestinian people have a right to self-determination, life, and freedom—just block me if you think otherwise.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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We don’t all need to buy the exact same things that we use occasionally. We should have organized borrowing.

artemis,
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@StillIRise1963 I
literally believe this how our species evolved and is supposed to operate.

It's believed now that the earliest societies didn't barter as economists will claim (barter being a very inefficient system). It was more cooperative: "I'll give you something I have now that you need, and later you'll give me something you have and I need."

artemis,
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@YakyuNightOwl @StillIRise1963
Yeah, European colonialism makes it so hard for people to understand that communities can operate that way, because colonizers went around stomping on and stealing from the communities that did/still do operate cooperatively.

A lot of people look at indigenous cultures that are highly cooperative and think "well, that sounds great, but it's just not practical" But if it's not practical, how come it functioned fairly well until the people with guns showed up?

artemis, to random
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Okay, wow. Unexpected.

artemis, to random
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This whole "there must be outside agitators" thing regarding student protests is insulting af to young people.

They're young, but they aren't children! Maybe, just maybe, they are capable of planning, cooperation, and of, ya know, complex thought in general.

The folks in power and the folks who act as their mouthpieces have no respect for youth. Young people are not people to them.

artemis,
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Writing college students off as children is such bullshit.

College students are definitely in general less coddled and disconnected from reality than the people who call them those things.

thomashoyle, to palestine
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The NY Mayor said that there must be “outside agitators” organizing the Campus Protests, because “all tents look the same, and everything is so organized!”

Looks familiar? Yes, in 2014, HK students involved in the Umbrella Movement were also accused by the HK govt with a similar logic

All govts that dont like dissents are equally dumb and shameless

🇵🇸@palestine

artemis,
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@thomashoyle @palestine
Not to mention: students organize. Since these protests began people have been tall about the history of student protests.

These are young adults, not children. They are fully capable of organizing themselves, especially in a day and age where people with experience organizing and protesting can share that information broadly, but I guess learning the fundamentals of organizing from someone else would be considered "outside agitation".

gwynnion, to random
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Upon finding out 99% of NYU protesters were indeed students, Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino decided they all have to die.

It feels like Democrats should stop helping these people in their war on students and higher education?

artemis,
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@Cyrus @gwynnion @bedast
Yeah, it's wildly hyperbolic, but I don't know how she could convincingly argue it's not what she meant. There's no "metaphorical" meaning of "slay the monsters (students)" being employed here. If it's not about literally killing them, what is "slaying" them in this context?

Metaphor only works if it has reference to something else (the thing it's "meta for" groan).

artemis, to random
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I support your right to protest but not [choose one or more options]:

  • here
  • now
  • in this way
  • about this
  • for these people
  • without a permit
artemis, to Seinfeld
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Okay, well, seriously don't give a dollar to and don't watch his upcoming movie. His wife is sending money to "counter-protestors" to do the same good work as the mob at .

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jessica-seinfeld-and-bill-ackman-fund-pro-israel-counterprotests-at-ucla

StillIRise1963, to random
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Racist ass white people have made a fucked up mess of the entire world.

artemis,
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@Willow @StillIRise1963 @ralph058
Yeah, being introduced to the concept of anti-racism in general gave me a lot of clarity. It's about the things you say and do, not the person you are "deep down". It's encouraging to realize that—a relief even—if you want to do better, but upsetting if you want to just be let off the hook because you're "not a bad person".

Nobody cares if you're "really a good person." They care about what you do.

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 31: Scene at Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá as President Gustavo Petro announces that the country has cut ties with Israel.

artemis,
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@fkamiah17
Hell yeah!

virtualbri, to random
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https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/01/pro-israel-counter-protesters-attempt-to-storm-encampment-sparking-violence

"Pro-Israel counter-protesters attempt to storm encampment, sparking violence" See, even students can get this right.

"There has been a minimal police presence on campus despite multiple events of counter-protesters antagonizing the encampment since Thursday."

artemis,
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@virtualbri
At this point it feels like only student journalists can get it right.

fkamiah17, to random
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Let the moral panic begin 🙄

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/uk-students-begin-new-wave-of-protests-against-gaza-war-after-us-arrests

artemis,
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@fkamiah17
My favorite thing to watch is protests, especially student protests, going global. It's not only that it's not just one school—it's not even just one country. There's strength in numbers when you want to be impossible to ignore.

artemis, to random
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The armed, violent mob that attacked students at were not "protestors" nor even "counter-protestors", and it's false and misleading for news reporting to call them that.

Do you know how I know it was a mob? Because they came with weapons and started attacking and beating people.

artemis,
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Tents are "violence" but pepper spray is "speech".

fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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🚨 🚨 🚨
WEEK 31: Statement from the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at UCLA. Campus police looked on and filmed, but DID NOT intervene.
Posted twice to incorporate full alt-text

"The University would rather see us dead than divest"

Media portrayal of neutrality and both sides only obfuscates the truth. We have no pepper spray, no gas canisters, no fireworks and no aggression. All we had was our community to hold our wooden barriers. What more can we do? We ask yet again - no

artemis,
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@fkamiah17
Goddammit. News coverage is reporting this as "both sides."

Ffs. I wish they would stop lying to us for two seconds.

adachika192, to palestine
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@palestine

I wholly understand some may feel about the recent in universities & colleges as, “So you’ve just noticed there’s occupation & ethnic cleansing in Palestine, after 70 years?”

Better late than never.

It’s banal but true. 🖖

artemis,
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@adachika192 @palestine
There's also the fact that these students haven't been around for 70 years. They're young—this is one of their first opportunities to voice their beliefs and stand up for something. They haven't been ignoring this: they've just been children.

artemis, to random
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Saw an opinion piece by a college professor who was mad that noise from the protests messed up a student presentation about John Cage's famous 4'33" (a piece of music that is just silence) and...if you had any interest in teaching your students to think about anything, wouldn't that be an interesting thing to muse on: what John Cage intended to say with the piece and what it might mean if the "silence" during the performance is filled with shouts of protest? No intellectual curiosity.

artemis, to random
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In our pets' eyes, I am "Mom" while my boyfriend is "co-conspirator".

Both important roles.

18+ artemis, to random
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I got blocked by someone because I told them "no, I don't think most farmers believe shooting your pet animals in anger is normal."

artemis,
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They said that discussing this topic just increases the divide between farm and city, and I was like...you think farmers are on board with this shit?

I feel like suggesting that farmers are dog-murderers is pretty divisive.

artemis,
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Strictly speaking, I am not a "farm girl" since the last time I lived on a farm, I was 1 yr old. But here's why I think I can say "this is not normal": my dad grew up on a farm (and so did his dad). I grew up in a small town in rural Iowa (a state which neighbors S Dakota), so it was unavoidable that many of the people I knew growing up were farmers or from farming families. Other friends weren't farmers, but did raise some chickens and sheep or goats for 4H and had working dogs.

artemis,
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My grandma's family were farmers in Missouri, and until very recently my uncle farmed that land.

So I'm very familiar with at least how Midwestern farmers tend to treat their animals, and no, shooting a dog without an extremely compelling and urgent reason is not what you do.

Farmers may be more comfortable with using a gun to put an animal down than urban folks, but that doesn't mean they are any more gung-ho about making the decision that a dog needs to die. Why would they be?

artemis, to random
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So we all laughed at the 2nd Amendment absolutists because it's about a militia, not establishing an individual's rights to have an arsenal of deadly weapons, and the whole militia thing was related to a situation wildly different than today in many key ways, but...

They are definitely planning to go all in on the militia thing now. So that's great. Really great.

artemis,
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Maybe they should listen to "Don't Take Your Guns to Town", a song performed by Johnny Cash who they are convinced is one of them (he's not, but that's another story).

Bringing a gun with you doesn't keep you safe! It provides an occasion for violence. It creates danger for others AND for yourself.

artemis,
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I mean, honestly at this point they should listen to SEVERAL Johnny Cash songs. They could start with some of the songs Cash chose to perform for Richard Nixon:

  • What is Truth?
  • Man in Black
  • The Ballad of Ira Hayes (uh...some of the language used in this song, such as "Injun" is not great, but at the time it made enough of a point that radio stations refused to play it, & I think MAGAts might be stuck in the past enough that it still has something to say they must hear from SOMEWHERE)
artemis,
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@virtualbri
Cash was a complicated dude. But it's painfully obvious he's not the person many of his "fans" today think he is. I think he would be angry and probably heartbroken to see that people who pay lip service to how great he supposedly was aren't even hearing what he actually said.

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