thedandeliongrove

@thedandeliongrove@translunar.academy

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skinnylatte, to california
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Recently I read a book about the Chinese community in and around Sacramento. Many of them huddled in smaller, less urban areas because of anti-Chinese violence in San Francisco Chinatown; as well as to flee white supremacists who killed them, at various points throughout the late 19th and early 20th century.

That gives me more perspectives when I read stories like these.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/02/oldest-chinese-american-restaurant-chicago-cafe

More info on places like Locke https://sfstandard.com/2022/09/14/journeys-locke-in-the-sacramento-delta-is-the-rural-chinatown-youve-never-heard-of/

thedandeliongrove,

@skinnylatte

This.

Esp as the loudest of the StopAsianHate group (wait, legit ask too, is SAH still a thing? I usually refer to it as like, a dead movement… from the start imho, but that’s just me being spicy) were absolutely not the ones facing the worst of the anti-Asian harm caused by COVID…

thedandeliongrove,

@skinnylatte

This exactly is what I remember from watching SAH from TikTok during 2020/2021.

Esp as it absolutely galvanized reactionary Han Chineseness, and heard lots about the tea of some Han Chinese “activists” absolutely shouting down other non-Han Asians to, yeah, speedrun cooptation to try to become celeb activists 😒😒😒

thedandeliongrove,

@skinnylatte oof, yeah I feel that and appreciate the noting of that; def my own journey with SAH and unpacking Han Chinese politics is seeing the milieu I’m from (Mandarin Speaking Han Chinese Mainlander Professional-Managerial Immigrants) just… really double and triple down on reactionary tales of victimization.

So many sob stories of smelly lunchboxes, name calling, and failed admissions… and yeah, the unmasking of their desire to shout over the BLM uprisings 😒😒😒

thedandeliongrove, to random

It still makes me laugh how USELESS socialist orgs are in the US XD

Like, most they go for is electoralism.

Do they do ANYTHING actually substantial with community? Do any of them actually pull the work to like… I dunno, food distro, medical distro, street watch/copwatch, foster any form of true community?

Cuz from my perspective, all they do is collect org funds and sit on that shit while harping on revolution that LOL at them ever being at the front lines for.

At most… they’ll publish Yet Another Socialist Newspaper lol

thedandeliongrove,

@violetmadder ah, I def feel similar suspicions, but also def partial to chalk it up to organization longevity problems.

gerrymcgovern, to random
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar

Degrowth is the only hope

Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics. Overnight shipping, advertising, private jets, billionaires and SUVs no longer exist, but health care, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.

We must massively reduce our energy and material consumption to have any hope of saving our environment.

https://grist.org/looking-forward/the-growing-popularity-of-degrowth/

thedandeliongrove,

@jlhertel @violetmadder @MisuseCase @Lyle @gerrymcgovern

sees a bleached cracker techie probably descended from enslavers of Black people as PFP”

sees hyperreductive “X-demand to give up some fekkin comforts/‘freedom’ to let others be able to fekkin live” esp via any alternate system to the inherently racist capitalist system (esp esp communism) as “slavery”

Yeah, that checks out.

White ppl stop waving “slavery” as a fekkin scare-word just for bare minimum asking y’all to really engage with what “freedom” means for y’all specifically, when LOL as if any of y’all will EVER face any of the horrors of the institution of slavery in your lifetimes.

Oh yeah. Challenge: Impossible.

thedandeliongrove, to random

KISSINGER DOWN!

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

thedandeliongrove, to random

Thought I’d need to get a special knife for sharpening my graphites.

Thanks Blue Period for reminding me that utility knives exist and also I’m kinda… really into utility knives ok like click click click and can measure out exact blade length and just so nice to shave soft wood with.

…

Ooooo maybe I’ll go out today to grab some scrap wood to do some wood shaving with to make… a shape :3 not any actual sculpture, just… wanna feel some wood wow that sounds so horny

thedandeliongrove,

@violetmadder yeah that’s BS…

Fekkin pain… blades are so useful…

thedandeliongrove, to random

There’s only so much bending the knee to “survival under capitalism” one can do until one is literally just wearing the fucking boot, but like stomping it down “regretfully,” or like righteously in a super deep lost in one’s ego “I’m doing it responsibly tho” enlightened dictatorship vibes.

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