celebratedrecluse

celebratedrecluse wrote

Hey, btw is there a link to the code in postmill which relates to this update? I was wondering if it would be possible to expand the feature to also allow audio files to be uploaded, but I want to take a look myself and contribute if i am able.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Reply to comment by lori in by !deleted8445

Yeah that's what I was trying to express. Sorry if it came across negative. I don't know, I just think that when a comrade dies alone with a gun in their hand and no backup, I cry hard as fuck

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celebratedrecluse moderator wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted17466 in by !deleted18938

You may have some compulsive things to work through. that's important, and I'm not taking away from that.

However, the context in which your narrative of compulsion is playing out, is one in which the dominant society (capitalism) wants you to stop engaging in direct action which you violate its arbitrary social norms (property rights of corporations/petit bourgeois entrepeneurs). But the thing is, the violation of these norms is actually helpful to totally reasonable politics (anti-capitalism, anarchism). So there is a political factor involved.

So you have to consider your own personal situation first, and do what's right for you. but also, I'm just mentioning that there's a broader struggle between social forces, which you can understand your particular situation within if you so choose. Just offering an alternative, to the medicalizing/neoliberal model which you are currently expressing to us.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted1196 in by !deleted16100

It's really disheartening that these people on Reddit, instead of seeing someone who risked their life in order to draw attention and energy and inspiration to a moral cause of opposing ethnic cleansing by engaging in property destruction at a concentration camp, instead see someone who "endangered lives by engaging in individual violence". They didn't attack or hurt anyone, except themselves.

While I am depressed by their decision to end their own life, and I disagree with the specific tactics' efficacy, I honor them as a fucking hero. Because that's what they are, we live in a context where there isn't a better option than building your own AR and preparing up some molotovs and going for it all on your own. And that's something I'd like to change in my lifetime, but I understand and respect their decision in the context he was in.

REST IN POWER

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celebratedrecluse moderator wrote

Reply to comment by ziq in by pullupfighter

For sure, but also there's the fact that the state is disregarding its own laws. The contradiction this exposes the specific hypocrisy of the particular government at hand, and further the fundamental nature of all states as these massive charades. It is a majorly important revelation, at least for people new to antiauthoritarian politics.

But you are right to push past references to these things. The point is that the state itself is a contradictory, horrible, oppressive institution.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Reply to by !deleted14041

Yeah fuck em. I would go for it. Use GIMP to do it: you might want to use physical penwork to do the corrections, if you've got a steady hand. Then scan it and merge back into the original file.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Reply to by !deleted8445

I'm sorry that this comrade, ally, accomplice, felt the best way to contest the regime of concentration camps was to go out guns blazing in a clear suicide. They will be missed, and their lost future potential to be part of revolutionary activity will set us back.

We need to do better in supporting the inmates, and coordinating with those inmates to facilitate their own liberation. Actions like theirs, while aesthetic as fuck, and totally reasonable given the context and how there's no alternative, don't actually get rid of the concentration camps. It would take many more people, whether in individual actions, or in collective ones, to really get us there. I don't think anyone, even them, would deny that.

If you need to talk, please DM me. I'll reply as soon as I can. Suicide is real AF and no joke. I don't want comrades to go out in a blaze of glory-- personally, I'd much rather as many of us as possible, see the tomorrow that we so crave and need.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

I've kind of lost interest in chapo. I realized the utterly wack electoralism is only going to get worse as the 2020 election zooms into place. Plus, Felix is an asshole, and Amber is insufferably smug about her terrible politics. Ironic, 'cause I'm the mod of the forum. I need a new podcast, been looking, but anyone have some suggestions? I need something that can make me laugh, so I don't kill myself lol

bonus points for trans content

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celebratedrecluse wrote

According to whom?

Uh, me? I'm the one talking, I explained specifically why this word comes across to me as ableist, with what I think is a pretty solid line of reasoning. You're the one invalidating this and linking me a fucking dictionary definition, what a lazy appeal to authority and casual/unsupported erasure of descriptivist science. And now, you try to flip the script on me with this petty jab, as if you hadn't just engaged in the very same logical fallacy? Again, your behavior comes across to me as gaslighting, which I'm pretty much razor sensitive to the last few weeks after dealing with a bunch of that IRL from multiple privileged fucks. Perhaps you can relate to that, and how shitty it feels when you're on the business end of that behavior. Please take time to reflect on what I'm saying in this thread, because I'm disengaging after this message.

So are you saying that bigots and despicable ideas and their products can't be compared to shit?

Uh, no. I'm saying you shouldn't defend the denigration of someone on the merit of their brainpower, because ironically it makes you the bigot. You can't insult someone's brain/mind without being ableist, and "head" is clearly a synecdoche for the former, as seen in the word "shithead". Am I not allowed to express that a word you suggested was not ableist actually is, just because it makes you feel self-conscious that you didn't realize it? Does it feel good, doubling down on this?

I don't even know how you are arguing this right now, it's so ridiculous because I was literally just adding an aside to your initial premise, not challenging it.

to cancel it.

Re-read the comment & your own response. I was adding to your point, you are getting defensive after being told your alternative suggestion might be problematic too. As far as I can tell, you would only react this way if the reason why you are posting in the first place is to exert social power over others, so my original comment which clearly supports your premise but disagrees slightly and politely with a specific conclusion comes across to you as an attack instead. I'm calling you out on this firmly now-- you're being manipulative, and using the discourse of social justice to accumulate social power over others, even if it means defending a word as "definitely not ableist" when someone is telling you they feel it might be. It's disappointing as fuck to me, and pretty apparent to others reading this.

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