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So I had a nightmare about Biden dying and the DNC making shit up about how all his votes go to Biden's VP pick that hadn't been announced but was 'well known in their chambers' Hillary. Bernie did an online address through livestream, Youtube, Bitchute etc but no major networks. He detailed in a somber tone all the ways that the American system had failed him and that he'd be returning home, then he turned away from the camera, started levitating, and evaporated in a flash of blue light.
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source: https://twitter.com/dabi_hawks/status/1245571700642603009
This really is an issue - anyone discontented with the current system can see the appeal and utility of skills that allow a greater degree of separation from consumerism. The right are so far doing much better at it than libleft. I follow their channels. They're enthusiastically doing things and sharing information - gardening, preserves, disaster preparedness, gunsmithing, traditional skills - there's so much enthusiasm and actual work going on. We can't eat memes. I don't want to see my anarchist comrades and other libleft friends failing the gardening competition to the picklewaffen.
This really is an issue - anyone discontented with the current system can see the appeal and utility of skills that allow a greater degree of separation from consumerism. The right are so far doing much better at it than libleft. I follow their channels. They're enthusiastically doing things and sharing information - gardening, preserves, disaster preparedness, gunsmithing, traditional skills - there's so much enthusiasm and actual work going on. We can't eat memes. I don't want to see my anarchist comrades and other libleft friends failing the gardening competition to the picklewaffen.
I'd like to tack a little bit on to this discussion, and add two particular notes.
First, I would like to make a clear delineation between right wing identity fetishism and left-wing back to the land movements. The majority of the people who partake Cottagecore are people who believe it will be beneficial to their physical and mental health. This differs from the nationalist perspective which is one of "we want this because this is ours," (Implied: Not theirs) often including narratives about an "other" who took your heritage away. One needs to make a clear causal distinction as to why we desire these things, and to distance themselves those who have adopted Cottagecore as a nationalist rallying cry. It's pretty easy to suss them out.
My second point is a recommendation. Cottagecore, in many ways, has been influenced by Wicca and, importantly, neo-paganism. Neo-paganism, of course, has been suffering from nationalist infiltration for nearly as long as it has existed. Although I can't make any specific comments, I'd suggest speaking with that community to find out how to resist fascist infiltration. They've been doing it for years.
First, I would like to make a clear delineation between right wing identity fetishism and left-wing back to the land movements. The majority of the people who partake Cottagecore are people who believe it will be beneficial to their physical and mental health. This differs from the nationalist perspective which is one of "we want this because this is ours," (Implied: Not theirs) often including narratives about an "other" who took your heritage away. One needs to make a clear causal distinction as to why we desire these things, and to distance themselves those who have adopted Cottagecore as a nationalist rallying cry. It's pretty easy to suss them out.
My second point is a recommendation. Cottagecore, in many ways, has been influenced by Wicca and, importantly, neo-paganism. Neo-paganism, of course, has been suffering from nationalist infiltration for nearly as long as it has existed. Although I can't make any specific comments, I'd suggest speaking with that community to find out how to resist fascist infiltration. They've been doing it for years.
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They're right, I don't want to dunk on something because of nazi infiltration, I just want people on libleft to be aware that they need to supply a tone shift in the movement. Let's fill our pantries with preserves, turn our lawns into gardens, learn to build and repair our own stuff, fill the cottage core tags with our DIY projects, and smoke out the right with images of trans girls on tractors, butch lesbians kneading bread, enbies tending hives, and gay POC polycules teaching their children to make clothes.
You know, with how few people are out, this might be a good time for guerilla gardening. Of course, if one WERE to do such a thing, they should still be conscious of wearing PPE and other protective measures. Not like I'm telling you to do anything illegal...haha...unless?