@hierarchon "Certain viruses (no not bacterial ones), forgetting to maintain against corrosion and degradation, captcha checks, oh and occasionally a door will just *really fuck me up*, y'know?"
re: plural
kinda want to figure out how to put into words this difference. best estimation so far is mel has a lot more "fuck you" energy going on?? but that doesn't really narrow it down much
plural
i mean the most obvious example is just what we call ourselves
i'm is Kai Mera
mel is M3LADY
I think the problem with nonviolence comes down to how the state has coopted and redefined the term "violence"
Private property has no rights. Smashing a storefront or torching a cop car isn't "violent" because it doesn't actually harm anyone
If you define nonviolence as "not causing direct harm to any individuals except in self-defense against a direct attack" then I think a huge number of radicals would agree with that. But when most people say "nonviolent" what they mean is "nonthreatening," and yeah, that's gonna be ineffective, almost tautologically
"If neoliberal America is engaging in a war on the vulnerable, vindicated by a murderous perversion of the frontier code, it is recruiting the rest of us to join in."
"Still, to suggest that the violence was unnecessary or entirely unjustified would be to misunderstand the complexity of the story. Even calling the actions "riots" rather than "rebellions" or "uprisings" obscures the principled outrage that animated many acts of resistance that occurred in the aftermath of Gray's death."
"Debate about whether those in power wanted to kill them or were simply indifferent to their well-being only serve to determine whether the violence done to them was direct State violence or a form of State-sponsored violence through willful ignorance."
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own