jk I'm all about that bread @danishcookies@computerfairi.es

@interneteh I was reading a book on Anti-Authoritarianism and it goes into detail a bit about the Native genocide and how their way of life had to be exterminated to allow oppressive regimes like the U.S. to stay in power. They had a whole society that was untainted by the same hierarchies and class strata we've been using since Sargon conquered half of Mesopotamia. I don't think it's primitivism that you're romanticizing as much as a more nature friendly, social, egalitarian, society.

I don't mean to romanticize primitivism or say life was better before things like medicine, sanitation or refrigeration. Its just we lost a lot of things that maybe we didn't have to. It could have been better.

Not to mention: Indigenous people (unravaged by European diseases) living in a wide array of lifestyles, from nomadic to agricultural to sedentary, some building enormous, sprawling cities.

I have this daydream of seeing North America before white people. Particularly the Great Plains, where I'm from. They say the prairie grasses were like a carpet before it was all plowed up & made into a dust bowl. With millions and millions of bison thundering across it.

@interneteh Mhmm. Sargon created the mold for "Empire" and every ruler after that, for the next few millennia, up until today has tried to emulate it.

I definitely recommend this book though, it's written by a psychologist who often finds himself at odds with psychiatry and the idea of pumping kids with meds. He talks a lot about how anti authoritarians are picked out and then mistreated by our current system.

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I've heard stories about the Bay when Europeans first arrived... It was clear. Most of the Bay is able to be traversed by a 6ft tall person (though dredging and the increase of silt[from decline in Oyster pops] has made going directly across impossible). There were Oyster Reefs up to 2.5 miles long that supported TONS of aquatic life. In 1839 Oyster fishing began in earnest and by the end of the 1800's 15 million bushels were taken from the Bay every year.

As much as I like public transport, it would be nicer if everyone was familiar with the basics of personal hygiene...

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im so happy. look at this fat cat with extra toes

*jerry seinfeld voice* what's the deal with people not decapitating police officers

Sans Undertale fucks to survive

@carlygayjepsen
Sounds like it's working for you, then. You know they're different components of your attraction and you know they align in a certain way for you.

Same for sexuality. We can break it down to be specific about the components of our desire.

No one has to conform to amatonormative, heteronormative, monogamously informed rules of interpersonal interaction.

Drop the bioessentialism, rid yourself of slut shaming, and embrace the split model-- and the ace and aro people who brought it.

Being able to unpack attraction is awesome. Feeling uncomfortable by how aesthetically appealing someone is because you don't want to be misunderstood as sexually interested and don't want it to automatically be the beginning of a relationship?

Yeah same lol. So now we can acknowledge things like aesthetic attraction and think about how it plays out into human life and love... and also oppression.

This is what culturally growing up looks like.

Everything.