FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

It's been a little while since my last stream, but it's time to get back into things! Today I'm finishing up part 1 of #Fantasian. I'll spend the first half of the stream taking care of side quests, and then... we'll go attack and dethrone (a) god. >:D

https://twitch.tv/LadyLenalia/

This morning, all over my television, I'm being told that the only solution to Labour getting waxed last night is to move right.

They have moved right every waking moment since 2017, and lost every single contest in that span - badly.

Please consider that maybe the point isn't to win, but to get you to move right?

Considering the sabotage of Corbyn in 2019, and attempted sabotage in 2017, it seems clear the Labour right would rather lose, even to a semi-literate fascist, than go left.

almost forgot I made the discovery last night that sports betting is the stock market for jocks

The thing about being in a giant, oppressive country is that one is always fighting for space to exist. I became expert at identifying the clues that some hegemonic thing was preparing to squash me. I was ready to fight like hell on a moment's notice, because this was required.

I showed up to England, where I *thought* I'd be speaking my native language, but I discovered I couldn't understand my new neighbours at all. When I did get the pronunciation, I found phrasing that was massively suspect. And, as always, I came out swinging. What I failed to notice was the different context.

To be fair to myself, hegemonic USians are always claiming some sort of contextual excuses that are always bullshit, but, as I was actually in a different country, the context was actually different. Words that were offensive at home were benign abroad. (And worse, benign words at home turned out to have extremely offensive baggage here, which lost me friends.)

The fediverse is international, but people who have lived their whole lives in the US have largely been denied previous experiences negotiating it.

Everyone on this network has some privilege and just as anyone can be gentrifier, anyone can participate in american hegemony. Especially if one is unused to having privilege in a situation, the fighting we all learn can easily turn into this. Indeed, this is some of the origin of white women's tears and similar things.

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