Piedra Fiera @PiedraFiera@qoto.org

I hate some national flags more than others. I am okay with those that have not been flown over colonized nations to signal their subjugation.

There is no such thing as unbiased history. Historians can try to portray different sides to an issue, just like journalism. But thinking you can "get the truth" is naive. The closest you can get is the refuting lies.
Propaganda is made out to be different from journalism and history but the most efective propaganda is really hard to refute because it is based on facts. Any history book can be made into propaganda, because it is not a matter of truthfullness but of how it is used.

@barefootstache
Proper hygiene and skin care is part of any proper make up routine but are not make up. There is a "clean" or makeup free aesthetic that is the goal for in some make up efforts that could confuse some on that distinction, but if you are powdering your skin, even to your natural complexion, it is make up.

Most schools suck. Being a teacher sucks, just like being a cop. Not much different when you consider the "school to jail pipeline". Both jobs are very much enjoyed by people that like having power over others. I am many of those in such position believe that the good they do, outweighs the bad. And many of the do not care, it is just their job. And some really get off on the impunity to harm.

@freeschool
This reminds me of people despising the world after the printing press. I do not think this is about the world before the internet but about the conservative mindset always idealizing a frame of the past that never existed as they imagine.
I do not think the machines are the problem but a school system that bores people with access to more engaging contents. A school system that is complicit in destroying communities which I assume is what he might be pointing to the children starve for.
We have been living at the rhythm of machines since the beginning of industrialization. Class shapes a lot of that experience. It is not the machines that rule over us, but political classes thru Capital.

Resist the urge to reinvent warm water. Some solutions have already been worked out. Getting schooled on some history is a bit harder than hitting up a search bar but most of the time it is worth it.

Humans also change rivers and lakes and entire ecosystems. Our actions can drive for richer biodiversity. Leaving Nature untouched is about driving poor people out. Agriculture can drive us to greater biodiversity. Mind you, a lot of agricultural practices do not.

four minutes and a half of
"How Wolves Change Rivers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

I hope our westernized ways give way to less thinking ourselves detached and in oposition to nature. Conquering nature is such a petty objective. And yet it sets the foundation for so much.

Antipsychiatry is alive and swinging, I swear. But also, psych "overmedication" has affected those marginalized proletarized/racialized/disabled more. It is an invisible or non issue to those most privileged. The conversations about these drugs not living up to what was promised have been happening, just not so much in the mainstream. But people have been putting up a fight against it, making theory and pushing for reforms for decades if not more.

Los ejércitos tienen estados, más o menos abiertamente. Aún activamente "desmilitarizando" un estado, se corre el riesgo de sólo estar encubriendo una militarización. Ya sea porque la vida civil fue regimentada, el ejército fue "outsourced" a la vida civil, o porque es así más eficiente gestionar el control de otros estados-ejércitos sobre esa población-territorio.

Una de las conclusiones más brutales jamás para mí es que las masas escogieron el fascismo. La democracia no fue subvertida, fue necesario plantear que lo fue porque aceptar que el fascismo es un momento de la democracia implica demasiado. Implica que va volver a pasar. Y hemos aquí.

"Human progress" is one of the foundational myths of the West. It helps justify colonial atrocities. It helps erase all that was lost.
The end of the world started over 500 years ago and continues to this day. So many worlds were destroyed and yet the resistance of those forced into being our "other" into the backwards peoples continues to this day. Stopping the killing machine called human would not be progress but respite.

@freeschool Also, I disagree with contextualizing ourselves for others, explaining why and how we live, believe, affirm and demand what and how we do. It might help convince some people faster, but it also plays into the bad habit of demanding people befriend you as requirement for them to appear human or worthy of respect or being listened to. That is requirement that some of us will never meet, for various reasons, and that I believe in opposing, rather than play into.

@freeschool Your story about calling your friend's father "bastard" I think is an example of how we, social animals, have different rules for those within certain groups and those outside.
The logic might go as follows: You may only call someone inside my family a "bastard" if you are also part of my family. Otherwise I interpret your action as an attack on my whole family."

The whole "herd mentality" narrative rubs me wrong. We are social animals. Of course we have group dynamics.
I find it similar to using "animal" as an insult. I am an animal why would I be insulted? Rhetorical question I know the answer. "Animal" is about dehumanizing others based on thinking that humans are somehow above other animals? Except I try not to reproduce that type of hierarchies. Also please call me animal, I kinda enjoy it.
If you engage in this herd narrative as a critique please consider critiquing democracy or mass media instead of dehumanizing others. Also please note that referring to such phenomenons as "tribal" mentality or thinking is racist.