Attention all: I have made an account on TLA and will be transferring there!
I have enjoyed my time here at Pagan.Plus and I appreciate the awesome folks I've met, but it's time to start anew. I can't wait for the fun we'll have on TLA https://social.translunar.academy/darlingofinana
I wish people would realize all Chinese dynasties were shit.
There are no good Emperors. The North Asian ruled Qing and Yuan dynasties were oppressive, but so were the Han ruled Song and Ming. They all drew from the same playbook
I wish it was socially acceptable to like, just not acknowledge my age at all.
I've lost so many years to abuse that I've missed out on so much and the thought of aging scares me
I wish the term "walkable city" wasn't cursed for me.
Like, I completely agree with the concept 100%. Cities should absolutely be walkable and accessible without the need for vehicles.
But, my mind associates the term with asshole internet urbanists and after they harassed that one lady on Twitter for proposing the term "accessible city", the term got cursed for me. I can't help but think of those ableist assholes now
Han Chauvinism and Japanese Chauvinism in the Asian community is a real issue and I'm sick of how non-Asian leftists will downplay it and suggest that we only ever focus on White Chauvinism.
Like... when will people realize there are more heads to the hydra that is racism than just white people?
@cordillera I don't really follow specific hashtags. I've just either found myself in a weird pickle, or the whole thing has just kinda soured as it's grown
Does anyone know any Pacific Islands with a mixed Asian diaspora similar to Hawaii?
Hawaii isn't an ethical place to move to, but I authentically enjoyed the mixed Asian atmosphere, as a mixed Asian, and places like California or NY are just too monoracial for me
It's like, I'm too mixed for Cali and NY Asians, too Americanized for mainland Asians, and back when I visited Hawaii in the 2010s, I was made to feel really welcome because I kinda just looked like everyone else lol
I'm seeing a lot of people claim Hyperpop sounds like Eurodance and.. I just don't see it? Other than Barbie Girl by Aqua, I don't know very many Eurodance songs that sound hyperpop
"But X group was Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist, and they were good"
IDC, Leninism and its derivatives are ideologically opposed toward my existence and break my fundamental values as a queer anarchist
@cybertailor Leninism is still authoritarian and opposes my values, and is opposed to my existence. Stalinism and Maoism are even worse with the legacy of genocide and mass murder
I'm not even big on Orthodox Marxism, given the quite insulting things Marx has said about lumpenproles like me
@cybertailor Also I'm just not big on ideologies based around a cult of personality. We shouldn't be basing our ideas off of what a specific person said, but a set of values
You know those altar shelves every Chinese/Vietnamese household has? I'd like to get one and adapt it to be a shrine to the Sogdian goddess Nana. Preferably a blank one so I can have Sogdian calligraphy put onto it
@SavahRellcast I don't know the specific name in Chinese or Vietnamese, but I've seen people call them Joss Houses (which normally refer to larger temples)
I wish there were East Asian online pagan groups that:
Were pro-eclecticism and realize that you don't have to exclusively draw from a single culture
Don't make mixed people feel unwelcome
Actually talks paganism instead of just going on and on about "Closed practices" that aren't even closed
Alas the only one I've found and tried to take part in, made me feel very unwelcome, and tried to police everyone's practices for the harmless phenomenon of mixing traditions
I hate that people use "Mongol" as a catch-all term for North Asians.
Qin Shi Huang didn't build the first Great Wall to defend against Mongols; Mongols weren't a thing yet. It was to protect against Xiongnu and Scythians.
Whenever I see anarchists going on about how only the working class is important and how everything is about class struggle and must be analyzed through the lens of class, that anyone who isn't whatever their definition of "working class" is must be ignored, viewed with suspicion, and/or pushed out of "the movement", and that anyone who objects to this is just doing so because they're "really middle class," I yawn and roll my eyes.
People.
We don't need to use this unwieldy old approach anymore that fetishizes the classic image of the strong, muscular male manual laborer, and the Puritan Christian notion that only manual labor is real work, and only it can purify the soul and make you truly connected with reality and "down to earth" or whatever. There is so much more than that to this struggle. The working class itself is so much broader than that, and there are many other ways to be at odds with the system of the state and capitalism than just the alienation and exploitation of physical production that can give you a true incentive to stand against it. There's service industry workers and office workers and artists and sex workers and teachers and queer people and women and black people and indigenous people and disabled people and immigrants and you know, some of those people won't be in your favorite special class, but that doesn't mean they can't have good points or don't have an interest in ending the state and capitalism.
This fetishistic focus on the working class — and a specific conception of it at that — isn't even borne out by history. To my knowledge, of all the anarchist and socialist revolutions that have happened, very few were started by the "working class" as workerists conceive of it.
@anarchopunk_girl As a disabled person who does not work, I've always found "working class" to be a term that falls flat for me. I'm below working class, and I matter too. I may not contribute labor, but like all human beings, I deserve support