Posts by TessRants@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AZVS9Y8UoNfuCVyY9w by TessRants@mastodon.social
2023-09-06T23:57:33Z
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@Wolven So, I'm interested in hearing more about your study of the overlaps between magic, et al...(My B.A. is in philosophy, but I've also been studying religions, the occult, and esotericism for about 30 years now.)
(DIR) Post #AZWctPA7hXwKOECVvs by TessRants@mastodon.social
2023-09-07T13:32:35Z
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@Wolven Coolness.
(DIR) Post #AZqW4FUoq6PUpqdiuO by TessRants@mastodon.social
2023-09-17T03:50:21Z
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@Wolven Right here with you.
(DIR) Post #Ab5JiVWKMe6q3zJSNc by TessRants@mastodon.social
2023-10-24T05:04:45Z
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@Wolven Quis custodiet ipsos lupi?
(DIR) Post #Ace8yMkh43efn9Yx60 by TessRants@mastodon.social
2023-11-21T12:45:59Z
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@cstross I have done many drugs.I've spent time in a sensory deprivation chamber.I had my first sleep-deprivation hallucinations around age ten.I write speculative fiction, ffs...And I still can not fathom what kind of insanity would ever cause someone to ask that ludicrous question in that excruciatingly brain-fucked fashion...And now, I feel like I'm not living my best life.
(DIR) Post #AhkTGs0SWC4gDA0yEi by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-05-10T11:58:38Z
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@janisf @lawas @Radical_EgoCom Most people, according to national polls for the last decade or two, do not have a tidy nest egg.The vast majority of Americans can't financially cope with a $500 emergency. As a nation, we financed wage stagnation with debt; from about 1975 on. The vast majority of Americans can't save money, for a number of reasons, including the aforementioned.
(DIR) Post #AhnWEeB5qNg453V4M4 by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-05-12T00:04:04Z
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@antics @lawas @Radical_EgoCom @janisf Here's how we do that, w/out fucking about w/ theories:Stop buying shit. Start spending money in your own community.Get to know everyone who lives near you, as well as you can.Start figuring out who has what skills, who needs help, and who can be of help in what situations. Be a part of that system of community aid and advancement.Accept anyone who wants to belong & teach them.Weed out all the bastards just looking to make a buck.Be loud about it.
(DIR) Post #AhywDgNSuoUq9y2yQq by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-05-12T17:53:05Z
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@janisf @antics @lawas @Radical_EgoCom Yes.Yes, we do.Connect with people near you.Do what you can, with what you've got...And ask for help; start nearby and widen your circle as you continue to search for assistance, community, and others who need your help.On an individual note:Think about the things that happen in the kind of world you want to live in...Then do whatever of those things you are capable of.Create parallel structures that make the current, inhuman system obsolete.
(DIR) Post #AhywDiA4Hay5gznIpM by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-05-12T19:21:17Z
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@janisf @antics @lawas @Radical_EgoCom I don't, BUT I learned the on the ground stuff from people who do.Children are not an obstacle Neither are they a tool.If you think of them that way, they will notice, they will take it to heart, and they will remember.(they'll definitely be telling it to their therapists, if they can ever afford one.)If you think my lack of children is somehow a disqualifier, then you need to dace the fact that You Don't Want things to change.
(DIR) Post #AhywDjiqTmNgX94afo by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-05-13T01:13:19Z
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@janisf @antics @lawas @Radical_EgoCom Ok, so this response is unclear.Please rephrase it to make your meaning and intent more apparent.(also, just to help you a little, the fact that, at this moment, I don't have children, in no way means that I have never raised any. I'm trying to assume positive intent on your part. Please don't treat me like an asshole for it.)
(DIR) Post #AhywDlGYjuwXJzr1rU by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-05-17T12:16:36Z
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@janisf @antics @lawas @Radical_EgoCom Thank you for clarifying...The 2 statements in your comment seem contradictory.One doesn't have to know everything, or even a 1/4 of everything, to identify persistent & fundamental problems w/ our system. If you can identify 1 problem, you can follow it to its root. You can work to fix or ameliorate it. You can teach others. You can, in whatever way your capacity allows, support the people in your community. Even small acts make a difference.
(DIR) Post #AiCg3SLFMnzKgAYA8O by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-05-24T03:21:33Z
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@HeyItsRosie @Radical_EgoCom And, it is a federal crime for an employer to retaliate against you.*National Labor Relations Act of 1935*(in the US, anyway.)
(DIR) Post #Ail9xhz4aWnb4wFfWq by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-06-09T18:38:10Z
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@stux And, we already have plenty of studies, beginning in the 1990s, that prove violent video games decrease violent actions across a population.
(DIR) Post #AjFg7BtcUugmDzH0oy by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-06-24T11:59:52Z
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@Radical_EgoCom Biden is 100% NOT my guy, but he'll get my vote because, even though he's nothing close to perfect, a second Biden administration will give us space to breathe, to maybe have an opportunity to kick the damn fascists and anti-democracy folks out of our government. It's a stop gap. More time to educate. More time to wake people up. More time to find ways to sink the authoritarians in their own shit.I'll take that...And tell everyone else who'd like to live to take it too.
(DIR) Post #Ajo3uuZUpS1pkzYrzc by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-07-11T02:06:42Z
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@Radical_EgoCom I think, if we do it right, the revolution won't require force at all...We just make them obsolete.By the time they think to marshall their forces, we'll have converted all their soldiers to our cause and community. ...In the words of the Taoist sage Lao Tzu,"If it don't t fit, don't force it."
(DIR) Post #Ajo68khSWmHX6T0tt2 by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-07-11T02:31:40Z
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@Radical_EgoCom That's nice theory, but I doubt it's the only option.
(DIR) Post #Ajo6C2Au0rS8AZLmSm by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-07-11T02:32:14Z
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@Radical_EgoCom I still don't agree.But that's what discourse is for.
(DIR) Post #Ajq9xqfWmdsEYx5PBg by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-07-12T02:23:55Z
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@Radical_EgoCom Easy, there. I was using theory colloquially. Mea culpa. Please pardon my lack of precision?I have also done some studying of prior revolutions/ uprisings. (Revolutions succeed. Uprisings, not so much.)I have yet to find one where using the tools of the oppressor did not turn once idealistic revolutionaries into just a new flavor of oppressor themselves.If you've done as much studying as I think, you'll have seen this too.
(DIR) Post #AjqCHTic1OXJ5G16oq by TessRants@mastodon.social
2024-07-12T02:49:53Z
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@Radical_EgoCom And you haven't said why violent overthrow is necessary...By "necessary," let us understand it to mean, "the only way."But, since you asked, if we quietly build parallel structures, community-based and under the radar, then, yeah, by the time they think to come for us, we'll have already won.The Black Panther party was a militant & highly visible minority that most whites were already afraid of or had already made scapegoats of to begin with.Learn from their mistakes.
(DIR) Post #AvfwEujWW1HC5PRo2a by TessRants@mastodon.social
2025-07-01T02:28:12Z
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@art Or, if you're a mad bastard, have worked out ahead of time w/ your community a plan to have 1-2 designated witnesses, and have everyone else run out and start whompin' on those masked bandits. They're operating outside the law; show them what the consequences are.*Disclaimer* I'm not a lawyer, but I know the pertinent laws in my community & state. Learn them wherever you are and organize your community for mutual defense. If your neighbors get "disappeared" they may never come back.