Posts by clarity@xoxo.zone
(DIR) Post #AvRuHUwxugRaruOslc by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-06-23T19:20:13Z
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Did you know that the transition from peasant life to wage labor was considered so obviously and immediately unpleasant and undesirable that it could only be enacted at gunpoint?
(DIR) Post #AvRuHdWi1fmzT5BXai by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-06-23T19:26:10Z
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The standard demands for a peasant revolt for thousands of years of human history have been: erase all debts, destroy the records of their existence, and redistribute the land. Did you know that when you say "tax the rich" that you're asking for something half-assed and moderate in the grand scheme of history?
(DIR) Post #AvRuHmi1sxBxwnYCzA by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-06-24T00:52:12Z
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So much more becomes politically possible when you don't start from the premise that obviously you're so much better than those filthy peasants. Instead you can engage in intersectional solidarity not only across space and culture but also forward and backwards in time. As Walter Benjamin said: if the enemy wins not even the dead will be safe. We have tasted victory before and we will taste it again.
(DIR) Post #AvRuHvfAaxFhiXHYHI by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-06-24T00:54:10Z
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with every day I more and more just become these guyshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7qT-C-0ajI
(DIR) Post #AvTkfzNVp5vWxqmDWi by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-06-23T20:44:29Z
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@tad erase all debts, destroy the records, redistribute the land. kill the rich if they fight back and use their bodies for compost. end landlordism, transfer businesses to worker ownership, start renewable energy cooperatives, turn every lawn and every golf course into community gardens and teach permaculture principles to whoever wants to maintain them.
(DIR) Post #Ax6dqGPUEVk9fhsx84 by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-08-12T21:14:12Z
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once again begging the "conflict is an essential part of storytelling" people to read more slice of life manga lmao
(DIR) Post #Ax6dqO4rj40BS4Ib68 by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-08-12T21:21:55Z
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You: [telling me a story about the time you met a celebrity and they said something funny to you]Me: Hmm that seems incorrect. Stories are always about conflict. Try again.
(DIR) Post #AxKsrwQXidWbng4nVQ by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-08-19T18:17:32Z
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I spent my whole birthday weekend sick and nursing a debilitating headache so I've decided that The Birthday Will Continue Until Clarity Improves
(DIR) Post #Axg1VWEZP3Ew6G19bk by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-08-29T20:56:08Z
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I saw this line of thought even before modern genAI where the ideal for art is some sort of magic box that generates the perfect personalized content for each person, and it's such a wildly antisocial position to hold. Even if you hate artists, people still like to have a shared baseline reality. "Press button to generate TV show just for me" is obviously bad because it would turn idle office smalltalk about today's episode into what amounts to people attempting to describe a dream that they had
(DIR) Post #AxiT5lTfI96ssdVQQK by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-08-30T20:51:01Z
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it’s weird that I still constantly see people talking about “rural vs urban” in the us as though this is the True Political Debate when almost 50% of americans live in suburbia. I love small towns and rural regions – I grew up in one – but suburbs are the disease at the heart of our society.
(DIR) Post #AxiT5tuBxP5B1Dyisi by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-08-30T20:57:00Z
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Like why do I still see libs imagining their ~evil republican enemies~ as rural small town hicks? rural populations are only 17% of america, and I promise the electoral college isn’t tipping the scales -that- hard.
(DIR) Post #AxiT61ZDTH3cmUE5IW by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-08-30T21:03:18Z
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Your enemy is not a man in overalls in the countryside hitting an anvil with a hammer. He is a landlord in a cul-de-sac complaining about how the city that he doesn’t actually live in should “do something” about the homeless people he sees from his car windows.
(DIR) Post #AyAzcdl7eANPSQGlWa by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-09-13T21:35:19Z
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“condemning political violence” is wild to me. it’s like condemning “bleeding from a stab wound” – sure yeah I agree it’s bad and we don’t want it to continue but maybe there some other questions to be asking about the sitaution.
(DIR) Post #AyNONYx8CpvbBqAMgi by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-09-19T21:08:35Z
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consistently find that "urban" vs. "suburban" vs. "rural" is a greater determining factor in how much space for meaningful political alliance there is with someone than what party or ideology they profess to. how you choose to live your day-to-day life says a lot about your values in practice.And to be clear: there's a lot more space for urban-rural alliances than urban-suburban alliances, whatever suburban dems might tell you
(DIR) Post #AyNONfkcvj5KH5MyfY by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-09-19T21:15:54Z
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which is to say: instead of shaming someone for not wearing a helmet you could consider the possibility that maybe they have made an informed decision about their own safety
(DIR) Post #Az2TcN1k6IopDFBhJ2 by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-10-09T16:56:12Z
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bluesky has been discoursing all week on the question of "is it immoral to be mean to a chatbot" and it's all really reaffirming the thesis in Graeber's Debt that the western philosophy of property is fundamentally rooted in justifying and comprehending slavery. somehow every single take I see on every side of the argument manages to be deeply asinine
(DIR) Post #B0dXV7nk7DHQJZEvui by clarity@xoxo.zone
2025-11-26T00:05:58Z
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more comments should have diagrams imo
(DIR) Post #B1zAyoZ6UPou8uyADI by clarity@xoxo.zone
2026-01-05T20:23:35Z
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what are yalls favorite albums/songs/artists to listen to while working?
(DIR) Post #B31Tg24MVXZJsKCAMa by clarity@xoxo.zone
2026-02-05T18:07:32Z
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I have a loosely-held belief that labor is actually the wrong lever to pull on to bring universal human dignity, and that targeting landlords (residential and commercial) and interest-bearing debt is what will create the real feedback loops we want
(DIR) Post #B31TgAbclkveLnoqJs by clarity@xoxo.zone
2026-02-05T18:07:46Z
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this maybe makes sense if you think about things like disability, stay-at-home parents, and eldercare. exploitative wage labor depends on rent-seeking to bleed people into desperation and a world without landlords would starve the beast