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  • wowwoweowza@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldTNP
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    8 days ago

    So… I have been friends in a writing group with a guy who voted for Bush2… and I have conscientiously tried to be human and humane to him because we go on hikes and movies together and he shares some of that co service ugliness in ways that help me understand the “other” better.

    We had a blow out 2016… and we came back from it 2019… and now we know how not to have blowouts.

    Recently I shared with him Gloria Anzadua’s HOW TO TAME A WILD TONGUE.

    To my amazement he read it. We just had a discussion on empathy. No one died.


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    8 days ago

    Everything about your response here is why Lemmy is my first click in the morning: sober, clear thinking. What I keep wondering is can the rich be held accountable for the damage that they have done? They participated in this fiasco-coronation… they funded it. My head still spins about the loss of integrity in our entire system.

    Last night I started reading Against The Machine by Paul Kingsforth… I always wanted to read Decline and Fall of the West by Spengler but this guy actually did — and a lot of other great thinkers that are making this transition feel much less tragic for me and more natural… and reminding me that empires fall but individuals can thrive. Do thrive — with acts of decency.




  • Exactly.

    In the late zeroes, the local recycle place got a bunch of full monitors as a local business transitioned to flat screens. I grabbed about twelve of them, thinking I would be able to build machines for kids without computers. I placed three full systems before we moved and I sadly had to dump a slew of them because we didn’t have space in the moving truck. Learned my lesson.