(Just read yoseito and like…)
(shaking him) kurahashi what is your deal kurahashi. am i overthinking? does this actually mean nothing?? it feels like im overthinking but at the same time youre saying things i can overthink about!
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selena nix, ya | hot-headed, loner, bookworm 🐺
second daughter of mike & annie nix, selena was no stranger to the odd and spooky - not when you grow up in moonlight falls. her entire life, she always wanted to strike out on her own, and after graduating from britechester with a degree in history and an obsession with archaeology and the arcane, selena made good on her promise to herself and finally left her childhood home. it's not like moonwood mill is that different from where she grew up, but ever since she got here, there's been this... connection she just can't place. why does her blood go hot when the moon reaches its height? why can she hear voices in the trees when it's cold light bathes her?
could she even call herself a mystery-hunter if she didn't try to find out? 🌙
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lots of shitty unconfident baby politics rambling here but that "How This Climate Activist Justifies Political Violence" interview in the new york times is so interesting to me in it's portrayal of the failure point of lifestyle politics. lifestyle politics are not an effective political method and stagnate actual change, but beyond that, when and where they fall apart is so fascinating.
because like, lifestyle politics and consumer ideology (i can't remember the correct terminology im so sorry adorno) go hand in glove. within capitalism, what you buy is your life. lifestyle politics state how you live your life is your politics. what you buy is your politics. and i think we apply these concepts to things we don't buy as well, within an attention economy. who you watch on youtube is your politics. who you follow and dont follow is your politics. (see: callout culture.)
i also think its why so many people react to criticism so negatively. because criticism is seen as a call to political and moral action, that action being to stop participating in whatever is the object of criticism. with consumerism being seen as the end-all be all of the political landscape, you have a moral obligation to not enjoy anything you're morally opposed to.
this creates incentive to not criticise things, so you can continue enjoying the latest show. (which also produces absolutely noxious analysis.) people often say "is there anything good left?" in reaction to learning some aspect of their show was unethical.
and this is the big failure point of lifestyle politics i want to focus on in this post: there is no "ethical" lifestyle under capitalism. there is no life that is not made out of other's exploitation. there is nothing that escapes its grasp.
and realizing this within lifestyle politics basically feels like the worlds ending. i'm describing my own expeirence here. with consumer politics having been your only political avenue, and a reflection of your moral worth as a person, the realization that there is no way to live ethically makes you feel helpless. theres no political action you can take to make things better when you only understand political action as what you do and don't buy and signal your support for.
you believed the entire goal of politics and life was to live ethically, and if you can't live ethically, what's the point of living at all?
and this happens in real time in the interview!
to paraphrase, Malm states that the excessive emissions caused by luxury lifestyles kill people by accelerating climate change. billionares are killing people, and violence in justified in response. and the interviewer responds with this:
"But by that logic, i cannot live an ethical lifestyle, and i contribute to death."
and later we see the logical outcome of realizing it's physically impossible to do what you've lived your whole life trying to:
the footnote is incredible. it really does feel suffocating, only having known lifestyle politics, and realizing they're not effective. it absolutely feels hopeless.
i've got a lot more thoughts here, about how useless lifestle politics are, and how they actively limit the life of those who engage in them, and stop them from effecting change, but i've run outta brain juice, and that has all been better said a century ago. i would highly recommend reading the article.
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MAC!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAC IM DOGPILLED LOOK AT THIS BEAFT!!!!
OH MY GODDDDDD. OH MY GOD IM FR GONNA CRY HES SO FUCKING CUTE. chocolate chip cookie dough looking baby oh my god that dog looks like it has the softest ears on the planet WAUGH. DOES HE HAVE A NAME YET.... HAVE U GIVEN HIM A KISS ON HIS LITTLE FOREHEAD YET.... BABYYYYYY
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Bitch so autistic she say checkmate when u finish then check when she finish send post
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