penitentkulak [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • This reply was actually pretty good:

    This is something every pan-racial (for lack of a better term) movement will run into. Every movement needs its foundational myths (in the folkloric sense, not the “stories that are false” sense) and common beliefs to function. When you’re trying to unite disparate peoples whose main reason for joining together is to increase political/bargaining power, you’re going to have to either choose to prioritize certain narratives over others or create new narratives whole cloth. Since legitimacy tends to come from either time or power and these movements lack power, most groups are going to pick the first option (in reality, a mix between the two options). Due to the relative prominence of the Eastern Woodlands in both American/Canadian history and members of tribes from that region in the creation of pan-Indianism, narratives from those tribes are going to be prioritized. And other people are going to go along with it, because joining with the movement is more beneficial than fighting it, especially for something as minor as this.





  • Maybe in some places lockdown went on for that long, but many places (including here) it was all of a few weeks and yet these problems are seemingly universal across the west (or at least North America).

    It’s the same as the argument that rampant sickness is from immunity debt. If the damage came from lockdowns, why is it just as bad or worse in areas that didn’t have lockdowns or had short lockdowns? It’s because it’s being caused by COVID.

    Not assigning blame to working parents who had no choice, just explaining how a stark early lesson in the capitalist meat grinder might change how you think.








  • My partner and I went through this last year with a family members wedding. We were just honest/open about it, it caused some tension, more with my parents than than anyone else, but after a few months everything kinda calmed and was the same as before the wedding. I will say even though we knew deep down we weren’t going to make it (the wedding was smack in the middle of where we got back-to-school surges previously and a new variant was spreading fast), we wanted to go so bad that we waited longer than we should have to let them know in hopes something would get better/change. Don’t recommend, just getting it over with ASAP if this is already how you’re feeling.

    Also, meow-hug, this shit sucks.