• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
    2494·
    7 months ago

    “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

    • Angela Davis, for those who didn’t know the reference
    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      45·
      7 months ago

      I love Angela Davis. I really need to learn more about her. I saw this video posted somewhere during 2020, and for folks who can resist the urge to impatiently skip past what she’s setting up in the beginning, the payoff at the end of her response to the banal question of whether she supports violence for her cause is (IMO) exceptionally powerful.

      https://youtu.be/2HnDONDvJVE

      • Mac@mander.xyz
        6·
        7 months ago

        Thank you for the reco. I will check this out and keep your comment in mind.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
          7·
          7 months ago

          It’s actually kinda short, but the first time I watched it I think I didn’t expect what she describes at the beginning to play so directly into her final words, nor to be so very personal at one tragic point. I think I was kinda going “OK I know awful things were happening back then” I’m embarrassed to say. Once realizing that she was putting all that together for a specific purpose, I had to go back and watch it word for word - so I could have been projecting my own general impatience with video clips onto others. :)

      • Enkrod@feddit.de
        131·
        7 months ago

        It’s her reversal of the Serenity Prayer, changing it into a call to action instead of acceptance of the (seemingly) inevitable.

        • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
          32·
          7 months ago

          I wouldn’t describe it as a reversal, the actual serenity prayer as stated already has the “courage to change the things I can,” so anything that is within the speaker’s ability to change should already be covered. And the last part, the wisdom to know the difference, already asks to have the ability to discern the two categories, and seeks to avoid accepting the things that can be changed.

          It’s clever, but doesn’t actually say anything the serenity prayer itself doesn’t already say.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
      1510·
      7 months ago

      So what is that supposed to mean?

      Changing everything you can’t change?

      What does “not accepting those things you cannot change”, means? It feels somehow like very self centered gibberish.

      Please enlighten me.

      • jeremyparker@programming.dev
        321·
        7 months ago

        You’re being downvoted because people people think you’re being obtuse, but, as a person that overuses logical thinking to a diagnosable degree, my suspicion is that you’re doing that. Also because your tone is kind of…not good.

        The whole point of the Serenity Prayer (“accept the things I cannot change”) is that it includes “change the things I can” – so the things Davis is changing are things she CAN change, by definition.

        But her point is that she is reframing what she believes she can and cannot change. Recategorizing, if you will.

        She’s invoking the third part of the Serenity Prayer: the wisdom to know the difference. As we grow and learn, our wisdom increases, so the things that belong in the first two categories will shift.

        Things that used to be things that can’t be changed are becoming things that she can.

        To understand the quote, you just have to give it some space to breathe, and not be so logical about it.

        • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
          10·
          7 months ago

          Correct analysis 😁 too much logic made it non understandable (I’m not familiar with the prayer so that didn’t help either).

          Thanks for the rundown!

          • jeremyparker@programming.dev
            3·
            7 months ago

            Yeah, the Serenity Prayer context might help.

            Grant me the serenity to accept the things I can’t change
            The courage to change the things I can
            And the wisdom to know the difference

        • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
          911·
          7 months ago

          Oh please. This was witty for about 10 seconds 10 years ago.

          It’s about as clever as answering every comment with “you could find the answer for this on Google”.

          Make better decisions.

  • xenoclast@lemmy.world
    42·
    7 months ago

    It’s never been about left and right. It’s always been a war with the owner class and everyone else.

    We occasionally forget; until everything falls apart and greed ruins everything. That’s when the fight starts again.

    • squid_slime@lemmy.world
      81·
      7 months ago

      𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖊𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖉 𝕬𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙

      𝔄 𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩-𝔯𝔢𝔤𝔲𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔞, 𝔟𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔞𝔯𝔶 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔠𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔶 𝔬𝔣 𝔞 𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔢 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔨𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔟𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔄𝔯𝔪𝔰 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔟𝔢 𝔦𝔫𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔡.

      𝓚𝓪𝓻𝓵 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝔁

      𝒰𝓃𝒹ℯ𝓇 𝓃ℴ 𝓅𝓇ℯ𝓉ℯ𝓍𝓉 𝓈𝒽ℴ𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒶𝓇𝓂𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓂𝓂𝓊𝓃𝒾𝓉𝒾ℴ𝓃 𝒷ℯ 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝓇ℯ𝓃𝒹ℯ𝓇ℯ𝒹. 𝒜𝓃𝓎 𝒶𝓉𝓉ℯ𝓂𝓅𝓉 𝓉ℴ 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝒶𝓇𝓂 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓌ℴ𝓇𝓀ℯ𝓇𝓈 𝓈𝒽ℴ𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝒷ℯ 𝒻𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓉ℯ𝒹, 𝒷𝓎 𝒻ℴ𝓇𝒸ℯ 𝒾𝒻 𝓃ℯ𝒸ℯ𝓈𝓈𝒶𝓇𝓎.

      this was a struggle but ran it through a word processor, its a great quote and when most of the world have failed to stand by, many have also forgotten or never knew. sadly guns now have a political agenda strapped to them and i wish they didn’t

      spoiler

      “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”

      ― Karl Marx** **:::

  • shanie@kbin.social
    322·
    7 months ago

    True story for Americans: You should exercise your 2nd Amendment right unless you want only the Right to have guns.

    If you actually listened to the Right’s leaders, they’re openly telling you that you should be picking out your favorite at the shop now.

    • potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
      251·
      7 months ago

      Yeah I’m becoming increasingly nervous with the blue states systematically trying to disarm everyone and the red states are trying to whip everyone into a traitorous frenzy over the dumbest shit while arming everyone with a pulse.

      Otoh, and this probably sounds absolutely fucking nuts, I’ve found republicans tend to understand “strength” and they are strangely respectful of liberal and leftist gun owners because that’s a dynamic they can comprehend. It’s not a good state of affairs but it’s better than them believing they can just run things because they’re the only ones with “strength”

      • Gabu@lemmy.ml
        58·
        7 months ago

        A militia made of a bunch of greasy brainwashed boomers would be put down in a couple days at most, even if it consisted of the entire population of republicans.

        • maynarkh@feddit.nl
          71·
          7 months ago

          They won’t be a regular army doing regular army stuff like taking land and stuff. They would be like the Taliban. How did that go again for the US? The Troubles were no picnic, look it up.

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
          61·
          7 months ago

          A militia made of a bunch of greasy brainwashed boomers

          Put down by whom? The vast majority of the military and police force is right leaning. The would be ideologically compliant with the “greasy brainwashed boomers” they’d be putting down. If all the people who were trained on how to fight are on the “other” team… There’s going to be a clear winner.

          • daltotron@lemmy.world
            21·
            7 months ago

            If the military and police are the right leaning ones who agree with the greasy brainwashed boomers, I’d think more that said military and police are the major problem in that circumstance, and not the greasy brainwashed boomers.

        • potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
          41·
          7 months ago

          It would be an insane mistake to underestimate that group. Like the other comments said, they are the Taliban and the military/police. However even if they somehow weren’t, it still means we have potentially tens of millions of domestic terrorists running around armed to the teeth and that’s not a great feeling.

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          7 months ago

          Would you really be down with dipshits like the proud boys and 3%ers acting like brownshirts and pulling a modern day krystallnacht? They already did a thing pretty damn close to the Reichstag Fire back in the beginning of 2021, and that crowd was not, shall we say, our best and brightest. You don’t have to be smart to be a thug.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    0·
    7 months ago

    Lovely, everyone in this thread is exactly the same as a trump supporter but a left version of it. You guys are a wet dream for the NRA

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
    1332·
    7 months ago

    Ah, the classic “U” argument, that the fringes of the right and left are the same. It’s a cute but damaging myth.

    • potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
      144·
      7 months ago

      Ok I hate all of this.

      They’re not the same, but they’re kind of the same personality type. They frequently care about the same things, they just want very aggressive change to fix them. The issue is the path to get there and those are wildly different in terms of what the problem is and the underlying world view.

    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
      112·
      7 months ago

      The horseshoe theory is a bullshit idea cooked up by politically deficient liberals to cope with everyone thinking they’re a joke

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    329·
    7 months ago

    WTF is with her nails? Is painting each hand a different color a thing with the kids now? Also those are claws but I’ve seen that before IRL.