@asbestos@toot.community i think a homeland is an idea, like home itself, that we can achieve only very imperfectly and contingently in the real world. we all want a true home. occasionally we feel at home. usually, we are more unsettled than that. and more in peril. we should do our best! but declaring our right to a thing we want doesn't make it ours. in fact, it often pushes it farther away. rather than assert a right, we have to find mutual agreement that it is right.