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[…]perpetuating the mantra of “art for art’s sake” isn’t merely irresponsible—it reinforces the status quo of the capitalist class. It echoes an ethos of "apathy for apathy’s sake.

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  • There is a real possiblity that our leaders are not acting in a material fashion. They’re acting irrationally. And this is why you see shit about sacrificing cows and starting the rapture and stuff like that coming out. They actually believe this. And that concerns me.

    It’s one thing to deal with, hey, they’re doing this for profit, hey, they’re doing this because this is what capitalism does. It’s another thing to contend with hardline, devout evangelicals.








  • Half a year, or a quarter of a millennia? America is the old guard of Native Genocide, Israel is just the modern apprentice.

    Great post. I don’t have much to add beyond that I hope westerners will realize America only exists because it brutally genocided in the same way Israel does. If we must dismantle Israel for being an illegitimate settler state, than so too shall we dismantle America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

    People’s Republic of Turtle Island will offer us a far better future than the America made murder we’ve seen live on our phones everyday for the last 6 months.


  • It’s kind of ironic, I haven’t started the job yet, and I don’t even know if I’ll be able to take this opportunity because I’m too damn broke to get everything I need to fucking… get licensed and… such. My driver’s license was expired, I gotta handle that, my… I need to buy a suit and… all these other little things, I’m short on my rent. Shit, it’s not looking good. But… we’ll see. Because this is a sales job, so… You don’t have a motherfucker who… advocates for Medicare for All, selling Medicare plans. Ain’t that a motherfucker, huh? That’s something I had to reconcile. But see… I was working in tech, man. And I don’t give a fuck what… position you in. If you working in tech… Yo shit… You, you got blood on your hands, like… When you work for Microsoft, who built the AI that’s killing the Palestinians? Microsoft. You work for a contracting company, who you really working for? You work for the government. There’s no escaping that if you work in tech. So, I mean, at the end of the day… I can’t put too much… weight into my own ethical choices when I’m only… The reason I’m taking this job is because I don’t want to get called back at the end of the day. And yeah, man, I know what it is to have to try to reconcile that shit. I got friends who are doing… mandatory minimums… for the same shit I was doing. I got friends… You know, my grandfather did 25 years in prison… for selling crack. Like… He’s a motherfucker. He’s… Growing up with no… power sometimes, having a… leaky roof. And now you’re looking at… making enough money to possibly be able to pay for my friend’s healthcare and shit. Who’s to tell me I can’t go get that money? At the end of the day… That money, in my head, is going to pay for a lot… better shit. And do a lot more work. And do a lot more work. And do a lot more work. And do a lot more work.


  • I’m in this weird spot right now where, you know, I’ve been unemployed for three months. I’m basically out of money and out of things I can sell to get money, and I’ve borrowed money from, you know, a lot of friends at this point. And it’s not a good look, though, because before I got laid off, they stole my last check, and by the time I finally got it, it was only half my pay, and then there was PayPal fees, because I sent it through PayPal, and it’s a long story. But at the same time, I have been expended a job offer that if I can get this license taken care of and handled, which is going to cost me money I don’t have, then I could potentially make a good amount of money, like more than I was making any job before this one. And it’s such a weird feeling where it’s like cabinets are empty, rent is short, but maybe, just maybe, we’ll be okay. I don’t know.

    Basically out of options, and trying not to scream as loud as I can.


  • Absolute worst case scenario, but also probably the most likely. The thing gets put on his plate. And then they wrap him up. And say, oh, it was a one-time thing. This was not supposed to happen. This is what happens when you have a crazy right-wing person in power. And then Bibi will take the fall. And we’ll just be expected that that’s good enough. “Imagine if the U.S. had Trump in office. It’s the same thing.” The libs will say. This is why our political line needs to be anti-settler colonialism. Because it does not matter if it’s Israel, if it’s Australia, if it’s Canada, if it’s New Zealand, or if it’s America. The problem is the same. Native people were genocided, their land stolen. Everything you see in Israel is just a modern version of what we did in America. Hell, what the Nazis did to the Soviets is just taken directly from what America did. Fundamental fact needs to be our political line. Because otherwise, we’re never going to get the People’s Republic of Turtle Island.