her box art is adorable, screw the conservatoids

he can sit in first class on the rocketship when we launch them all into the sun for their crimes

the big O is the back wheel, the little o is the front wheel

complicit in international drug trafficking to minors

they’re based in lithuania. you cannot make this up. istg we need to build some kind of containment dome over the baltics, hitlerite radiation is leaking everywhere

screenshot did her dirty calling her a pinko when she’s clearly a red

At some point, you’ve got to trust the guy who writes the pharmaceutical prescriptions or whats the fucking point of doctors at all?

good point

tbh im long past the point that if a doctor tells me something my instinct is to believe the exact opposite until I can get my hands on the research myself. it’s kind of impressive how your field in particular managed to mess up public trust so badly

put it back, thief

I think it’s fair to say that there were unacceptable failures. soviet pro-natalist policy for example was ultra cringe for a long time and they ought have known better. that being said, though, what are we comparing it to? the ussr must have seemed like a city on a hill to e.g. english women in the 1920s. libs are always harping on about soviet Ls while nervously nudging their own contemporaneous skeletons behind the sofa

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I understand the impulse—to meme-ify this thing that has become a symbol for the cynical, trauma-mining jingoism of American life. But I also think it’s a way to do what I did, what all my friends did, after 9/11—to minimize its impact on us. Because whether you were there or not; whether you were born before or after, that event has deeply and tragically affected our lives—taken away your personal freedoms in the form of the Patriot Act; put blood on your hands and guilt in your hearts in the form of endless war on foreign soils. We’re all trying to put it behind a screen; to make it a movie.

this is where the left-libs’ “9/11 was a tragedy, I’m only mocking how it was used afterwards” position takes you: viewing anti-americanism as just an ironic performance, done by people trying to sublimate their cynicism from their fundamental love of country

but when I make fun of 9/11 I’m not using gallows humor to cope with cognitive dissonance. there’s nothing gallows about it bc I don’t particularly view 9/11 as a tragedy. I just hate this country and find the blowback for our crimes a bit satisfying

I was just telling someone yesterday that I wish people would stop giving this advice because it can be pretty harmful for a lot of mentally ill people. I don’t even have psychosis but I’ll slip into dissociating if I’m not at least a little careful, and psych usage makes that much harder. in fact the last time I used one I had to go in to the hospital bc I couldn’t get my sense of reality back even after it wore off. I’m better at knowing what’s healthy for me now but back then I was definitely influenced by people constantly talking about how helpful and wholesome psychs are, and I still blame that whole scene for positioning itself as some kind of wiser authority on mental health when frankly you’re not taking these issues seriously.

$1,700,000,000,000 program but they didn’t want to spring for the $700 lojack package

it seems that I totally had his number too. saying “intersectionality is economically challenged” - idk how this is even a discussion it’s classic stupidpol

I’d rather a cis white male see me as a comrade than acknowledge the black struggle

this approach fails even on its own terms of trying to achieve a common revolution for everyone. all of those other “individual oppressions” are key sites of class struggle! you can’t leave them out and mutually agree that everyone will act like the only thing that matters is worker identity, at least without completely hobbling your efforts.

A bunch of groups with a common goal that will betray each other the moment they think that others are antagonistic is called the Spanish Civil War.

it’s nice that you’re so trusting, but I’m not. you’re talking like they’re not the ones with a proven record of betraying. taibbi and most patsocs have already decided that publicly crucifying the trans is just going to have to be the price to be paid to gain popular support for their programs. us history is a nonstop parade of cases of labor militancy collapsing when its middle class support is bought off with concessions to split them away from labor. or black history my god, the number of times white socialists decided it was tactically expedient to keep blacks and immigrants out? this kind of thing is not all behind us. you have to be vigorous in militating for your own interests or else you’re just depending on whatever consideration you get ambiently from liberal society- which will not serve you well as material conditions continue to deteriorate.

SROs for the poor are more expensive even and the conditions are usually much worse. esp in this part of the city I bet the target market for pods is pretty much only people who already have a nice office they can shower and exercise and hang out in and only need a space to lie down, so really they’re probably doing fine.

sorry I’m a little skittish around this discourse bc a lot of the time it’s cast as “gross why would you live this way instead of like a human being” which can really catch housing-precarious ppl in the blast radius

thank you so much for sharing all that, it feels really good to be understood on this stuff

ur getting it

I used to argue with pmc urbanist types and the conversation always went something like:

me: “true it’s inconvenient to have to walk far to the subway station but if u build a new station here then property values will shoot up and hundreds of poor ppl will be evicted. idc about the tech workers”

them: “I hate gentrification discourse. you can’t just hold back progress for the sake of a minority of people. are you going to deliberately sabotage the city so that better off workers don’t want to live there?”

struggling against ppl like that can be a matter of life and death for the poor. any day of the week they’ll throw us under the bus for the sake of their own stratum’s restaurant selection. if we show solidarity to them they either won’t notice or shrug and find it completely natural bc it comports with their own priorities. but they will never support us in return unless they already see it as in their interest. that’s how the real world works. where does that leave @UlyssesT@hexbear.net’s vague feel-good notion of solidarity?

thank u for deploying the downbear, I’m so sick of being told to shut up and get back in line until after the revolution