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Profile: Christopher John Rogers
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· Oct 25
It's not that they don't have a sense of humanity. It's that they don't see you as a human being.
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Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.
January 24, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.
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Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.
January 8, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.
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Only what is mortal bears life. Only in death is there rebirth. The Balance is not a stillness. it is a movement--an eternal becoming.
January 23, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Only what is mortal bears life. Only in death is there rebirth. The Balance is not a stillness. it is a movement--an eternal becoming.
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“The question is not ‘Why do some poor people steal?’ The question is ‘Why don’t ALL poor people steal?’”
Wilhelm Reich
What is Class Consciousness?
(1934)
Wilhelm Reich
What is Class Consciousness?
(1934)
January 22, 2026 at 7:49 PM
“The question is not ‘Why do some poor people steal?’ The question is ‘Why don’t ALL poor people steal?’”
Wilhelm Reich
What is Class Consciousness?
(1934)
Wilhelm Reich
What is Class Consciousness?
(1934)
This is all America is and has ever been and will ever be.
Trump threatens all - talks about Switzerland begging him not to increase tariffs and rubbing him a wrong way since the “woman on the phone was so aggressive” and he raised tariffs to 39% and realized the “US is keeping all afloat”.
“I realized without us most of the countries don’t even work”
“I realized without us most of the countries don’t even work”
January 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM
This is all America is and has ever been and will ever be.
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Chuckling at the people in the U.S. who consistently shit on people who live in "red" states... Well according to others in the world, the entire US is now a "red" state. Not so easy to overthrow authoritarians, is it?
January 20, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Chuckling at the people in the U.S. who consistently shit on people who live in "red" states... Well according to others in the world, the entire US is now a "red" state. Not so easy to overthrow authoritarians, is it?
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Should we just shortcut the next few years of slow awaking consciousness and jump right to “Abolish America”? Save everyone some time?
January 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Should we just shortcut the next few years of slow awaking consciousness and jump right to “Abolish America”? Save everyone some time?
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Nobody asking for money in the street is doing well. The story they tell you may be a lie but nobody who’s doing well stops strangers on the street to ask for 25¢ as a scam.
January 18, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Nobody asking for money in the street is doing well. The story they tell you may be a lie but nobody who’s doing well stops strangers on the street to ask for 25¢ as a scam.
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A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it.
January 18, 2026 at 9:40 AM
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it.
You're disgusting and you're nasty.
January 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
You're disgusting and you're nasty.
Cause you're filthy and I'm gorgeous.
January 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Cause you're filthy and I'm gorgeous.
You don't get perfect by avoiding imperfect. You get perfect by being imperfect 100,000 times. Then on the 100,001 try you get it right.
January 14, 2026 at 8:25 PM
You don't get perfect by avoiding imperfect. You get perfect by being imperfect 100,000 times. Then on the 100,001 try you get it right.
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And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.
That's because they are on the same side, the one of imperial America. But it does give "you're in the sandbox I'm at the gun store".
It’s wild that Democrats are still negotiating their little appropriations bills as though everything is normal and Republicans won’t vote unilaterally to break the deals when Trump asks.
January 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
That's because they are on the same side, the one of imperial America. But it does give "you're in the sandbox I'm at the gun store".
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If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
If he wants to declare martial law, he will. It won't be based on reality. I don't know why some people continue to say: "be peaceful or he'll invoke martial law." Are you all living in this country in 2026???? Haven't you seen them make things up out of whole cloth???? Are you 10 years old?
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A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
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Are you out of your mind?
January 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Are you out of your mind?
Probably using physical textbooks.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Probably using physical textbooks.
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
January 9, 2026 at 1:10 AM
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
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These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.
January 8, 2026 at 5:51 PM
These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.
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There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.
January 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.
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Venezuela’s literacy rate is 97.1%.
The US literacy rate is 80% if you include adults who read at an elementary school level.
If you only include adults who read at a 12th-grade level the US literacy rate is below 50%.
You simply do not have the range to be talking about “third world countries.”
The US literacy rate is 80% if you include adults who read at an elementary school level.
If you only include adults who read at a 12th-grade level the US literacy rate is below 50%.
You simply do not have the range to be talking about “third world countries.”
January 5, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Venezuela’s literacy rate is 97.1%.
The US literacy rate is 80% if you include adults who read at an elementary school level.
If you only include adults who read at a 12th-grade level the US literacy rate is below 50%.
You simply do not have the range to be talking about “third world countries.”
The US literacy rate is 80% if you include adults who read at an elementary school level.
If you only include adults who read at a 12th-grade level the US literacy rate is below 50%.
You simply do not have the range to be talking about “third world countries.”
Level of horniness: Death in The Hogfather has a hot voice
January 5, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Level of horniness: Death in The Hogfather has a hot voice
People also blame food poisoning on Asian or South American food when actually that stuff is so much healthier! Americans don't realize that it's THEIR shitty food, not ours.
it's funny when watching US movies or tv shows i used to be like "man, they sure do use food poisoning as a plot device *a lot* in america..."
then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live!
people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US.
it's MAD.
then i learned their food poisoning statistics and it blew my mind. that's just how they live!
people DIE of food poisoning regularly in the US.
it's MAD.
Your fact of the day:
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in six American citizens suffers a food-borne illness annually. In the UK, the figure is one in 132.
bylinetimes.com/2020/02/28/f...
January 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
People also blame food poisoning on Asian or South American food when actually that stuff is so much healthier! Americans don't realize that it's THEIR shitty food, not ours.