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Posting from the slaughter-bench.
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It’s so odd when ppl try to do the lived experience thing in opposition to abolitionism. “Here's this horrible thing someone did to me, how would we stop that w/o cops?” You just described a harm inflicted despite the presence of a massive carceral apparatus, idk how that’s an own.
April 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Kamala Harris gives speeches like she’s Jonah Hill in that 22 Jump Street slam poetry scene
April 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The only kinda liberation I'm rocking with
April 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Whenever you hear Democrats talk about courting ‘socially moderate’ voters it’s important to remember they mean transphobes
March 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“We just need to build more housing”

Empty homes outnumber houseless people in every state in the US. The problem isn’t supply. It’s the socially-imposed constraints on needs-based resource allocation, i.e. capitalism.
March 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Those who assume that Trump's intensified repression puts the "fascism debate" to rest totally miss the stakes of that discussion. The point is not whether valid comparisons to past regimes can be made, but whether phenomena labelled as fascist are constitutive of contemporary
March 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I kinda think that disrupting the imperial death-machine and ending its genocide(s) is more important than asking whether or not Zionism is theologically consistent with Judaism but that's just me
March 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Neither moralism nor anti-moralism, but a secret third thing.
January 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The rhetoric and practice of "resilience" can either form the basis for new solidarities, or it can foster acquiescence to austerity and disaster capitalism. Worth remembering as we see neighbors try to care for each other.
January 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Btw if you’re posting the Davis essay but all you got on the fires is “this is climate change,” you didn’t read it. It’s not just global warming, it’s overdevelopment and faulty management strategies. It’s settler-colonialism’s mystification of the region’s ecology.
January 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Watching coverage of the LA fires - I'd forgotten how reactionary local news is. The world burns and the petty bourgeois pearl-clutching continues unabated.
January 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Think one should be suspicious of arguments that substitute taxonomy for critique. Stuff like "people I disagree w/ are concerned w/ Being, while my correct position is based on Becoming," or "everything bad is Platonism, everything good is Aristotelian"
January 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
December 30, 2024 at 2:05 AM
"Do you condemn Netanyahu's prostate?"
December 30, 2024 at 1:41 AM
This is the vast majority of Heideggerian memes
December 28, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Finally some good journalism from the NYT
December 27, 2024 at 11:03 PM
December 26, 2024 at 6:28 AM
If in 2024 you're still one of those people that view neoliberalism as some novel thing that requires an "updating" of Marxist categories, instead of as an epiphenomenon of deeper structural dynamics, you haven't been paying attention.
December 26, 2024 at 5:54 AM
All of the "Marxist" criticisms of the Luigi phenomenon suck. Recognizing that folk hero vigilantism reflects the absence of a viable mass politics doesn't require that one "condemn" the former. Just accept your own impotence and move on.
December 24, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 1
#Books
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
December 24, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Wait till Catherine Liu finds out about the term polycrisis
December 24, 2024 at 12:48 AM
"If it was a genocide they wouldn't be letting any amount of aid in"

The Nazis let the Red Cross send food to the camps
December 23, 2024 at 9:36 PM
NYT called this guy "the Karl Marx of our time" lmao
December 23, 2024 at 8:19 AM
Liu's critique of the PMC starts w/ the historically inaccurate contention that the middle class reformists of the Progressive Era sided w/ the socialists against capital. In reality, progressivism emerged as an attempt to manage class conflict and save capitalism from itself.
December 21, 2024 at 11:55 PM
December 18, 2024 at 7:26 PM