The more I think about it, the more it seems like the social and economic structure of celebrity is inherently deradicalizing. That pressure can be resisted but not relieved. Celebeities can never tell you how to have a revolution because they are structurally dissuaded from those ideas.

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

Hostility towards Greta Thunberg continues to be an AMAZINGLY reliable red flag, especially when it comes to guys, and not just on the Right.

I may be late to the party on this but have y'all heard Mares of Thrace? Holy goddamn. The Loss is one of thrle rawest, heaviest albums I've ever heard.

I keep getting banned from reddit for being mean to racists.

Assata Shakur's death (rest in power) is going to make it so much harder to hear people performatively lamenting that tiny faced fascist fuck who died a bit ago. Someone actually cool and important died but instead we're gonna have candle light vigils for a guy whose job was bullying college kids.

To be famous is to be surveilled, and it is going to become clear in the coming years that even smart, well-meaning people can't escape the panoptic force of the surveillance of celebrity. This is, I believe, the source of our 'civility' delusions.

Donald Trump said he would "run the country like a business." Now we see what that means: censorship, sycophancy, despotism—just like in a workplace. Wasn't it the capitalist economy that put power in the hands of these aspiring autocrats in the first place? Hate Trump? You should hate capitalism.

I think watching people lionize a dead nazi because they're too fucking stupid to bother looking up what he said and believed has really damaged my faith in the public.

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

i hope nobody still accepts the bullshit "to appeal to more voters" framing. rich people are spending money to push the politics they favor, it has absolutely nothing to do with electability

How soon after a person dies is it ok to say their face looks like all the features are squished into the center with a disturbing amount of face around the edges?

Saruman has a mind of metal after all.

So obviously all the people demanding empathy for Kirk are hypocrites, but I think it's just as important to understand their demand as an attempt to reinforce power. They want to impress upon you that harming the ruling class is specifically unthinkable.

Like 90% of Charlie Kirk's career has just been stochastic terrorism. There are people who are dead t'day that would have been alive if Kirk had been a plumber instead of being a political pundit. People mourning his (presumed) death from across the aisle are being dangerously naive.

Cruise ships are infuriatingly wasteful. Future generations will resent that they existed.

An internet guy accidentally made me feel good about myself by trying to insult me. Got me thinking about how many people I've met and spoken to from all walks of life, and I realized I'm proud of that. I've talked to a metric fuckton of other humans.

You wake up. The oceans burns. Rich men pour gasoline and the world's children on black tar fires to sell you a reprieve from the heat. You prepare for work, trying not to think of the atrocities happening right now, right this second, unable to stop them. You may get a treat on the way home today.

Okay here's the pitch: A horror movie about aliens landing on earth. The aliens are tiny. The horror comes in because they encounter a housecat and almost all of them die.

I don't get it. Some of you accuse abolitionists of pipe dreams. The biggest pipe dreams are the ones that insist on prosecutions of the powerful. THIS IS NOT WHAT THE CURRENT CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT SYSTEM EXISTS TO DO. THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES.

No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events. The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.

Honestly fuck Matt and Trey. Idgaf that they drew a silly picture of Trump – they were pioneers of the exact brand of feckless centrism that has built our current political climate. Maybe if they had taken a stand a decade ago it would have been worth something.

Cannot emphasize this enough. On the whole, police don’t solve crimes for shit, and they don’t prevent crimes for shit. They are actively bad at both. The average Law & Order fan would be stunned to tears after following around real cops for a day.

Alright I'm pretty late to this one, but I think calling trump's concentration camp "alligator auschwitz" is just as bad as calling it "alligator alcatraz" because they are both nonsense points-scoring quippy bullshit. Call it "trump's concentration camp." It's time we stop hiding behind humor.

Nothin' special but I painted a running rabbit on the air filter cover for my ironhead.

And to get on my endless hobby horse (that almost no one else agrees with), talking about "rule of law" as if it's the guiding star we all have to agree with ignores that law is often (usually) quite unjust and that power is what often matters more. /3

Me: So Cuomo got the shit kicked out of him yesterday My Dad: (hopeful) Physically? Me: In the New York City mayoral race My Dad: (disappointed) Aw, okay. I guess that's good too

Idk I think if we work hard we can humiliate Cuomo even more. I believe in us.

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The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.

Apocalyptic fiction always imagines that we will be ruled by warlords, but that's not a prescient prediction or a deep understanding of anthropology and 'human nature.' It's just easy to imagine, because we're mostly ruled by warlords right now.

It's weird being into olde motorcycles, because dudes who have only ridden newer bikes will say that certain bikes are "uncomfortable" but they don't even vibrate until your gas cap falls out on the highway. Anyway my gas cap fell out on the highway.

at least toby keith is dead this time

It's neat how refusing to participate in electoral politics is 'purity testing' but making a moral demand that everyone come vote for your guys regardless of their own interests is not. Idk seems to me that the people obsessed with moral purity are the ones with the "I voted" stickers.

It's worth reflecting today on what it took to end legal chattel slavery in the US. And it's worth remembering that the work stoppages of enslaved workers in the south crippled the Confederacy and were the largest and most effective labor action in US history.

It's not very topical anymore but y'all remember when Texas made it legal to open carry blades of any size and all the sensational articles came out about people open-carrying swords? I think Texas was right about that one. Fuck knife laws and also open carrying swords is sick as fuck.

We don't need to decrease the amount of healthcare trans people get in the u.s. They're already getting the minimum possible by virtue of living in the united states. It's like our whole thing. No one gets sufficient healthcare here without being obscenely rich.

The great secret of the state is laid bare: there never was a difference between the secret police dragging someone away and a group of random paramilitaries doing the same thing Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The framing in this piece by @batallonbakunin.bsky.social is super helpful for thinking about anti-deportation struggles: taking concrete action to physically prevent the state machinery from carrying out its program, rather than just symbolically protesting against it.

“ICE agents have to wear masks and no uniform because they have become so deeply unpopular that it’s safer to appear to be a vigilante kidnapper” is a hell of an argument

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The democratic party is not, and has never been, a coalition of The Left. It was a far right party before the Southern Strategy and now it's a center-right party. It has fully embraced neoliberalism. And calling people "privileged" for not supporting neoliberalism is fucking stupid.

fight the cops de-arrest your friends

Dude who has never, ever been on the side of any protester in the History of the Earth: "I'll tell you what, some of the actions of these protestors are really making it hard for me to be on their side..."

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Side with the uprisings.