"tradition" as a metacultural category is an abstraction; defending the specific worldviews & practices of a culture against colonialism & capitalism does not necessitate defense of this abstraction;

Talk about petty criminals: I walked in on a burglar lifting my silverware the other day and he says to me, "So you can show up for this, but not my piano recital?"

A lot of the arguments for Jesus not being a historical figure make sense only in an anti-apologetic context where you're arguing with christians about if christianity is real, not in a historiographical context where you're trying to find the historical origin of a movement.

eye of newt is not mustard seed. "eye of newt" is from shakespeare's macbeth, influential on representation of witches in media from its release til now. there is no evidence it was a real ingredient that was really used in anything.

what is so funny exactly about proudly proclaiming "my wife" . i take my wife very seriously . this isn't a game to me

The most annoying thing about AI "discourse"—and misinformation more broadly—is how clearly it's been revealed that so many people didn't realize something could be fake until quite recently.

I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

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CrimethInc: "Targeting immigrants is just their cover story—the true purpose of ICE is to serve as a secret police force in order to impose a totalitarian regime." Me: Um, it's not just a cover story. More than one thing can be going on at once. crimethinc.com/posters/stop...

I cannot change, neither can I take off the chariots while the wild man has gone forever to a dream.

literally-not-literally, metaphorically, allegorically, swinging at ghosts in my own mind

how much of a person's critical reflection & careful self analysis leading to changes in worldview aligns with trends in the scene or larger culture... ohh after careful consideration you've realized that the theorist all your friends are suddenly pretending to have read was right about everything..

lot of trans discourse abt the present catastrophe seems premised on the idea that if arguments had been better structured & different philosophical frameworks had been used, we could have talked our way into victory against a political program by some of the world's most powerful political factions

Wife Over Everything (WOE)

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

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the middle class absorbs / manages both those who inherit / earn some type of miraculous ejection from lower class life as well as the failed , rejected/rejecting children of the higher classes . in it , the strongly held values of each pole merge into an unidentifiable mess of displaced theatrics

The first fascist country in the world, Italy, already had a colonial empire from the jump (Eritrea, Somalia and Libya) and proceeded to commit a genocide in Libya between 1929–1934, before invading Ethiopia in 1935. But people talk about fascism like it has nothing to do with colonialism.

do not attribute to ignorance what is adequately explained by class interest

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

upsetting but inspiring one today. Article from 1990 with a researcher who spoke with survivors, “The nuns cried, but the children did not”

a 2011 ACLU study showed that over half of the people Obama deported in his first term had no criminal record and half the ones who did only had misdemeanors btw

Yep, a much better “hope machine” is decarceration. The story framing is an adoption of corporate techno utopianism instead of an examination of how dystopian it is to lock people in cages

lmao

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

yea i sure did some good posts on here. cool that my brain is mush now 👍

Alexander Blok, tr. Vladimir Markov and Merrill Sparks

NOT EVEN THE DEAD WILL BE SAFE FROM THE ENEMY, IF HE IS VICTORIOUS. AND THIS ENEMY HAS NOT CEASED TO BE VICTORIOUS.

F. Hölderlin

one more hölderlin for the night :)

there is really such immense cruelty held within the human spirit; so many delight so passionately in others suffering. i've drifted from the cosmic pessimism of earlier times, but it's hard not to feel sometimes like human community — & especially mass society — is simply a site of bleak violence.

brian eno — music for airports

Confirmation here. katu.com/news/local/i...

rest well, béla tarr. your movies helped me appreciate cinema as an art form, & i'll continue to slowly make my way through your films, traveling slowly through lives. your art was excellent & your ethics, your politics, strengthening. thanks for sharing your worlds with us.

Community members have put up barricades on the street in Minneapolis where ICE shot and killed Renee Good yesterday morning. Protests and vigils have spread across the city and throughout the country in the aftermath of the fatal shooting by a federal agent

This is the endgame that privacy advocates have warned us about pretty much since the invention of the browser cookie.

this is a sign of weakness rather than strength, but this year will be far more volatile than last. Trump's polling is in the dirt. Any pretense at a legislative or governance agenda is dead. The only thing that remains is coercion, at home and abroad.

Every one of us has had a car momentarily drive near us without us shooting the driver three times in the head. It is a level of bravery children possess wandering a parking lot. Even chickens cross the road.

this worthless sack of shit is already saying what newsom said about 'taking the bait.' it's shitlib code for 'stand up to fascism too hard and we'll smash your heads in ourselves.' fuck these democratic ghouls

"your rulers see their towers (towers!) and are filled with vanity one day you will see that the powers that be will have no power over me!"

Reclassifying the urgency of the first stage of fundraising to high after doing some calculations. Any amount appreciated alliteratively.

these discourses turn like a lighthouse lamp, revealing the wider ocean stretching out beyond the horizon before receding to the nearby shore in predictable cycles

toni posting, people on tumblr misunderstanding anti-civ anarchy & getting really mad about it, a cat sleeping on my lap.. mid 2010's is back baby

It's convenient to say, oh they're nihilists, they believe in nothing except force and power, because then you don't have to deal with the fact that they believe in something else too, namely, white supremacy.

If you're expecting genuinely revolutionary or counter-cultural ideas from anyone who posts for a living, you're looking in the wrong place. Idk why we keep insisting they be something more. Self-expression/entertainment is always going to take priority over potentially losing income (or worse).

just an fyi, infrared lights are cheap and easily obtainable and can burn out or neutralize just about any normal camera, including these meta shit-glasses or any other surveillance tech

The finale of Dragons Forever is an absolute action masterpiece. Sammo gives everyone a chance to shine while delivering mind blowing choreography, perfect editing, back breaking stunts and so many white socks!

I’ve just had a sudden insight into the human condition: it’s bad