charlie [they/them, comrade/them]

I’ve been a reading What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism by Arun Kundnani

Acts of individual racist discrimination and abuse remain common enough. But they are not the primary means through which racial domination is effected. Neoliberalism has given racial capitalism ways to organize itself without the need for the explicit vocabulary or attitudes of white supremacy. Neoliberal racism operates through the hidden hand of property ownership and the iron fist of security agencies. The mute compulsions of market pressures are upheld through the intensified brutality of racially coded bordering, incarceration, policing, and war. The “rigour of the system makes it superfluous to make a daily assertion of superiority,” as Fanon put it.₁ We fail to grasp this reconfiguration of a whole structure if we understand racism today as solely a pattern of unconscious biases and micro-aggressions. pg.223

Emphasis mine. This book has helped me reframe my understanding of what racism is, and what actions I can take as an individual to meaningfully combat racism in a material way. What I’m coming to understand, in regards to racially charged words, is that the best thing I can do is navigate my life in such a way that I generally avoid those terms, because ultimately when we’re conflicted over the issue of language, the true root systems of racism remain unaffected.

I respect that, it’s not something I’d thought about before in this context. Genuinely, thank you for giving me something to think about.

“A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon — authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionists. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if it had not made use of this authority of the armed people against the bourgeois? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach it for not having used it freely enough?” ― Frederick Engels

So the only Pareto efficient solution is to grow the economy until all the poor people make enough money.

Boy is that some head stuck up their own ass economist shit.

Hopefully they fix the emoji bug soon (or whenever they want to get around to it honestly), I find it hilarious but I can most definitely feel for those caught in the cross-fire.

What goes beneath the middle class? It’s the implication Mac…

Disability programs in the US are fucking criminal and support programs are actively being dismantled everywhere I look around me. If you need to vent, I’m an open pair of ears.

That was incredibly frustrating to read through.

Mornay

I have to look this up, thank you!

Butter makes better! I’m feeling like it’s time to bring back midwest mondays for dinner.

If you could make a good faith effort to lurk around occasionally I think you’ll have a different opinion. Please take a moment and look at how and what information we share with each other and you’ll see we’re not what we’ve been made out to be. No propaganda, no authoritarianism. You’ll see careful deconstructions of propaganda and maybe obtain an understanding of the correct usage of authoritarianism. Most importantly you’ll see we’re regular leftist shitposters, we just read theory

That tater tot casserole is pretty good too, ngl. And easy to make vegan.

NATO started this war by intentionally instigating Russia into conflict, using Ukraine as a proxy. Multiple times NATO have stood in the way of peace talks. That’s terrorism.

Russia, defending ethnically Russian peoples against a state government hostile to their continued existence, and guarding against being encircled by NATO is not terrorism it’s kindergarten level geopolitics

NATO encircled a world power and for the last couple decades have worked to instigate a war that has led to the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people on the gamble that Russia would fall and allow the west to loot the country, exactly as they plan to loot a war torn Ukraine. For capitalism.

You’re pro-NATO terrorism, it’s not a good look.

NATO - starts wars and keeps the meat grinder rolling all in the furtherance of capitalist dogma - you sleep

Russia - literally just exists - you wake

NATO’s #1 export is war and that’s why NATO is hated around the world. Y’all just give people more reason to hate NATO.