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my general opinion on people who support water privatization is that their blood should be nationalized

“As thousands blockade airports and fill up city streets, a new generation of amateur Kremlinologists is coming forward with its hastily assembled theories, assembled from bureaucratic signifiers, to say that by trying to stop the harm he’s actually doing, all we’ve done is play into his tiny, tiny hands. […] What looks like the beginnings of a breakdown in effective government, or an opportunity, is nothing of the sort. They planned everything, and everything fell into place. The left is no stranger to this kind of defeatism, and it’s not hard to see why. Capitalism is omnivorous and polymorphously perverse; today’s revolutionary slogans are found on tomorrow’s Coke cans. […] If you look backward from the state of the world today at all the heroic resistance movements that have failed throughout history, it’s easy to think that this was all part of the plan. Much of this is true, but its effects can be paralyzing. We’ve fucked up so much that it’s made us afraid of victory; faced with an enormous and implacable enemy, there are people who are now convinced that its power is infinite. Whenever it looks like the reactionaries have massively over-reached themselves it’s just part of a larger plan, one that we can’t see. If Steve Bannon’s pants fell down tomorrow and he tottered crying into a muddy pond, there would be someone ready to announce that actually, this made him even more omnipotent than he was before. […] It’s almost comforting, in a way, to imagine yourself as a pawn. There’s no moral duty involved: The evil plan is grand and inscrutable; it gives a sense of order in what looks like disintegration, and tells you what your place is in it. But there is a moral duty, and we need to face up to it. And maybe, just maybe, sometimes the people in charge are just as blinkered as we are.”

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Sam Kriss, “Liberals on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown” (Feb. 1, 2017).

posting to emphasize the point that although what’s happening is really, really bad, it is harmful to let ourselves believe that the administration is all-knowing and all-powerful, ingenious masters of strategy. they are not. they have weaknesses and they can be fought. do not give up.

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libfems who claim that “it’s okay for women to be housewives if they so choose” are focusing on the wrong aspect of being a housewife. it’s not a matter of feminist validity that’s a problem, it’s the fact that women’s domestic labor isn’t seen as actual labor and thus their surplus value is exploited by patriarchy. women who are housewives are subjugated because of that, and of course one way patriarchy justifies this is by claiming that women’s “natural” position is to take care of the household, while simultaneously devaluing that labor and claiming that women who are “just” housewives are less intelligent or less talented than women who are financially independent from men.

women who wake up early and spend all day cooking for their husband and kids; cleaning the house; taking the kids to school and extracurricular activities; doing laundry; shopping for groceries; running a myriad number of errands to keep the house running; emotionally, physically, and sexually tending to the needs of their husbands; and acting as the primary caretakers of the children are engaging in labor. that is real labor and it is tiresome and exhausting and the worst part is that this isn’t seen as real labor. so idk why libfems direct their criticisms at other feminists - like obviously if some girl says “women who are housewives are dumb and bad feminists” that’s stupid of her, but they’re really missing the larger point.

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This is what a real, qualified OBGYN will tell you about what women feel when they get an abortion

Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.

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That last statement about regret is so important, because so many people don’t understand what it is or what causes it. Anti-choicers exploit this by manipulating pregnant people and creating doubt, which only increases the likelihood of regret, no matter what decision the pregnant person makes. You know what is best for you, even if it takes some time to figure it out.

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More posts on Dr. Willie Parker

exigencelost

Hey kids know what stands between the Palestinian people and liberation? Fun fact: the answer’s not Israel. Israel is powerless without American backing.

Who built the ships in the Gaza harbor? We did. Who built the bombs that rain down on Hebron? We did. Who plans and executes the torture of Palestinian prisoners? American corporation G4S, and where does Israel get the money to pay them for it? From theU.S. From the budget passed every year by your nazi-infested congress, the same congress that claims our nation can’t afford to feed its own poor people, and fails to mention the cost of a fully-equipped state-of-the-art occupying force in a foreign country thousands of miles away.

What stands between the Palestinian people and liberation? American imperialism. American federal tax money. American complacency.

One more time for the folks in the back: what stands between Palestine and liberation? Your money and your silence.

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Of course Israel is culpable for its own crimes. I’m not negating that. But from a tactical standpoint, it’s important to note that a free Palestine will not be achieved by reasoning with Israel, but by slashing its pockets. And that’s a battle to be fought internationally, with the United States government and United States corporations as the primary targets.

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The Kids Are Alright by Pia Guerra https://thenib.com/the-kids-are-alright h/t Fipi Lele

chroniccharlie

Holy shit

daily-showerthoughts

Schools are funded based on test scores, not per student. Prisons are funded per inmate, not based on recidivism rates.

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lots of y’all don’t know what ‘protest’ means or what it does, do u

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what i mean by this is that there are so many people who have (rightfully) abandoned the approach which privileges participation in bourgeois electoralism as the key form of political participation, but have replaced that with one which is limited to the context of the mass demonstration instead. that’s still not sufficient. when u have marshalls and cop liasons and a route planned, all you’re doing is electoralism in a different form; that’s why when you hear the liberals chanting, ‘this is what democracy looks like!’ they’re right, and it’s a problem.

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seriously, you’re standard leftist demonstration is just another form of lobbying, it’s part of the bourgeois democratic system.

They were originally called ‘demonstrations’ because they they were a demonstration of strength, there is supposed to be an implied threat there.

creepsandcrawlers

Not to sound like a stupid jackass idiot but what are some other examples of protest?

class-struggle-anarchism

It’s not a stupid question, but there are a huge variety of ways to protest which actually do something - put pressure on governments, bosses, corporations etc and force them to react, possibly back down…

For example, you can sabotage their products, their buildings or their infrastructure, you can blockade them in or out, you can occupy buildings and land, you can re-appropriate or destroy their property, you can strike, you can sit-in, you can walk out, you can organise a picket or a targeted boycott, you can shame and humiliate them through media, you can organise a media blitz to block their lines of communication, you can isolate them by targeting their collaborators, spread disinformation - you can organise rent strikes and mass non-payment, cut their fences, drop banners from rooftops, disrupt their events… and let’s not forget the wonderful world of bossnapping

that’s obviously not an exhaustive list but most of those things encompass a wide variety of types of action - many of them involve breaking the law but they can actually achieve something tangible, which is more than can be said for A to B demonstrations

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not to be corny but one’s radical politics should stem from a love for humanity

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On the morning of President Trump’s inauguration, police trapped and arrested more than 230 people. Some were anti-Trump demonstrators; some were not. The next day, federal prosecutors charged them all with “felony rioting”, a nonexistent crime in Washington DC. The prosecution then launched a sweeping investigation into the defendants’ lives, demanding vast amounts of online information through secret warrants.

Prosecutors eventually dropped a few defendants, like journalists and legal observers, but simultaneously increased the charges against everyone else. The most recent indictment collectively charged more than 200 people with felony rioting, felony incitement to riot, conspiracy to riot, and five property-damage crimes – all from broken windows.

Each defendant is facing over 60 years in prison.

The prosecution next obtained warrants focused on anti-Trump organizers. One sought a list of all visitors to a website that organizers used to promote Inauguration Day protests. A second sought information on all Facebook friends and related communications of two organizers, the host of a coalition Facebook page, and those who simply “liked” that page.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/22/donald-trump-administration-punishing-dissent-protesters

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Someone please tag me in what movie this is

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melanatedlymotivated

Good Girls Revolt

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Need to watch this

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The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonising their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

Sophie Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943), an anti-Nazi political activist, executed for high treason at the age of 21. (via kuanios)