Lught Tuarym

Just another wonderer.

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[bogleech]

for people who dont know why movies dub them with cooler hawk screeches

[ailedhoo]

Surgical coup in the fascist backyard - Freedom News

The Trump regime’s showy bid for Venezuelan oil is not simply rehashing the Monroe Doctrine—it is an openly fascist assertion of flagra…

International Statement: We Denounce the Imperial Offensive on Venezuela

This statement was prepared and signed by member organizations of the Latin American Anarchist Coordination – Coordinación Anarquista Latino

Both a article in Freedom News by Daniel Adediran and a statement by the Latin American Anarchist Coordination – Coordinación Anarquista LatinoAmerica (CALA) on the attack conducted by the American Trump administration on Caracas, Venezuela, an episode of the Monroe Doctrine.

Whilst oil is cited, it should be considered the fuction of spectacle and power projection in why the Trump administration of the USA have conducted a act that would be associate with war but which the media landscape has shy away from using the word 'war.'

Both the article by Adediran and the CALA statement reminds on the history of imperialism within Latin America and the need to counter by creating (to quote the CALA) "emancipatory horizon for the oppressed classes of the world." To quote Adediran:

"Whatever happens to the regime and its oil, horizontal self-organisation in the country will continue to be the people’s only hope for liberation. It will never roll over for a fascist."

[probablyasocialecologist]

It’s a Wonderful Life vs. the FBI

In the paranoia of post-war America, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI set its sights on a potential source of dangerous communist subversion: Frank Cap

Ultimately, It’s A Wonderful Life (and its reception) is the product of a tension between conflicting personalities and agendas—the end result being a heart-warming tale, certainly, but one without an explicit ideological framework. It’s a story about the importance of each of us to the community—a pure enough core conceit from which viewers of all stripes can pull whatever message might suit them best.

Reflecting on the FBI investigation, John A. Noakes surmises that the conflict between Bailey and Potter represents not the struggle of communism against capitalism but instead a ‘dying form’ of Mom-and-Pop small business-centric capitalism against the ‘more centralised, more corporate’ form that would ultimately take its place in the second half of the twentieth century. That said, there are likely plenty of discerning socialists cosying up with loved ones to watch this film as Christmas approaches. So what can we pull from it?

It’s A Wonderful Life reads to me as the triumph of collective action over individual interest. To spoil a seventy-five-year-old film, George is driven near to suicide by the threat of bankruptcy and jail when an $8,000 deposit falls into the hands of Potter, convinced that everyone would be better off if he had never been born. But the townspeople, mobilised by George’s wife Mary (Donna Reed), are ultimately his salvation as they pull together crumpled dollars and spare change to make up the deficit. This moving display of mutual support takes place offscreen while George is shown a dystopian world in which he doesn’t exist by his guardian angel Clarence (Henry Travers) to remind him of his value.

The FBI’s report assesses Potter to be a ‘scrooge-like’ character, but he is not redeemed like his predecessor and therefore plays no role in the film’s euphoric conclusion. It’s instead a resounding confirmation that the people cannot look to the capitalists who control our systems and resources to save us; we must look to each other.

23 December 2021

[flanneldragon]

Maybe we should all make 'stop inventing stupid arguments to get in' our new years resolutions

[flanneldragon]

ok ok ok ill actually participate for a second ive been stewing in it women who hate, genuinely irrationally hate men*, dont exist in large enough numbers to be a coherent political group. the ones who do exist aren't really causing any political upheaval by existing. society's largely structured around supporting masculinity innit "women who hate men so much its a problem" is a concept invented by misogynists to talk around how much they hate feminists. "women who hate men" is shorthand (longhand? w/e) for "women who complain about men or misogyny." we don't really need more posts scolding them, i think we have enough. if we can all make a promise to men that we really dont think they're innately evil, and ask them to have slightly thicker skin moving forward, maybe we won't have to stop any future discussion of trans/feminism in its tracks to pat men's asses and assure them that being masculine is fine, actually, when that's actually quite a popular opinion outdoors these days

*no, terfs don't irrationally hate men, they irrationally hate trans women. no, white women who weaponize their feminity to oppress men of color don't irrationally hate men, they irrationally hate people of color.

[ailedhoo]

Don’t Doom Scroll, Organize: How to Get Active in the Current Terrain

No one knows what is going to happen with the election on November 5th in the US, but what we do know is that both candidates are deeply unp

In light of the recent presidential election in the United States of America and the potential problems of living under the 2nd Trump Administration for folk there, I would take opportunity to link the following by It's Going Down. This was written before the results came forth on the election.

This provide guidance on organising. From empowering existing projects to building regional capacity, from mutual aid to anti-repression defense, moves will need to be taken to ensure people will be able to resist the coming storm.

Survival is a basic, yet vital, means of resitance.

[orlaite]

Palestinian-American professor, political activist, and author of Orientalism Edward W. Said throws a stone over the border between Israel and Lebanon, July 3rd 2000

[ailedhoo]

Whiteness Riots - Pluto Press

The riots in Southport are just the latest flashpoint in a long history of British reactionary politics. In Fractured, Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley move away from the ahistorical temper of the identity politics debate, exploring how historical class struggles were formed and continue to determine the possibilities for new forms of solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world. In this edited excerpt the authors explore the relationship between street racism and the modernisation of policing and immigration controls.

A imporant reflection by Charnley and Richmond in light of the recent pogroms in Britain.

[vague-humanoid]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Whiteness Riots - Pluto Press

The riots in Southport are just the latest flashpoint in a long history of British reactionary politics. In Fractured, Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley move away from the ahistorical temper of the identity politics debate, exploring how historical class struggles were formed and continue to determine the possibilities for new forms of solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world. In this edited excerpt the authors explore the relationship between street racism and the modernisation of policing and immigration controls.

31 July 2024

[ayeforscotland]

We are so back.

[ayeforscotland]

[were--ralph]

[ailedhoo]

Credit to @notthertenews

[ailedhoo]

General Election 2024: Void of Choice

I have gone through a political journey since first posting before, from a social democratic consideration to a more... liberterian socialist to communual & anarcho element but it appears the journey has not been only momentum, as it were.

Although I came, behind the scenes, see the 2019 in terms of less damage option when I supported Labour back then, not out of loyalty but of countering Boris, there were some argumentation that there were divides between the reds and blues. Of course, the question of EU membership did cause a issue that hindered the Corbyn campaign, in ways it did not in 2017.

Yet now we can see the return of New Labour and the more managable conservatism that echo it... heck, more so now than it was back in the 1990s, as even Blair then had more attempts to diverse himself from his Conservative counterparts. But Starmer vs whatever Tory PM of the year? The whole thing about two parties being similiar is again at heart, especially on their policies relating to austerity, LGBT+ rights (especially when it comes to the T), disability, privatisation and the ongoing genocide in Palestine. The primal area of divergence on asylum seeking is Rwanda but then they both still set on a harsh contest to be against those seeking refuge.

In the end, my true desires are of course towards emacipation but of the best of the worst options would be a hanged parliament, someting to not reward the sadism of the Conseravative Party but also not to reward the callousness of the Labour Party. If one did set on electoralism, this election would still be broken to them. Generally, at least I can see arguments on SNP in Scotland, Plaid in Wales and the Greens generally but these will not be suffecient to what must be done.

It neccessary we build at the grassroots. The hot years of industrial action was a important step but we need to think on how to review such momentum and to set this into greater pressure. It imperative groups, from asylum seeker rights defense groups to queer rights organisations to trade unions to anti-genocide actions and more so, make alliances for a injury to one is a injury to all. Intersection will be a key to make sure people can gather forth.

More importantly, we need to realise dual power and the context of resillance.

To be honest there are those who will better at me in organising and the strategy elements but a call is needed if we to find true people power, as oppose to the electoral dictations we have.

In the end, an injury to one is an injury to all.

Let us use this opportunity to start sowing the seeds of a alternative!

Solidarity forever!

[ubernegro]

“Well, they both support committing genocide so you have to commit to support the lesser evil”

Are you out your fucking mind?

[pepper-steak12]

What’s your plan then? Not voting just gets trump in, who WILL be worse. Revolution won’t at this scale either.

[ubernegro]

You know what?

No. The flippant arrogance of you do nothing election perverts that seem to equate electoralism as the end all of political action is unconscionable. You didn’t care 6 months after the election while those, like myself, stayed vigilant. I protested. I did several actions of direct action. I fucking stood ten toes down whether it was under Trump or Biden. And the only difference is whether do-nothing ain’t shit electoralists like yourself took my sacrifice and effort and consolidated it around your shitty candidate. I don’t advocate to tell or ordain to you or anyone how to vote. My position is don’t act arrogant to those like myself who have standards that people like you are too fucking comfortable to shame people to relax. You are not better than anyone because you vote for Biden over Trump. You’re just privileged enough to not be effected by the damage.

I work in a Teacher’s Union. So I can say that the insignificant ways democrats and republicans are different are detrimental to my job security. One of the states I work in makes my effort to consolidate members hard specially because measures implemented by Republicans. I know, more than you could possibly think of, the ways Trump and Republicans are marginally worse that my job is on the line if they take over wholesale.

But supporting genocide? My personal station means shit. I don’t support politicians who gleefully support genocide. Period. And your rational if it is the above statement that I mocked is cowardice. You don’t get to tell me how to vote or anyone should vote. My vote or anyone with any misgivings towards any effort to vote blue no matter is ours to give and politicians’ like Biden to earn.

Be a coward. Say you are okay with the Genocide of the Palestinian, Congolese, and Yemeni people because of “you have to choose between a lesser evil.” That is where you are at now. Be dignified in that shit you rubbed your face in. Be defeated. But don’t shame me because I didn’t. Don’t shame anyone else who doesn’t have shit on their face. Be that dumb ass white girl yelling at people to vote blue no matter who in 2020. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Me? I’ll still be fighting. Keeping the feeling alive. Fuck off.

[cathkaesque]

It looks like the British government is angling to ban the protest against the genocide in Palestine next Saturday. The reasoning is especially dumb given that nothing happens on Armistice Day other than the two minute silence and the protest begins two hours after that.

[ailedhoo]

Fascism and the Women's Cause: Gender Critical Feminism, Suffragettes and the Women's KKK

While the links between the anti-trans moral panic and the far-right are well-documented, 'Gender Critical' feminists are able shield themse

While the links between the anti-trans moral panic and the far-right are well-documented, 'Gender Critical' feminists are able shield themselves from that connection because of the common assumption that feminism and fascism are polar opposites. But, at many points in history, the distinction between feminism and fascism has been far from clear cut.

Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond, authors of Fractured, discuse UK & US transphobic "Gender Critical feminists" in historical context with the British Union of Fascists and the Women's KKK.

[troublepunk-ldn]

since it looks like all of y'all bitches have forgotten. if you're protesting in the UK and someone hands you a sign advertising the Socialist Worker's Party, either don't take it or rip the name off.

they're shady as fuck, they've covered up sexual assaults, and they raise a bunch of money ostensibly for "socialist causes" that they use to line their own pockets. don't buy the newspaper, don't advertise their shit, and don't carry their signs at protests

Google "comrade delta" for more information I cba to add it but its publicly available knowledge

[troublepunk-ldn]

okay yeah fuck it here's some receipts

FUCKSWP | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

do your own research tho don't just take the word of some guy on the internet

[ailedhoo]

Pondering on Feminism and What Can be Learned from a Recent Discourse

A recent discourse has made rounds on Twitter by a David, who has taken a buzzwording on the topic of ‘discrimination against men’ as it were. He had argued the Left (which as a term something I will need to dissect later) is ‘too mean to men.’ At the same we have figures to take a high ground that reeks of centralism, trying to use this on topic of ‘countering cultic recruitment’ (with the key speakers of this, Vaush, is actually done opposite with his platforming of fascists while engaging in bigotries) and try to mark the ‘opposition’ (AKA the feminists calling David out) as a mob that is not acting ‘adult’ (’funny’ women get infantized). 

This has indeed ugly turnings but there are elements can be salvaged, but in a way that demands we realise that the negative expression men face are a by-product of patriarchal systems.

I am reminded of a article by William Gillis on the abuser manifesto  "Conflict is Not Abuse" by Sarah Schulman; I do recommend one read the article,  One Giant Red Flag, Folded Into A Book. Anyway in the article Gillis makes a very good talk on the topic of power, concepting that:

The ideology of domination is absolutely founded in a drive for stasis and isolation. Power – at every scale – is about reducing complexity in the world, simplifying to what can be controlled, what can be made rigid. The drive for power is deeply tied to a fear of the complexity created by other people having choices and thinking for themselves. Nationalism is a great expression of this: violently slicing through the complex tangle of actually existing human relationships and creating prisons in which to contain people, limiting their choice in possible relationships.

Power hates ‘complexities’ and it many ways this is a good way to conceptualise the system of patriarchy that oppresses women and does harm men too. 

Power likes to treat people in over simple manners to use them and patriarchy can make things simple by turning people into this and that, in tight boxes which is enforced many methodologies, a load of them with the threat and usage of violence. Under patriarchy women are restricted by power. The same systems also requires a ordering of men to ensure they maintain to their function (particularly remember as this sits alongside class, racism and other elements to keep things ‘simple.’) Those men who do not uphold the standards face great penalties, for none shall go outside the box be the motto of power, in many ways. The fear of complexity is such as no method of containing deviation from the boxes is too great.

It would requires it own greater project to further develop from this but yo can see where I am aiming for.

Patriarchy is harmful to all, including men who are dictated by its standards but it necessary to remember its function in denial of the agency of, to put it mildly, big proportion of the population. In order to full dissect where David follied, is that he blamed feminists rather than investigate the systematic matters in ploy. At best he has taken a failure to realise, that worse he has not unlearned his bigotries. 

Anyhow: men will find that feminism can help too, for I recommend one reads the following works by bell hooks:  The Will to Change which talks about love and masculinity, as well as Feminism is for Everybody which talks on the enduring importance of feminism. 

I also suggest in light of the discourse that the book zoom Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics by Michael Richmond & Alex Charnley needs to be read, in order to help avoid the pitfalls of status quoism. Their book is also good for its sections of Black Feminism in the USA and UK.

Longer pieces would be needed to fully address but the prime factor is that feminism is for all. 

As for Vaush of course the platformer of fascists would have a dog in the race, as it were, in regards to this. The funny thing is that the figure he uses, Tate, has fallen recently by hands of him being angry at Thunberg to the point that he made a error in his rant video of a pizza box. Anyhow, the fact that certain figure is taking a “critical thinking requires to take his word...” approach is a pointless abstraction and a sign of not judging motive and not realising one can take elements without criteria to those to do so for objective that would be damaging to causes of liberation. 

Feminism is a very significant ingredient to liberation.