Something I'm thinking about with the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz is how economic reality and actual, real life industrial capacity clashes against economic fiction and gambling. 20% of the world's oil and gas supply is currently stuck, with other goods heavily affected (fertilizer most prominently), actual oil infrastructure has been blown up to hell with years of reconstruction ahead, there are already shortages in major countries... and "the markets" keep going up and down like nothing is happening, a total disconnection from reality
And in a way, they are reality, aren't they? Somehow the financial class of the imperial core is able to do whatever they want with numbers and ignore the actual reality that affects millions of people. You cannot make oil barrels in a computer, you cannot speculate on the price of a crop that underperforms because of fertilizer. But they try anyways.
I'm already used to this in Argentina. Liberal economists who say that inflation is a "purely monetary phenomenon" who believe everything can be summed up to numbers and gambling with exchange rates and debt while the actual factories, farms, schools and daily budgets of people suffer and decay. The "real economy" they say, as far as I'm concerned the "real" economy is the only one that exists. However, somehow they manage to impose their strange, nonsense gambling idea of the world upon us, with real effects, like a religion.
And this is of course to say nothing about the actual deaths and suffering in Iran, and so many other nations. It's all completely disconnected from reality from them. Just one look at a grieving mother with a child dead from a missile should stop everything on its tracks, force resignations, make these people fall one by one. Yet the world turns as always, and they double down, against the disgust and repudiation of the world (and no matter how bad things might seem, the world realizes), they triple down, preaching cruelty and genocide.
Someday there will be a reckoning. Not out of cosmic justice or anything, but because they cannot simply keep ignoring reality and getting away with it. You cannot perpetuate a system of oppression when the class balance is against you. And right now the struggle isn't limited to a single country.
hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.
june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day
like ok allegedly the white people in Northern Ireland terrorizing mainly Black people and poc are British loyalists and not “real Irish” but that video stating that is showing more concern for the white Irish people currently hiding in their homes “in fear” of harm, while real life Black people are actively being harmed lmao like??? get up! if you say you’re not like these white supremacists than show up in defense for the Black people currently being mobbed by people who look like you!
paying liberal lip service does nothing but make sure history doesn’t remember you as the “actual bad guys”, just the cowardly bystanders & it damn sure doesn’t make any moves to protect anyone Black!
You are absolutely right that more emphasis is being put on white fear than black lives, but I do want to bring to light some very important context for Belfast and Northern Ireland specifically.
I would believe wholeheartedly that people of color were also targeted both by Protestants and Catholics during The Troubles, but painting the painful and bloody past of Belfast over with US American history will not help our understanding of the history of communities of color in Belfast.
The Troubles only ended in the 90s, and people who lived through them remember them well.
Many of the white people who are hiding very likely lived through a time when the armed gangs were specifically looking for them. (My Aunt is a refugee from Iran, and though she had been in the US for years and years. And lived far away from New York. When 9/11 happened, she started having flashbacks and preparing for food shortages. This is a real trauma for people repeating in their own front gardens)
nigga in no where in my post did i “overwrite” anything by mentioning a Black American historical event this reminded me of. me reacting to a video i saw by a white irish woman and the videos of Black irish immigrants and citizens in tears and terrified over losing their homes still doesn’t erase the fact not enough of the self partitioned “good white Irish” are doing enough to show up and protect the Black people being terrorized!
how tf are you people incapable of holding multiple truths and historical realities at once? yall have a severe white euro chauvinism issue, my god.
being on this website these days is really like "oh cool a hahafunnypost on my dashboard, from someone i know for a fact heavily contributed to the 'pedophilia' moral panic that still grips this site and has resulted in hundreds of trans women being mass surveilled, stalked, mass reported, and term'd.
thats cool thats awesome Im trying to be chill. you are all making it literally impossible to be chill.
Something I'm thinking about with the current situation in the Strait of Hormuz is how economic reality and actual, real life industrial capacity clashes against economic fiction and gambling. 20% of the world's oil and gas supply is currently stuck, with other goods heavily affected (fertilizer most prominently), actual oil infrastructure has been blown up to hell with years of reconstruction ahead, there are already shortages in major countries... and "the markets" keep going up and down like nothing is happening, a total disconnection from reality
And in a way, they are reality, aren't they? Somehow the financial class of the imperial core is able to do whatever they want with numbers and ignore the actual reality that affects millions of people. You cannot make oil barrels in a computer, you cannot speculate on the price of a crop that underperforms because of fertilizer. But they try anyways.
I'm already used to this in Argentina. Liberal economists who say that inflation is a "purely monetary phenomenon" who believe everything can be summed up to numbers and gambling with exchange rates and debt while the actual factories, farms, schools and daily budgets of people suffer and decay. The "real economy" they say, as far as I'm concerned the "real" economy is the only one that exists. However, somehow they manage to impose their strange, nonsense gambling idea of the world upon us, with real effects, like a religion.
And this is of course to say nothing about the actual deaths and suffering in Iran, and so many other nations. It's all completely disconnected from reality from them. Just one look at a grieving mother with a child dead from a missile should stop everything on its tracks, force resignations, make these people fall one by one. Yet the world turns as always, and they double down, against the disgust and repudiation of the world (and no matter how bad things might seem, the world realizes), they triple down, preaching cruelty and genocide.
Someday there will be a reckoning. Not out of cosmic justice or anything, but because they cannot simply keep ignoring reality and getting away with it. You cannot perpetuate a system of oppression when the class balance is against you. And right now the struggle isn't limited to a single country.
console companies know they are fully obsolete so they just use their enormous sums of money to put a lock on games and force you to buy their shitty hardware and pay for their online services to play them because otherwise why would anyone bother when you can just plug a fucking controller into your PC
the one exception is handhelds which fucking sell themselves but it would be tough to make a better product than the steam deck which is why Nintendo just releases a worse version of it that lets you play all their locked up games while paying for their online services and nothing else
It’s based on a story that is falsely attributed to Natives, usually but not always the Cherokee. It’s a settlers’ approximation of how we talk and what we believe. To parrot that phrasing uncritically is pretty anti-indigenous, and the fact that it’s so commonplace is indicative of how little thought it given to the mockery of Indigenous spirituality and how frequently it’s appropriated