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These wonderful people have a single braincell to share but unfortunately none of them are using it

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

ceruleanheaven

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

riverofmolecules

true allyship

moghedien

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

moghedien

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

dqnquality

vincent2845

playlander

tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth

"The authors [Tiqqun] correctly recognize the impossibility of developing any real autonomy to 'what is held in common' within capitalist society, yet the exhaustion of the summit-hopping, black bloc activist milieu makes it imperative for them to either find new practices in which to engage, or to stage a graceful retreat. Thus the 'TAZ,' the alternative, the commune, etc., are to be rethought, but with a critique of alternativism in mind: we must secede, yes, but this secession must also involve 'war.' Since such supposedly liberated places cannot be stabilized as outside of 'capitalism, civilization, empire, call it what you wish,' they are to be reconceived as part of the expansion and generalization of a broad insurrectionary struggle. Provided the struggle is successful, these alternatives will not turn out to have been impossible after all; their generalization is to be the condition of their possibility. It is this dynamic of generalization that is identified as one of 'communization' - communization as, more or less, the forming of communes in a process that doesn't stop until the problem of the alternative has been solved, since it no longer has to be an alternative. But all of this is without any clear notion of what is to be undone through such a dynamic. The complexity of actual social relations, and the real dynamic of the class relation, are dispatched with a showmanly flourish in favor of a clutch of vapid abstractions. Happy that the we of revolution does not need any real definition, all that is to be overcome is arrogated to the they - an entity that can remain equally abstract: an ill-defined generic nobodaddy [sic; nobody?] (capitalism, civilization, empire, etc) that is to be undone by - at the worst points of Call - the Authentic Ones who have forged 'intense' friendships, and who still really feel despite the badness of the world." - Endnotes, "What are we to do?"

noneedtofearorhope

for what it's worth "nobodaddy" may be a reference to this william blake poem

To Nobodaddy

Why art thou silent & invisible, Father of Jealousy? Why dost thou hide thyself in clouds From every searching Eye? Why darkness & obscurity In all thy works & laws, That none dare eat the fruit but from Thy wily serpent's jaws? Or is it because Secrecy Gains females' loud applause?

and wiktionary gives this definition

(derogatory) The anthropomorphic God of Christianity.

with this etymology

Blend of nobody +‎ daddy; c. 1793, William Blake.

fus-mar-hoz

it is the 15th of April, 1919, a calm day in Milan. The recently formed Fasci di Combattimento march towards the office of Avanti!, the newspaper of the PSI. They force their way in and ransack the place, destroying equipment and setting fire to every piece of paper they can get their hands on. An editor faces down the barrel of a gun and realizes: "if only we'd published abstract and experimental art"

April 28th, 1945. soviet forces are bearing down on Berlin like a bulldozer, preceded by a hailstorm of ordinance. the cutting edge abstract art machine guns tear apart the cement facades of Berlin's government district, pushing the hitlerite regime to its limits and over them, Hitler cannot bear the psychological torment of his reality being torn apart by the legions of experimental artists levied to free Europe from fascism.

thoughtportal

no-sharks-on-the-sun

they killed him for this

tastethebloodofmeatthawsmoth

"Texts such as Call or The Coming Insurrection.... do not even properly ask the question of what the revolution is, for in these texts the problem has already been evaporated into a conceptual miasma. In these texts, the revolution will be made not by any existing class, or on the basis of any real material, historical situation; it will be made by 'friendships,' by 'the formation of sensibility of a force,' 'the deployment of an archipelago of worlds,' 'an other side of reality,' 'the party of insurgents' - but most of all by that ever-present and always amorphous positivity: we. The reader is beseeched to take sides with this 'we' - 'the we of a position' - to join it in the imminent demise of 'capitalism, civilization, empire, call it what you wish'. Instead of a concrete, contradictory relation, there are 'those who can hear' the call, and those who cannot; those who perpetuate 'the desert', and those with 'a disposition to forms of communication so intense that, when put into practice, they snatch from the enemy most of its force.' Regardless of their statements to the contrary, do these pronouncements amount to anything more than the self-affirmations of a self-identifying radical milieu?" - Endnotes, "What are we to do?"

lol, rekt

class-struggle-anarchism

“it is evident that this whole political movement so enthusiastically extolled by the German Socialists, since it must precede the economic revolution, can only be directed by the bourgeoisie, or what is still worse, by workers transformed into bourgeois by their vanity and ambition. And, in fact, this movement, like all its predecessors, will once more supersede the proletariat and condemn them to be the blind instruments, the victims. to be used and then sacrificed in the struggle between the rival bourgeois parties for the power and right to dominate and exploit the masses.”

— Bakunin, 1872