The Kounter Kulture

A blog dedicated to the empowerment of free speech, free thought, the liberation of the human mind through knowledge, and the condemnation of the forces that would see us stripped of our rights as human beings.

[requiem-on-water]

“You’re Always Inside My Head” (also known as Testone), (2016) by Andrea Salvatori

[prinnay]

champion

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Cyberpunk 2077 official art by Polish artist Michal Dziekan

[m3zzaluna]

power lines are crushed with the weight of four days of accumulated freezing rain in boucherville near montreal, canada, january 9, 1998

photo by robert laberge, via bbc archives

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[hollowtones]

It’s a very new feeling to see an environmental disaster I lived through as a kid being directly compared to a sexy video game woman. I don’t know how to put it into words. It’s pretty funny though.

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[guerrillatech]

[radicalurbanista]

i don't like the framing of benefiting from imperialism here because then to be anti-imperialist implies the loss of these "benefits"

average consumers in the first world are structurally dependent on imperialism and trained to demand it. It's not a benefit to us to have to purchase food produced by imperial systems, but we do because 1) we have no land rights 2) we have no means of subsistence 3) we can only buy what the market offers and 4) we can only buy what's cheap enough to afford

so then to be anti-imperialist means to end our dependency on imperialism by 1) securing all of us common rights to land 2) securing the means for subsistence as a minimum 3) create market spaces of local, seasonal produce and 4) ensuring equal access to said produce. We gain more from losing the $2 Dole banana by dismantling imperialism at our local economic scale

[headspace-hotel]

I live surrounded by privately owned wooded acreage full of edible plants so delicious they'll slap the tits clean off that banana, and beef pastureland that could be full of even MORE edible plants

[captain-acab]

Mmm I think these responses may be confusing capitalism for imperialism. I am perfectly capable of buying organic, locally grown, sustainable food. It would also bankrupt me, but that's an economic issue. Capitalism and imperialism are closely intertwined in much of the world, but they aren't necessarily codependent, nor are they perfectly interchangeable.

In other words, Ecuador is not breaking marching into my town and demanding I buy their bananas at gunpoint. In the imperialist relationship between our two countries, the US and its citizens are absolutely the ones benefitting.

It's tempting to reframe us all as equal victims of the system, but it's important not to lose sight of the actual privileges imperialism confers. Which is the original point of the tweet.

[a-queer-seminarian]

A twitter thread by Caitlin J. Stout @CaitlinJStout from Feb 25 2021 reading,

A friend asked the other day what percentage of people I went to youth group with “deconstructed” and what percentage remained evangelical. As I thought about it, I realized that for the most part it was the kids who took their faith the most seriously who eventually walked away.

Those of us who tearfully promised that we would follow Jesus anywhere eventually followed him out the door. The Queer kids, more than anyone, learned exactly what it meant to work out our faith with fear and trembling.

They told us to read the Bible and take it seriously and then mocked us for becoming “social justice warriors.”

Now they’re warning us not to deconstruct to the point of meaninglessness.

But they took a chisel to God until he fit in a box. They “deconstructed” the concept of love until it allowed them to tolerate sexual abuse, celebrate white supremacy, and look away from kids in cages.

Some of us got to where we are because we took it all to heart. We took the most foundational elements of our faith to their natural conclusions. Folks who deconstruct evangelicalism aren’t drop-outs; they’re graduates.

[callese]

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It’s a War on Children. It’s a War on Communities. It’s a War on Working People. It’s a War on Humanity. It’s a War on YOU!

[confessionsofatextmexhoarder]

And a war on Mexicans and other Latina/o undocumented folx!

[saberwriter]

News article from Global:

U.S. sanitation company accused of employing kids to clean slaughterhouses - National | Globalnews.ca

Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. is accused of using child labour for overnight shifts in slaughterhouses and meatpacking facilities.

[bobthebenevolentpirate]

When people talk about human trafficking, they rarely talk about labor trafficking, but it is the MOST COMMON form of trafficking happening in the US.

[airsignz]

[thekounterkulture]

Keep fighting Brazil. The U.S.A. isn't far behind you.

#ChangeBrazil (by change brazil)

[nefermaathotep]

Ex-Feds and Wall Street Execs Are Going Into Hiding – Part One

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2012/12/25/ex-feds-and-wall-street-execs-are-going-into-hiding-why/

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[wallony]

WHY THE FUCK DOESNT THIS HAVE MORE NOTES

[thekounterkulture]

lol no bullshit. The recent bitching about gun control seems silly when you put it in this context. XD

[thoth-the-thoughtful]

I know this is gonna piss some people off, but I feel it needs to be stated. I believe that race in many ways plays a large role in the media’s as well as the common U.S. Citizen’s reaction to the Connecticut School Massacre and the subsequent mongerings of gun control and gun policy changes...

[theymerb]

As long as a white man does it, it’s all right. A Black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a Black man strikes back, he’s an extremist. He’s supposed to sit passively and have no feelings. Be nonviolent and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, be it verbal or otherwise, he’s supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he’s an extremist.

Malcolm X (via brashblacknonbeliever)

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Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. 

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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[the-unpopular-opinions-deactiva]

Well not all of them, but I honestly think white people should be the last people to complain about illegal immigration.