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I return to tumblr after many years. I love it here. This is the place to be.
I'm a musician. I want to be a wizard when I grow up. I am full of sound and fury. I'm about to be very active all over this internet. I'm 26. I'm from Hampshire, England. I'm a savage anti-capitalist.
Charles Manson never killed a single person with his own hands. He was still held accountable for the murders his rhetoric led others to commit.
Thinking about this for absolutely no reason.
the American concept of free speech is utterly flawed because it doesnt consider speaking to be an action. "Sticks and Stones may break my Bones but Words will never harm me" is one of the worst saying from the anglophonie, not only does it dismiss psychological harm, it also doesnt consider the fact that words can make someone else break your bones, often in ways that theyre not even entirely accountable for. Human dignity shall be inviolable.
hi I was wondering if you had any further reading vis a vis your post abt the us dollar hegemony and how it got to be that way?
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey (this one explains the petrodollar and how the modern US empire is set up) The Jakarta Mehtod by Vincent Bevins How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
And of course Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by V.I. Lenin.
Now would be a good time for everyone to understand how the US dollar hegemony works, and how oil was leveraged to turn the dollar into a weapon. Here, it goes like this:
1. The United States creates dollars, which costs them essentially nothing.
2. Over time, US military power compelled the biggest oil producers (starting with Saudi Arabia in 1974) to trade exclusively in dollars.
3. When a company needs oil, it needs dollars to buy it. You can obtain dollars in a number of ways: you can take a loan or you can sell shoes to the US or teacups to Europe. Notice that the factory has to ship actual shoes to the US or to third markets in order to obtain, basically, a bookkeeping entry that took the US microseconds to create.
4. The oil company receives the shoe factory's dollars in exchange for oil. It invests these dollars into US treasury bonds or securities, which is really the only sensible thing they can do --cash deprecates in value over time, and there are virtually no other risk-free places to park your billions of dollars worth of oil earnings.
5. The US puts part of the investment it received into military use, so that it can keep anyone who would dare to detach from this dollar hegemony in check. The rest goes to enrich the US. Return to step 1.
Note that this mechanism is essentially an obfuscated tax on the rest of the world. An Iranian shoe factory has to obtain dollars if it wants to buy oil, and the oil company is incentivized to store its dollars in the US treasury. This means that part of the value that foreign capitalists would otherwise pocket actually ends up in the United States.
To obtain a million dollars, the US government pushes a button; to obtain the same million a Bangladeshi factory has to sew 500 000 T-shirts.
Because the oil bill comes in dollars and the only deep, liquid, politically safe asset is a US Treasury bond, value flows to Wall Street.
In other words: The US creates money, manufactures a need for everyone to hold some of that money, and then incentivizes them to return that money to the US.
The petrodollar was only ever the beginning. Many things are gated behind the dollar: Shipping, aviation, SWIFT transactions, etc. Everyone needs dollars; if you can't get any you're going to struggle in the global capitalist economy. This is why the US gets to create seemingly endless dollars and have them still hold value, it's why the US can bend anyone reliant on the dollar to their will via sanctions; the dollar itself acts as a weapon. Of course, the status quo is maintained at gunpoint, and the dollar's value is ultimately backed by US military might. The United States exports death.
Because of all of this, the US has an enormous material incentive to keep oil flowing, to keep its military spending high, and to topple any and all projects that would endanger this system. To stop the flow of unequal exchange, to stop the coercive taxation over the rest of the world, would be to destabilize the US empire. Anyone who would provide an alternative must necessarily be seen as an adversary.
Want to nationalize your oil? Want to deal in another currency? Are you another military superpower? No? Too bad, here's one million drone strikes and a new *democratic* government for you.
This is why shifting to renewables has been such a struggle in the west, this is why the planet is warming, this is why the US is engaged in endless wars, this is why most of the world is poor, this is why millions have died. This is imperialism and it must be dismantled.
Now we understand some of the context of the USA, I'd like everyone to consider the gov officials empowered to make decisions affecting the system in place. Do you think they are allowed creative control? Do they have free reign to shake it up? No they do not.
Money is not as it seems. Money is not currency or value. Money is the god of war. Money is made of death.
In the phrase "Tall, dark, & handsome," what does "dark" mean to you?
The person has dark skin
The person has dark hair
The person has dark eyes
It refers to the person's mood– they're angry, sad, etc
It refers to the person's general vibe– mysterious, gloomy, etc
It means something else specific
It specifically means some combination of these
It can mean any of these
I've heard/read this phrase but I don't know what it means
I've never encountered this phrase
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Ackually it's not even a visual description!! It means to overstate one's position, without enough evidence to back it up. This idiom comprises words which have experienced semantic sliding! We must understand their archaic meanings. Tall: not necessarily about height. in middle english, it meant strong or capable. it was about capacity - so a tall man would be of manly capacity. from there, we can get its 'sceptical' usage, like 'tall tales'. that would be stories of a suspiciously grand nature. Dark: as in obscure, deep, serious - like 'dark arts'
Handsome: think 'handsome reward'. 'impressive' It didn't originally mean attractive. applying this to someones claim, 'handsome speech' is substantial and impressive - regardless of footing. Tall - grand Dark - obscure and serious Handsome - Impressive This is a british phrase for criticizing when someone's making impressive and plausable, but insufficiantly grounded claims. It comes from a time and place where modesty and understatement is a norm, and overt confrontation is not. A different culture might just say 'you're full of shit'. I have to say, the non-confrontational vibe is still going on this island. Can't stand it. If someone haas evidence to the contrary please correct me because I have no credentials or sources.
Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you'll see it later that says "it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024." If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.
Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say "why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?" because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.
We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.
If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.
To be clear, I don't mean we should forget or take our eyes off the ultimate long-term goals of getting Cool Shit, but to get there, we're gonna have to support things like "half-measures" and "small steps" and "not tearing down people who won't get us all the way there" and "understanding that they are starting from the basement basically because every government institution is being decimated"
I learned today that Scoobert Doo was designed to violate every Great Dane breed standard and I love that
*ungreats your dane*
Oh, uh. I guess I should mention that I’ve made this thing. Three months after release sounds like a perfect time. Untitled Tile Painter is a quirky little drawing tool that lets you lay down funky geometric Bauhaus-inspired patterns. It’s 50% a useful thing for actual people and 50% me wanting to stretch my UMG muscles on something. It’s also a little bit like a control panel of an alien spaceship, as far as UX goes. Give it a go, if it looks like your kind of thing! It’s entirely free and all generated images are yours to keep and use as you see fit.
holy shit this is incredible
Interesting. I read this as intentional hyperbole, but according to a lot of people in the notes, Norwegians (maybe all Europeans) are just... like that? Blind to the flaws of their surroundings? So not unlike the US at all.
America is currently in a literal civil war. Even the most dysfunctional countries in Europe are allowed to feel smug watching America eat itself alive
Trump is not the instigator. Trump is a vessel. Trump is a slave to men who are capital incarnate. This isn't to distract from the Files, it's because he's got a few months left to live and he needs to take the legal responsibility for this crime because THAT'S BEEN HIS ENTIRE JOB EVERY STEP OF THE WAY SINCE HE WAS ELECTED
I have very little to add to the conversation about Venezuela but I'm really tired of the fake absurd reactions Americans on tumblr have when the US does something evil. "I can't wait until our horrible country is invaded and destroyed!" you post about not being able to run errands without stopping for a little treat first. You would fucking crumble the second you lost access to the most unnecessary conveniences, let alone your personal safety. Stop trying to virtue signal by acting like your reaction to a US invasion would be anything other than abject terror.
And this causes children to be perceived as failures (either by themselves, their parents and/or society at large) when they are not successful according to the logic of capital. It's one of many ways capitalism has commodified our relationships.
Engels expressed the general idea of this in "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State"
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the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence
kill every yank now
the US is attacking Venezuela because they're fucking ghouls scrambling to keep a dying empire up on its last leg, not because they're somehow afraid that after all these years people will suddenly actually do something about the Epstein crowd
the implication alone, that the median yanqui would actually care more about their country doing what it always does than an internal scandal, is unreal - as exemplified by this cartoon itself, since framing it like this is distracting from Venezuela.
in fact the only point an image like this could possibly have is "stop talking about what the US does to foreigners"
