VicodinVignette

I draw sometimes, I like having opinions and I'm gay beyond measure.

[viscountvagabond]

Where I am currently, there's three mango trees outside. Ive been fiending for fruit to a stupid degree, which is one of the reasons why I think its good to stay here. I try my best to be nice, and having applied for fifty jobs in less than week is something I take a bit of pride in. My one saving grace is having an obscene amount of food stamps, but I'd rather die than see good floor mangos go to waste. Fruit's still expensive, and the government doesn't pay out when you're employed.

This has since been interpreted as me having absolutely no choice but to eat the floor mangos, when it sincerely isn't that severe. I don't eat floor mangos because I'm a Victorian child dying of scarlet fever after my parents got kicked out of the work house, I eat floor mangos because growing up poor keeps me from spending money on food. I started eating so much fruit because I had it available (because for some reason people don't eat a lot of it) and you can't buy candy bars in florida with food stamps any more.

This has had the amazing consequence, though, of my deeply proletarian neighbors taking pity on such a soul as me, and giving me free food in turn. I try to keep my meals between 40 cents to two dollars each, which is how I saved my food stamps (I don't really eat meat any more because it's expensive,) but it's so odd for people to be generous to me anyway. I'm glad I'm around decent people at least, especially when the closest grocery store is about a mile and a half one way and I walk out of necessity.

Nobody listens to me when I tell them I'll be okay, or I don't need it, or that I'll be okay, and it's really nice having the more positive aspects of socialization from total strangers. The sort of kindness I've seen from people I haven't even met is one of the reasons why I prefer the working class to elites. I never get treated this well from people who have a lot of give. This is what a traditional commune is meant for.

Plus, they're absolutely getting first pick when I have meats to braise or soup to make. I love them to death. It doesn't have to be doom and gloom 24/7. You don't have to understand for there to be good people in the world. It's always there.

[viscountvagabond]

I have now been denied for housing nine times solely off of the basis of my identity, explicitly and openly. There may have been some plausible deniability on their end if they didn't specifically tell me to my face it was because I'm NB. I might have been able to take an excuse, or do some kind of improvement if they didn't explicitly force me to come out to them, and then have me be denied off of that, and explicitly that. Unfortunately, I've been on HRT too long to hide it, and I don't have the chance to say I'm anything without people knowing. They can't tell if I'm transmasculine or transfeminine, but they know. It's almost always the wrong one, though.

To be told by men and women alike that my life isn't worth having a home for. Being told to my face that this is the way it has to be, and supposing I'd live on the street "for my safety." I've been denied from all men's spaces, all women's spaces, co-ed housing, halfway housing, three quarter way, I've been denied for social support, for every kind of aid a social worker and myself could find.

I have been denied for mental health support twenty eight times. I have been denied for the ability to live in a house, a homeless shelter, subsidized housing, an apartment, rehabilitation centers, halfway houses, and from public support networks even though I have the ability to pay and refused to be mean, or crass, or jaded. I have been denied from work four times. I have been denied for charity three times.

I've been rejected for friendships, for individual therapists, for social work, for relationships, and for support groups more times than I can count. Whether I asked or not, they always made sure to cite my identity. Sometimes I think they like rubbing it in.

I have been radicalized by a system designed to isolate, to destroy, to kill and to harm the people who are willing to contribute and to be equal. I am willing to keep employment. I wear non-specific clothing, keep my natural colored hair up, and obey orders as theyre given to me, and I do them as well as my co workers.

I'm tired. And if I didn't have the very, very few people who were willing to give me a chance to live, then I wouldn't be alive. I am an outlier having gone through homelessness and living. People have beaten, molested, and spat on me more then I'd ever share in public. But I remember. I'm tired of remembering. I'm tired of going through it again. I don't want to.

[viscountvagabond]

Delaware Superior Judge Craig A. Karsnitz made it so that corporations can vote in elections. He called it the only logical conclusion.

What are you planning on doing about it? This is the wealthy telling you to your face that the money they have is worth more than hundreds of lives in every conceivable way. You have lost your last shred of appeal to the government. There is no more voting power for you when the only real difference between you and someone else's money is the paperwork involved. The precedent has already been set. You are now an inconvenience to mega corporations personally taking a hand in your election. You have very suddenly become the obstacle to be removed, rather than even a customer.

Are you going to take this lying down? Do you want this for your life? In standard societal norms, crimes are such because they disturb the way of life. They're an inconvenience, as are the people who do them. As a criminal, you no longer fit the status quo. As an inconvenience, you could be breaking the law. As an inconvenience to the corporation, they would be able to buy, sell and trade you as stock. Living stock. Like cattle. The perfect employee. No break. No pay. No family. No identity. So says the first article of the Thirteenth amendment.

You are already a laborer. You have work to do. When your sentence for practicing voting as a citizen comes before the court, will you suffer a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted?

When you become a slave, will it be for sedition, treason, incitement, or regicide? 13th ammendment, Section two: Congress shall have have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. I'm sure you're familiar with legislation enforcement. Special weapons and tactics teams. Immigration and customs enforcement. Even your regular officer Cosgrove. Are they your friend? Do they protect you?

When they enforce legislation, what will happen to you? When your net profit margin increases when your pay is lower, what do you expect greed to push for? When you know your enemies, what will you do?

[viscountvagabond]

My girlfriend as a bird.

[anarchistmemedistro]

Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

[lordplavis]

For all my German speaking friends I can also very much recommend: "Der totale Wiederstand"

It's a bit more geared towards open resistance but it's a fun and interesting read that you can draw many potentially useful tricks out of.

[tortuga-pulpo]

Der Totale Widerstand Major H. von Dach (German) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Der Totale Widerstand Major H. von Dach (German)

[xredthedeadx]

I also recommend Full Spcetrum Resistance by Arin McBay.

[tortuga-pulpo]

Aric Mc Bay Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume One Building Movements And Fighting To Win One ( 2019, Seven Stories Press) : Aric McBay : Free

Aric McBay Full Spectrum Resistance PDF EPUB Volume 1 & 2

[tortuga-pulpo]

@isuggestrevolution

even more tips for your suggestion maybe?

[isuggestrevolution]

even more tips for my suggestion

[viscountvagabond]

Home Expedient Firearms 9mm SMG : Philip A. Luty : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The author provides clear, step-by-step instructions for an expedient 9mm submachine gun. It is easily constructed from readily available ma

I've been sitting on this one for years. Hope it helps.

[viscountvagabond]

My local grocery store when I was growing up had these and for the past twelve years every time I look at limestone it makes me want to eat it but I can't and I've been stuck with having favorite rocks solely off of how tasty they look and the flavor I think they'd have as an adult.

TL;DR basalt is overrated and it doesn't look tasty at all and I'm tired of people only knowing it from Minecraft.

[viscountvagabond]

I'm tired of hearing shit like "wagie" or "wage cuck;" You're a prole, and should be proud of it. You are the backbone of civilization as a concept and anyone who cant recognize that is part of the fucking problem.

That being said, it really doesnt matter how much money you have, please for the love of god make a budget sheet and save your money. Recession is still ongoing and you're going to need every penny pinched. Don't be homeless. If I have to start posting poverty recipes, I will, because food is expensive.

You can, in fact, make beans and rice good.

[viscountvagabond]

Slime world

[viscountvagabond]

One of the worst educational pieces thats taught in the mainstream education system in the United States is that during World War 2, we invented the term "Genocide" because nothing had ever happened like this before. Institutional crushing of an entire civilization's population, culture, identity and personhood. We got so lost in it that we forgot to actually learn about the history that could have prevented this.

The roman conquest of Carthage (146 BC) could have shown you about the destruction of humanity through the loss of your culture and enslavement of your people. The formation of the USSR (1922) prior could have shown you what is lost when books are burned education and religion are suppressed; Stalin repeating the atrocities of Tsar Nicolas (1899) in the name of homogeny. Both of them could have seen it in the Qin dynasty (213 BC). The inquisition in France (1184) leading to the deaths of thousands of children made to be soldiers (1212) for the sake of piety.

Fanaticism will always and has always existed in one form or another, and oppression has been consistent in society for anything between your beliefs to your gender since the first writings in Ur. Hierarchy is designed to crush the people at the bottom to feed the fantasies and delusions of the top, gorging on itself until the system can't bare it. We insult revolution and change as if it isn't inherent to hierarchy, as if eventually oppression will stop leading to discontent. You can only kill people for so long before they fight back.

We could have looked at what works in a social setting. The foundation of social systems, helping the sick and poor and different, because a society that helps each other means fewer people die. Fewer people dying is always better for productivity in the long term, and positivity in an outlook has shown time and time again an increase in birth rates, societal growth, overall happiness and quality of life. Dead people can't feed you when you're hungry. Greed will always kill faster than equality.

Failing to have compassion and respect for your fellow man, assuming control over their life and presenting your outlook as the only one that matters. Rehabilitation is always possible, and I refuse to believe any problem isn't solvable. The United States has zero reason to have such an amazing incarcerated population when the recidivism of countries "weaker on crime" is an eighth of our best efforts. If you treat someone like a human, they'll act like one. The United States alone produces four thousand calories per citizen in the country. Nobody should starve. There should never be a homeless population where we have five vacant homes per person without any housing at all. This was never even an issue of scarcity.

It should be the personal and moral imperative of everyone to correct the destruction of an individual or their community when they see it. It was a moral imperative to kill Nazis in 1944, and if we live in a world where we either die in submission to our oppressors or die with hope for a tomorrow without cruelty, always choose to die standing. You deserve the respect and dignity paramount to one's personhood for all people as individuals and as a collective. You deserve the respect inherent to your body.

Never bow your head to the cruel. Love everyone who could accept you. You deserve the community inherent to you. Stay safe. Respect yourself. Never demean who you are. There's always more. Always a way it ends well. Have faith, and have compassion.

[viscountvagabond]

My girlfriend called me a bombshell and then immediately notified the EOD to disarm me so that I didn't eradicate Luxembourg.

[viscountvagabond]

Mortifying information I received recently is that my new friend group has started referring to me as "The Bean Baddie" because I've let my passion for legumes come up in conversation almost every time I've spoken to them. I wasn't even aware of it, but my lust had consumed me until my sins laid bare.

[anarchistmemedistro]

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach t

[sd-d0-l1y]

The conclusion, and one of the harder hitting parts of the article. Solving poverty does not require complex solutions and long timeframes.

[theunusualchameleon]

I'm reminded of that one part in Frederick Douglass's autobiography where he gets to the north for the first time and assumed, since they didn't have slaves, that everyone was about as poor as non-slaveowning white southerners. And they weren't! There were poor people, sure, but there were lots of people living very comfortably or in luxury.

He mentions how angry it made him, that not only were thousands and thousands of people suffering to create luxury for a few, but that slavery wasn't even necessary for wealth to exist. That's really stuck with me.

[mangedog]

First image description (edited from alt text):

screenshot of a tweet by @pot8um: “Does anyone have that recent study that determined all 8 billion of us could be easily housed and fed with only 30% of the current global labor output and that our collective suffering is manufactured by capitalism...”

reply by @jasonhickel: “Yes: sciencedirect.com/... [a url that is cut off in the screenshot]” and an attached image of text:

“With this approach, good lives can be achieved for all without requiring large creases in total global throughput and output. Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments. Such a future requires planning to” [text is cut off here].

Second image transcription:

Poverty is not an intractable problem that requires complex solutions, long timeframes and large increases in production and throughput that conflict with ecological objectives. The solution is straightforward. We need to actively plan to shift productive capacities away from capital accumulation and elite consumption in order to focus instead on the goods and services that are necessary to meet human needs and enable decent living for all, while ensuring universal access through public provisioning systems. We have framed this work around the concept of human needs, following the recent literature. However it is important to underscore that this approach is ultimately about far more than just satisfying material requirements for human well-being. Achieving decent-living for all is critical to enabling broader human capabilities, individual and collective self-realisation, full participation in society and politics and, ultimately, freedom.

[viscountvagabond]

Never understood discourse online. The only discourse I give a fuck about is dis course of fucking BEANS because I also have rice with it and its tasty

[viscountvagabond]

He's seeing god at the minute, when he's done sundowning he'll be better.

[viscountvagabond]

I'm currently exploding via nuclear fission while riding the L (both New York City and Chicago) with the impact of 1.54 Gigatons, reducing much of the area within two miles of each train totally uninhabitable. You might think this is a bad thing, but it isn't, as everyone in the rural portion of the state of Illinois (and Naperville,) as well as New Jersey will die from radiation poisoning.

[viscountvagabond]

Trying to remember the very important lessons my therapist taught me while yearning and listening to forty year old Chinese music and decaying on Tumblr. I have to go look at new housing tomorrow very early in the morning.

This is in fact peak living.

[viscountvagabond]