[berniesrevolution]

Martin Luther King speaking with Harry Belafonte about what he saw as the next big step in the Civil Rights Movement.

[en-vos-veo-a-todos-los-seres-de]

[nutopiancitizen]

Mike Prysner, Iraq War veteran and anti-war activist.

[cancelled-showgirl-stan]

What abou the terrorists who kill innocent people in Iraq and Iran? I don’t mean to get political on main but like this shiy isnt one sided, The US army doesn’t kill innocent women and children like Al Qaeda and ISIS have done and still do!

[heatherleee]

Unfortunately @flamingbipotato​, the US military and their contractors have caused a lot of terror overseas. In fact, this terror is what leads most of the violence in the Middle East. You can draw a straight line from the destabilization and destruction the US caused in the Iraq War to the formation of ISIS.

Here’s a good paragraph from this article about it. 

I’d consider checking out the work of Mike Prysner; he has a great podcast with another former vet, Spencer Rapone. It’s called Eyes Left.

He was one of many vets who spoke out against our actions overseas. Here’s another article about that.

Some high profile examples off the top of my head.

Abu Ghraib 

The Wech Baghtu Wedding Party Airstrike

The Haska Meyna Wedding Party Airstrike 

The Radda Wedding Party Airstrike

The Nisour Square Massacre

This shit is very real. The US does horrible things abroad. All of us owe it to the rest of the world to make sure our government stops foreign intervention and gets out of the Middle East.

[agentsmiskatonic]

Psst, who do you think funded them, trained them, and organized them when the Soviets were there? The US Imperial Military is the biggest terrorism supporter in the world

[modern-politics111]

Read and be pissed

[whitepeopletwitter]

[left-reminders]

Hey, I’ve been lurking here for a while. I’d like to thank you for reintroducing me to Marx, but I’m still kind of skeptical. Economics seems to influence our psychology (incentives for selfishness), but capitalism is good at exploiting our tribalism and other traits which exist independent of capitalism. It seems like some of our problems predate capitalism. Will seizing the means really change things? Will hierarchy really be abolished? I'm afraid of falling in love with the impossible.

Our problems with class absolutely predate capitalism; I hope the implication was never otherwise. That being said, capitalism is the present manifestation of class inequality, and our proposals for tackling it ought to focus on the particular ways the system has failed us. "Seizing the means of production" -- democratizing workplaces + the economy and unraveling the paradigm of profit/growth -- is about setting us on a path towards the overcoming of class as a whole, since it gets rid of the division between those who own the economic engines (the ruling class) and those who work/use the economic engines (the working class). It will be a drawn-out process for sure, but I think this is the crucial way to curtail tribalism and toxic selfishness. When you take people out of a sink-or-swim economic environment and instead put them in one that cultivates the one-for-all, all-for-one mentality (personified in a needs-based/ecological/democratic economy that guarantees a comfortable life to all), you get people that are much less acquisitive and power-seeking. Humanity has the potential for either path -- cooperation or competition -- and it's in our long-term best interest (and the planet's long-term best interest) to build something that emphasizes the cooperative and democratic over the competitive and hierarchical. I can't give you a precise point-by-point blueprint of the coming decades' transition, but that's largely because it's a cocreative process that requires increased democratic input on the part of the masses -- on the part of the people to increasingly control their sociological and historical destiny.

[animus-inviolabilis]

The Garden of Paracelsus

1957

Leonora Carrington

[wrldbreakr]

'Our Work Is Helping People Find Happiness.' Meet the Leftist Nuns Helping Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Priests and bishops have condemned the Trump administration's immigration policy, but it's the nuns—mostly middle-aged or elderly women—who have actually built a mass movement at the border.

[gotteszeit-deactivated20241010]

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

[ozu-teapot]

Dreams | Akira Kurosawa | 1990

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2019/12/26/electricity-strikers-in-france-light-up-poor-homes-this-christmas-cut-power-and-gas-to-bosses-and-police/

[thegirlinthebyakko]

thank you thank you thank you 

[repost-this-image]

Now THIS is how you seize the means of production!

[justsomeantifas]

2020 vibe likes charge organizing your workplace casts

[closet-keys]

you know that dumbass Forbes article advocating for Amazon stores to replace public libraries? It was taken down cause the author got dragged so hard by like everyone who has ever entered a library in their life & now Forbes released a statement basically calling the author of the original op-ed “deeply misinformed” lmao

“Libraries play an important role in our society. This article was outside of this contributor’s specific area of expertise, and has since been removed.”

[defilerwyrm]

Don’t fuck with libraries.

[apikale]

You know, mabes we socialist types should proactively do something to help our local libraries before capitalists find ways of shutting them down for good.  Some kind of mass fundraiser or something, I don’t know what.  But they seem like the last holdout for people who believe that everyone has a right to resources, no questions asked.

For many people, the library is the one place they can access the internet, which may in turn be the only way they can apply for jobs or get schoolwork done.

Other technology is also available for use at a library, such as a copier or a printer (ours even has a 3D printer open to the public).

The library is a safe place to go if it’s raining or really cold outside.

Children are enabled to read more books than their allowance could ever possibly afford, and for kids from lower-income backgrounds, it might be their only access to books at all.

Lots of libraries provide classes that are needed in their community, whether it’s ESL or literacy or parenting or what have you.  Free of charge.

You can even borrow movies or seasons of TV shows instead of springing for Netflix.

And there is no shame whatsoever in visiting one.  There is no social stigma attached to the library, it’s for everyone, period.

Any librarians with ideas for how we could help keep them going?

[closet-keys]

Support the Library Defense Network! They’re a leftist org made up of library workers and they organize communities to prevent public library closures. 

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[jamofalifetime]

one of the most fascinating and emancipatory aspects of the body horror genre is the way it portraits the body not as an organic unity, but as a xenomutational field of infinite potentiality. the corpus being twisted, extended or cracked open only to be intruded and overwhelmed by alien forces already immanent to materiality itself. “we do not even know what a body is capable of”

[wrldbreakr]

Hello Friend,

Upon consideration, here are some things you’ve decided you will do differently in the next life:

Maybe few things are intrinsically “natural” to Who You Are and the behaviors that arise from it. Yes, aren’t traits either organically selected by environment or else synthetically selected by conscious (repeated) action? Yes, perhaps a lot of what we are in each ephemeral moment that marks a transition in our existence is a product of Karmic imprinting. What is Karma after all?

She once asked you to reassure her that you loved her…and so you told her that you loved her every day, held her hand when it was free, walked beside her touching arms wherever you went, filled your heart with her achievements until it spilled back out onto her

In the next life, you will touch her more, hold her in those non-expectant moments in which everything is innocent, unsoiled by the thoughts that tend to stick, becoming gummy and recalcitrant

You will remember the 10,000 lifetimes in which you took her for granted or drifted apart and lost her, and you will let the urgency of each of those moments build into an illimitable distance that you will strive to cross each time you see her, each time you’re with her, each time you kiss her…in a desperate effort to reach the 10,000 lifetimes in which you realized a love that persisted

You are confident that you can do this…in the next life

Avalokiteshvara, gaze upon the struggling of this child and have pity

Avalokiteshvara, this child’s heart yearns to emulate your perfect wisdom

[wrldbreakr]

study: gillian

You try to escape from the truth as often and for as long as you can, but it’s never enough. Twenty-minutes, an hour, two hours rolling around on the couch, groping for something more profound in the earnestness of the moment, until your new bedfellow falls asleep and the movie ends. Yeah, yeah. Truth doesn’t mean anything anymore, you wax philosophical in the grayness of his arms, in the blueness of the room. That’s because truth is just a word. What you attempt to elude over and over again is not so arbitrary or contrived. It’s not gullible either, but it is savagely honest. You had to have your husband back. Even if the unjust state you found yourself in was his fault. You can no longer distinguish between love—carrying within it the now germinating kernel of loss—and your desperate rage to restore love.

[executiveoutcomes-deactivated20]

I'm not trying to call anyone out but even now the evil seed of what you've done germinates within you

[left-reminders]

[butchdotgov]

And when they cut your pay/hours/benefits for no reason maybe you can get your XBOX to collectively bargain your employer for you with the help of your PlayStation. Wow! Thanks XBOX!

[butchdotgov]

[la-laborista-republiko]

And dues are assigned on a sliding scale so you would have to be making absolute fuckin bank to be expected to contribute 700 a year

[master7mindd]

Workers at #Delta have responded to the company’s anti-union propaganda with their own campaign.