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yeehaw

hi my name is eddie and there is barely any original content on this blog. it is trash. but thanks for being here anyways. i write sometimes.

stay fresh cheese bags.

badgerfrogs

ZUKKA

endreal

"can u bring me a coke"

left-reminders

A West Bend farm says it was told to start dumping tens of thousands of gallons of milk per day because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the first case of coronavirus confirmed in Wisconsin, the impacts could extend further than just health.

This is capitalism's vast irrationality and inhumanity in action. Markets and The Economy™ matter more to capitalism than the concrete distribution of resources according to tangible human need.

Resources exist in abundance -- give them to people. Housing sits empty -- give it to people. The rules of the feast table should apply to our economic system -- no one gets seconds until everyone has gotten a plate.

We stand at a crossroads in these chaotic times: socialism or barbarism! The ruling class repeatedly chooses the latter. We need to organize and choose the former!

left-reminders

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

left-reminders

People have been reblogging this with some points that seem fair to call attention to -- milk expires quickly, farmers are locked into a situation where they have to throw stuff out, etc. But the larger point we were trying to illustrate in the original post was that this system compels people to do irrational things in the name of market laws. We have a surplus of goods around us and yet we arbitrarily build up social constructs (property laws and exchangability) to prevent people from comfortably living off of these goods. Goods are produced and given away only if profit can be extracted from the process. These aren't immutable laws of nature, though, and most of human history hasn't operated this way. Not to suggest that things were just peachy keen in slave empires or feudalism -- class stratification in general is a big part of this, not just the particular market laws of capitalism. But it's still important to realize that these irrational all-pervasive market forces are a comparatively recent invention and that these historical moments of crisis demonstrate how truly anti-human production-for-profit and class inequality truly are. We believe that the economy should be more broadly democratized and managed on a for-need/for-use basis by the people actually impacted by the outcomes; that would entail workplace/community democracy, as well as a new emphasis on direct distribution of goods (rather than having those goods wait around to be bought).

Goods sit unused -- give them to people. Make sure everyone has the means to live a comfortable life. These seemingly obvious goals are perpetually blocked by billionaires and profit-sharks, who'd rather see people sleeping on the streets in the middle of a pandemic than have their bottom lines suffer any hit. Things are fundamentally top-down; we believe it is a reasonable proposal to start moving things into a bottom-up direction. That requires choosing socialism at this crossroads of human history.

left-reminders

Another reminder: capitalism artificially imposes scarcity.

michelle-jwhssp2719

Clown on clown violence

theforce

i dont care how corny iris by the goo goo dolls is bc i love iris by the goo goo dolls and i will continue screaming iris by the goo goo dolls from the top of my lungs every time i hear iris by the goo goo dolls for the rest of my miserable life

the-hug-department

and I

DON’T WANT

THE WORLD

to see me

Cuz I DON’T THINK that THEY’D UNDERSTAND

fallingtowers

the thing about carrying tension in your jaw is that once you've started it's really fucking hard to stop

fallingtowers

reblog to make your followers unclench their jaws and be painfully aware of the fact that they’re actively unclenching thier jaws

fallingtowers

please make this post go viral i need it to show up constantly in my activity feed thereby reminding me to relax my jaw

graktung

stan: fuck

diego: hey! watch your fucking language

kropotkindersurprise

[source]

barbiesplasticsurgeon

holy shit, the absolute king at the end

clownesvanzandt

As a transit worker anyone who whines about fare evaders can lick, suck on, gargle, lightly tickle, and then carefully blow dry my balls, it’s a non issue. We need to eliminate a fares and fully fund public transit with some of the money we’re wasting on dressing cops up like master chief, and on collecting them in the first place which is expensive and dumb.

madeleinefunn

Luther, who had to live in a body as one of Reginald’s failed experiments, celebrating Viktor being able to live authentically is actually something so personal