The Chaos Is The Point
As I’m sure you’ve guessed now: the complete whiteout created by news and alerts and senselessness is the point, the core of consolidating power elsewhere. You are meant to feel defeated and powerless, that despite the counter-lawsuits and filings being thrown up ad hoc and en masse there is no hope of ultimately stopping the rapid on-ramping of oligarchy and isolation embodied by the political elite.
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The Worst MLK Day
The most basic of needs and services, things which were once offered by reputable and regulated vendors, are now attained through third parties in privatized markets. We are surrounded by frauds, charlatans who use the language of the learned to dupe the ignorant; crypto-scams flourish, the most desperate turning to gambling as a final thrust at the mythical American Dream, their entire lived experience assuring them they are capable of attaining and - more fundamentally - owed the comfort of the suburban “norm.”
I Don’t Care If The Democratic Party Never Holds Office Again
It is undeniable that our economy has tightened, that we are astride a violin string which is being pulled ever more taut beneath our ragged feet. We watch as far away the pegs turn, hear as the cords beneath us creak and groan in protest to the burden of our weight and the insistent yanking from beyond. Around us the people fall, crashing freely into the void below, the safety net we long ago built now so full of holes as to be nonexistent.
Occupied Palestine = Slaveholder America
The dream of the Zionist is an ahistorical Palestine that they can romanticize into a brave, but anachronistic people who were minor elements in the Manifest Destiny of an Israel that occupies all the land “between the Sea and the Jordan.” Now the occupying power has been forced into a choice, reaping the gruesome rewards of their hybrid reservation-plantation system of exploitation; seeing that the only way to ensure their dominance in the region, to halt resistance to their injustice, is to eradicate the indigenous population entirely through either bombs, poison, or exile into the Sinai Peninsula.
The Next New Wave
Columbia, in embracing the same tactics today as the likes of Berkeley then, has followed the playbook the latter employed to deal with discontent from student organizers; first employing rules of respectability against protestors before resorting to armed police and expulsion to quiet the loudest elements of their student body.
Iran Is The Only Adult In The Room
While Israel demands the last word, creating a secondary obfuscation of “retaliation” against reactions from Iran, the arrogant petulance of the Western project in the Middle East is made painfully clear. From their perspective, there is no premise of self-defense against their own aggressions, no idea of justified retaliation except in their own interests; if the empire kills a foreign official on their own soil, it is the cost of business and that cost will be subsidized.
#RecallThemAll
New Mexico Representative Delegation, still silent after NM Dem Party vote for pro-Gaza, anti-arms policy, continues to hide from constituents.
Land Back & Free Palestine
Palestine is precedent for all Peoples including, and especially, those who are still occupied within and by the United States in the Americas and abroad. How can Western leaders, all of which are some variant of “lawyer,” not see the writing on the wall; is this the overarching reason for Biden and the DNC’s, frankly, klannish adherence to Zionism and the Western colonialism for which it stands?