After being furloughed since March, I accepted a job offer for IT admin serving the Federal Public Defender in my city. Also, it's my birthday. :party-parrot:
I feel like this sort of work will be less alienating than anything I’ve done prior.
Salt Lake City released body cam footage of cops shooting a 13 year old autistic boy today. Amazingly, he survived, but there's been little outrage over it. If cops can shoot a white child with no repercussions then nothing is going to change here, fuck cops.
A little while back cops shot Charles Kinsey, who was flat on the ground with his arms raised and trying to tell the cops his autistic patient wasn't dangerous, just frightened. Cops fired anyways and hit Kinsey in the right leg. In testimony they claimed they had been aiming for Kinsey's unarmed autistic patient.
I liked it better when eugenicists wore lab coats and academic gowns instead of police uniforms.
I might be getting my first call for a union electrical job today! Fingers crossed!
Interesting. Not what I was expecting, but definitely makes sense. Thanks!
How do I learn to accept my role in parts of my past that contradict my views now?
Ok, give me one for a job relocation away from my hometown. Should I go for it?
yes. we dont need magic cards to know we like our comrades. :heart-sickle:
what if i dont ask a question, but you pull the card anyways?
well that cant be right, everyone knows theory is just something parents tell their leftists about to keep them from misbehaving
What should i do next to really improve my mental wellbeing?
I think I want to be a millwright. Should I go for it or keep on my current path?
what should I look out for when I have my encounter with the state next month?
how do i get involved with the other people in my dorm, rather than being a terrified indoorsy gremlin?
Enjoy because you not ready for the beautiful sight of 65yo millennials yelling racist slurs while failing to barely move their mouse playing COD 17 : Super Ultra Future BS War.
everwinding through the unbound bones, a pallid squirming groan that grows and grows, the soft caress consigns itself to the whispered bygones, now it will be whole. it will become.
The Libertarian Extropians and the Neolib H+ (formerly the Democratic Transhumanists) guys were the main groups in the early 2000s, after the decay of the right and left hippies surrounding the L5 Society and FM-2030. There was a short lived fash movement (The Prometheans) but it got kicked out fast.
The former either devolved to full randroids, went chud, or went full death eater and founded the core of NRx (Michael Anissimov has the best character arc of all time.) The latter are centrist "better angels of our nature" types who love the EU neolibs and are still around but basically stuck in useless wonk and academia circles.
And of course the (kinda) less crazy Yudkowskian Singularitarians went into the "Rationalist" and "Effective Altruism" communities and still have their West coast stronghold.
There have always been a plurality of Leftist/Demsoc/Mutualist Transhumanists, especially in the biohacking groups and the old hacker communities. But we've always been shunted into one group or another based on tech affinity and not political ideology, and especially in Libcom circles Transhumanism is looked at askance, partially because it's associated with NRx and Ancaps, partially because of the deep strain of primitivist influence.
It's a shame, because it's something that should be a part of the FALGSC mileau.
Lots of libs running around with the delusion that Trump’s gonna go to jail if he leaves office
Aw that sucks to hear. Hopefully they are just busy rn, 2020 has been wild for everyone. Good luck talking to your potential gf! Hope she is okay.
afaik that politico article about how Biden is refusing to even consider adding justices to the SCOTUS and just wants to get back to bipartisanship never made it anywhere on r/politics. Surprise surprise...
At this point I’m pretty sure the Pope is reading Chapo and stealing our best takes
And the Pope is a straight down the centre Catholic. There's stuff in LibTheo writings that would make Mao freeze.
"Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production."
Basically standard Marx
“In liberation theology, Marxism is never treated as a subject on its own but always from and in relation to the poor. Placing themselves firmly on the side of the poor, liberation theologians ask Marx: 'What can you tell us about the situation of poverty and ways of overcoming it?' Here Marxists are submitted to the judgment of the poor and their cause, and not the other way around.”
Going for the Mass line here
"“If there is no friendship with them and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”
Criticising intellectuals who ignore material conditions
“The Exodus from Egypt, the home of sacred monarchy, reinforces this idea [desacralization of creation]: it is the 'desacralization' of social praxis. . . . In Egypt, work is alienated and, far from building a just society, contributes rather to increasing injustice and to widening the gap between exploiters and exploited.”
Drown the ruling class in the red sea plz
"So you say you love the poor? Name them."
Log off, nerd
“We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.” -- Saint Oscar Romero
"It is important to keep in mind that beyond - or rather, through - the struggle against misery, injustice, and exploitation, the goal is the creation of a new man. This aspiration to create a new man is the deepest motivation in the struggle which many have undertaken in Latin America."
New Soviet Man intensifies.
Haha, I woke up and saw this giant-ass post in my replies and thought I was getting cancelled. Then I saw what it was and smiled. That was a fun read, thanks for posting it. You're pretty cool, Mardo.
Mass line
Oh no was that pun intentional.
Okay Among Us game night is now going to be a permanent thing because this is so fucking fun/hilarious. Keep an eye out on c/gaming and join https://discord.gg/UVqeeP5
My geography teacher is playing a clip of the west wing and has given me irrecoverable psychic damage
