Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]

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Cake day: January 24th, 2022

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  • Okay forget about American healthcare, just pretend the United States doesn’t exist for a second. Imagine there is a person whose sister needs special medicine to live. They live in the imperial core and they get their medicine from a imperial core hospital. Is that medicine a treat? What would make that medicine a treat? If it’s not a treat, what is it?



  • Comforts allotted through super exploitation are enough of an incentive to passively or actively keep capitalism going, even without happiness. these people certainly won't be any happier without their comforts, and in order to overthrow capitalism we would also end imperialism, and thus those comforts.

    We talk about comforts and treats a lot but lately I’ve been wondering about that. What are we talking about when we talk about treats? Is it just exotic fruits, chocolate, coffee, video games and televisions? Or are we including in that other material benefits that a first worlder enjoys that the global south might be cut off from like cheap insulin, access to dialysis machines and chemotherapy? If that’s the case, why shouldn’t a person with a chronically ill loved one not resist tooth and nail an economic change that would result in their death, and what could we possibly say to them to get them on our side? “Stop being such a treat-brained baby loser and make your sister die in pain?”








  • We don’t have to build shit. There are masculine, cool leftists. There have always been masculine, cool leftists. The problem isn’t that there’s some heretofore undiscovered way of being for men and teenaged boys, it’s that all leftist figures are rejected by democrats and their supporters, and so all they have to choose from are corporate, intellectually dishonest careerists who have no hope of masking how fucking square they are for any sustained amount of time.