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Cake day: August 3rd, 2020

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  • choosing to work OR die is technically a choice, in the most specious sense of the word. that is, i volunteer to pick the option that isn't literally starve, be homeless, or be in destitution until my body gives out. but this forced choice is much closer to coercion than the autonomy and liberty required of an active choice. capitalism holds a gun to our head, commands us to work, then goes "SEE? THEY LOVEEEE IT. THEY CHOSE IT." it's a situation most people would object to and say no, obviously the guy didn't volunteer, he was clearly victimized and agreed under duress. so ya fuck the choice discourse, the accurate term is wage slavery








  • plenty of children from poor households become decent adults, per capita more so than dipshit airhead kids who never dealt with material hardship and deprivation throughout their entire lives. a decent child isn't one who attends an ivy and works ngos to pad their law school application and end up committing their lives to reproducing capitalism interminably





  • you can't be 'violent' towards inanimate insentient buildings. violence implies the infliction of a mental, psychic, or physical toll of some kind, things buildings cannot experience. you can't be violent towards property for the same reason. if we expand violence to represent concepts like looting (whenever feds say protestors are acting violently towards a court house, or a cnn office), we have to go further back in history to understand how the very notion of 'looting' itself cannot exist outside the framework of a private property regime, that sutures property relations into all objects and commons, which is itself violent and should be done away with. for looting as an idea to gain coherence, it must assumes private property relations are the essential and immutable good, which itself relies on a prior obliteration of indigenous life, the enclosure of and exclusion from the commons, etc