sometimes even the guardian has truth bombs 😅
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it was fucking bizarre watching it in a regular commercial movie theater with all the regular previews before it. like the cognitive dissonance induced by consuming all the glorified luxury baubles of an empire and then to sit through 2 hours of its raw uncensored consequences...
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just watched From Ground Zero, an anthology of short films made by palestinian filmmakers in gaza over the last year.
the effect of seeing like two dozen separate stories of despair and hope and such unbelievable suffering in those ruins, one after the other, is crushing and overwhelmingly desolate. which seems fitting.
i highly recommend people find a way to watch this film. their voices deserve to be heard.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt32606918/
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Haha lets gooo Guardian this is my kinda op ed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/03/new-year-resolution-no-snitching
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highly recommend the new 100 years of solitude tv adaptation
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Luigi Mangione. A name worthy of any anarchist assassin from 100 years ago.
Really sucks they caught him. Fuck Mcdonalds. Snitches.
From one of his online posts:
"These companies don’t care about you, or your kids, or your grandkids. They have zero qualms about burning down the planet for a buck, so why should we have any qualms about burning them down to survive?
We’re animals just like everything else on this planet, except we’ve forgotten the law of the jungle and bend over for our overlords when any other animal would recognize the threat and fight to the death for their survival. “Violence never solved anything” is a statement uttered by cowards and predators."
go off Luigi
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So Biden is laying the groundwork for mass deportation by ramping up private prison contracts. All the while eagerly sending as many bombs as he can to the genocidal fascist Netanyahu.
And big tech titans- first Musk, then Zuck and Bezos, are lining up to cozy up to Trump, talking about how much more reasonable he is now, and how great his regulatory cuts will be for tech business.
And people still question how liberal capitalist democracies lead into fascism? The centrists cant wait to jump on the authoritarian genocide train.
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"A revolution needs to enact solidarity between all people, but people need to be honest about where they are coming from. People who bear a middle class culture need to unlearn it, as it manifests in a politics of comfort: building informal social power, flattening contradictions, and avoiding conflict. Currently, its crusade is to destroy practices of transformative justice—and the difficult experiences those practices come from—in favor of the kind of attitudes (simultaneously fragile and vicious) that flourish on social media."
interesting interesting
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another good part:
"Capital accumulation is not the driving force of the world system. It is a necessary fuel, but capital accumulation does not happen without the architecture and the strategic planning of states. We can realize how obvious this should be if we let ourselves see, in hindsight, how ridiculous the prediction was that Japan would be the number one global power. This prediction was based on statistics for Japan’s economic growth, leaving out the non-quantifiable factor: strategic planning and power contests by states."
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@PeterGelderloos writing provocative and thoughtful analysis as usual ..
"Over the last two decades, I’ve seen numerous anarchists make serious predictions about where we were headed, and what dangers we faced. This is a bold thing to do, and a good thing, because it allows us to test our theories. All the predictions I remember have turned out to be wrong.
Trump did not launch a coup: in fact, John Bolton was speaking from experience when he said a coup requires a great deal more organization.
Fascists are not close to taking over: they are primarily a danger for people at the street level and in the way they push the center rightward in terms of acceptable policy for a democratic government to enact.
Promoting antifascism in the midst of a growing antiracist movement was a mistake, a step backwards. As it did in its previous iterations, antifascism decentered questions of whiteness and colonialism and allowed the Left to gain ground in what had previously been anti-state movements: it left us flatfooted when real fascism faltered but the democratic State plowed forward.
Democracy is facing a crisis, but it still poses the biggest danger to us: spreading this awareness more generally might have saved some of our most powerful movements—in Chile and in Greece—from falling into fatal strategic dead ends. It would also have improved the initial framing of the Occupy and 15M movements, allowing them to develop in far more radical directions.
“Late capitalism” or “the final stage of capitalism” were declared after WWI and it’s still chugging along. Discarding Marxism would allow us to more clearly see capitalism’s vital strategic, state-driven element: states and their institutions proactively open up new territories to ensure capitalist expansion.
Being on the look-out for these new frontiers would have given us a head start in identifying the mainstream climate movement and green energy as the biggest threats to life on this planet. Now, we have to play catch up.
It worries me immensely that, as far as I have seen, people who made false predictions didn’t own up to their mistakes. Doing so would have been brave, honest, and it would have strengthened us immensely, giving us more chances to sharpen our theoretical tools, to hone our strategic intuition.
And I think that ego, that headlong retreat from our mistakes, has been a major factor shunting radicals around the world into even bigger mistakes, obvious mistakes. Frustrated, would-be revolutionaries are turning to single-issue activism, municipal democracy, or the latest Stalinist cults with robustly defined organizations, a carefully curated prole machismo, but no actual engagement or relevance to social conflict."
https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/geopolitics-for-2024?r=1p5cit&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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