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methinks when you get to the point of literally calling housework and housewives "fascist reproductive labor(ers)" maybe your feminism is getting self-defeating
calling people "fascist" for having ideas or acting in ways that you find hateful or oppressive rings to me the same way as when i get tempted to call the police "terrorists": its a completely self-serving, flat, petulant reduction that's only true in a superficial and one-dimensional sense
a libidinal refusal of one's own imaginative potential for identification with the other
anyone who tries to garner authority for their anti-religious/faux-anti-zionist resentment w "my grandparents died in the holocaust"
you really dont even wanna be one of the fun jewish anti-semites? just another killjoy?

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the pentagon wouldnt be the pentagon if they didnt know ahead of time what the fallout of the iran war was gonna look like.
so they knew perfectly well that not only gas prices, but fertilizer prices in particular would skyrocket(along with profits for the biggest american fertilizer companies, which are in a great position to massively exploit a supply crisis thanks to a huge degree of consolidation/monopolization), and that it would drive small and medium sized farms out of business probably faster than ever before, and leave more and more of the american agricultural sector to get grabbed up by the very biggest corporations or otherwise collapse entirely, and simultaneously create a jump in prices at grocery stores and restaurants: competently and efficiently passing on the true shock and pain of this shift from US-as-empire(mediated by the dominance of the IMF, OPEC, etc.) to US-as-traditional-chinese-client-state. that is, passing it on to absolutely everyone in the US who buys food.
dont let anyone convince you that any of this fallout has to do with government incompetence. the people orchestrating these changes are absolutely doing it in service of their own personal best interest.
also im suspicious even of the idea of being seen the way one ostensibly desires to be seen.... what type of imagined pleasure is this, some sort of joy of pure identification ? this pleasure does not actually exist for anyone, cis or trans, except as a fantasy of the Other
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"This is something I found very interesting, I was reading Ivan Illich on education, and he was talking about how education stifles our natural curiosity, and at first I didn't really believe it. Then I thought about something. I noticed that people who haven't gone gone through higher education- they've gone through secondary education, maybe a little college- they don't ask follow-up questions. Have you ever noticed that? Often a conversation becomes this 'Well I think...' 'Oh yeah? Well I think...' 'Oh yeah? Well I think...'
They just go back and forth shooting opinions at each other and nobody ever says 'wait a minute. If you think that, does that mean this?' You know, sort of get inside somebody else's ideas, and try to follow through and explore. Then I thought 'well maybe higher education does do something positive in that it teaches people how to do this.'
And then suddenly I had this realization: No wait. Children do that all the time! That's all they ever do is like 'wait a minute, if you're saying this, then does that mean that? Well why's that?'
So basically children have a natural desire to do this! So something is happening in our educational system which is basically smashing that out of you. Saying 'Shut up! Stop asking questions! Stop thinking that way!'
Then they have these little 'opinions'- an opinion is what you have when you have no power, right? An opinion is like what I would do, but I have no say in the matter.
We don't want to have opinions. We want to have actual policies which is what powerful people do. We want to have actual decisions that we make collectively- which is the opposite of an opinion.
So essentially we have our natural inquisitiveness smashed out of us by this mechanized system, and then when you go to higher education they put it like halfway back it.[...] So I guess this is the point of real critical pedagogy, for me, or real education- is to undo the damage done to our minds by earlier education and open us up so we can just get back to where we were when we were children to begin with."
David Graeber
the sabbath is not a rest from the toils in egypt, but from the labors derived from the construction of the tabernacle
where there is no freedom to disobey orders, the freedom to arrange and rearrange society is cut down- so one gets whatever rest one is allowed to get, until one can exercise her freedom to leave
but in a social world where we do have the freedom to disobey orders, the freedom to arrange and rearrange society is better supported, and we can cooperate to prioritize, plan, and coordinate whatever work needs doing
the sabbath's glory is not merely a day of rest, but also the implied 6 days of robust, democratically organized "caring labor":
"To some degree, one might argue that this is not really work at all, it's just life, or life lived properly"
opening of 'the mystery of the sabbath' β 16th-century Kabbalah text by r. meir ibn gabbai
so, what we (ideally) refrain from on shabbat is not (only) 'toil' but 'creative labor' β the construction of the tabernacle, 'turning all things from potential into actual' β the very types of activities that, in an era of bullshit work, are often already relegated to one's 'free' time.... this, too, we must abstain from
it's a huge relief to the ego to be able to get a word in edgewise, to express whatever contrariness one feels about something being said, to not hold back, to project oneself and one's ideas whatever the consequences. but thats not always a caring or considerate or wise thing to do, even if it takes significant effort to reign in the ego.
we might often do well to consider instead: listening not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse. listening to weigh and consider.
obama really laid the entire groundwork for trump style parodies of political upheaval, but he conned a bit harder simply by being a right winger running as a democrat
"yes we can" "change" "hope" "make america great again" whats the difference
actually maga couldve very easily been the motto for a campaign like bernie's, if the past 'great america' being referenced was 1944-1963, when america's top margin's income tax stayed between 91% and 94%.
providing a real historical reference point, reminding people that america DID heavily tax the highest incomes, and that it was better for basically everyone(besides banks, financiers, lobbyists...), might've genuinely given weight to the 'tax the rich' mentality, might've prevented it from being so toothless
literally 'Make America Capitalist Again, back when profits were made by buying and selling goods, rather than managerial feudalism, where profits are made by creating debts through rent, insurance, fees and penalties, and enforcing them through the courts' is probably what a significant number of """conservatives""" actually wanted from trump.
QED capitalism = socialism (in america)

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identitarian/identity-based labels for selfhood(rather than labels for selfhood based on the concrete things that one actually does) are a deeply degrading way to have to interpret oneself, and even when it poses clear advantages to explain oneself that way-even when one does actually explain oneself that way for such purposes- we should still have the courage to be disgusted with having to settle for such a dismal, fixed, essentializing notion of the self, rather than simply celebrating(or being "prideful" of) such inapt language
thinking about ancient judeo-greek Ioudaismos(but also medieval judeo-arabic, yiddish;see Daniel Boyarin's "Judaism")
but also about how, back in the day, you werent a 'gay person,' you just Had gay sex, or gay relationships
and we might as well interrogate 'trans,' 'sissy,' 'femboy' vs things like 'crossdresser'
identitarian/identity-based labels for selfhood(rather than labels for selfhood based on the concrete things that one actually does) are a deeply degrading way to have to interpret oneself, and even when it poses clear advantages to explain oneself that way-even when one does actually explain oneself that way for such purposes- we should still have the courage to be disgusted with having to settle for such a dismal, fixed, essentializing notion of the self, rather than simply celebrating(or being "prideful" of) such inapt language