dyi ftw

This is literally happening and I want to set things on fire every time I use Twitter lately

Rich people are always telling the rest of us that if we are short of money, we should stop eating out or going out to movies or clubs or concerts. And now that we have, the economy is collapsing and they want us to eat out and spend on diversions again as soon as possible.

Love the glass front

mooching off the government is a good thing actually. what the fuck else are they gonna do with the money? buy more bombs?

unions are good. most unions that exist in the US nowadays aren’t, and in fact are actively reactionary. sorry to burst y’alls’ bubbles

real left-wing movements in the US need to confront the fact that our presently-existing labor organization paradigm is arcane, antiquated, and hopelessly unequipped to deal with an economy that isn’t about factories and the industrial production of commodities

Something that is so so often implicitly utilized by the Right is the fact that people who are against them will instinctively view whatever the Right is currently attacking as Good, as the thing that must be defended. And so on the one hand that just folds many people back into the system (”the Republicans hate the Democrats so that must mean the Democrats are good”) but on the other it obscures the centuries-long war of attrition that the Right has had against institutions like unions in the US, where the radical elements of the most established unions have long since been stamped out and national union leadership has for decades been more about having a personal political fiefdom than about standing in solidarity with union members, and collapses it all into “well the Right hates these unions, so therefore they’re Good and Radical and must be defended and have their praises sung”