you have no idea

From a 9th century Irish manuscript, the phrase ‘massive hangover’ (Latheirt) written in the ancient Irish text Ogham. The monk must have been having a very rough day…..

I stood there frozen, unable to breathe as I watched her collapse before my eyes. I truly thought I was losing her forever, and I will never forgive anyone who sees this post, scrolls past it, and doesn't even support me with a single word.

Doctors said her condition is extremely critical, and that severe weakness caused this terrifying moment. Without urgent treatment, it could happen again at any time. So I am begging you can you help me get the treatment that could save my wife's life

I am begging you as a husband in Gaza, watching the love of my life suffer before my eyes while I cannot afford the treatment that could save her. Please don't wait. Donate now and help me save her life before it's too late.

Please donate now on GoFundMe.

My name is Maram, I am 25 years old from Gaza. I dreamed of a peaceful life, spending my life with my husband and my three children... but the war turned this dream into an impossible one 💔😭. We lived through this genocide with all its painful details and we are still suffering from it😭. We were so happy when the ceasefire was announced, and we returned to our homes in northern Gaza after being displaced for a year and a half in a tent in the south of the Gaza Strip. After repairing a small room in our destroyed house, we began to live there and start over. Unfortunately, the war came back, and it was even stronger than before 💔. Now, we have no shelter or source of income. We have used up all our savings during the war. I know I created my campaign very late, but that's because I have no other means to help my family 🙏. I am completely confident and hopeful that someone here will help us as much as they can and save my family in these tough circumstances 😔.

I know how painful and frustrating it is to start over from scratch, but I hope to get any amount for my family 🥺🙏.

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

Which is why in the context of US politics I am basically a reformist. I think maybe on a fifty year timescale, a real labor movement can be built around ideologically committed, democratic labor unions and something like the Meidner plan can be pulled off. Probably this has to be backed by some level of labor militancy because, per crisis bargaining theory, even peacetime negotiations resolve to outcomes that reflect the balance of military power. But I think if there comes a US transition to socialism it can probably only happen by system-internal means. Of course I could be totally wrong I'm not uh, I'm not the Oracle of Delphi.

yeah, i mean, i don't think most revolutionary marxists seriously believe that socialist revolution will be achieved through armed mass revolution in an otherwise peaceful and prosperous developed capitalist economy. that doesn't mean writing off the concept however--what you might call the 'orthodox marxist' position on this is that the existing political and economic system is unsustainable long-term, and conditions will inevitably deterioriate to a point where that rational calculation changes, and the chief purpose of revolutionary socialist organizing before that inflection point is to build a party that is embedded in the mass movement, in labour struggles, etc. that can at that point provide a critical driving and directing force.

cba to find the papers now that i no lnoger have university access, but essentially; many sports fans who sing homophobic chants, when asked "well, would you chant that if there was a gay person in the seat next to you?" say "no, of course not, that would be very hurtful."