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the post going round with photos of that nazi rally starts “This is America.” as if that’s unbelievable or something

“unprovoked attack on a police officer” is something you say when you think history is a thing that happens in books and real life is just a back to back progression of disconnected individual moments that happen out of nowhere and have no bearing on or relation to one another

I mean this really is a thing that capitalism in general and liberalism in particular do, they appear to atomize time and space such that history appears to be an imposition, a fiction, a lie, and causation a creation by propagandists who want to destroy self-determination and free will. History becomes a tyrant, undermining the individual, or worse, removing responsibility for suffering off of the individual. Social relations cease to exist because time ceases to exist. There is only the fetishization of the Event, behind which the labor disappears. If there is ever a nod to causation, it is only to ridicule the very notion. A cop was shot, senseless; There is a war on the police, without reason; The premise that the police are terrorists, a narrative fiction, without evidence because evidence disappears as one event passes into the next; conclusion–a deranged man, probably motivated by lies; result, let’s do the eternal Present again, but this time with More Present

I keep telling y'all how Finn’s story is specifically a black one. Even more specifically it’s basically a sci-fi version of the slave narrative and that’s really powerful to me. I mean, look. He’s taken from his family, raised by this evil empire to be their soldier, then defects and escapes his imprisonment. There is a reason he talks with an American accent. And this here… in my opinion… seems like a parallel to what sometimes happened with the black slaves forced to fight for the confederacy in the civil war, or in other colonial wars. They saw people - other black people and/or natives - and refused to participate in their murder…

Just the fact that it can be seen as part of a specifically Black narrative is probably why it was cut, tbh.

Preach

enough of Corbyn’s speech, show me tories, show me crying tories, show me their pain