BREAK THE WHEEL | Serious Anarchist

You guys, middle class doesnt mean "a stable enough rented roof over your head," it means "a house you bought, a nice car or two, the ability to support a family, and take days off and vacations every year with income to spare for retirement savings and rainy days." If all you have is a rented apartment without a roommate and a used car, you're lower class. That's lower class.

This gets even more annoying when people start making up new classes, to then do bullshit power analysis. EG Matt Goodwin talking about how "the left" controls "the epistemic class"... He was talking about lefties on twitter.

Also it is known that markets suck at accounting for costs they externalize, and under-providing benefits which they do not experience.

There will always be a fundamental misalignment between better user experience and higher profits, and usually they're pointing in opposite directions.

If you are showing up to a protest organized by a college group in all black with no phone ready to raise hell, then not only will you be putting the organizers at risk with their college and the police, but you risk being targeted walking to or from the protest by fascists or the cops. Your black clothes will make you stand out in the protest and you absolutely will be targeted by the cops. And if you didn't bring your phone then guess what, you have no way to call for help if you are targeted.

Likewise, if you show up to a spontaneous protest or one organized by more radical groups in brightly colored clothes with your phone out ready to record, you are also putting yourself at risk of being targeted by the cops and you are putting other people at risk of arrest by recording them.

These posts that go around every time there's a wave of protests telling people who have never protested that they need to show up ready for a black bloc is wildly fucking irresponsible. If you are experienced and know what to expect from your local organizers, then absolutely show up ready to raise hell. But if you show up like that to a fucking civillian sidewalk demonstration because you couldn't be bothered to see who was organizing it, the you're not a revolutionary, you're a cosplayer. People will be recording to post on social media because that was the point of that particular demonstration, and you are going to stick out like a sore thumb.

The first and foremost best advice I can give you if you've never been to a protest before is to GET TO KNOW YOUR LOCAL SCENE ! What groups are in your area, which ones are organizing this specific protest ? Do they have an online/social media presence ? Have they made any statements about what they want from the protest ? It takes literally 10 minutes of research in most cases.

Either way, the things you should always do at every protest no matter what is mask up, hide identifying tattoos, wear non descriptive clothes, and bring a bag with snacks and water if it's going to be a long one. Don't record people but if youre going to a normal demonstration but be prepared for other people to be recording with the intention of it being posted. If you're going to raise hell and need to leave your phone at home, then you NEED to have a plan for avoiding being tracked by other means like car GPS, street cameras, and regular police surveillance. Otherwise you're just putting yourself at risk.

Not all protests are the same, as she's pointed out above.

Always consider what your aims are, and what risks you want to avoid.

this Medium article about Congo is paywalled but should work with 12ft.io extension

Germany's relationship with Israel seems primarily driven some level of guilt, and due to the idea that Israel speaks for/represents all jews.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

i'm 35 years old. i've been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.

i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.

spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.

sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i've been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i'm growing real fuckin weary of it.

i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she's not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?

Anon there are more people than you think who were girls who grew up into men, or boys who grew up into women, or girls or boys who grew up to be nonbinary. There is a rather obscure theory that girl and boy are distinct genders from man and woman and while the most common trajectory is that boys grow into men and girls grow into women it's not the rule.

I feel very protective of my former identity BECAUSE there's so little room in the Mainstream Trans Narrative ™️ for allowing gender to change.

I was a girl. Now I'm genderqueer. Maybe later I will find different words for myself.

THERE IS NO QUEER REVIEW BOARD

The notion of equating what's going on to like... general social media toxicity that you have to take a break from is fucking sickening.

I DEEPLY pretended I was secretly a cat person and just hadn't, like, learned to grow cat ears and a tail yet. I sometimes sorta believed it. The line between pretending and believing is so, so blurry when you are a child. I don't get why people worry about this sort of thing. It's normal. And if that led to me being trans, it was, like, latent for 30 years. There is no cat-children-to-transgender pipeline. And being trans is normal, too, anyway.

decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years

UK citizens can email their MP asking for a ceasefire

US citizens can call/email their local government officials asking for a ceasefire

Jewish Voice for Peace also has many resources for ways for US citizens to get involved, including protests

Donate to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Donate to Medical Aid for Palestine

Even if we were, we deserve some manner of respect, to live.

People in the global north do not actually have an understanding of these various groups. For example, Hamas and ISIS actually hate eachother (according to the US, they even shoot eachother on sight), since the former want to create a palestinian ethnostate, while the latter wants a pan-arabic fundamentalist theocracy.

Israel has worked to keep manufacturing the image of Palestinians as savages, both internally("Animal people"/"Human animals") and abroad, because that is the only justification for their continual violence.