we must live, grusha! live!

i think its going to be a summer of me being an angry mean bitch if ppl dont get their act together

met this old white man who was day-drinking in the park today, he was like yeah, i just got laid off from my job at the factory because i got a tooth infection and i took too many days off. my buddies just got laid off too and it feels like shit, it's driving us all to drink. so then we start talking politics, and right out the gate he says: the prime minister is controlled by multi-billion dollar corporations and these people should either be put in prison for life or lined up and shot

ngl i was kinda worried abt what was going to be in the new national sjp position paper but after having read it: its good to see the direction theyre moving in, ofc it could go a lot further and its still narrow student politics, but its clearly a step forward in the internal struggles of the student mvmt to have the kinds of statements they make—abt the historical development of the modern imperialist university, abt divestment from the zionist entity not being possible along the same reformist lines as with apartheid south africa or as with fossil fuel monopolies—affirmed at this level, cus ppl making those statements and the audience for them were in the extreme minority in 2024 against the do-something-ism majority. to say that "SJP may move toward a direct confrontation with the economic structures and social relations that bind universities, finance capital, and militarism, if we choose to do so" is still a vacillating & centrist & obscuring position btwn reform and revolution, but what more can be expected from an above-ground org that has already caught so much heat