Someone Like You

Internet socialists always talk about the things they think they should get for free, they never talk about the labor they themselves will provide for free.

On the rare occasion they do, it's always hobby-related, like "yoga teacher" or "commune muralist." Which implies a lot of confidence in the belief that someone else's passion job will be "lithium miner" or "sewage plant worker."

Uh, a lot of what’s missing is “because grandpa was a despised minority like Jews or rroma” or “because grandpa spoke out against the regime” or “because grandpa was an artist or intellectual and therefore a threat to those in power”. Yeah, sometimes grandpa was a rich capitalist, but let’s get real: most of the wealthy capitalists had enough money to get out of dodge. They lived. The ones who stayed and died were too poor to run.

The Khmer Rogue butchered a quarter of the population of Cambodia, but I guess 25% of Cambodia was just rich landowners, right?

Hey, if you can afford glasses, you can afford land.

My great-grandpa was almost killed for the grand crime of owning a couple hectares of farm land he was working with his family. The only reason he survived? He was working in the forge when the commie scum came to put a bullet in his head and was dirty. They laughed that he can’t be a land owner and walked away.

Aren’t these dumbasses against the death penalty? How can you not want to kill someone that’s raped and murdered people, but you’re fine with the government killing anyone that’s rich, or well-off, or comfortably middle-class?

Because their idea of justice isn’t based on what you’ve done, but who you are. A “bourgeois” state killing people is bad not because killing is bad, but because it is a “bourgeois” state doing the killing.

inherently evil

I honestly feel like the proliferation of LED headlights was the canary in the coalmine for the general attitude we see in the political climate these days and i'm not even remotely kidding

Very much in line with the attitude of "this choice will marginally improve the way I move through the world and make everyone else's experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse, but I don't really care, based simply on the fact that I am allowed to do it and there's nothing they can or will do to stop me" ya feel me?

Art with Jesus having the kindest eyes and the scruffiest beard gets me every time. Like he purposefully didn’t look ‘holy’ or ‘regal’ he was your neighbor. He was your carpenter.

It's spring now which means the kids in my city have started drawing hopscotches on the sidewalk and as a rule I do every hopscotch I see because 1. Use it or lose it (ability to scotch) and 2. If a child got down on the hardscrabble streets of Boston Massachusetts to draw a scotch the least I can do is use it, but in doing the hopscotches, I've learned that about 50% of them are the typical 8-10 step scotch and the other 50% are. Somewhat avant-garde. And of course I'm not vetting the entire scotch before I start it so sometimes it's like haha 8 steps woo! Childlike whimsy! And sometimes they're 20 steps or 30 or they've got a section with three squares instead of two where you have to do a little Charleston to step on all three, or, memorably, FORTY one foot squares. A full BLOCK of jumping on one foot but I'm no quitter so once I've started Jigsaw Junior's fuckin hopscotch gauntlet I'm there til the end just a daily pot smoker in her thirties jumping kasa-obake style through an affluent suburb while some little proto-kennedy watches from his bedroom window rubbing his sadistic little third grade hands together and cackling. It's amazing. I love spring.

the art of not being ready and doing it anyway will take you far