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my partner just told me that a game character reminds her of herself, and then went on to say how lovely the character is. it's nice hearing her talk like that

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having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer

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i feel like i almost grasp what you mean about equality; what you said about dumber people not engaging with politics, academics, etc, made a lot of sense to me. but can you clarify what you mean by equality not being important compared to freedom? i don't see how one can be free but not have some measure of equality compared to others

Equality is only legitimate as a means for freedom, but from the very beginning of class society in the Fertile Crescent and the Nile River Valley there has been an ideological recognition of a tension between freedom and equality. Usually equality was advocated as a kind of responsibility of the state, especially in Kemetic ideology. It’s really blatant in the writings of the ancient Greeks, they were the first to express that tension explicitly. Obviously for them it was tied to an apologetic for the slavery of the polis, but that doesn’t make the tension any less real since the freedom of the citizens in places like Athens were genuinely pretty wide ranging up to the extent that they didn’t challenge the self-preservation of the polity (what Socrates recognized when he justified his own execution).

In a communist sense, the equal measure of everyone’s labor-time would only be a temporary measure for establishing the control of the workers over the production process and the distribution of the products, it would have to immediately be counteracted to prevent the obscuring of real inequalities as far as who can participate more or less in the labor process. In other words free distribution, from each according to their ability and to each according to their needs, would have to be premised on inequality. Just not inequality as a justification for a limited freedom, but inequality in the sense of free flourishing of individuals reinforced by the mutual dependency of the conditions for each person’s potential on the free development of potentiality in other people.

That’s also why I think it’s completely legitimate to criticize when people are wasting their potential on stupid garbage, as they do in a capitalist society where living a worthwhile life is not the point. The equality of capitalist society is the sameness of abstract human labor, that everyone’s distinctive and therefore unequal personality is secondary to the process compared to their being a human labor resource. Most people adapt to this condition because they think it’s a choice of either affirm the mediocrity and stupidity of class society or give up on living entirely

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Burkina Faso has unveiled its first locally assembled electric car brand, ITAOUA. It is 100% electric, solar-powered, and can go 330 kilometers after only 30 minutes of charging. The production plant is located in Ouaga 2000, a district in Burkina Faso. The launch of ITAOUA’s electric car is expected to impact Burkina Faso’s economy profoundly and generate thousands of jobs.

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completely obsessed with the brazilian cover of artificial condition

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‼️‼️We will die at any moment‼️‼️

The war has returned after 15 months of death and genocide. We have never rested. We are losing people every day, most of them children and women... The bombing is everywhere. Our children are afraid...The sound is frightening.😭

There is no food, no drink, no medicine, the crossing is closed and everything is expensive.

‼️We don't want to die. Please donate and help us so we can buy food and medicine for my mother and save ourselves from death. Just donate. 😭🙏😞🫂‼️

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The United States is the great Satan.

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can u see me? just checking,,

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hey. boobs

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*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...

but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu

this has been a psa

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Nice post but since you bought badges from Tumblr I'm going to put your post into chatgpt

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One of the biggest problems with the straightforward assumption that capitalism smoothly creates the preconditions for socialism, building heavy industries and centralizing production into a rational whole, is that ironically the Fordist industrial model that seemed to confirm that hypothesis ended up creating the conditions for it to be undermined.

First of all, by incorporating proletarians into bourgeois society through consumption in the consumer service economy and ownership of homes and cars. That got in the way of the assumption that economic demands will always lead to socialist consciousness, by making the proletariat an estate or interest group of capitalism.

Second of all, by establishing an early model of multinational manufacturing of industrial and consumer products, which both undermined the basis of the first through world competition in the labor market and reinforced it by proliferating the scope of the consumer economy’s production + circulation. The multinational capital is still concentrated in American hands, but it creates conditions for the concentration of capital to also mean the decentralization and dispersion of production. It happens in an extremely irrational way, unless of course we recognize the form of capital as having a rationality other than needs (which are only a means for accumulation).

This has led to a situation where class struggle seems to have disappeared in North America, where social struggles are primarily framed as issues of distribution of Federal money and the purchasing power of the dollar, and where workers think more in terms of producers against consumers, and consumers against producers, and so when there’s an economic issue they care about they act politically in interclassist ways (like coal workers siding with coal capitalists).

With all that in mind, it’s easy to see why inflation, long established resentment towards multinational offshoring, and impotent rage at global labor competition (appearing most visibly in migrant laborers) would motivate many people in North America to support Trump’s project of building a national industrial economy. He believes in national economic units competing and making deals with other national economic units in the name of their mutual comparative advantage, it’s very neoclassical.

However Trump’s economic thinking also amounts to revitalizing a neoliberal free market and free trade by decree, which in this case means by tariffs and deportations in order to reorganize the economy on a national basis. Because he believes in neoliberal slop, he isn’t implementing any kind of positive incentives for certain industries through Federal spending, at most he’s implementing tax breaks and deregulation which can’t affect the conditions of world competition. This means his strategy will likely only reinforce the strongest aspects of the local North American regime of accumulation, which today is primarily based in real estate and the service economy.

But that doesn’t mean the United States has no power at all as an imperialist power. Trump has been very open about reorienting imperialist strategy to be less about securing stable and predictable conditions for multinational investment and more about expanding the scope of the national economy through real estate annexations and purchases. The base of support for this is the army of slop peddlers and scammers in the service economy who mostly feed off of the incomes on revenue of all classes like parasites. Yet still, given the command their capital gives them over means of communication and social labor in general, that’s a model that can work for imperialist strategy even if not sustainably.

All this to say that even if the industrial reshoring fantasy doesn’t shake out, and it won’t unless American wages drop exponentially in order to be competitive once again, the power of U.S. capital won’t disappear. It’ll become more aggressive, and dependent on bolder and bolder speculation including speculation on daring or just plain stupid imperialist warmongering and games of chicken like Trump is playing with the tariff negotiations.

Capitalist power isn’t about “real stuff” (heavy industries, agriculture) versus “fake stuff” (service, residential real estate prices). That’s the thinking of a dead Marxism and of the Trump voters who have been sold childish bullshit by grifters. Capital is about command over social labor. Real estate and service slop perform those functions perfectly fine, in some places even better than heavy industries. They might be less sustainable, but more sustainability does not necessarily mean more power. Altho the the lack of surplus-value (as the service economy realizes surplus-value more than it produces it) will definitely be a problem for the long run.

What is probably going to happen at this rate is that the scam elements of the service economy will do very well and buy up more shit, real estate speculation will get wilder (meaning residential rents will get even worse), and the prices of the service economy will probably rise significantly from these trade war games of chicken and the consumption of slop will become even more of a class stratified phenomenon monopolized by the grifters. So the question will end up becoming if the proletariat in North America decides to make the leap of leaving behind what they’re losing, and taking the risk of trying for a worthwhile life, which would require collective class political re-composition, or if they just resent the loss of their slop and push for more warmongering in the belief that it will drive consumer prices down, which they could do while still being atomized consumer citizens.

In either case, focusing on heavy industry and agriculture as the “real economy” is a terrible frame of analysis and is closer to nationalist fantasyland than the real terrain of class struggle. Taking on a proletarian position in the U.S. today would have a heavily ethical element to it, including taking on responsibility for the conditions of our own lives instead of following along with the way they have been planned as means for the circulation of consumer commodities. The fantasyland leaves you with no position but to either believe in the Trump campaign’s advertising, and measure their strategy according to that fantasy (and miss the real class dynamics, the real terrain politics move on), or to cheer on some industrial power elsewhere and hope it’ll save everyone (usually this means China)

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Urgent aid needed!

As many off you know I have shared @ashleymilesphil 's fundraiser here

Here is a post by @evpath providing proof of legitimacy. She is also #2 on this vetted list.

Since then the situation has become more urgent!

I have personally been in contact with Ashley who has shared their stories with me. (Documentation below)

Today I recived an urgent message

id: I wanted to share an urgent update regarding our situation in Gorom refugee camp. Today, I attended a meeting with South Sudanese government officials and other authorities. They informed us that they do not want us in Gorom camp, claiming that UNHCR brought us here without their approval. Both the government and the local authorities stated that we must leave within ten days.

When we asked where they expect us to go, they made it clear that this is not up for negotiation it is an order. They had no concrete plan for our relocation but suggested Juba town, which, given our case profiles, is extremely unsafe for us. They also expressed frustration over the recent cut in U.S. funding, stating that they have lost jobs, and the only solution they see is for us to leave because they can’t offer any protection or support to continue keeping us here, ( remember we relocated from another camp called Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya last year 2024 in January and December of 2023 following alot of persecution and death to some of our fellows)

We are scheduled to meet with UNHCR on Monday, and we hope to have more information after that discussion. At this moment, we are uncertain about what to do next, but we wanted to keep you updated.

Please let me know if there are any possible avenues of support or advice. We appreciate your solidarity in these difficult times /end id

Here is some of their stories

ID:

SILENCED, STARVING, AND FORGOTTEN: THE REALITY OF QUEER REFUGEES IN EAST AFRICA

Our Journey from Uganda to Kakuma and Gorom: A Fight for Survival

We are a group of over 300+ LGBTQ+ refugees from across East Africa, including Uganda (60%), the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. We are here because our countries have criminalized our very existence.

We live together as a family, supporting one another in a world that wants to erase us. But every day, our numbers grow as more LGBTQ+ people flee the worsening violence in their home countries. We are running out of places to hide.

Why We Fled Uganda: The Brutal Reality of Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

Uganda is one of the most dangerous places in the world for LGBTQ+ people. The Anti-Homosexuality Act has made our very existence a crime. This law imposes: • Life imprisonment for same-sex relationships. • The death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” (which can simply mean being openly LGBTQ+). • 20-year prison sentences for anyone advocating for LGBTQ+ rights or providing support.

These laws have emboldened mobs, police, and even family members to attack, imprison, and kill us without consequence. Many of us were beaten, outed by neighbors, fired from jobs, or attacked by our own families.

We fled, hoping for safety. But instead, we found more suffering.

Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya: A Place of Violence, Not Refuge

Many of us arrived at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, believing the United Nations (UNHCR) would protect us. Instead, we were hunted down by fellow refugees and local communities who saw us as a threat. • Hate-fueled Attacks: We were beaten, raped, and even burned alive in targeted attacks. • No Protection from UNHCR: Despite our cries for help, UNHCR ignored us. The police sided with our attackers, refusing to intervene. • Starvation and Disease: Food rations were barely enough to survive. The water was often contaminated, making us sick. Those of us with HIV/AIDS had no access to life-saving medication.

After years of relentless violence, some of us made the painful decision to leave Kakuma only to find even greater danger elsewhere.

Gorom Refugee Camp, South Sudan: From One Warzone to Another

In 2024, a group of us fled Kakuma, hoping for safety in another neighboring country. We arrived at Gorom Refugee Camp in South Sudan, only to find ourselves in a warzone. • Homosexuality is criminalized in South Sudan, meaning if we are caught, we could be executed. • We live in hiding, terrified that any moment, someone might betray us. • We are starving. Many days, we go without food. Some of us have collapsed from hunger. • We have no clean water. We are forced to drink from contaminated sources, leading to cholera, typhoid, and severe diarrhea. • We have no medical care. Those of us with HIV/AIDS are at extreme risk without treatment. Many have already died. • We have no shelter. When the rains come, our makeshift homes are washed away, leaving us exposed to attacks. • Our people are being killed. Lesbians are being raped as a “corrective” measure. Transgender refugees are brutalized. We have lost friends, their bodies left in the dirt.

We left Uganda and Kenya, searching for a safe place to exist. But nowhere is safe for us.

A Lost Hope: The US Resettlement That Never Came

For years, we believed we had a way out. Many of us had undergone all the necessary interviews, background checks, and paperwork to be resettled in the United States.

We were waiting for our final medical screenings before we could fly to safety. We were finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.

But then, Donald Trump came into power.

Under his administration’s policies, the refugee resettlement program was drastically cut—and our applications were terminated overnight. Years of waiting, hoping, and preparing for a safe future were destroyed in an instant.

We were left stranded. Many of us had already left Kakuma, believing our flights were just weeks away. When the program was canceled, we had nowhere to go forced to remain in South Sudan, trapped in a warzone where we are hunted down simply for existing.

Hope on the Horizon: Canada’s Lifeline for Some of Us

Despite the devastation of the US refugee program’s collapse, there is still hope. • In November 2024, at least 25 LGBTQ+ members from our community were resettled to Canada. • For those of us who had our files at the US Embassy, Canada has offered a second chance. The files are being recalled and resubmitted to the Canadian Embassy for consideration. • Interviews with the Canadian Embassy are ongoing, but it is important to note that this is a very slow process that could take years.

Though resettlement is uncertain for most of us, knowing that some of our friends have found safety gives us the strength to keep fighting.

A Deadly Blow: Loss of USAID HIV/AIDS Treatment

Before, many of us relied on free monthly HIV/AIDS treatment provided by USAID. This was a lifeline, allowing those living with HIV to stay alive despite the hardships.

However, under Trump’s administration, this channel of aid was blocked, cutting us off from the medication we desperately need. Since then, many of our community members have died from preventable complications. Others are suffering, their health deteriorating rapidly.

This decision was a death sentence for many of us.

The Forgotten Children: Innocent Lives at Risk

Among us are children many of whom were born as a result of rape and forced marriages. These children are the forgotten victims of this crisis. • They have no food. • They have no medical care. • They have no future.

The harsh conditions in the camp expose them to deadly diseases like malaria, cholera, and typhoid. Just last year, we lost at least three children because we could not access the medicine to save them.

These children did not choose this suffering. But they are suffering nonetheless.

Why We Need This Website: A Voice for the Silenced

For too long, our struggles have been hidden. The world does not see us. The world does not hear us. This website will change that.

It will serve as: 1. A Beacon of Awareness: We will document our suffering, so the world cannot ignore us any longer. 2. A Lifeline for Support: This platform will allow us to raise funds for survival food, clean water, medical care, and shelter. 3. A Call to Action: We need the international community, activists, and human rights organizations to stand with us before it is too late.

Our Immediate Needs: Your Help Saves Lives

✅ FOOD – We are starving. Many of us go days without eating. ✅ CLEAN WATER – Contaminated water is killing us. ✅ SHELTER – We need a safe place to sleep, away from violence. ✅ MEDICATION – Those living with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses need life-saving treatment. ✅ MOSQUITO NETS – Malaria is one of the biggest killers in our camp. ✅ SANITARY PRODUCTS – Many of us, especially women, have no access to basic hygiene.

Final Plea: Don’t Let Us Be Forgotten

We need you. We cannot do this alone. Please stand with us before it is too late.

🌈 Hope is not lost. Together, we can make a difference. 🌈/end id

Here is the anti homosexuality bill signed by the parliament of Uganda and the president.

Some media has been edited by me to protect the identies of the refugees.

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"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

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Canned Drinks

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hey im really really financially struggling rn. i am out of money and took up a bunch of work and need to get paid soon but you know how it is with prices and state of the world right now, groceries and utilities are expensive.

if you want to help out, i have:

commissions open

some games on itchio

and ko-fi / paypal if you feel generous (thank you, kind stranger)