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obsessed with the way that gothic horror is about horror but never directly. it’s not horrific because there’s a haunted house and that’s scary, it’s horrific because the monster isn’t a monster, it’s your grief, your loss, your pride, your desire, your fear. the monster skulking in the shadows, the darkness at the edge of the woods, the haunted house that is too broken to be a home—those are manifestations of events that grabbed onto the fabric of time in a fit of abject horror and clamped down so tightly that they couldn’t keep moving forward toward resolution and eventual dissipation like they were supposed to. it’s all about the scared child and the mourning mother and the hunger in your gut and the little emptiness in your chest at the end of the day. those things are all little horrors but you can’t approach them directly to understand them, so gothic horror gives us these little metaphors and says “here play with these for a while and see what you find.” and all of those metaphors need someone to go back to childhood to release them. you have to care, and be curious and clever, and look for a way to heal the hurt. you have to be so achingly human to survive in gothic horror

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the luxuries, comfort, and relative safeties of the imperial core are not things that anyone in the imperial core (whether labor-aristocracy or bourgeois) are entitled to, in that they are fundamentally bought through plunder, through global imperial extraction. the democrat votescold anxiety and moral indignation is rooted in a feeling of entitlement to the relative safety of being some of the privileged few who aren't as explicitly and specifically targeted by the usamerican ruling classes. the reality is that the usamerican regime is in decline, that this is a net positive for basically all of humanity, and that the cost of this is that the historical process of this empire's decline involves the inevitable decay of the conditions within the imperial core, which will progress to the detriment of the usamerican labor aristocracy. these conditions necessarily must progress before the material and political conditions can be correct for the liberation of the imperial core from the remaining shackles of capital -- and this is likely to happen after the rest of the world has advanced further in their global revolution, because of the nature of what the imperial core is and how it works, in that it is likely last bastion of capital to fall, in its nature as the central fortress, the king's castle within the city limits.

the second part of this which democrats votescolds fail to contend with is that the decay is underway, it is a process which is already in progress. it cannot be forestalled nor prevented any more than one can veer away from a cliff edge after one has already driven over it. when we say that that the decay will progress regardless of which usamerican bourgeois ruler acts as the head-of-state, we are acknowledging the material processes which are already moving.

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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert 

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How it felt to get your first minimum wage paycheck:

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i just want to see gifs and pictures please stop showing me reader insert fanfiction

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i like Ma & Pa Kent a lot bcos like, their whole thing is that they’re the normalest, nicest human parents in existence, but also, they are the people who found a baby inside a crashed spaceship and just took him home and told no-one.

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The view that the bourgeoisie are absurdly weak, and that the proletariat need not organise into vanguards, or establish states, or even engaged in armed revolution, is wrong; and equally wrong is the view that the bourgeoisie is absurdly strong (and the proletariat absurdly weak), and that the proletariat cannot possibly govern if they still exist, that a proletarian state cannot control the bourgeois under it, and that any socialist society which does not completely abolish all other classes (which is to say, immediately establish communism!) is necessarily corrupted. These are both two sides of the same 'left' error.

To be correct in our practice we need to have a dialectical approach towards the relative standing of the classes - historically, the proletariat are the rising class, and the bourgeoisie the waning half of the contradiction; but at the same time, the immediate state of the bourgeoisie is that of a class equipped with vast armies, weapons, and social systems. The proletariat must exert great force and use great discipline to overcome the bourgeoisie at any given moment, but once the ball's in their court, it's best to play the long game - the slower and more drawn out we can deal with petty tyrants, the weaker they will be, and the stronger we will be.

Mao said:

Over a long period, we have developed this concept for the struggle against the enemy: strategically we should despise all our enemies, but tactically we should take them all seriously. This also means that we must despise the enemy with respect to the whole, but that we must take him seriously with respect to each concrete question. If we do not despise the enemy with respect to the whole, we shall be committing the error of opportunism. Marx and Engels were only two individuals, and yet in those early days they already declared that capitalism would be overthrown throughout the world. However, in dealing with concrete problems and particular enemies we shall be committing the error of adventurism unless we take them seriously. In war, battles can only be fought one by one and the enemy forces can only be destroyed one by one. Factories can only be built one by one. The peasants can only plough the land plot by plot. The same is even true of eating a meal. Strategically, we take the eating of a meal lightly - we know we can finish it. Actually, we eat it mouthful by mouthful. It is impossible to swallow an entire banquet in one gulp. This is known as a piecemeal solution. In military parlance, it is called wiping out the enemy forces one by one.

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How do they keep making later and later stages of late-capitalism

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We should make a list of all the things White people have falsely attributed to Native American mysticism but its actually bullshit

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Ilona Maher and Alan Bersten Dancing With The Stars Season 33 Episode 7

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RICHARD CASTLE & KATE BECKETT insp / other couples

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"adhd is the easiest disability to have" “sure plenty of people have adhd but most people are faking” “people are abusing the resources that WE need so that’s why i can’t get my adderall!”

there has been an artificial shortage of all adhd medication for the past 4 years in the US. every investigation into this shortage has returned with the unequivocal result that simply nobody thinks we need it enough to solve the problem.

so they point fingers at the “faker” gaming the system to get adderall who “thinks” they have adhd or is “abusing stimulants to get ahead” for a problem that Our system MANUFACTURED.

so we would be at each others throats instead of realizing that our government and big pharma is to blame for all of this. because their First priority is to punish addicts and to punish folks with adhd and to punish anyone who relies on medication. over everything else. even over profit.

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Indigenous-led resistance to 21 fossil fuel projects in the U.S. and Canada over the past decade has stopped or delayed an amount of greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions.

This is despite an onslaught of attacks against Indigenous activists over the past few years. Over the last few years, victories won against projects through direct actions have led to more than 35 states enacting anti-protest laws, jail time for protestors, thousands of dollars of fines, and even the killing of prominent activists.

Indigenous rights and responsibilities “are far more than rhetorical devices — they are tangible structures impacting the viability of fossil fuel expansion.” Through physically disrupting construction and legally challenging projects, Indigenous resistance has directly stopped projects expected to produce 780 million metric tons of greenhouse gases every year and is actively fighting projects that would dump more than 800 million metric tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year.

The analysis, which used publicly released data and calculations from nine different environmental and oil regulation groups, found that roughly 1.587 billion metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions have been halted. That’s the equivalent pollution of approximately 400 new coal-fired power plants — more than are still operating in the United States and Canada — or roughly 345 million passenger vehicles — more than all vehicles on the road in these countries.

“From an Indigenous perspective, when we are confronting the climate crisis we are inherently confronting the systems of colonization and white supremacy as well,” Goldtooth said. “In order to do that, you have to reevaluate how you relate to the world around you and define what your obligations are to the world around you. It’s more than just stopping fracking development and pipelines and it’s more than just developing clean energy, it’s about actually fundamentally changing how we see the world itself.”

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For the love of god read some anarchist theory, your ignorance is painful

I used to be an Anarchist. I've probably read more theory than you. It's not my fault that A. It isn't very good B. ~90% of Self-Identified Anarchists don't read theory themselves and so the content of Anarchist theory has relatively little to do with the practice of the ideology itself C. Anarchism is generally incoherent as well as deeply metaphysical and idealist, so the conscious thoughts of Anarchists aren't a good way to understand the class interests at play any more than the conscious theory of any other Liberal. Like reading their theory (as opposed to learning about their actual practice) isn't especially useful anyway; a history of Catalonia or Makhnovia will teach you much more about Anarchism than 1000 pages of Bookchin or Kropotkin or Graeber ever could

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i am not immune to stories in which characters who have endured harsh, empty existences become absolutely transformed by someone’s sincere love for them and learn to live