sunflowertaters

[sunflowertaters]

“eldritch horror beyond your comprehension” and it’s just a generic monster with tentacles and eyes

[sunflowertaters]

So someone pointed out to me recently that in a few years, maybe a few decades, the history of the us during covid is probably going to get twisted. The fact that we all had to make and wear cloth masks is going to be hailed as a symbol of how we “"came together as a nation”“” or whatever the fuck propaganda spin they try to put on it.

So I just want to say, for the record, the time of the corona virus pandemic was not a time when america came together.

This was a time when people hoarded toilet paper and sanitizing supplies either for themselves or to sell at absurd prices to the desperate people who didn’t get to the store soon enough during the shortages

This was a time when scared parents were sending their kids to finish school in the spring in plastic trash bags because they couldn’t think of any other way to possibly keep their families safe

This was a time when grocery store and retail and service workers were forced to keep working whether they wanted to risk their health or not because they couldn’t make rent otherwise and the people with enough privilege to have remote jobs tried to repay them with applause instead of fair wages

This was a time when nurses had the hold the hands of multiple dying people every day as their families watched their loved ones die over a video call because the hospital couldn’t risk having visitors

This was a time when city governments had to handle so many eviction hearings that they rented out convention centers and called in the national guard instead of doing a rent freeze to stop predatory landlords

This was a time when racism and police brutality were so unbearably horrible that people protested in the streets for months even though there was a god damn pandemic that our federal government wasn’t doing shit to stop and the cops were so mad that they were being asked to stop beating up black people that they were beating up everyone

This was a time when schools being forced to reopen in the fall or lose their federal funding had to draft templates for letters if a teacher or a staff person or a fucking child died from exposure to corona at school

This was a time when the president of the United states demanded that the cdc stop releasing data about all the people who were dying because of the warnings he ignored for months were making him look bad

This was a time when some state governments didn’t mandate masks and forced businesses to reopen because they didn’t want to pay unemployment to people trying to stay safe at home anymore

This was a time when Jeff Bezos was on track to be a fucking trillionare because everyone was ordering things on amazon instead of going to the store and the people he worked to death to get it didn’t see a single cent of it

This was a time when instead of providing homeless people with housing, we painted boxes on the ground to show homeless people how far away the had to be on the street to maintain social distancing

We did not come together to make cloth masks. Cloth masks represent nothing less than the absolute and utter failure of a nation’s government to inform and protect its citizens

This was not a time when we came together. This was a time when we survived, and not all of us made it.

This was a time when people casually talked about how many human lives the economy was worth without considering the evil that had just come out of their mouths.

This was a time when thousands of us died for profit and the ego of a cheating narcissists con man who scammed his way into the white house

This was a time that we survived. Most of us tried to do the right thing, stay home, limit trips to the store and socializing, wear a mask. And still, so many of us were lost. Thousands every day.

But that wasn’t a good enough reason for some people, for those among us who were too selfish to recognize the responsibilities we have toward one another as human beings.

This was not a time that we came together

This was a time that we survived

Not all of us made it

And those of us who did survive will never forget the evil we saw daily in our politicians and those around us

[sunflowertaters]

samus's pursuit of a photo

rest under the cut

some writers notes below. thanks for readin

[sunflowertaters]

“Advice to young activists today: Stop trying to understand the 1960’s and build a movement around something that you did not live through or understand, or a movement like the Black Panther Party that went through many changes of policy and program during its 16 year existence. Show respect to movements and activists of the past, understand what they went through, even work with them where that is helpful, but do not make the mistake of building your movement today around anything other than the material conditions and forms of oppression that exist now. Do not be afraid to think in an original sense about police terror, mass imprisonment, homelessness, mass unemployment and poverty, and so many forms of oppression that are worse now, or that did not even exist as a mass problem in the 1960’s. This is a different time, so you have to think, resist and organize in this time.”

— Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin (via fullpraxisnow)

[sunflowertaters]

Why would anyone trust your political opinions when you can’t be bothered to stop platforming so many blatant transmisogynists and anti-transfeminists?

I'm intrigued as to whom you're talking about tbh.

[sunflowertaters]

Beating a silly metaphor to death to claim "anarchists are dumb and idealistic" in a way that makes it wholly clear you haven't read any anarchist theory is so funny to me idk why

okay transfeminist girls. bourgeois civilization is kind of like an egg, okay? it’s having a pretty bad life and it has to transition or it’s going to kill itself. the proletariat is like the repressed girl inside. until she realizes that she needs to come out, she identifies with the thing that she is trapped inside of. revolutionaries are basically trying to crack her egg, but there’s a lot of systemic pressure to keep her in the closet. it’s called liberalism. a lot of people see that pressure as natural, so they don’t even realize it’s there. some of them tell her that she could have reforms, which means a revolution is unnecessary—that she can just be a social democracy, which is like saying to a closeted tgirl that she is allowed to be a gender-nonconforming cis man. and when someone is against communist strategy they are basically doing discourse about how egg jokes are problematic

[sunflowertaters]

Nigerian Pride 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇬

I meant to have this out yesterday. Happy belated pride. :)

[sunflowertaters]

Palestinian Lesbians, happy pride to my Palesbians !

[sunflowertaters]

[sunflowertaters]

Behond one if the funniest things ive seen on reddit in a hot minute

[sunflowertaters]

The haunting ancient Celtic carnyx being played for an audience. This is the sound Roman soldiers would have heard their Celtic enemies make.

[sunflowertaters]

Have you heard of GPN? Just saw this here

free maja here actually refers to the non-binary anti fascist activist Maja T., a german citizen who has been held in hungarian prison for almost two years now. they are currently on a hunger strike to protest the conditions and treatment they're experiencing in prison.

there is very little talk about this case outside german language media and anti fascist circles, but it's a really important case for antifas across europe and the world, so it's worth looking into!

not perfect but here's one thing i found about it in english:

[sunflowertaters]

[sunflowertaters]

Saying this right fucking now.

I don’t want to see ANY of you touching that fuckass new Harry Potter series.

That woman has set us back YEARS. YEARS. And whose money is she using to do it? People who continually support her and her sorry excuse for a book series.

If you simply must watch it? Pirate. It’s not hard.

Do not give her money. Do not give her a platform. Do not contribute. Please.

[sunflowertaters]

the problem with autism is sometimes you want to do something (brave) but you need someone to gently walk you through each step so you know what will happen. and people don’t like doing that

[sunflowertaters]

with the protests in LA today and the violent federal and local pushback from police: we (me and my editor ryan fae) are accepting leaks, insider data, and public + leak archives relevant to ICE/DHS, LAPD, LASD, and anyone else that could shift the power of knowledge to the people if it were published.

in my words:

for now it's just minor archival data and some older data, but YOU can make a change to that.

we have three bits up already. the below article will be updated constantly. contact info at the bottom of the article. we promise anonymity and general source protection.

[sunflowertaters]

Light answers a tough question