#DEFEND THE WORKING CLASS

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

[comikbook]

DENY. DEFEND. DEPOSE.

ART WILL ALWAYS BE FOR THE WORKING CLASS.

[tilbageidanmark]

Word on the street

[dandeliont3aandsageleaves]

It Does Not Matter

It does not matter if they say he was a right-wing extremist. He still ate the rich.

It does not matter who he voted for. He still ate the rich.

It does not matter where he went to school. He still ate the rich.

It does not matter if he was a millionaire. He still ate the rich.

It does not matter what tax bracket he is in. He still ate the goddamned rich.

Who he is does not matter. He ate the rich. He proved that they can bleed. Change is possible. We will unite and we will support him. Do not let them divide us. It is the lower class, the working class, the middle class, and the upper class against the 0.01%. Do not spread any information that the media gives you.

A billionaire CEO of a health insurance agency was assassinated. That is all that matters.

Deny. Defend. Depose.

[redsans-world]

[soadscrawl]

Draft art model AU anyway, and see if it draws any wild plots out from hiding. I hear they're usually attracted to the scent of drafts and random frameworks, this time of year.

i have been kicking it around in my mind a bit... some silly bs i thought of for it

[dykeseinfeld]

shitty majoring in gender and sexuality focused on masculinity studies and team sports which is super interesting and cool (and a space where it can actually be refreshing to have male voices) and it may be tempting to read the double major in poli sci as focusing on gender equality and lgbt rights but there's a world where he focused on cold war tensions and how the soviet union and the united states used sports as an arena for competition, sports as an arena of political protest and defining piece of the nation state in itself, also the exploitation of athletes across racial gender and class divisions in college and in professional leagues

[fredersen]

see everyone? the CEO shooter suspect was an unhinged disturbed freak with deranged ideas all along! now stop thinking you stupid proles can do anything to stop us and go back to making us rich off your suffering 😌

[poisonwaterlily3]

They're trying so hard not to martyr him and it's not working.

[upside-down-sock-drawer]

No because the amount of people up on their high horses about this is genuinely concerning. "Oh but but the CEO has a family he was a person too" and?? He is partially responsible for literally thousands of deaths, and forced chronically and/or terminally people into debt. For what, you ask? For more money to put into his pockets. So please excuse me if I don't have sympathy for that man.

[dani-pixie]

Fantasies of Revolution

As we get daily news reports of the New York police trying to find the man that killed the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, we see a rising of the people. The unification of the lower class. The death of a man who has been the cause of countless lost lives is to the benefit of us all. The words "Deny" "Defend" "Defend" echo in our minds just as the shell casings did when they dropped to the ground. We can only hope that his fervor does not die down, though I fear it will. Syria has made its dictator flee. South Korea put a stop to tyranny before it ever began. Georgia is fighting to be heard by its government. France voted to remove their far-right prime minister.

With the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, we cannot falter now. This momentum cannot stop. We are the people. We are the employers of the politicians. Make them hear you. Deny their power. Defend the people. Depose the rulers. Vote them out. Fire them. Show them that you are angry.

Earlier this year, I wrote a short rant piece about getting my family to wake up from the delusions that the far-right were promising them. I never showed it to them because it was filled with anger that they would never listen to. Now I call to the words that were in my head for days on end, "Wake up. Get up." Do not let this momentum die. Companies are trying to hide who their upper level executive people are. They are scared of the people.

A cover of Les Mis's "Do You Hear the People Sing" by the.real.eden on tiktok has been particularly powerful for me. I've listened to it over and over. I hope that the politicians and wealthy hear the people sing the song of angry men. I hope we are loud enough. I fear that this is simply just accumulation of fantasies of revolution with nothing to back it up. I fear that this will become the "there are flowers blooming in Antarctica." I fear that this will become a left vs. right instead of the working vs. wealthy. The wealthy fear a coherent and unified working class for a reason. They fear unions. They fear us. They fear those willing to fight for what is right. Do not let this momentum die down. Do not let our angry cries be silenced.

[comikbook]

sneak peek at a painting that popped into my brain. art is for the working class

[richo1915]

Let us raise boldly our banner,

Even though a storm of hostile elements is howling

Even though sinister forces oppress us today,

Even though everybody's tomorrow is uncertain.

Oh, this is the banner of the whole mankind,

The sacred call, the song of resurrection,

It's the triumph of labor and justice,

It's the dawn of the brotherhood of all peoples!

Forward, Warsaw!

To the bloody fight,

Sacred and righteous!

March, march, Warsaw!

Today when the working people are starving,

To indulge in luxury is a crime,

And shame to those among us, who in our young age,

Are afraid to mount the scaffold!

Oh, we will never forget the deaths of those,

Who gave their life for the cause,

Because our victorious chant will make

Their names honoured by millions of people!

Forward, Warsaw!

To the bloody fight,

Sacred and righteous!

March, march, Warsaw!

Hurra! Let's tear down the crown of the tzars,

While peoples are wearing the one of thorns.

Let's drown the rotten thrones in blood,

Thrones already stained purple with the people's blood!

Ha! Frightful vengeance to today's tormentors,

That suck the life out of millions of people.

Ha! Vengeance to the tzars and plutocrats,

And we'll harvest the crops of the future!

Forward, Warsaw!

To the bloody fight,

Sacred and righteous!

March, march, Warsaw!

[nostalgia-tblr]

there's something incredibly revealing about fandom's assigning of alternate jobs in AUs and how rarely this leads to Blue Collar Loki as opposed to Blue Collar Thor.

[eerna]

Do you think we have to worry about the next season of Blue Eye Samurai now

I am ready for anything and have been since s1 finale. I don't think Mizu in London makes a lick of sense and I don't think s2 will be as good as s1. I really don't have any expectations for it, so I can only be pleasantly surprised if I enjoy it, or shrug and say "Yeah, that tracks" if I don't. But thank you for reminding me to rewatch BES, it is winter and thus BES time!!!