Nagarjuna

Nagarjuna, 7 months ago

“Through every diplomatic means possible”

I.e. he’s gonna ask nicely

Nagarjuna, 7 months ago

Getting people to live in offices is good because it brings people back to walkable, urban cores.

Nagarjuna, 7 months ago

Watching the Biden admin is wild. At one minute he’ll be escalating the wars in the Ukraine and Palestine, but the next he’ll be funding the NLRB and addressing the housing crisis in a way that improves walk-ability.

It’s like, he has two settings: “actually useful moderate” and “KILLKILLKILLKILL”

Unfortunately, this makes him the best US president since carter

desolate

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

Yeah, but please don’t say that too much, we don’t want to carry water for the CCP

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

I mean, there’s pretty clearly a difference between the Cuban approach of letting capitalists leave vs the Russian approach of imprisoning them.

There’s also a difference between the Bolivian approach of arming and training the peasantry and the GDR approach of maintaining an armed military police into peace time.

There is a meaningful difference between methods of protecting working class power, and pretending there isn’t serves more heavy handed approaches.

For those of us who are abolitionists, this is a central question.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

anarchy

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

I was comparing more or less heavy handed ways of doing it. I’m advocating for as light a touch as possible. I’m trying to say that authority is a meaningful concept and that we should engage with it because it’s actually very important.

It’s like how some US cities put you on a payment plan for debts, while others put you in jail. They’re both situations of capitalist class rule, but it’s fair to call the latter authoritarian.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

Moreover, the natural development of economic antagonisms, the waking consciousness of an important fraction of the proletariat, the constantly increasing number of unemployed, the blind resistance of the ruling classes, in short contemporary evolution as a whole, is conducting us inevitably towards the outbreak of a great revolution, which will overthrow everything by its violence, and the fore-running signs of which are already visible. This revolution will happen, with us or without us; and the existence of a revolutionary party, conscious of the end to be attained, will serve to give a useful direction to the violence, and to moderate its excesses by the influence of a lofty ideal.

–Ericco Malatesta, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchy-and-violence

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

I don’t think you got the joke

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

Oh thank God. This is a huge break for anti colonial movements in Africa

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

Night hiking is fun and wonderful on well maintained trails if you have food, water, light and warmth.

Ask me about the time I fucked myself by not having those things.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

I once botched an alpine start by getting my buddy’s truck stuck in the snow, took two hours to dig it out and once we were on our way, the sun was rising.

I did not climb the south sister that day.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

It’s worth looking at how that environment is produced too. There’s a need for cheap labor in agriculture, laundry, hospitality and textile industries that dovetails well with the US’s history of anti-mexican racism (grounded in the need to dehumanizing indigenous people to steal their land as well as the US-Mexico war).

By controlling people’s movement through the border regime, we can make them willing to take sub-minimum wage jobs, while also keeping Mexico poor through lopsided trade agreements like NAFTA and low level insurgency achieved by escalating the drug war and flooding the country with weapons.

In this context of US oppression of Mexicans, it becomes necessary to dehumanize them to justify the violence. This is where fox news comes in. Hell, even CNN plays a role by creating categories of migrants some good and some bad, and playing them against each other while justifying border control (think about the rhetoric about dreamers vs drug smugglers).

To change this environment, we either need to undercut this propaganda by organizing white and brown workers together, or either take back control of media from big business or make our own media with similar reach.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

Well, what AMLO did sounds borderline fascist. Maybe the Klan is a necessary evil? We’d better flood Mexico with weapons and then refuse to negotiate a surrender and hope that improves the situation.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

It’s both. Disney is a strong brand and going after it feels like an attack to people with strong positive associations. DeSantis lost the Disney adult vote and that’s got to be whole portions of a percent of his base.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

The New People’s Army, a socialist guerilla force in the Phillipines fighting against the Marcos-Duterte regime and for democracy, land reform, indigenous sovereignty, gay rights and worker control of the economy.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

The opposit of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

This isn’t even an anticapitalist text dump on my part, just basic US history and sociology. If you’re drawing anti capitalist conclusions from it, that’s on you.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

It’s too bug-eaten to tell if it’s all-white on the inside. I would avoid it because you can’t really sight-ID it.

Also the shell around the outside is too thick (should be eggshell thin) imo there’s a good chance it’s an Earthball (also poisonous, but not destroying angel poisonous).

Get Mike Beuge’s dichotomous key, it’ll really help you not die.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

The holes on the inside say bugs to me. Puffballs are usually white. I know it’s small, but the shell still looks too big, should be eggshell thin.

Imo, there are safer and tastier mushrooms out there. Like a king bolete or an oyster mushroom.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

Puffballs that are past their prime to eat sometimes brown on the inside too, so if there’s any discoloration, don’t fuck with it.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

correct opinions

Smh fucking liberal

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

Honestly, I liked that they followed electoral politics, helping me fulfill my sick, taboo desires.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

What do you think turns people into China supporters? Love for China or hatred of the US?

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

Someone said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism and unfortunately capitalism’s making that more true by the day.

It really seems like a “we kill capitalism or it kills us” situation.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

Something that feels illegal but you can buy it in a gas station.

Super excited that my box of whippits just federated with your kratom

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

The regulations are so bad because the landlords buisness owners smashed the unions and the organized left.

The only way we’re going to unfuck the situation is by building up those institutions. So contact CWA and organize your IT job, and join the DSA. It’s how we won the minimum wage in the first place, its how we’re gonna win a living wage, paid sick leave, universal Healthcare, and more.

Because good regulations aren’t handed down by congress, they’re forced on it by the grassroots.

Nagarjuna, 10 months ago

We’re at the stage in humor where instead of telling jokes, we’re conditioning ourselves to laugh at an increasingly horrifying reality.