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Attention Kmart Shoppers…
The maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry.
these fuckin clowns at the top of the shit pile who make crazy money with awesome housing and travel provisions/stipends who do shit like this are just assholes. like how hard is it to just turn it down and buy your own treats while you’re in high office, you rich fuck.
also, in the US all this shit is wildly legal for elected assholes if they declare it, generally, and some don’t even get in trouble for not declaring it.
The youth arm of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party filed a criminal complaint against Ameti for violation of freedom of religion and worship, the party announced on Monday morning. Nicolas Rimoldi, founder of Mass-Voll, a movement formed to protest pandemic measures, also announced that he would press charges.
whenever they get around to writing a 100th anniversary, grimdark reboot of Heidi, this should be the opening paragraph.
In a post on X in June 2020, Routh indicated he had voted for Trump in 2016, but had since become disillusioned with the billionaire politician after receiving the coded message on his television during a commercial for Cheesy Ranch Bacon Potatoes: Cherry Progressive, listen. Mandelbrot set is in motion. Echo Choir has been breached. His Gladio network status was upgraded to Active (Red) and his Argus control chip was remotely turned on, in accordance with the Black Sun protocol.
sometimes when I talk IRL about privacy issues online and the impulse to not share my user data, shopping habits, with anyone and everyone etc, I get pushback from otherwise smart people who want to know why I don’t want to be tracked. I’m not even talking like doing Snowden type shit. just like very basic avoidance. like not using advertisers’ browsers or installing all the treat apps for discount treats at the treat shoppe.
it always throws me, because it seems self evident. but these people seem to think receiving highly specific and targeting marketing benefits them by showing them products and services they are interested in.
I can’t really wrap my mind around it, except my guess is they believe they have complete control and agency over their attention and would never be influenced to do something or believe something against their interests.
which is comes across as super naive to me.
I used to work on a national, multi-year multidisciplinary study on, without doxxing myself, basically what he is talking about… but across the US. we looked at technologies, practices, and strategies for conserving, reusing, and waste / ecological impacts. millions and millions of federal dollars were and are spent on both research and infrastructure upgrades, demonstrations, education, etc.
the brick wall some states have been racing, even accelerating towards has been visible from the cockpit for several years and usually decades, even by the politically cowardly and conservative federal agencies.
the small farms are going to go first, if they haven’t already. then the medium, then the politically connected and wealthiest farms… though they will probably receive buy outs. the what remains of agricultural communities will fold too and accelerate dislocation and economic migration into the larger cities.
industry will greedily snap up whatever former agricultural water was around evaporating any surplus present after agriculture grinds to a halt.
this future is locked in. it cannot be resisted, only fled.
the fact that an elected official in Texas is using the press to convince the public that Texas needs more federal dollars with all its federal strings should tell you these are people want to be seen as crisis managers, but really looking to suck the last bit of the milkshake.
let’s find out if my roundhouse is compatible with CEO Carl Pei’s face.
I have a feeling it’s not, but let’s get some empirical evidence.
i dropped out of college for comp sci at 20, to work in help desk/support and gain practical experience while making some money. felt very pidgeonholed/stuck at 25. at 26, left it all to go be a horribly paid seasonal picker (new career unlocked!)/ farmhand on smaller, community-ish farms in the region, occasionally picking up odd jobs or the random computer task. moved 5 times in 4 years to chase work. having the computer/troubleshooting skills in the backpocket was like an ace in the hole sometimes to get in the door, though i was always broke and living in totally bullshit circumstances (illegal housing, sub minimum wages, undocumented/no insurance). i learned a lot of different skills though, like rough carpentry, construction, plant care, animal husbandry, small engine maintenance, tractor shit, working all day outdoors in the oppressive heat without dying lmao, etc.
once i could distinguish my head from my ass, being a quasi-serf for wealthy landlords got real old after a few years, so i took out max student loans and “transferred” to the nearby land grant / state school to study agriculture at 30. worked my summers on really wild farms in faraway places that i got connected to through my university affiliation. got my BS (summa cum laude lmao, certified and bonafide nerd) at 33. going to school at 30 was so much more fun and enriching than it was when i was 20, when it felt wasteful and disconnected.
after graduating i did tiny non-profit stuff in a very rural community for a few years, got sucked back into the academy as professional staff to do outreach/adult education type stuff. picked up my MS at 38 (free tuition) while working full time (sucked). got burnt out on the academy’s elitist careerist b.s. after about 10 years, and got hired away to work for a much-less-chuddy state with a strong union doing give-a-fuck type stuff where i am currently relocating and plan to start my Third Act, where i hopefully pull everything together to build a quiet, cozy life i can retire into.
looking back, i’ve effectively “blown up” a semi-comfortable but unsatisfactory/stagnating life situation multiple times, thrusting myself into a novel situation where i am nearly “starting over” in a place where i know few people, doing work that is very unfamiliar though appealing with people that share a lot of my cherished values. i also have tried to take advantage of professional development resources and opportunities through employers whenever i can. i think of not doing so as “leaving money on the table” which is something i aspire to never do with an employer. that’s what i would tell myself when i would get off work and have a full night of homework to develop a presentation the next day at class, happening right after work the next day. or spending several weekends in a row reading and writing. but anyway, the doors these things can open as far as opportunities or just new interests that evolve from “education” as personal enrichment.
i’m the kind of person that will nest and strategize to make any situation i am in more comfortable over time, so much so that imagining leaving it becomes fraught with anxiety. but each time i have blown it up and made a big change, the reconstruction of it is even more comfortable and cozy. i think because each time, i am more sure of myself and can anticipate my wants and needs.
great pic by the AP, open mouthed, aggressive angry, pointing and the lighting makes his eyes look like empty sockets of vantablack space, where all love and humanity go to die.
lol, “looks like” just playin’
"P = G + E + block chain
Phenotype = Genotype + Environment, but now the equation respects the contribution of block chain NFTs. with enough bored apes getting slurpjuice, we can revolutionize dementia into a value-add for the marketplace."
he’s a real VIKING of following the rules written by rich people!
no, this is what happens monetary policy is the only tool in the neoliberal toolbox, corporate profiteering is unchecked, and 2 million workers die off to keep the rent checks coming.
cockpit lightly shat in. as is. will consider trade for a 1988 Ford Festiva and a collection of cassingles.
socialism is when I listen to NPR. capitalism is when I go to my parent’s house for Christmas. communism is when I get to program the radio presets in mom’s Honda Odyssey. social democracy is when I go to Starbucks. liberalism is when I look through the LL Bean catalogue.
you sound like you are entangled in several MLMs.
was just joking around with a sibling about how some of the most intensely “being highly intelligent is my identity” people from high school with supportive families grew up to be dumb as hell.
the gifted valedictorian became a nurse, then went full “iraq had WMDs, but it was classified” chud, quit the workforce to have 4 children, is a god-tier horder with rooms full of actual garbage, and now is entangled in several MLMs shoveling a spouse’s very high income into a blackhole.
the “actually, i have a 160 IQ” inherited a bunch of $$, bought a bunch of vehicles, had 5 kids, went full blown “dance mom” facebook+social media freakshow, and spends most of their effort trying to cultivate inappropriate relationships and fabricate dramas with other married spouses in their neighborhood.
excellence and success are subjective. a life of curiosity, personal enrichment, family, and friends can be excellent without needing accolades or other features of careerist striving. but i’ll be damned if some really “smart” people don’t take their potential and, in defiance of the odds, turn it into a shit smoothie.
imo, the dishonesty is less about the size and more about how all the toppings look fresh on the menu, while in person they look like aged out grocery store culls and the burger always looks like someone put it between their ass cheeks and then watched a Peter Jackson movie before serving it.
i don’t really really get how one articulates that in a lawsuit.
i never really noticed it besides the hack bit in Falling Down until i went to a mcdonalds in japan. every item on the menu came out like a goddamn prop for a promotional photo. surreal. kinda made me realize that unless you’re willing to fork over a day’s median wage or more in the US for a prepared meal or go to some mom and pop place that gives a shit, you’re gonna get fuck you food from someone being paid a poverty wage to slop together utility-tier ingredients because screwing over the customer and the worker is what makes rich people more money.
weird how “gay panic” is a defense allowed by the courts, but an appeal to jury nullification is not.
If you’re going to San Francisco,
be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
If you’re going to San Francisco,
you’re gonna meet some gentle people there
a lot of counties in the cotton belt have looked like this since pre-civil war, when all men of the white minority were required, by law, to be armed and trained to assist in suppressing any slave insurrection. after the civil war, there was considerable upheaval in these places that the powerful minority had to suppress. incarceration, political violence, state terror were all financed and deployed to prevent the new majority of enfranchised black americans from accessing state power or making common cause with broke whites.
on the left, we talk a lot about the foucalt’s boomerang of imperial tactics of oppression returning from the colonies to the metropole as fascism. but there is literature out there articulating the unique laboratory of settler states engaging in exploitation and resource extraction informing later imperial policy. i.e. The South (of the US) functioned as an experimentation site for the US to sharpen its claws in developing extractive, exploitative political projects to export abroad.
the national forgetting of this place and its critical history (and its rich history of violent insurrection against capitalism) allows its legacy and function as a political project to continue to this day. make no mistake, the suppression of “Critical Race Theory” and larger suppression of history education in the south is just as much about forgetting what came before as it is about keeping the lid on today and into the future. think about how many meat packers and industrial concerns have relocated to The South in the last 100 years, where unionization rates are always in the toilet for some mysterious reason. i’m sure it has nothing to do with the police being given wide latitude for violence and strike breaking. the large, diverse and exploited labor force is still here, under the boot of capital.
the project of US capitalism is to turn every place on the planet into the southern US. we are tomorrow’s people.
the hog dropped his favorite knife that has his last name engraved on it instead of the shitty drop knife he has prepped for an extrajudicial killing.
any angry man with sweaty, sausage hands can relate.