The revolution has failed. Fascism has temporarily succeeded under the guise of reform. The only way we can destroy it is to refuse to compromise with the enemy state and its ruling class.
George Jackson, born on this day in 1941, was the revolutionary author of “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson” and co-founder of the Marxist-Leninist Black Guerilla Family.
In 1970, Jackson was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of prison guard John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. The same year, he published “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to a black American audience. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame.
Jackson was killed during an attempted prison escape on August 21st, 1971. Quoting communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, Jackson freed twenty-six prisoners and took hostages at gunpoint. Jackson and five other men were killed.
Fay Stender, George Jackson’s former lawyer, was shot and paralyzed for her alleged betrayal of Jackson by Black Guerilla Family member Edward Glenn Brooks. Brooks entered her home, tied up her family, and forced Stender to say “I, Fay Stender, admit I betrayed George Jackson and the prison movement when they needed me most” before shooting her several times. Left paralyzed and in chronic pain, Stender testified against Brooks and committed suicide a year later.
“Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here, that people are already dying who could be saved, that generations more will live poor butchered half-lives if you fail to act. Do what must be done, discover your humanity and your love in revolution.”
George Jackson
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Feelin’ real flattened today
Just exhausted and stressed and angsty
Real weltschmerz hours
I used to like bunneary but trying to catch them in arceus is killing me
Lady who started working here two weeks ago just left to get Starbucks. It didn’t sound like she was using her lunch break for it, and she’s hourly like me. Can you just do that??
She’s bringing me back a blueberry muffin so I shan’t complain but I would probably have a heart attack if I tried something like that
I have a stackoverflow account. Whenever I post some code for a language that uses semicolons regularly (such as end of line), I find/replace all the semicolons with Greek question marks. I enjoy causing drama between the people who just copy/paste the code and the people who actually know the language. The former argue the code doesn’t work, the latter read the code and can’t find any problems and say it’s fine, and I just lurk and enjoy the drama.
Inching towards getting my own apartment finally. Gonna build the fuck out of a life for myself
Hell yeah
removed about my dad again.
My father is a man I would hate fully if I weren’t related to him. Aside from ridiculous anticommunist brainworms, he is a disgusting islamophobe, broadly super fucking xenophobic, and suburban fash levels of slanted against homeless people. Unironically I want to slap him a lot of the time, today for that last one in particular.
In conversation he swings wildly between demsoc talking points and
shit at the drop of the hat. Many such cases, average western crackkker.Mostly I just try to drag his understanding toward the root causes: for-profit medicine is wrong, people become unhoused for tons of different reasons including the huge housing crisis right now, Israel is the attack dog of the US, so on. The man is fucking deranged though, not only does he believe that Vladimir Putin is rebuilding supercommunism and doing imperialism in europe, he also believes Justin Trudeau took all of his life lessons from Mao Zedong. I do not fucking know what his problem is but goddamn.
Why does this have to be the trans-accepting parent I get?
I am straining to think about how to impart basic empathy to him for homeless people, for anyone on the wrong end of
, all of that shit. This absolutely cannot last, I will start serious shit again when he says something. He got infuriated at me when I explained a little in reply to “now why would gays support Palestine?” I didn’t even use Maoist Standard English, mostly just said that Israel and the US use women’s rights and queer rights as a smokescreen to do violence. He went off about evil terrorists, of course.If anyone has tips on pushing this kind of incoherent insufferable scratched lib left, I would appreciate it. I know this Type of Guy would be gulag’d at best, I’m being a dumbass by not cutting him off immediately. Hoping I can make him decent I guess, he doesn’t need to become a Maoist Third Worldist but less fucking racist shit and cityfash anti-homeless shit would be good.
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(this meeting is really boring lol) no tips, unfortunately… wait, ok some tips, but just like my opinion man
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I got into my parent’s head, found the foundational things they believe, which everything else is built off. For them, it was religion. So I framed things in that way, since that’s where I found success before. This is after a decade though, both of them are retiring now, etc. Suddenly, Jesus is progressive instead of regressive, etc. (I am not religious, for anyone else reading). If they’re gonna trust the Bibbel, I’m gonna use that to highlight contradictions etc.
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I think that maybe chasing after individual brainworms makes them retreat, I would make comments, but they wouldn’t change their opinions. My dad usually just lets me talk, so when I started talking about Blackshirts and Reds, he started listening, and suddenly Mom was involved in the conversation somehow, they were asking questions, for clarification. I remember this exchange:
mom (from away from phone): “is she a communist??”
dad (to mom): “no, she’s a socialist, it’s different”
me: “well, actually…”
- for some reason, they just fucking started taking me seriously one day. Maybe they don’t really believe it (They are retiring, so my only goals are to connect with them honestly and to use this as an opportunity to get better as talking to people about my beliefs), but my dad has been through a lot of shit in the tech industry … talking about the Real Actual Emotions was cathartic for him, and it just so happens I had an explanation - there was a seed of dissatisfaction with The Narrative in there, and once he shared it with me I was able to give my opinions, and suddenly he was agreeing, and really appreciating being heard, and … well, our conversations became a lot easier after…
oh boy
I dunno what the fuck kinda beliefs my dad has, he smokes weed and is sort of an original hippie but not really. I wish he had anything as coherent as religion for me to work with… You might be right about brainworms though, I did seem to get through talking about Israel being a dog of the US empire… just not so much when the conversation turned to Palestinians.
dad (to mom): “no, she’s a socialist, it’s different”
I guffawed. My dad definitely has seeds of dissatisfaction, I just don’t know how to build from “the government needs to do more healthcare and housing” to ‘boomer guy stops being incredibly racist to the entire Arab world’. Big task…
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I got distracted and crashed my bike directly into a mailbox yesterday.
I fell too recently. My brakes can’t handle rain anymore.
One year ago today my friend’s wife used her allergies/asthma as an excuse to threaten to throw away the cat litter dispenser I used because the ‘ammonia smell’ was setting her off unless I scrubbed it clean. So I did, then and there. On the day I was going to drive out to visit my sick friend two states away. On that same day they told me I was no longer welcome to live with them.
Went to give Macklemore another chance and listen to the new Hind Hall track and
still a corny-ass mf making corny-ass music.Why can’t someone cool make a Palestine anthem
The “when I was a kid I thought I was gay because I liked to color” thing is still so funny to me
He’s corny and I don’t like his music but he seems like a nice person with pretty good a worldview
Also as a Mariners diehard, the My Oh My track is cute
Bro human beings walked on the moon several times! I realize what I’m saying makes me sound like I just learned about but like. We. Human beings! Left our home planet several times and went the farthest distance we’ve gone from other people and walked on another fucking celestial object. Human beings watched their home planet rotate and go through a day from the moon! I realize that I’m repeating basic facts but I was just now thinking deeper into it about how fundamentally fucking insane that is conceptually when you think about it from our tiny primate brains
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“Anyone who dislikes capitalism is lazy”
Reality:
: “Can I have a jo-”
: “No”Please, does anyone have any tricks to get a job? I can’t even get an interview. Especially if it’s a job in a city I would like to relocate to, it’s a small thing but I think two things holding me back is location discrimination (no one wants to hire a non-local) and also I’m just a complete incompetent loser. I don’t have a Summa cum laude bachelor’s in CS and have invented so many things like everyone else. I majored in non-STEM and have been underemployed since. Porky’s standards are way too high to settle for garbage like me when he has thousands of prodigies to choose from for every role.
Didn’t even want to make them but just made some fluffy pancakes,
it’s like when I want them they come out bad but when I don’t care they come out great. Want/desire is my enemy 
happens to me every time, lol
Wanted to get really into mothra, but there don’t seem to be that many mothra movies outside of godzilla ones (well even with Godzilla ones). My day long dream of binging 20 mothra movies crushed by the fact there’s only like 5.
Oh cool. Cool cool cool.
it was interesting to watch, he doesn’t sound very different from modern fascists. I know
I’m not on there enough to have seen it. I tried searching it and TikTok was like “uhhhh maybe don’t” lol
