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new therapy tool to use when reading the news

The Cradle: Netanyahu gave the orders to wipe out an entire neighborhood in southern Beirut from the UN headquarters in New York.

fucking die satanyahu

The apparent aftermath (no gore, just ash and dust):

There’s a blurb from Wendy Brown that strikes a similar vein, getting at the cultural hi-jacking of “democracy” during the invasion of Iraq :

“… Again, however, translated into neo-liberal terms, “democracy,” here or there, does not signify a set of independent political institutions and civic practices comprising equality, freedom, autonomy and the principle of popular sovereignty but rather, indicates only a state and subjects organized by market rationality. Indeed, democracy could even be understood as a code word for availability to this rationality; removal of the Taliban and Baath party pave the way to that availability and democracy is simply the name of the regime, conforming to neo-liberal requirements, that must replace them. When Paul Bremer, U.S.-appointed interim governor of Iraq, declared on May 26 (just weeks after the sacking of Baghdad and four days after the UN lifted economic sanctions), that Iraq was “open for business,” he made clear exactly how democracy would take shape in post-Saddam Iraq. A flood of duty-free imported goods poured into the country, finishing off many already war-damaged local Iraqi businesses. Mulitinationals tumbled over themselves to get a piece of the action in Iraq, and foreign direct investment to replace and privatize state industry was described by the corporate executives advising the Bush administration as the “answer to all of Iraq’s problems.””

Although now, like CyborgMarx said, Global North imperial powers use “democracy” as a code word for whiteness, and according to their imperialist white supremacist logics, worthiness and humanity.

The guy with a jerry-can pouring gasoline on a fire: We need to put an end to fire

In Canada, there’s been a huge push for MAID to be expanded for people with only mental illnesses, and there are real life horror stories of people getting recommended MAID for things like treatment-resistant depression or addiction

From EyesOnSouth:

“Hezbollah unveils Kader 1 ballistic missile. The Resistance said that “at 6:30 am” it struck the Mossad command center in the neighborhoods of Tel Aviv. This cmd center is responsible for the pagers-radios terrorist attack & the assassination of Resistance leaders, Hezbollah said”

western and zionist sources say it was intercepted though. Power to the Resistance

People his age should be mustering their gumption on a pickleball court

it’s hard to pick, but i really like Possessor (2020), it’s a cool dystopian science fiction horror-ish movie that scratches a lot of my itches

i also rate some of the Andy Kaufman movies really high, like Synechdoche, New York (2008) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

most of my favourite movies are just mindfucks about identity or memory, because that’s the flavour of my mental illnesses, lol

it is so enraging that the dominant narrative surrounding israel poisoning supply chains with explosive-stuffed tech, then remotely and blindly detonating these explosives and injuring thousands of civilians would immediately be paraded around by Westerners as “israel’s targeted attacks against Hezbollah”

But it’s not even surprising, because these are the same rotten souls who claim israel is “fighting Hamas”, even though israel has killed tens of innocent thousands of Palestinians, in addition to maiming and debilitating tens of thousands more, and leaving 2 million Palestinians with no safe place to go, little food or water to consume, and little to no access to necessary healthcare.

I fucking hate it all.

Imagine getting jailed for pointing out the nazi insignia worn by Ukrainian soldiers

I think the Death Panel podcast has some great episodes already out (or that are upcoming) about the social-cultural-production of the “end” of COVID, that I’ve been meaning to listen to

The lead hosts wrote “Health Communism” which is a fucking banger

this was the story i was thinking of

More time is needed because the inherent contradictions of Zionism are catching up to them and the entity is becoming more and more isolated.

How do Iranians ‘Boil a Frog’? Slowly and methodically.

i’ve heard that hanging around a coffeeshop or bakery near or after close is a good way to get free food.

i’ve had different friends who’ve been on both sides of that kind of deal: Workers who see through the bullshit of corporate policy that dictates edible food must be thrown out instead of given out, and people in need of food during hard times.

libs unknowingly doing stochastic terrorism

depending on how much effort or thought you want to put into it, you might get good mileage out of rateyourmusic.com

it’s a website where music nerds rate and catalogue music, so you can look for music with high ratings to get an idea of what music nerds think is good. if you find an album or artist you like, you can look for similar genres and/or find music with similar descriptors/qualities and branch out from there.

one of my artists is Burial, so i could search rateyourmusic for albums in the same genres that he makes (like future garage, dubstep, downtempo, or ambient) and/or with similar qualities (like “noctural”, “melancholic”, “atmospheric”, “ethereal”).

Or you can just scroll through album lists and click on things with cool album arts or names, which is how i’ve found other music that i really love, haha

the only thing libs need in politics is being 1% better than their apparent enemy

headlines like this are probably super effective on libs who can’t see through the bullshit. the news is absolutely goofy but the social construction of China as an imperialist aggressor posing an immediate threat to their neighbors and more, to which America is The Resistance^TM who will use the most bad ass Good Guys^TM to protect the World Order^TM, keep people safe from the bad guys, and keep America #1 is invaluable for Global North imperialists