All we have right now is a center

Being anti war is what made me cease to vote at all!! All sides fund police and support military forces!!

The union movement in the mid 20th century should have gotten more anti racist but it didn’t help that FDR kicked all the socialists and communists and anarchists out of the union in the late 1940s/early 1950s. The IWW which was an anarchist union was less racist than the liberal unions have been

“I always say, there is no such thing as a basic human right. The only rights you have are the ones the guys with the bullets allow you to have. That is the honest brutality of the world; and it’s the brutal honesty that’s hard to say and harder to hear.”
― Jason Chaplin (not sure who that is)

Nationalist betrayals of communist theory like Leninism demanded everyone speak their languages and join their regional empires! Nothing more insular than linguistic and border imperialism!

Biden destroyed every fucking place called Palestine

youtu.be/qUb0JnEsOHQ?...

Bluesky is centrist coded! The left has been dead for about 100 years since FDR began the red scare

Bluesky is centrist coded! The left has been dead for about 100 years since FDR began the red scare

Disability services in higher Ed is really lacking in many parts of the US

Well I must say I am not sad about the collapse of the US empire given the US military has been doing war crimes since the Korean War! But capitalism will not vanish just because welfare capitalist countries will be the most powerful empires!! The rich will eventually loot Belgium and China too!!

Both parties have been defunding and removing subsidies for higher education since the 80s at least!! The AI companies hope to get all the computer scientists inside their companies instead of inside of Universities but when the bubble pops and so many ai companies fail, where will science go??

...The key pleasure they offer is a practice of freedom without accountability, responsibility, or any sense of dependence on the well-being of others. In short, freedom is a promise of impunity as the glimmering hope of a fascist utopia." Zahid R. Chaudhary, Paranoid Publics

Footnotes are Quentin Tarantino’s favorite part of the journal article

If the affective turn could bring humanities theorizing back to philology and away from almost analytic psychologistic hyper deconstruction of language, I am for it! In so far as the affective turn replaces a pseudo scientific mysticism of psychology over the reading of qualia though, it gets lost.