The biological part isn’t a social construct. The way societies classify, organize, interpret, and attach meaning to biological variation is. Those categories are historically contingent, socially mediated, and have changed over time. They aren’t derived from nature alone.
“Each week, volunteers in a food delivery system fed thousands of families sheltering in place. Tenants with foresight and screwdrivers installed new locks on apartment buildings to keep out feds and landlords. Strippers refused dances to agents and bounced them out of the club. Soccer moms engaged in high speed chases on the freeway. Doctors made house calls to deliver babies. Teachers pooled rent money for their students. A nurse with a handgun kicked out brake lights. A cab driver patrolled sun-up to sun-down, searching for ICE. Youths in balaclavas made enemies of rental car tires. Children of the American Indian Movement distributed gas masks and wild rice soup. Grandmothers stood watch at elementary schools. Couches and spare rooms filled up when addresses needed to change. Immigrants dodged arrest by ducking into alleys and cutting through strangers' living rooms. Protesters did the same. En masse, people experienced themselves outside of, and against, the law.
Countersurveillance, high-speed chases, clandestine networks, encrypted communications, checkpoints, code names. When these things are normalized and taken up by masses of people, it is a qualitative leap forward for the insurgent struggle. This is the basis from which revolutionaries can advance.”
As the saying goes, if you owe the bank $100,000, you owe the bank. But if you owe the bank $100M, you own the bank. Together, with our collective household debt, we own the bank.
Today would be a great day to join the nation’s first debtors’ union.
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“It’s wrong to discriminate against people based on their political views” is a perfectly nonsensical statement in that it somehow empties of meaning both the concept of discrimination and the concept of politics
@PositivistWitch This is overstated. Much of Marx’s core analysis has held up remarkably well: concentration of capital, recurrent crises, globalization, commodification, capital accumulation shaping social life. Saying his theory broadly “failed empirically” is simply wrong.
Hey @suno
You are true losers. Whoever’s running this account, and your boss, and their bosses boss. I can’t imagine going into work daily knowing you are stealing from countless struggling musicians. I can’t imagine being proud to earn a paycheck obliterating the work and dreams of artists.
Get fucked, every single one of you
A very dangerous new nightmare we are living in Gaza City, and no one in the world is paying attention to it.
Days ago, the Israeli army installed huge military cranes, each about 30 meters tall, on the eastern areas it controls. These cranes are equipped with machine guns and cameras, and they fire randomly and almost continuously at tents, streets, and exposed neighborhoods.
Gaza City is extremely narrow, only 10 kilometers wide. A single crane at that height is enough to expose the entire city from east to west. Every street, every square, every tent, every house has become completely exposed. There is no place to hide, and not a single moment of safety.
In just the past two days, three people were killed by fire from these cranes. One of them was sitting quietly with his father in a small café, trying to breathe for a few minutes. Hours later, a 5year old girl was killed while playing near her home.
These cranes have turned the entire city into an open field. The latest military technologies are directed at civilians. We have become an open testing ground for their new weapons. The horror is not just in the sound… it is the constant feeling of being an exposed target at all times, where even children cannot run in the street without fear.
Boomer cultural dominance is so bad that you can watch your own son drop 45 to win the NBA Finals and immediately start talking about some guy from the 90s