Folk Punk Dad

hi, it’s me, your folk punk dad! • mental health | recovery | abolitionist • (he/him) • trans rights are human rights @blueraspband @junkyardfort

[Folk Punk Dad @folkpunkdad]

Jesus would really really hate capitalism.

[Myles Bullen @beatboxpoet]

They asked me to make a club hit, a summer banger, a pop anthem. So here you go!

[Folk Punk Dad @folkpunkdad]

Texas tour in July! I’m excited to hit the road for a bit with @beatboxpoet and @Brookpridemore
#diymusic #texas #folkpunk

[Folk Punk Dad @folkpunkdad]

@beatboxpoet Yoni

[Myles Bullen @beatboxpoet]

Whenever I get insecure that my streaming numbers are way lower than they used to be, i remember there’s a robot out there somewhere offline who loves my songs and only listens to my lps on cassette. Human fans will die someday, but get a robot to love your song, that’s forever

[Folk Punk Dad @folkpunkdad]

@bmackcollector

[Folk Punk Dad @folkpunkdad]

Highly recommend Billy Mack Collector’s Searching for the Pink Elephant https://t.co/bZz8aFNS88

[Palestinian Youth Movement @palyouthmvmt]

Israel has placed a total siege on north Gaza, its blockade visible from space, and tonight, is relentlessly bombing everyone and everything. The call for an immediate arms embargo is nothing short of a call to prevent the mass murder of 1 million people who remain in the north.

[Folk Punk Dad @folkpunkdad]

Raising money for relief aid in Gaza:
https://t.co/qTmeRv7BiC

#Gaza #FreePalestine #Palestine

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

We live in a dying empire. It’s lies have failed. Millions ceased believing that genocide and violence against those deemed less than are necessary and merited. Now it would rather attack its youth than give up power or curb its greed. We have to resist, now more than ever.

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

Fewer than half of all NYPD officers live in NYC and only 25% of LAPD officers live in LA. But keep talking about “outside agitators” coming onto campus to do violence.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

The lack of military intervention in Israel should tell you that every other military intervention in the history of modern warfare has been to secure strategic interests and not for humanitarian or noble means. This is merely a pantomime they feed us while they loot the earth.

[Folk Punk Dad @folkpunkdad]

@JoeBiden I voted uncommitted in the Democratic primary today because I am disgusted and enraged at the genocide in Gaza that you have enabled and that you continue to support.

[redivivus @scott_crow]

Memories of Aaron Bushnell

https://t.co/vc5izf1DHc

Aaron Bushnell was an anarchist. His action at the Israeli embassy stemmed from his deeply held convictions.

This text includes Aaron’s own summary of his politics, followed by accounts from three of Aaron’s close friends.

🧵

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Self-immolation is widely recognised as the most extreme form of protest possible—to publicly destroy one’s own life in the most violent and extreme way is a stark warning for society to pay attention, as it has already crossed a line.

Now, two US citizens have self-immolated over the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza in less than three months. The first was dismissed as antisemitism, the second is already being labelled as a ‘mental health issue.’

Our society is broken in the most disturbing of ways. Those with their fingers on the levers of power are guilty of the most heinous of crimes—crimes that reveal a deep psychopathic sickness at the heart of government. And the gatekeepers of truth, our media body, collude with them to cover up these sick and twisted crimes.

We must not let them. We must continue to speak truth, loudly and constantly, and work tirelessly to inform one another of the criminals in power and their depraved actions. We need to fight against this disgusting narrative of lies and death, before it kills us all.

[Upstream @UpstreamPodcast]

sacrificing your life for an oil company's profits: honorable, necessary, bumper stickers supporting you

sacrificing your life to protest a genocide: mentally ill, unstable, misguided

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Saying that Aaron Bushnell, who had more conviction in one finger than most people have in their entire bodies, was mentally ill is lower than low. He clearly stated the painful reasons for his sacrifice. His sanity was piercing and devastating, and he paid with his life.

[JER the Artist (They/Them) @Skatunenetwork]

Police protect property not people.
Police protect capital, not people.
Under capitalism, it’s not financially viable to have empathy for people.
Because capitalism prioritizes profit, it’s more profitable to evict. To protect the interests of property, which is capital.

[Kimya Dawson @mrskimyadawson]

Verse two of my new, yet to be named, song.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Oppression is not a Jewish value.
Apartheid is not a Jewish value.
Genocide is not a Jewish value.
Ethnic cleansing is not a Jewish value.

Saying a ceasefire is antisemitic posits that mass murder is a Jewish value, and that’s what’s fucking antisemitic.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

There’s something phenomenally evil about a country that forces you to work under threat of starvation and homelessness, forces you to pay taxes under threat of prison, and then uses the taxes from your labour to fund a racist genocide