cops protecting food rapidly rotting in powerless stores from people who just lost everything pretty much sums up the role they proudly, violently occupy in our society
in the last few days I’ve seen the face of a baby in gaza separated from the rest of their body, the jaw falling off a little girl, the guts spilling out of another girl, a mutilated child hanging off debris, five journalists killed…but they want you to be mad at a palestine pin
cowardly move: you simulated capitalism too closely, and the results got in the way of the intended experience of building a functioning capitalist utopia, so you revert back to faking it in order to dissimulate the contradictions inherent in the system and rescue the fantasy
It's so weird how they're like "China is bad, I'm scared they're investing in our hemisphere," but also "unions are bad, let the auto workers do a free market and send jobs to China" and also "immigrants are coming from south/central America fleeing poverty" but also "I'm mad China is investing there" and also "let's keep sanctioning Venezuela."