Laura Jane Grace, NYE 2023
Sorry for the shitty quality, I can’t stand looking through a camera at a show so I was just doing my best to hold it steady while going ham.
Sorry for the shitty quality, I can’t stand looking through a camera at a show so I was just doing my best to hold it steady while going ham.
My bad. Hope everything has been running itself well while I’ve been gone haha. Lemmy.tf got pretty unstable so I spend most of my time on lemmy.ml these days, but .tf has been a bit more stable lately so I’m back for a while at least. Much love everyone!
Don’t use the names of radicals to endorse your watered down reformism. There’s a reason radicals get killed, and reformists get positions in cabinets. One actually threatens the status quo, one reinforces it.
From: “Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg” by Kate Evans.
The Democracy of the founding fathers was Greek Democracy, predicated upon a slave society, and restricted to only the elite. This is the society we live in today, even with our reforms towards direct representation. The system is inherently biased towards the election of elites and against the representation of the masses. Hamilton called it “faction” when the working class got together and demanded better conditions, and mechanisms were built in (which still exist to this day) that serve to ensure the continued dominance of the elite over the masses. The suffering of the many is intentional. The opulence of the wealthy is also. This is the intended outcome.
Remember, the social Democrats sided with the Nazis over the socialists. They’ve done it every time they’ve been given the opportunity, and will continue to do so as many times as people fall for their shtick.
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house."
-Audre Lorde
It is not needed, nor fitting here [in discussing the Civil War] that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions; but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effect to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor, in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them, and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded thus far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life.
Now, there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
But let’s be honest, who wasn’t inspired by how much food Goku can eat at once?
I need to quit coming to this community today so I can quit posting, I’m running out of things to post!
Happy Sunday, or Monday, depending where in the world you are!