Exile has been far more depressing to me than I anticipated. When it happened, I had a general sort of RATM energy that we, in defeat, were nevertheless victorious. But then weeks past and I realised I was homeless, devoid of contact with my kin. And it occurred to me how sinister the whole experience was - this is how the machine kills its threats; this is how they keep us down without firing a bullet - I had gone a month without talking or thinking about politics. And now we’re here again. It’s good to be home.

Agreed, but damn if I didn’t bawl my eyes out at “I won’t scatter your sorrow to the heartless sea”

Ah yes, “counter-intuitive”, if your intuition consists of “HrBrbBLRBbrbl… UnGH?! BlAcK dInOsor goO nOt Got rOom? UnnnH,. StOpp sUcC goO? NoH! BuRN guu!”

Considering that in the same game, you get the option to physically assault a journalist because she writes less-than-verbatim accounts of your exploits (i.e. journalism), it seems like a major oversight to not also have Shep. just headbutt a racist or two

Something something social fascists

TrueOffMyChest: I get so steamed up about that shit website that I want to go to the server farm and turn on the sprinklers

Nothing could top the feeling of

It was as if being a leftist was a cheat code

In more based news, I work in Manchester which bought one of Ukraine’s Engels statues, which now stands in the city centre. Also the guardian wrote a shitpiece about it being muh ebil gommunist propaganda but who gives a ghostly fuck about those spectre-fearing sacks of moist shit

Good graph. Does anyone have one from the old mod stickies from r/CTH that had both US and USSR food production on it? It was my favourite

If you have 20 mins, here’s Prolekult’s “Selling Extinction”.

It explains that XR are largely neolib lanyards cosplaying as progressive activists in order to push ideas like ‘green new deals’ which, spoiler alert, are actually economic plans to retool existing capitalist power structures to future environmental conditions - while not addressing any of the urgent, fundamental needs of the working class.