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Dyno [he/him]
- Inmate of the TERF Island Megaprison
- Abrasively communistic
- You have nothing to lose but your gains
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!”
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
spoiler
meeting the old communist at the end, who references an old song about shooting rabbits.
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
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.