Category: Whatever
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Santos and the Millienial Cultural Capitalist
We are seeing the culmination of Neoliberalism’s Society of Control as more people turn to accumulating cultural capital as a means of increasing power which includes wealth rather than gaining wealth that generates power
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A tough guy who gave my brother his nickname
Originally posted on thelawmanmovie: A Gun-Slingin’ Good Guy Battles Evil Forces to Become a Real-Life Action Hero Don Slatton chased fame and fortune – plus bad guys and bond jumpers – during his life as “The Lawman”. It’s a true story of a real action-hero who jumps into the wrestling ring with…
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The American Maginot Line
A couple of links to very helpful information for those who have never given much consideration to how the US/Mexico border represents and enforces American Imperialism and settler colonialism. For most Americans, there is a lot still to learn; these are good starting places.
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Tattleware developed for the next BS War on Workers
There absolutely has been a breach of trust between employer and worker, but it’s not up to us – the underpaid and the stressed-out and the very tired and exploited – to prove we deserve our independence. Employers need to treat their workers as something more than an interference with…
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Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around
Rather than radicalizing them, I am more radicalized by all these millenials and zoomers who long to comprehend the world they are inheriting from people like me.
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Cuba Responding through Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm.
The Cotton Belt in the Southern USA—the area of almost total cotton growing through Jim Crow—has a lot in common with the history of the folx oppressed in the West Indies. We would do well to think about what we share in common.
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Always some other’s fault
Rather than deal with our own inadequacies, Americans seek some other to blame.
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Two front institutional battles
Progressives are always fighting the system to change rules and struggling to overcome bad faith actors who abuse the rules within the system.
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The Fight Over Health Care for Transgender Youth
traA philosopher examines the uses of science and his love for his son amid the Texas legislature’s debate over appropriate health care for trans kids.
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CMM0013–ORDER OF FLO with Joy and Rivkah
Drawing on themes from queer theory and responding to COVID-19, “Order of Flo” playfully dances along the lines of destiny at the intersection of bodily motion and mindful emotion. Melting the presentations of drag, queer bodies, and weird minds, “Order of Flo” trans-imagines dance, tarot, poetry, and glossolalia. The evening…
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Gerrymandering and Woke capitalism
Repuglican Farty politicians have gerrymandered their way into not even knowing where corporations are coming from let alone most American citizens.
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Beholding the beheld
Truth, Beauty, and Joy each have different kinds of ideas and facts. Not knowing this distinction allows systemic bigotry to continue oppressing folx despite contradictory scientific discoveries, socio-cultural evolution, and personal evidence.
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Muffins that are diabetic friendly
Quick recipe for making a high-protein, low-carb, low-glycemic goody.
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Care v. Romance
Stop confusing “manipulating an object of attraction to possess IT” with “embracing ANOTHER PERSON through, with, and in loving-care.“
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We’re Just Rediscovering a 19th-Century Pandemic Strategy
A century ago, the first way to fight a new virus would have been opening the windows. Miasma theory—discredited, of course, by the rise of germ theory—held that disease came from “bad air” emanating from decomposing matter and filth. This idea peaked in the 19th century, when doctors, architects, and…
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Mutual aid: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity
Kropotkin’s theory of mutual aid remains cogent as ever, demonstrating the capacity for revolutionary change even in the harshest, most repressive environments. Source: Mutual aid: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity
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Can Abolition Work in an Age of Right-Wing Extremism?
Punishment can radicalize and further alienate people, while social policy and grassroots community building can defuse potential violence.
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