I don't really know how to even start internalizing Iran stuff. Like I've just not taken emotional space to internalize it but it fucking sucks so much. I don't really know what else to say.
I need to unpack some opinions from adolescence because the song New Slang by The Shins still makes me viscerally mad at Zach Braff
The cost of the war is being paid by Iranian human beings, regardless of whether they support that government or not
Being sober is easier if you're an empath
I have an black Epicurean which has survived quite a bit and wasn't super expensive. Idk if "paper composite" is a secret fourth thing, but I've liked it
a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people
I'm glad NBC news is remaining woke in these times. Safe travels to Mrs. & Mr. Sarah Mettee
I don't think getting mad at AOC is particularly worth the energy, but I want to see statements from future candidates with congressional aspirations that talk about US military action more as a project of mass murder than a policy failure that centers the constitution.
I get why the Che Guevara dorm room poster is cringe, but there's probably no leftist revolutionary that was closer to a Gap Year Kid
Would describe my personal growth as moving from
"Oh fuck what am I gonna do with all these hot irons in this fire"
to
"Ooo, damn I fit so many cool-looking irons in this fire"
Playing Sixteen Tons in a Game of Thrones show kicks so much ass
"I OBJECT, Michael. A PROTEST is something a Liberal does for money."
Whatever happens here please God don't come to the conclusion you're gonna post your way into Congress. There's on-the-ground stuff you aren't seeing and there's less attention for 100 doomed runs than there is for one that claws it's way into national attention
February is almost over.
That means it's barely three months until GHERKINS BASEBALL!!
Traditional German conservatives got out-maneuvered, allied appeasement totally unsuccessful, Molotov-Ribbentrop broken, and then Franco has his door knocked on for WW2 and is like
"Sorry Señor, it is 14:00 and time for a siesta"
Spanish Civil War history is deeply sad, but there's a brightside of reading stuff about German and Italian fascists being frustrated with Franco for making them contribute all the firepower to a war and then sitting back when they need him.
You don't "gotta hand it" to Francisco Franco, but he was the main historical figure that actually managed the whole "manipulate Hitler into a corner for your own benefit" thing without winding up hanging from his ankles.
Do we think Noam Chomsky still responds to emails?
A pocket copy of Sun Tzu's The Art of War
He did a good job in this role
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S Herman and [redacted] is one of those oft-quoted-little-read books I found worthwhile. The whole framework is layed out at the jump and the rest is just examples so you can really just read the first bit
This Slate was vetted by True Gherkin Patriots
Just dudes defending a multicultural economic zone and WINNING
Flier for a book event: "Sponsored by Portland DSA & Haymarket Books: Jeff Schuhrke's No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine. Join us for an author talk and Q&A at Musicians Union Local 99 Hall, NE 20th and Sandy. Friday, February 27 at 6pm"
I'm really excited that @portlanddsa.bsky.social & @haymarketbooks.org are gonna host @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social in Portland in a couple of weeks to talk about his recent book on Palestine, Zionism, and the U.S. labor movement! Save the date!
And to atleast jab left, the loudest voices of dissention from this are often dedicated to moral handwringing over the actions of individual politicians (which are condemnable), without usefully articulating these paths as failed STRATEGIES instead of mortal sins
I believe in building something better, I just think the premises that:
1. The Democratic Party is a reliable vehicle for even marginal left-wing momentum
2. The Democratic Party can be taken over and redirected
Are both false and there isn't enough conversation on where to go from there
Reallignment is basically a bare-minimum strategy and I'm sour on that for different reasons. Bernie 3.0 with AOC or some other candidate is premised on a Party and larger country that is about as Democratic as Russia when it comes to implimenting any kind of systemic wealth distribution
On this discourse, it is not my perception that Democratic leadership at the presidetial candidate, legislative, or even maybe state level have the will or even desire to undo the last year, let alone whatever will have happened by the end of a full term
Even less so going beyond that
Canva
Hell yeah
