Hey, I’m Mikey, I suffer from severe anxiety, depression, and PTSD, and subsiding on SSDI Disability! I mostly reblog shitposts without rhyme or reason.
I genuinely don’t think I can overstate how much contempt I have for Joe Biden at this point. there’s a lot of heartless, slaughter-horny, corporate-owned, business-as-usual, blame-the-voters-for-everything, “trust the process”-ass centrist democrats in this country, but I think he might genuinely be the single worst one. especially for this historical moment, but like, also in general
hillary clinton is entitled; bill clinton is At Best a fucking creep who finished killing the welfare state after reagan bashed its knees in with a tire iron; obama promised hope and change and then did everything he could to avoid delivering on it; pete buttigieg is a consulting agency ghoul who clearly has nothing animating him but ambition; people like sanders and AOC have largely squandered what goodwill they once had, and elizabeth warren even moreso; there’s a bevy of mayors and governors who seem completely detached from reality, of which eric adams is simply the most prominent example at the moment…
and don’t even get me fucking started on nancy pelosi or dianne feinstein, the fucking mummies
but it really feels like Biden combines all of those faults and dozens more. complete fucking joke president. I hope he has a fucking heart attack and dies, because I genuinely think kamala harris would have to be an upgrade purely by virtue of Not Being Joe Biden
Why do we say that capitalism must be “dismantled”?
You’ll hear phrases like “Smash the state!” “Eat the rich!” and “Smash capitalism!”
And, yes, of course, but… :)
However relevant those sayings are, our work must be careful, highly organized and above all planned.
Because capitalism and all of its associated systems are not discrete, abstracted entities we can attack independently.
It is a structure, like a complicated machine with many thousands of working parts…
And right now it is connected to absolutely everything.
If we do this… [picks up huge hammer and smashes the machine]
Then a lot of vulnerable people will die.
The machine was built and improved and redesigned and patched over the course of generations. It is very good at its intended purpose, which is ultimately to generate profit.
Every human being alive today relies on the byproducts of the machine to survive, without exception.
The machine’s engineers want it to keep working like it does. In fact, they want to optimise it.
That will kill all remaining life on Earth.
So, we must destroy the machine, quickly and carefully
We must examine its deadly programs and mechanics and replace them with alternatives we built together.
The engineers don’t want us tampering with the machine.
However, we make it run…
So we can make it STOP. Together.
How will YOU help us to safely dismantle the machine?
We rapped in the parking lot in front of people who had been waiting in line to see The Phantom Menace for several days. We were decidedly cruel to them, but despite Brendan and I having seen the movie the night before and really not liking it, we didn’t spoil it for people. Very tempting, though.
Anyway, I found this on VHS, it’d been missing for years. There’s an original DV tape somewhere, maybe. Either way, neat garage find. Very weird in a “two of these people are dead now” kind of way, but overall a fun memory.
