When political truth is reduced to the act of merely validating others’ experience, we are left with a situation in which there is simultaneously no basis for comradely disagreement (because everyone believes that their subjective experiences are sacrosanct and unquestionable) nor any basis for profound, genuine agreement (because everyone will invariably have distinct experiences).

i’m always completely baffled when ultra-leftists honestly believe that autonomous non-hierarchical militias can fight and win in a protracted war against a standing army.

peak idealism.

It’s my last night in Seattle for a little while; tomorrow I’m heading down to my native Sacramento by way of Portland, then off to San Francisco for a couple days, then off to see family in Michoacán for a couple weeks.

It feels strange not knowing for sure if I come back or when. I do like this town, despite all the bullshit.

I don’t really understand leftists (usually anarchists) who are like “if you believe this, FUCK YOU” or “if you support this, YOU ARE MY ENEMY.”

Like, congratulations, you have a political orientation with a basis of unity that can include 1/10 of a percent of the population. Sounds like a successful revolution in the making.

koncretum:

The sheer number of women forced into prostitution (through both physical force and poverty) by the collapse of the USSR is something I can think of hardly a more accurate description of than a mass rape, and yet liberal discourse allows no provisions for addressing it as such or recognizing it as an act of violence done by one class to another (specifically international capitalist class to working class and poor Eastern Europeans), or in any other way holding someone meaningfully accountable. The next time liberals try to insist to you that the erosion of third-world country’s national sovereignty by the creeping tendrils of international Human Right’s law is acceptable because of some emotional need to hold perpetrators accountable, remember that not only will that law never be used against the Pinochets and Montts and Suhartos while they’re actually doing the capitalist’s dirty work, but that for liberals the horrendous crime committed against the women of Eastern Europe didn’t even happen as such, that no one but ‘blind, immutable, uncontrollable economic forces’ manifesting themselves in particular, decontextualized incidents can be held accountable, and that not only are such atrocities completely invisible to international Human Rights law, as an institution its literally complicit in them every time its used by the West to justify turning another pocket of resistance or alternative development into a neoliberal hellhole.

bureaucracy only exists if you believe in it

that’s great sir, i’m just going to need you to fill out this TF-1A Renunciation of Belief form and the TF-1AB Renunciation of Belief in Bureaucracy addendum and attach it to a copy of your driver license and social security card and take it downstairs to Amy in Hopeless Idealist Services for processing, you should be receiving a confirmation of your renunciation within six months but if you don’t hear from us go ahead and call this 800 number and provide your 58-digit confirmation code and if you stay on the line somebody should be on to help you within three hours

imperialism only exists if you believe in it

oh hey what are those comets flying off the wings of that plane