a goat of shrike @cryptid@shrike.club

last night i had an epiphany about the labor crisis in America that i think is pretty insightful, so i'm gonna post pictures of the pages here and then translate my chicken scratch in the image descriptions (with some modifications, especially at the end, since i was rushing to get this thought down before bed).

it's the end of october and my income has gone down. if you've got anything to spare it would be greatly appreciated

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"pro" this, "anti" that. i think y'all should be "pro" getting some bitches so you can be "anti" your virginity

and then you should read lenin and realize that the source of your immiseration lay not in the pale words of the distant phantoms on the other side of your screen, but in the vast systems of capital which leave you no recourse but to turn on your fellow man for a sense of control. you have nothing to lose but your chains, and also your bad takes

[the world is a terrible and unjust place] maybe if we make certain kinds of fiction illegal that will solve any of our problems

some thoughts on capitalism

when white comrades have the option to comfortably opt out of state oppression, capitalists can make conditions worse for everyone until those who can leave do so. no one needs to make an explicit call for racial division-- through the dreadful art of economics, it just happens naturally.

gasp-inducing paragraph near the end of "acceptable men" by noel ignatiev. this book makes a really solid case that the defining failure of the 20th century american labor movement was its total lack of racial solidarity

unbelievable
https://twitter.com/SageCoffey/status/1583155609322418176?s=20&t=sRmKal12Nz6lsDAZwAOkPg

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the most exciting downstream development of removing any/all expectation of public masking is that now all of my friends are getting sick with the many other diseases that *aren't* covid, and they're hitting harder than ever because no one's gotten sick in two years

of course chris pratt is using his normal voice for mario. how could he do anything else? he's not a character actor. he's barely even an actor. we don't live in a world where trained professionals portray unique characters, we live in a world where one brand ("chris pratt") synergistically complements another brand ("mario the italian plumber") for the sake of juicing quarterly profit projections for a cabal of stakeholders who think konami's pachinko-ification is an aspirational story

seattle.

god fucking damn it