Anti-colonial Marxism is as good as a country breakfast.

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  • IIt’s obvious to some but most are hopeless. It takes so much effort to just to critique liberalism. Everyone has to be held by the hand and treated like a child or else they will have a tantrum. They are as fragile as they are obtuse. This is not just because they are merely naive, it because it allows them to control the narrative and center white, liberal, imperial subjects as moral and measured. They are inherently conservative, protecting the status quo by foreclosing revolutionary futures and advancing imperial sensibilities.

    I have long wondered how the American imperial left will manifest the political power extracted from Palestinian resistance. Zohran appears to be one of the most cynical manifestations. I have always believed that the attention from the American left on Palestine will inevitably benefit Americans most of all. I am waiting to be proven wrong because regardless of if Zohran is “successful” or not I think my suspicion will be correct








  • Why are people surprised that their parents are fascists? My parents have always been obvious christian fascists with a notable amount of local influence in their cult. My dad unironically relished “arbeit macht frei” when we went to Dachau. My patrilineage is an impressive pedigree of anti-communism backed with service in American wars. My grandfather privately referred to POC as savages until his death. Perhaps my experience is more unique than I believe, but I refuse to be naive.

    I have broken relations with my family in part because of all this. Also because they hate my chosen family and I won’t tolerate it. I feel no responsibility to save them or correct them. I respect their very intentional decision to be monsters and hope they can be stopped asap. They are evil. They have always been evil.

    It is VERY difficult to imagine there not being glaring red flags. This may be a result of my own baggage, but I am immediately skeptical of those who are blindsided by their family’s ideology. I fear many of you who are surprised would be shocked to know my family has always known that your family would belong to the imperial cause eventually. My family is not so obtuse as to believe they are any different now than they were during Clinton, 9/11, or the Tea Party, but somehow others give their own family a pass?

    I am equally skeptical of numerous cliches used by ostensibly “leftist” folks including the use of problematic language or the reduction/commodification of identities. If you ironically say “neurospicy” for example, I assume you are willing to betray disabled people for your own gain. If you use “gay” as an insult, regardless of your identity, I will see you as my enemy. Period. These times will not reward naivety.



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    SCIENTISM

    Damn, even threatened with being call right-wing. Science folks always balk when it is ever brought up. I suppose I can understand having to “defend” scientific findings from the dogmas of creationists, but this doesn’t mean science and scientists are not vulnerable to dogma or to the very epistemological supremacism that has been the intellectual basis for genocide and empire building.