Brave men didn't die face down in the Vietnam mud so I could not style on you. I didn't walk uphill both ways to the booth and back to not wile on you. You think baby Jesus killed Hitler just so I'd whisper? When you're safe and sound and these crooks tap your phone and now have a file on you?
Well there is the hospital itself, which was being bombed by Israel just days before this incident, who said immediately after the incident that this was an Israeli attack.
Fox News was actually threatening to sic the base on people who voted against Jordan, according to something I heard on the local community radio earlier. They sent stuff saying like, “Is it true that Representative X is against confirming Jordan? When are you going to let the peoples house open, the people want to know.” To someone at the house. There was another sentence basically threatening to turn their base loose on individual reps if they didn’t flip flop and support Jordan. I’ll have to see if I can dig up an article.
A good attorney can, but a great attorney doesn’t. Good attorneys make enough money that they can pick each and every case they want, and only take ones that advance their career or personal beliefs. My lawyer trained under Lenny Bruce, and his website right now is very similar to this letter. He runs his own firm, though, so he’s not beholden to the respectability politics of big law firms.
Edit: lmao I didn’t mean Lenny Bruce, listening to him while typing this fucked my brain up, but it’s hilarious so imma leave it.
The title is a quote by Angela Davis, who was one of the three authors of “Abolition. Feminism. Now.”, so it’s just adding a little cross-media references to the content in the post. Other than that, the other kind person did a wonderful job explaining everything.
Probably doesn’t help that I have the handwriting of a middle schooler 😂
I have a kalimba also! I used to be really good with it, but I stopped playing for a while and lost my thumb callouses. Such a beautiful instrument. I’ve long wanted to experiment with retuning it, but I didn’t want to risk making it unplayable.
You’re right, your one vote won’t change anything, but you could organize around a shared need in your community, and make a significant impact there. That’s the thing, politics isn’t just voting. It’s all the little things that make up the political aspects of our lives.
I don’t think it’s healthy to expect everyone to be tuned in and turned on all the time. Nor do I think that watching the news regularly is a way to stay up to date. Rather, it’s just a way of inundating oneself with the perspectives of the elite. The best politics are in real life, in our every day situations.
What helps me is to build my frameworks and models of the system. As I gain understanding of the structures underlying our society, I can more easily identify and understand the intentions and desires of various groups around me. When I see something on the news, when I watch the news, I don’t just read what is written and accept or deny it as fact. I think, “Who’s material interests are served by this?”. I think, “has the conclusion been appropriately interrogated, and if not, what needs to be done to reach a meaningful understanding?” I will research the author of the article and the owners of the media in question, to determine where their biases will lie, because all of us are inherently biased in one way or another.
With a strong framework, traversing the media landscape is significantly less overwhelming, and making political change becomes a possibility when we stop expecting to elect or vote someone in who will change it, and create alternative structures that change it without reliance upon the paternalism of the state to save us. Create the structures that can create the change you need first, use them to make the changes, and let the government play catch up to you, instead of always begging for scraps from them.
That is an apt metaphor. I still struggle with this myself, but what I have found that has helped me maintain my most recent hobbies longer than I typically do:
Daily/Weekly Schedule and disciplined adherence to set schedule. For example, I study Chinese for at least one half hour a day, every day, no matter what. I just went to a music festival, and I still managed to find time to study every single day. It’s fucking hard at first, for sure. Once I got the habit set, I get anxiety if I don’t do my hobbies instead of the other way around, and they always leave me peaceful and calmed. A reliable part of my day that is for me and builds me up, but in no way takes from other people, is very good for my mental health also.
Teachers, teachers, teachers. This can be hard, because you really do have to find a teacher that gels with you, but you also have to be willing to do what the teacher tells you, even when it seems boring or pointless towards what you want to accomplish. By remaining humble, we open ourselves to change, and through change progress.
Accountability. If you can get someone to do it with you, and hold each order to doing it on schedule, even if it’s just while you establish a schedule, it can be very helpful. Not possible for everyone, as same as teachers, it relies upon access to the necessary resources. Any way you can hold yourself accountable for maintaining the habit is good though, outside of negative punishment or shame. Those can have the effect of associating the hobby with negative emotions.
Usefulness: use it or lose it. If you’re learning to play guitar, play with other people who are better than you are, constantly. Tell them you’re terrible and you just want to jam, and accept any advice they give. Go to open mic nights with your guitar and watch a few times until you feel confident enough to get on stage. If you’re learning a language, find native speakers and try to talk to them as often and as much as possible. Put your newfound skills to work, so that they don’t just become more random Wikipedia style facts in your head, but a tool which you can use effectively when the opportunity or need arises.
That show is some of the trippiest shit I’ve ever seen. I didn’t have cable so I haven’t seen much of it, but every episode is like an acid trip. It was even trippier on acid.
I could definitely see that, and I will defer to your knowledge, I am in no way knowledgeable about modern germanys political situation, nor their media apparatus. What do you think are the biggest issues faced by the general working class in Germany right now? If you don’t have time or don’t care to respond, no worries, I know this kinda stuff can be draining to discuss. If that’s the case, we could chat about something you’re excited for instead, I’m always up to learn something cool!
I totally agree, mainstream media is a dog and pony show in most regards. The trick is to educate yourself on political economy, propaganda, and ideologies, so that you can extract underlying meanings behind much of media. For example, by coming to understand the concept of manufactured consent, and the role the private media in the U.S. plays in reinforcing state ideology, you can more clearly see the role that they played in creating support for actions the government intends to take, eg. The rapid spread and use of misinformation and failure to effectively fact check State Dept claims during the lead up to the war on terror. The media was effectively complicit in ensuring that any deviation from the party line they were to hold was sidelined, and even when presented, made into a straw man for ridicule. We can also look to former CIA and FBI officials who publicly acknowledge their use of human assets, either knowingly or unknowingly, to spread false information and create a desired public response.
I could say more, but I just got a video call, so I will have to stop here.
May I refer you to my other post:
https://lemmy.tf/post/1808843