In 2024 Pickleball is all the rage

for me it was a year or two ago after i read Capitalist Realism and got really into that. Then i realized Mark Fisher was one of only a few people (and also the first, iirc) to interview Burial, my favourite musician of all time. I also learned that Fisher was an important (important-ish?) person in a lot of the underground electronic music from the UK in the 2000's, being close with Kode9, Caretaker, etc.

i think i read the Mark Fisher x Burial interview like +10 years ago when I was first introduced to Burial's music and had to learn everything about him and his music, but by then, i had never heard of Mark Fisher, lol.

dems trying to outflank republicans from the right but still getting outflanked by the repubs who still weren't satisfied

But I want to examine it as an artifact of liberal guilt. Specifically, guilt for supplanting feudalism and then immediately overseeing the horrors of the industrial revolution both inside the core and without.

Word. I like that a lot. That's an interesting way to add to the "emperors & monarchs -> lord's & slave-owners -> capitalist class" pipeline that people like Dr. Wolff use, for example

Yup. Beyond the visible crimes of genocide we are witnessing, iSSrael is disabling hundreds of thousands of people (and inevitably millions through intergenerational trauma) both physically and psychologically

"the law only applies to business and financial transactions"

like, does that mean that the blockade seeks to undermine grocery stores and restaurants, as if to force Cubans to live on food provided by NGOs?

Oh yeah we’re so fucked

yeah me too... I can't remember what it was, but i was getting the yuck from him way before i was into politics and knew more about stuff. That the is so fuzzy, it feels like it was 10 years ago

PRIDE WIN: israel reveals new gender neutral bathroom

reporting from , one of the teachings i remember from high school social studies was: "Cuba was communist and they're poor but they read good and have lots of doctors so kudos to them i guess?"

oof. fireworks striking fear into the settlers hits just right. but maybe they're always that jumpy?

anyways, it reminds me of that recent indi article post here:

The entire premise of 'Israel' is that they can do whatever they want and fuck everyone else. If the Iron Dome doesn't work, 'Israel' doesn't work, and the Iron Dome doesn't work. It's the Iron Sieve now. Holy warriors have poked it full of holes.

This is a huge problem because the Iron Dome is not just 'Israel's' physical defense mechanism, it's their psychological defense mechanism. It's what makes the whole colonial project believable, that they can piss off everyone in the region and suffer no consequences. Belief in the 'Iron Dome' is belief in 'Israel' and neither is believable anymore.