ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

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Cake day: September 25th, 2022

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  • The main question for me is one of impact: “Who is it hurting”. I only take things from big box stores, never ever from individuals or family businesses. My morality was formed through contemplation, like you said, and I see it as having a two-sided relationship with my experiences: Something that evolved out of how things are but informs how I think things should be: Nobody should go hungry, nobody should be impoverished or victimized. Surprisingly, just believing these things makes you a number of enemies these days.






  • Bush normalized invading other countries. Obama normalized mercenaries, drone murders and “migrant holding facilities”. Trump normalized wanton state cruelty using these tools. Biden normalized supporting Gazan genocide and sending riot cop to beat down dissenters. Now Trump 2 is building on those powers and practices to dissappear people into camps.

    The history of presidential power is just another part of the history of class warfare and empire. These actions, from dem to repub and back again make no sense if you look at them as aberrations or coincidences, or think for five seconds about the excuses used to justify them. But they make perfect sense if you view them as a series of consistently increasing escalations against the threat of liberation movements at home and abroad.