zeronelite (they/them)

How Zeronelite are you?

❌🟨✅ Sortition Replaces Voting
❌🟨✅ Principled Left Unity
❌🟨✅ Anti Sales Tax
❌🟨✅ Anti-Pacifism
❌🟨✅ Existence Precedes Essence
❌🟨✅ Landback
❌🟨✅ Every Nation Should Have Nukes
❌🟨✅ Pro-Gun
❌🟨✅ Country Music Sucks, Except Johnny Cash

5 weeks prior is a little early ngl

wojak horseman

"Existentialism declares that if God does not exist, there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man. Man first of all exists... and defines himself afterwards."
–Sartre

Change is violent. A block of ice turns into water by melting. A pot full of water turns into steam by boiling, rising.

The same is true of societal change, where small ruptures escalate to the boiling point we call revolution.

Yet unlike chemistry, politics is non-deterministic.

"If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal."

Actually, it does & they are. What do you think voter ID is? Why are felons permanently stripped of basic voting rights, yet a felon is allowed to sit in the White House? Don't compromise, but don't be naïve either.

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

how i feel waking up this morning

a poster for zohran for new york city with a picture of a man ALT: a poster for zohran for new york city with a picture of a man

Today was a victory, but it is not the end. Now we must be vigilant, putting pressure on Zohran to keep his promises.

We cannot afford complacency. We must stand against lesser evils and for the greater good!

One of my biggest icks is when someone sees a homeless person in public and speaks of them as though they were a pest or prop. It's the most normalized form of everyday dehumanization, and it disgusts me more than anything I've yet seen a homeless person do.

If you don't want Zohran to succeed, you have no heart. But if you think Zohran is going to save America from slow collapse, you have no brain.

Most folks panic about their responsibilities when they leave high school. It's different when you've been micromanaging your health for a decade already. Easier.

Maturity & youth are not opposites. The hallmark of immaturity is trying to seem more adult than you're ready to be.

In microbiology, a culture dies when it is deprived of nutrients. The same is true of human cultures.

Culture wars are not mere distractions. They are the immune response of the imperialist country, attacking itself in a futile attempt to prevent its decline & return to "glory".

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The reasons why caffeine & nicotine are legal (while cannabis isn't) are twofold:

1. Nicotine & especially caffeine are highly profitable legal drugs that can increase productivity at the workplace.

2. Criminalizing weed is an easy way to force black people into prison slavery.

I don't care if you're religious. I care if your religion drives you to do good, or if you use it to excuse exploiting and harming others.

If liberals truly wanted "equality of opportunity", they would campaign to drastically increase estate taxes and fight against the undemocratic menace we call inheritance.

Authenticity isn't a task, & there are no steps to make you more authentic.

Inauthenticity is a false consciousness; all you do is you.

This false consciousness is defined by the fear of what we are not, confusion about what we are, & the refusal to accept what we may become.

You HAVE to read Assata's autobiography.

It was on my reading list for a while, and now that I'm finally getting around to it, I wish I had sooner.

This excerpt, from early in the book, is particularly compelling.

An album cover titled "KSS" by artist Zeronelite, with a crimson background and black, brushlike lettering.

coming soon

when you fund medical research, sometimes miracles happen

i want to live in the world where these discoveries happen every day

american neofascism came in stages

ideologically it originated with cold war anticommunust propaganda, sometimes made by former nazis

structurally, it arrived in full force after the one-two punch of citizens united & the patriot act

maga is just fascist hegemony solidified

seeing your apartment building for sale is a bad fucking omen

i really did not need housing instability added to the long list of shit on my mind right now

this may be the straw that breaks the camel's back

if you mourn those who would have you killed & forgotten, you are not an empath

only a lamb to the slaughter

cooked a performative male

how i feel rn

Ableism & Suffering, 1/6🧵

Saying it would be better if disabled people were never born is ableist, even if it's "because they suffer".

Replace disability with gender/race in this context & the issue becomes obvious, but eugenics is so hegemonic that most people don't even KNOW the word "ableism".

6/6🧵

Ending with some facts. Disability comes from many causes, with many shapes. I was born with 1 kidney but got lung scarring after nearly dying to chronic pneumonia. Long COVID is an example of eugenicist policies leading to more chronic illnesses. Also if you get old you WILL become disabled.

5/6🧵

If we (disabled) were truly valued as having equal worth relative to other human beings, societies would take every measure to improve our lives while also maximizing our autonomy (which ideally should include the right to die), but instead we suffer policies of social murder.

4/6🧵

No disabled or chronically ill person exists whose life is not worsened by ableism. MAiD & gene-selective abortion practices are eugenicist because they shape the composition of our communities to the detriment of disabled people based on a social devaluing of their lives.