Ben

I love to live in the future ....

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

If you took a billionaire's money away, they would just earn it back again. Cream rises to the top.

I'm so confident about this, I think we should prove it by taking all the billionaires' money away.

wind farm would hurt moon birds, but since the moon causes the tides they should really use tidal energy.

Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
You owe me.
Look what happens with a love like that,
It lights the whole sky. -Hafiz

Cool Zone Media gives me ED every week and i love it.

la perra seguía

Estoy así, boludo

'Only includes countries witch are independent today' Is deeply cowardly and serves to hide continuing injustices like Puerto Rico, Palestine, and las Islas Malvinas

Cartoon with corporate media asking U.S. Government how it would like "Control of Internet Speech" wrapped: Anti-terrorism or protect kids

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

love this table, does anyone have an updated version with an added column with common locations with each person can be found?
Feel like a lot of people would find that useful.

Found it.

cute kitty with big eyes in pig costume holding a flower. the whole image is washed in pink

Im sorry that happened. You are valid and brave. Have an emotional support kitty

i also wish there were a better distinction between looking stuff up on the internet and digging deep in library stacks for primary sources.

its the first clumsy step in solidarity
1) i support trans people because i think it might protect me later
2) i support trans people because its the the right thing to do
3) Hey guys, just fyi im using they/them and going by Beth now

Saw someone call AI users “botlickers” and that is very funny

Dreams - Su Shi (trans. Arthur Waley) Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minister.

Here's a poem by one of the old Chinese scholar bureaucrats that I think captures a certain Vibe very well

will do, i must have misunderstood her from the several interviews i heard.

socializing the responsibility of care outside the confines of the nuclear family, whats not to like?
basic steps i thought would involve state taking responsibilities in childcare.

the problem is that in a world without context there isn't a real place for radical unpopular left theory to develop and promote itself without being picked up by right wing pundits as a scapegoat. And Burgis as a public leftist has the unpleasant job of having to deal with right wing attacks.

my bad, i seem to have overblown the frequency of your critique of family abolitionism because it stands out to me, since i agree with most of your writing and dislike left infighting.

im not sure what you mean by 'bad radlib nonsense'. I agree with Ben's argument that abolitionist rhetoric is unpalatable to the public and shouldn't be used in mainstream socialist campaigns. but surely there's space in a broad left for radical theoretical work.

i feel he gets hung up on the unpopularity of provocative titles that aren't meant for public debate (thinking of his oposition to prison abolition here as well), but yeah, i agree he means it and have read several of his writings i just don't find them convincing.

he's responding to a reason article that brought you up, and they are probably just straw-maning you. his main point seems to be that neither Mamdani nor most socialist aren't family abolitionists. which i think is correct. the point seems to be to de-center you, not obsess.

i just find that Ben Burgis treats abolish the family as though its terrible pr strategy thats about to be part of a mayor socialist campaign. and Sophie Lewis is mostly going round radical left theoretical posgraduate circles, very far from any campaign. i feel like they are talking past each other

you do go after 'abolish the family' quite a bit. and that links directly to her.

a panel from a comic by Matt Groening, depicting one of his weird rabbit dudes looking slightly disoriented against a black background. the panel is labeled, "1990s", and a speech bubble appears from off-screen that reads, "BY BEING THE SAME AS REPUBLICANS WE CAN DEFEAT THE REPUBLICANS."

I for one would like to stop being trapped in a Matt Groening panel from 1996

don't quit it untill you've seen the Andy Serkis arc and his speech

post from me: political cartoon idea: two people in a concentration camp planning an escape. one says to the other, “but if we kill the guards, don’t we become just as bad as them?” reply: You can escape without killing guards.

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