chorui halim | youth liberation now!

“Picked at random”

The Anxious Generation brainrot for real. What an awful way to talk about the young people running one of the few remotely competent political campaigns in the whole country

This news wrecked me 😭 I hope they start their own venture. Fuck Condé Nast, they don't need 'em.

He's *accused* of killing a wealthy CEO. And the evidence isn't exactly airtight.

I think this is the bigger thing.

All Americans are socialized to accept the violence of capitalism and imperialism. Getting older and having more experience hardly makes you more likely to resist it (literally just look at the state of the country right now). Palantir is going after young hires because they're cheaper, not dumber.

This is primarily a cost-cutting measure. High school grads don't demand as much in wages as college grads. The "no life experience" thing is infantilizing teenagers for no good reason.

The only downside to a functional welfare state is when it's internally circulating imperial superprofits, supporting the continued operation of colonial and imperial structures, and cutting off avenues of international worker solidarity. Unfortunately the case for many European welfare states.

Can't reply or quote repost the other thing about what border patrol does in the scrublands, but I just wanted to say that this article still haunts me: inthesetimes.com/article/us-m...

Except for the racism, of course! :)

Beautiful!!!

The Real Terror of Halloween Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for US child pedestrians, and it's not even a contest.

The Real Terror of #Halloween

AKA, I never want to hear about laced candy again. At least not until we finish dismantling US car-centric infrastructure.

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Don't get me started on curfews. Ageist, classist, and racist, all rolled together. Often it's not even a consequence of bad behavior - just a proactive social management mechanism to control the undesirables.

Like I just said on another post: car-centric infrastructure is classist and racist, but above all it is central to US youth oppression. Children no longer have autonomous access to public spaces, cars are a huge enforcement mechanism, and yes, it's all a CHOICE.

this graph is very bad and I'm glad it gets used to highlight the uniquely American danger on Halloween but don't sleep on the other thing it shows, which is an average of about 10 kids getting run over on American streets every single day of the year

It's all vibes! What really sucks is that based on stranger danger type scaremongering (in part), US kids have almost completely lost autonomous access to public spaces.

But when I say this has literally always been the case, especially for white people...

Americans never lived in a "truth" world enough for this to be a "post-truth" world.

My mom believes this and it's the first thing she brought up when I first got my job at NASA. 🫠

Especially pickup trucks and SUVs. Sedans are on thin ice.

Car-centric infrastructure is a key aspect of youth oppression in the US. Of course it's classist and racist as hell too, but the main casualities of this policy will always be children.

There are three sources of labor pool supply for social reproduction. Generational reproduction (having kids), immigration, and slavery.

Boosting birth rates takes decades. They're mass deporting immigrants. Of course this is what's left.

Remember that the age group that has experienced the largest increase in homelessness in the last several years is CHILDREN. A 33% increase between 2023 and 2024 alone.

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I get what you're saying, and I mostly agree. But I can't fathom going through the unbelievable amount of effort it would take to build a robust left-wing propaganda machine only to waste it on the Democrats.

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis covered this concept in Schooling in Capitalist America (1968). AI is accelerating many of these contradictions and I get how it may be frustrating to you. But student edu labor is real labor, just as much as yours is. They just pay to do it instead of getting paid.

Genuinely, why are you approaching this as a labor issue on the prof's side but not the student's side? Student LLM use is a labor struggle as well. Students are using AI to reduce workloads in an increasingly wealth stratified society. Saying it's just "laziness" is intellectually dishonest.

It's heartbreaking how much of an outlier she is in her field. We need SO many more like her.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
- James Baldwin

I see people replying to this like “wow so if a trans kid breaks their leg, they won’t help them?” No dumbass, you should be upset that they’re not letting kids medically transition, you don’t need to make up a hypothetical reason to be mad about it, it’s infuriating by itself

They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.

hey can any economists tell me if its good that people are having to buy blind boxes of discounted food now

We Don't Need No Education Public education is facing a reckoning in the US. As we're experiencing its collapse, now is a great time to review from the beginning: what is it actually for?

The #Trump admin is dismantling the Department of Education, the left is freaking out about it, but we haven't even touched WHY public #education came to exist in the first place: to stop people from organizing, and to blame the poor for their own conditions.

More: antiparent.com/we-dont-need...