Ryu B. Creekmur

Praxis.

nooooo

For encouragement: I’ve found so many unlikely allies in past few years especially BUT also have had some hard lessons that made it clear you always gotta have your guard up to some degree if it ain’t your kin or kindred…

Hope you find that balance. I’m workin on it

Viewin that continuum of harm/violence as less “good guy” vs “bad guy” and more along those lines of “what is the likelihood of this person hurting me” or “how could this gang help/hurt my community”

I don’t wanna hurt or be hurt by nobody every again but also realize this be the world we live in.

Struggle’s real…asked an OG in my hood how he could work with certain gangs (+ some cops) that I view as especially harmful to community. He more or less said: decide pragmatically accordin to people’s interests/threat/complicity/receptiveness who to ignore/deescalate/collaborate and who’s a threat

Anyway they suck ass

Given more money, power, and fanboys to fawn over them, the drunken rages burn more of us, bottles and broken glass become larger, personal fantasies of Martian expeditions and Manifest Destinies clash with a reality they don’t understand

In my fam, communities, this has manifested in alcoholism, throwin bottles at us for pickin flowers or cookin with the matriarchs, video game addiction playin out lived more adventurous, a thousand other ways.

Caught lacking tween hunter-gather traditional masculine skills and women that have taken on the “bread winner” role in the service/management economy, they find themselves made increasingly irrelevant, average, and unwilling to grow or change or become what they need.

They despise and resent the “empathetic left”—prolly embodies their mothers or somethin that couldn’t protect em from the apathy and disdain of Err*l and Fr*d.

They want few things so much more than to punish them empaths that will not unconditionally tell em what a good boy they are.

They despise, fear, and are addicted to the validation that reminds em of their own bullies in New York military schools and Pretorian boarding schools—their rights of passage outsourced to dickheads.

I say with phlegm and whatever compassion there is in me: “fatherless”

So many of these dudes that grew up with emotionally unavailable progenitors that are desperately trying to embody and mandate a masculinity they do not themselves know or hold. They simultaneously hate and adore their fathers.

7 Directions of Service

Tomorrow begins the first ever Southeastern Indigenous Coalition Environmental Conference. There’s a digital way to attend by registering here. ❤️‍🔥

“The Southeastern Indigenous Coalition Environmental Conference 2025 will take place March 7-8 in Occaneechi Saponi territory, North Carolina.”

Moving Through Light, by Daniel Bachman 15 track album

Todays Bandcamp Friday where bandcamp kicks all the sales money to the artists. If you havent picked up my new one yet, today's a good day to do it!

I've got a lot more coming for 2025, including a short novella I'll be releasing on bandcamp later in the spring. Thanks for the support! ❤️🔥

Imagining a confused Amelia Badelia-esque Liberal caricature absolutely devastated that African Americans are losing jobs at Langley

Bliss.

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foodnotbombs.southphilly IG post caption that reads: “you do not have to perfect your theory before you act. you do not need perfect orthodoxy with everyone you meet. the things you do together will change you both. you do not need to have read a particular book to understand that hungry people need food, that unsheltered people need homes, or that care and access to basic needs are the right of every living person. you do not need lived experience to make community with people who live in addiction or with disability or mental illness or any other state of being. but you should listen to what people with these experiences say they need. it doesn't cost money to empathize. and it's free to act on that empathy at any time. the only barrier to change is the inaction of people who know better. mutual aid isn't a luxury to give or receive. it's easy and it sustains. dm us to find out more.”

good morning from this food not bombs south philly ig caption i like

“the things you do together will change you both”

“In the same vein, when the housewifisation of woman was done, he started the process of turning males into slaves; subsequently the two forms of slavery have become intertwined.”
—Abdullah Öcalan

“Sexism, just as nationalism, is an ideology through which power is generated and nation-states are built. Sexism is not a function of biological differences. To the dominant male, the female is an object to be used for the realisation of his ambitions.”

“Power has reached its full capacity in the form of the nation-state. It derives its strength mainly from the sexism it spreads and intensifies by the integration of women into the labour force as well as through nationalism and militarism…”

What a strange country, strange dream, these people have made.

Ya Rab irahim.

Establish Justice

provide for the common defence

secure the general Welfare

for ME.

Maybe for our women, maybe Irish Protestants, maybe Catholics.

But no blacks, Indians, queers, Jews, Muslims, poors, illegals, homeless, felons

Wretched of the Earth

Les Miserables

Least of These.

Former hard working slave owners were happy to take free land grants after losing their free human labor.

The No Such Thing As A Free lunch was happy to take their homesteads on stolen land and transcontinental railroads defended and secured by black Buffalo soldiers.

Before desegregation they loved that black people paid for parks, hospitals, schools, pools that only white people could go to.

Greatest generation was happy to take handouts from my kin who fought in WWII but didn’t get no home loans out of it like they did.

Critics of Socialism and entitled millennials don’t hate their entitlements—VA benefits, GI Bill, in state tuition, subsidized groceries/gas—so much as they hate thinkin of The Other having access to these things.

Don’t hate the marriage of society and state so long as they are the only society.

(Critics of unions do not hate unions, they just hate unions that critique Mammon)

Cops should have unions!

Corporations should have unions!

But we must not just finance these bureaucrats, we must give them armored vehicles and drones! More guns! New and exciting guns!

Our taxes are not enough, we should march for them! Buy them donuts and coffee! Donate to their unions!

That people who hate and fear the “slavery” of the ATF or IRS, ritualistically fail to appreciate that cops are just bureaucrats that are allowed to kill you with a bullet instead of a pen.

Cops be the worst realization of Big Gov made manifest: the ability to murder its citizens with no recourse.

From at least the Civil War, critics of “Big Gov’ment” don’t actually hate a bloated state comprised of hyper militarized cops, expansive surveillance of citizens, an army that is often sent to defend the interests of literal princes and kings, and the world’s largest most expensive nuclear arsenal.