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okay but he’s not speaking for himself here. he’s using the platform he’s been given to speak for exactly who you’re saying we should protect

anticommunists: communism is bad because a central authority sets the price of evertything

also anticommunists: a central authority should set the price of everything

antisemite: jews can’t live in this society. they need to go away

zionist: jews can’t live in this society. they need to go away

it’s the social features and the network effect. if you want to make a playlist and share it with your friends the easiest way to get them to listen to it is to host it on spotify. also blends, collaborative playlist, jams, and now listening all provide the illusion of connection through a shared listening experience. and it’s not so much that these things are better than what we used to have for sharing music, it’s that corporations have all killed our ways of sharing music. that’s what they really hated about groove shark. artists made more money in the groove shark era, but umg, sony, and warner didn’t control how we shared on it.

may your soups always be tasty and your songs always be sung

Their propaganda methods are also meant to make everyone feel alone. For the conservatives, it makes them feel powerful, like this is all working, like they’re the self reliant culture warriors they always dreamed of being. For the empathetic, it makes us feel like we don’t have enough power to band together and resist them. That’s why right now songs and soup are everything. They make you feel like you’re connected to whoever taught you the song, sings the song with you, or that you teach the song to. The soup fills your belly and gives you the energy to power forward, and the soup you make is also one of the few true choices you have in desperate times. You’re surrounded by the illusion of choice, but soup, soup is something we the underclasses own. You can put anything in your soup as long as you like the resulting soup, and when you feed it to someone else they receive the results of your choices, and they gain an understanding of you.

Conservatives fear empathy, and they’ve announced it in broad daylight. They fear it because its what erodes their movement. It’s what gives us the power to act against them. I don’t know where you’re located @Grumpyleb@lemmus.org, but I advise that everyone on earth is more connected to the resistance and danger of fascism even if they think they’re away from it. Learn some songs, make some soup. These are the most powerful pieces of propaganda in the face of the horrors of our lived reality. A family in Kyiv taught me in 2012 while they were hosting my boss that a war is fought with bullets and bombs, but it’s won with boycotts and boots. For 13 years I’ve carried this wisdom with me and now I’m sharing it with you and anyone else who finds this comment

It always was, is, and will be about slavery.

and here in the states it’s a matter of time before they start shipping anyone with pale skin, curly hair, and large noses to israel because the evangelicals don’t want a safe place for the jews, they want the jews in their midst gone

this is part of why the holocaust survivors spoke differently of being liberated by a Ukrainian corps vs being transferred into russian custody. rape is part of the russian system of terror.

russia is no ones ally. they never will be. the world cannot be free as long as the imperial powers exist and colonize.

yup. that’s how we know why dictators do this. millennia of precedent. they’re little losers on their insides so they have to project power outwardly and make themselves inescapable. they start by going after the most vulnerable people in society because their strength is a lie. they fear going after someone strong will reveal their truth

what a fuckin’ loser. also. so we’re clear, he’s trying to make his face inescapable so you can’t ignore him

excepting wu tang clan, of course

can’t be worse, right?

— everyone, everywhere

surprising no one who’s paying attention

self awareness that you suck doesn’t redeem you from sucking

“member” here represents that a ship is 1 among 200 of the 600 shadow fleet ships

Ukraine’s just the new afghanistan i guess. always getting invaded. everyone who’s not there just going “oh no. how tragic. something must be done”

something is not done.

then the outrage machine moves on to something else

I’m excited for both Piefed and MBin. Both projects are progressing rapidly and have communities that seem to have their heads and hearts in the the right places

there was a time when it would have been. i remember when you treated anything from the last 3 years as recent. i am old now

republicans wanted us uneducated so we’d be easier to manipulate. now those chickens have come home to roost. our populace is easily manipulated by russian propaganda