Notices by Toot Engineer (big_louse@todon.eu), page 5

@aral

it's almost like they are, what do we call them, useful something or another

Trying to figure what marginal benefit calling people "unhoused" as opposed to homeless might have, I mean maybe someone's living situation shouldn't be the defining thing about a personal, we shouldn't reify someone's predicament and there is all the dehumanization that goes with that.

BUT being without a legal residence is a *class* position, it's an empirical social fact, you won't get ride of these structural problems by changing a word, likewise, like other class characteristics, being unhoused is not part of one's being like one's physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or even religion, it's almost entirely forced upon a person by the structure of private property.

So unlike anti Italian bigotry, where all we have to do to stop oppressing Italians is by refraining from using hurtful language like "wop" or [redacted] or "greaseball" or "gumba" or "spaghetti brain", you can just choose not to shout "go eat some gabba goo ya wop g___ greaseball!" At every Italian american one encounters

Mama mia

But it dont think it'll work that way with homelessless, I mean people do harass/attack unhoused people all the time (dont do that please) but then cops are paid to do that, in fact city governmemts spend all day dreaming up ways to fuck over homeless people

I really desparately need like $8 to get my phone turned back on so I can get a job, please, if you can't do that any little bit would be a huge help, my cashapp is $plzthanx
#MutualAid #BegPost

@mischievoustomato @kaia

I've been the victim of several crimes in which I sought help from the police, and I've seen the same thing happen to friends, usually they dont do anything and sometimes they make the situation far worse. I've never seen the police Help anyone ever, I suppose statistically they must of helped some people at least by accident but Its definitely not the norm.

@kaia acab

@kaia no

@Adam_Cadmon1

Really rubs me the wrong way how they say "oh look at the economy, so great" while being extremely selective with the numbers, funny how trumps economy was "booming" just before the pandemic. If you think the economy is doing great at either time, your'e rich

FAKE NUDES!

@tokyo_0 annoyingly they autoboost my posts only when the hashtag is ironic or an accident

@AntennaPod

Great app, used it for years, nothing comes close

Oh so it turns out none of these trails mean jack shit because the supreme court will just overturn all the rulings anyway

need 20$ to pay my phone bill so i can maybe get job, waaah

apparently the trump whisehouse were all on modafinil, sold under the brand name Provigil, which, i know from experience is some serious fucking speed , you don't want to fuck with that shit,

Israel sure is evil

@kaia

i mean the dude has worked in broadcasting for like 30 years, you'd hope he could sound coherent

it's hard to tell how much of it is an act at this point, i watched a recent interview he did with trump where he was giggling like freak

@salad_bar_breath

Yeah i think I remember that it was like 'oh actually white people are over-represented in the military" which is false, poc are over represented, upper class white men are over-represented in the officer ranks, which is a big difference

@rchusid

it's so fucking ridiculous, and a loser strategy

it used to be they wouldn't start with the vote shaming until later into the season but they've been vote shaming progressives since as soon as Biden was elected

@YKantRachelRead

Also just a practical issue if you're actually concerned with building a revolutionary movement, current/former members of the military have skills and knowledge that very important for the movement, their position always carries a lot of ethos for middle-of-the-road elements as far as propaganda is concerned

@AnthonyJK

last thing I'll say on this is Ukraine ideology, like other countries in the Russia sphere of influence is they 'look towards Europe' for their future, but their idea of European democracy is incredibly dated, it's pre austerity: social democracy + free markets, I suppose many European countries are still like this, Netherlands, Switzerland etc. but these are the winners, never really was the case for southern or eastern Europe, And we know how the US and Europe "rebuilds" war torn countries these days with shady neoliberal public/private partnerships,

It's probably why so much emphasis is placed on post war reparations from Russia, a just demand, sure, but if Ukraine wins it's not gonna be in any position to extract that from Russia, especially if the US is unwilling to concede anything else.

@AnthonyJK

I'm sorry If I'm splitting hairs but i think it's very important to try to articulate an real proletarian line that opposes both NATO and Russia as two poles of Imperialist domination and so we have to resist simple narratives,

Fascists are present in basically every state in the west at this point: the US, UK, France, fascists are part of the state but have yet to achieve complete control. Relatively speaking I think the outright fascists may be smaller in Ukraine, but what they've done, cleverly, is dig in and become essential parts of the coalition, like you say, so there power may be limited now, but they will bide their time for when it becomes more opportune.

Like if Russia were to be decisively expelled from Ukraine, there.may well be ethnic cleansing in the donbass, where supposed russian collaborators are rounded up and killed. Another real danger NATOist cheerleaders refuse to acknowledge.