Notices by Loukas Christodoulou (loukas@mastodon.nu), page 3

But I think we need to look at labour-theft in a different way.

Consider the Toni Morrison quote:

"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being".

In other words, often the system of exploitation will take your labour only to destroy it, to burn your own energy before your eyes. No value created, but domination is reproduced.

I genuinely didn't think we'd so quickly reach a stage where 'Nazis are unacceptable' was a controversial position

I mean, 'Nazis bad' was supposed to be the self-justifying narrative of modern civilization.

The story went: Yes, industrial society is built on colonial horrors, but remember we defeated the Nazis. That's our redemption story, it wipes the slate clean and opens the gates to a morally neutral future.

Now that's all being dumped, as the Nazi taboo is broken, because it turns out things like short-term profits and political gains were more important all along.

@rasmusfleischer nej, trots att jag känner till debatten sedan länge tror inte jag har postat någon text om den iallafall inte nyligen. Och visst är adhd svårare grammatiskt sett, men jag såg att Myra och Anya kallade sig för dampisar på bs igår, och då är språkfrågan löst :)

#autism #psykiatrin Jag har blivit utsedd till ordinarie representant på södra Stockholms brukarråd för psykiatrin. Brukarrådet är en instans som samlar intresseorganisationer och föreningar för att samtala med ledningen för psykiatrin för att skapar möjligheter för patienternas inflytande i sjukvårdens utveckling. Det är Autism Sverige (Stockholms län) som jag representerar på brukarrådet

@OutOnTheMoors he's not an alpha male, he's a sub-prime male.

@abolisyonista it's interesting how forms of digital entrepreneurship still keep bending back again to the factory, or similar established forms of production. Despite the claims that the postmodern condition is to destroy all categories and spaces. So I think Debord would remind us that the spectacle is a set of social relations mediated by images. The Instagram pictures are a new unlockable skin, but over the same old alienation.

@abolisyonista It may be someone with the same name! But fingers crossed this isn't what rojava committee thinks :)

@abolisyonista maybe rather than this being their latest statement they are publishing a new translation of an older text. The fact he says October is 100 years old makes me think it's an older text, and if this is the author then i doubt he's a member of their collective, rather they are likely making his work available https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Karasu

Blocked and reported.

This is important science. Ping @babe

Does anyone have any insight about why Hamas is launching mass attacks? Usually it's more the fringe groups like Islamic Jihad who do this, but Hamas is more like a government of a state. Why would it risk everything now?

Replies that mock or make light of people getting hurt will get you a block btw.

From what I can see so far, the Israeli settler far-right are currently launching a minor uprising of their own against Israel - and now the Palestinian far-right in the form of Hamas say this is a reason for them to attack Israel as well.

What this statement implies is Israel now has a few days in which it can bomb Gaza as much as it wants, with no consequences from the international community aka EU and USA.

Something that generally worries me is the 'spirit of 1914' overtaking Western societies again.

We don't get taught this often, but a major reason so many people welcomed war in 1914 was it offered a 'clean' and 'clear' struggle for societies that were wracked by internal conflict. Just like Israel is internally divided right now. Just like so many European and north American societies are.

It was men who loved this national struggle who later formed fascism, to keep the feeling going.

Usual warning: now is a time of chaotic breaking news. A lot of what you see will be old pictures and videos presented as happening 'now'.

It's better to take a deep breath and wait for things to be double- and triple-confirmed before you make your mind up.

A lot of media will all be running slightly different stories all based on one source, even many 'confirmations' will be false.

The fact that 'fifteen-minute cities' is now a dirty word really puts into perspective all the time people spent agonising over whether 'defund the police' and similar slogans were too radical.

You can call your proposal 'free cake for everyone' but if it threatens powerful groups you'll get painted as a sinister plot anyway.

Wait until Texas sees what kinds of children's books we have in Swedish libraries.

#Slovakia election result - Smer party that opposes aid to Ukraine gets the most votes, but will have a hard time forming a coalition, unless the Hlas party led by a rival from Smer will cooperate with them.

Three far-right parties, including Nazis who had been on 8%, failed to get over the 5% threshold to parliament.