Hmm, Hezbollah has been holding back, actually. Their missile attacks on Israel are quite restrained given the size of their arsenal. This Nasrallah fellow must have been exercising remarkable restraint. Without him, Hezbollah may escalate and use their full arsenal.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 00:29:27 JST Abolisyonista -
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 20:57:44 JST Abolisyonista @db0 no I don't live in the US. What happened is that I used up my allowance for procedures and tests, so it's not a denial like in the US where they study the case if it's necessary, it's more if the consumable is used up already
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 17:35:30 JST Abolisyonista Let's see, Marcellus Williams, an innocent man, is executed in the United States.
Centrist Marxist and Leninist (though not ML) Donald Parkinson, member of the Marxist Unity caucus of the DSA, says that this is bad, the death penalty is bad, and it's bad that leftists support the death penalty “because it gets in the way of their revolutionary retribution fantasies.”
He's right. I don't like his whole Leninist deal, or his centrist Marxism, but he's right.
MLs flock to him to say that death penalty under their dictatorship is good, actually. Saying shit like the death penalty should be abolished under bourgeoisie dictatorship, but not under their “proletarian”/“people's” dictatorship.
What the actual fuck. A man was just murdered by the state and you want to defend your right to execute people under your dictatorship. I did not think carceral communists could stoop so low. Just generally ghoulish. I hope you all never taste power.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 09:59:58 JST Abolisyonista Just got denied healthcare by my insurance. This despite all the money I, my family, and my workplace gave them. I'm reminded of a horror movie where a woman was cursed and sent to hell for something similar. Yet we cannot condemn a mode of production to hell.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 16:12:25 JST Abolisyonista My partner and I were watching Castlevania the animation and I was like “Wallachia didn't even have an inquisition because it's not even a Catholic country” and they were like “hol up, Wallachia is real??😭”
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 23:31:28 JST Abolisyonista I'm told this sculpture is entitled “The Spirit of Business” by one Napoleon Abueva. If the spirit of business is a death ray, that would seem apt.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 15:55:36 JST Abolisyonista It's actually quite subtle (as a brick is on a window) that the University of the Philippines Diliman School of Business has a sculpture of a death ray in front of its building. It's a subtle hint that they are, in fact, evil.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 12:05:12 JST Abolisyonista God this is so true. “Anarchism if autism didn't exist”
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 13:21:22 JST Abolisyonista Reading Octavia Butler's PARABLE OF THE SOWER hits soooo differently in 2024. For one, the book starts in 2024 and it wasn't 2024 when I last read it. And another, it still feels scarily close to reality.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Sep-2024 19:12:57 JST Abolisyonista Akbayan's adoption of Chel is the triumph of personality politics. You gotta hand it to Makayaban—at least their senatorial candidates are nominated from within the movement rather than personalities in search of a party.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 18:25:10 JST Abolisyonista @ch0ccyra1n sure, but that's very micropolitical. How do we bridge that with a macropolitical conception of society writ large? How do we conceive of social capacity, not merely as the aggregate of individual capacity, but as worth more than the sum of its parts?
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 17:08:41 JST Abolisyonista Something I'm thinking of at the moment: How can we think of public capacity as separated/liberated from the state and state capacity?
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 23:02:08 JST Abolisyonista I haven't been reading enough, so I didn't know there was a Filipino American critical theorist that deals with the Black radical tradition! Really cool find for me.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 23:05:20 JST Abolisyonista After retiring from the communist movement, Jesus Lava—once the top communist in the Philippines—became a… psychic pseudo-scientist. Lol, lmao even.
RIP Jesus Lava, you would have loved J. Posadas.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160218005707/http://www.newsflash.org/2003/01/hl/hl017361.htm
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 11:59:44 JST Abolisyonista @zotero Dark mode AND emoji annotation? Y'all are spoiling me 😭
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 11:27:12 JST Abolisyonista Didn't think I'd get moved by a non-game program, but the Zotero 7 by @zotero is beautiful!
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 21:06:25 JST Abolisyonista “The US incarcerates more people than Maoist China”
Yeah America bad and all, but shouldn't we hold revolutionary projects to higher standards? The carceral power of the party-state led by Mao himself incarcerated and executed the brightest flames of the Cultural Revolution. Everyone remembers Mao, but who here remembers Yu Luoke?
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Friday, 06-Sep-2024 21:04:54 JST Abolisyonista At some point we have to stop thinking of a idealized and mythologized “democratic centralism” and instead base democratic centralism on what it appears as in reality, i.e. literally cults of personality, careerism, opportunism, etc. etc. Otherwise we must admit it never existed.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 11:22:05 JST Abolisyonista The tragedy of Marxism is that the same revolutionaries who accomplish great things can also be those that ruin things. Mao launched the Cultural Revolution only to crush it later when he could no longer control what he unleashed. Huey Newton co-founded the Black Panther Party only to run it into the ground through egomania.
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Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 09:31:52 JST Abolisyonista @wolf I deal with it a bit here https://haters.noblogs.org/post/2022/03/26/against-carceral-communism-for-abolition-communism-by-simoun-magsalin/