Notices by Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist), page 3

@jake2 Oh yeah, I also learned about Japanese parapolitics in my grad class on the Cold War and how the United States secretly backed the fascists to make sure Japan stayed right-wing.

Italy hit again with a parapolitical scandal; a Milan-based private investigative firm working in concert with the Vatican and Israel's Mossad was caught hacking information on thousands of individuals, purportedly for the use of blackmail.

Italy is no stranger to parapolitical scandals. During the Cold War, no less than four parastates were operating covertly in Italy, namely: the mafia, the rogue masonic lodge Propaganda Due, the NATO stay-behind army, and the CIA. These covert organizations worked separately and in concert to keep the left from taking power and constantly undermined liberal democracy in Italy.

Why is Italy so freaking sketchy all the time?

News:

https://www.politico.eu/article/vatican-israel-italian-hacking-scandal-uk-lithuania-equalize/

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241101-israels-mossad-implicated-in-espionage-scandal-in-italy/

[Evil voice] yesssss yesssssss, soon, the housing market will crash and soon I can afford a home

Y'all can just vote, right? “It's not a love letter,” as they say. Y'all don't need to provide ideological cover for genocide, right? That part is totally optional, don't you know?

Yet again and again, always choosing to provide ideological cover for genocide, again and again

I don't get it. They can just vote for Harris and shut up, sit with their shame of voting for a genocidaire, lie to themselves about harm reduction, whatever. No, they choose to justify the lesser evil, they choose to provide ideological cover for genocide. They choose to defend. It is a conscious choice.

@anarchist_archive @Verna @Opticacia you could ask them yourself @library

@anarchist_archive @Verna @Opticacia had to. It became a DDOS attack vector

Their boos mean nothing because I've seen what makes them cheer, and it disturbs me to the core.

Harris apologists are something else entirely.

@Verna Oh you weren't using a Twitter bridge. Carry on then.

@Verna FYI, the Library's handle is @library . No need to use a Twitter bridge.

It's like I'm watching a window into the Third Rectification movement play out on Twitter.

So this is how national democracy deals with principled and sympathetic criticism and dissent within their ranks huh. anyare sa criticism-self-crticism? Anyare kay correct ideas ni Mao? Dismiss, downplay, reject.

Coming from a Philippine perspective it's kinda wild the Suharto-Megawati dynasty could even exist without a discernable family name (Indonesians don't often use family names).

Starting to think there's an “argumentum ad guerrilla” where like, how dare you criticize us/them, we/they are doing REAL revolution in a REAL people's war while you're safe at home.

I think Western modes of state power really is constituted on the basis of propriety. Let's forget the ancient Greeks and Romans and look at today. “When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty” only emerged in the last 30 years, and I think this encapsulates the key notion of propriety in Western liberal democracy. “Resistance becomes duty” only when “injustice becomes law” — there's a precondition. That is to say, resistance is justified when the law no longer operates on propriety. When the law operates on propriety, propriety says we have no duty to resist.

Propriety is the ideology that says “the system is broken and must be fixed.” Propriety here says that our duty is to mend impropriety back to propriety. “The system is working as intended and needs to be destroyed” instead looks beyond propriety, understands that propriety itself is the justification for domination, and seeks a way out of propriety.

@jindra Ah well.

Bandai Namco to use “expulsion rooms” to compel workers to quit through sheer boredom. Workers reportedly use the room to look for other jobs.

Y'all that's some weak stuff. If I was sent to an expulsion room, I'd work on writing absolute and unmitigated bangers, both fic and non-fic. I'd take grad school classes online. What are they gonna do? Fire me? I'm already in the expulsion room, and firing gives better severance than quiting.

These workers at Bandai Namco could use the expulsion room to work on passion projects, make their own damn games on company time, if not company resources. Or heck, use the expulsion rooms as a union initiative. What will Bandai Namco do? Fire them?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-15/bandai-namco-begins-to-cut-headcount-after-culling-game-titles?embedded-checkout=true

I finally borrowed a copy of the quite rare book “Ka Popoy: Notes from the Underground” and lo and behold, it was a bookalike. I am commissioning a bookalike for a bookalike, a copy of a copy. One of the rarest books on the Philippine left. Piracy keeps culture alive.

@FinalOverdrive @HeavenlyPossum Nah, their vision of plenty was valid for the time and place. Our material conditions changed, but that doesn't mean that abundance within limits is impossible. Degrowth, while having a lot of negative theory (anti-growth, anticapitalism, anti-…) still has a positive theory for abundance within limits.

Also it's the middle of the day here haha.

@FinalOverdrive @HeavenlyPossum I'd have to disagree with you there, since I take point from degrowth theory that economic growth is bound up with capitalist development and isn't really value neutral. Sure, degrowth concedes not all growth is bad, like for example degrowthers say growth in healthcare and housing is good, but I think "growth" as an indicator of social metabolism is inherently dangerous.

@FinalOverdrive @HeavenlyPossum Well, also I'm anti-nuclear because I'm also a degrowther. I don't think the massive amounts of electricity coming from nuclear is value-neutral. it is bound up with the valorization process. 100% renewable energy will never be enough for a capitalist society, but for a post-capitalist, post-growth one? 100% yes.