Notices by Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist), page 4

Regarding the question of lifestyle, a revolution, especially a revolution against collapse, would inevitably force a change in lifestyles, consumption habits, tastes, and preferences. When the revolution comes, who will decide to collectively work at mass slaughter factories? Who will collectively decide that the bulk of social metabolism be devoted to meat? Which community will want to sacrifice decades of their lives to host a coal-fired power plant or risk a nuclear power station? Can a nuclear power station even be organized along egalitarian non-hierarchical lines? Which community will want to devote their locale for nuclear waste management? Like, I will be the first to admit that we will lose a lot of things in the revolutionary process, but this isn't inherently negative in the sense we will gain so much more. Maybe we won't have personal aircons, but maybe we'd design cities to have more trees and have highly efficient passive cooling houses. Maybe we won't eat meat everyday, but we'd have healthier food. Stuff like that.

Disco-like is a genre now like rogue-like and I'm here for it.

It gets worse. The bar is in HELL. Now the word on the street is that Chel Diokno's family constitutes a “good” political dynasty going back three generations. What is the point of “good dynasty” discourse. #Philippines

The absolute low bar of Philippine politics on Mar Roxas and his son joining the party of Marcos: “at least he didn't join Duterte's party.” There is no hope in establishment politics. #Philippines

This is my first movie review. I guess anybody can do literary criticism now.

Check it out! My review for Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis (2024) is out on FREEDOM NEWS.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/10/06/searching-for-utopia-in-megalopolis/

@spencerbeswick maybe you're cooking it wrong? I got some for myself but it turns out my meat-eating family likes it too. Took a bit of experimentation on how to cook it well though. I cook it in tomato paste, Japanese curry, and coconut milk.

Wrote my review for Megalopolis! Hit me up if you want to read it. Considering submitting it to the commoner. It's 2000 words long lol

Can't believe “Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?” comes from freaking League of Legends.

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.

@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

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.

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.

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??😭”

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.

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.

God this is so true. “Anarchism if autism didn't exist”

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.

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.

@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?