the-macra:

THESIS: the real reason that people stay on this hellsite is not “chronological order” or “the drama” or whatever (per se), but is instead linked to how tumblr, unlike most social media, is not optimised to give content as short of a half-life as possible, but instead is optimised to let content continue to cycle for months, years, even decades. this has in turn led to a more consistent centralised site “culture” in which there is more coherent linkage among different areas of the site, thus also explaining why its content permeates so thoroughly throughout the internet.

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blossomfully:

Confessional // Sue Zhao

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pyaasa:

pyaasa:

Burn Amazon to the ground ❤️

“Jeff Bezos could pay a $105,000 bonus to every Amazon worker and still be as rich as he was at the start of the pandemic.”

https://makeamazonpay.com

Make Amazon Pay

We are warehouse workers, climate activists, and citizens around the world, taking on the world's richest man and the multinational corporat

Make Amazon Pay

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probablyasocialecologist:

serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty:

“Shouldn’t the man who invented the iPhone own his own creation?”

An explanation by anti-capitalist brad pitt.

“Mazzucato lists twelve crucial technologies that make smartphones “smart”: (1) microprocessors;(2) memory chips; (3) solid state hard drives; (4) liquid crystal displays; (5) lithium-based batteries;(6) fast Fourier transform algorithms; (7) the internet; (8) HTTP and HTML protocols; (9) cellular networks; (10) Global Positioning Systems (GPS); (11) touchscreens; and (12) voice recognition. Every last one was supported by the public sector at key stages of development.”

Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, The People’s Republic of Walmart

“A critical history of technology would show how little any of the inventions [..] are the work of a single individual.”

–Karl Marx, Capital

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cup-o-fear:

quinndolyns:

people seem to have trouble understanding why i’m an anti-capitalist, so i’m going to try and put it into simple, real-life terms.

i work at a restaurant. i make $12 an hour, plus tips. minimum wage where i live is relatively high for my country - the national minimum wage is $7.25/hr, and has not been raised since 2009. before taxes, working full time, my yearly income is about $22,000 a year. ($25,000 if you count tips)

at my job, we sell various dishes, with an average price of about $10-$15. we get printouts every week detailing how much money we made that week; in one week, our restaurant makes about $30,000. (one of our other locations actually makes this much on a daily basis!)

i’m not going to go into details, but after the costs of production (payroll for employees, rent for the building, maintenance, and wholesale food purchasing) are accounted for, the restaurant makes an estimated profit of $20,000 per week.

this profit goes directly to the owner, who does not work at this location. the owner of my restaurant has actually been on vacation for a few months, but still profits from the restaurant, because they own it. i have met the owner exactly twice in my year of working here.

to put this into perspective, the owner of this restaurant earns in 2 days what they pay me in one year. and that’s just from this single location - the owner has several other restaurants, all of which make more money than the one i work at. this ends up resulting in the owner having an estimated net worth of tens of millions of dollars, even after accounting for the payroll for every single worker in their employ.

now, i have to ask you: does the owner of my restaurant deserve this income? did they earn it? did their labor result in this value being created?

the naive answer would be “yes”; the owner purchased the location and arranged for the raw ingredients to be delivered, did they not?

the actual answer is “no”. the owner may have used their initial capital to start the location, but the profit is a result of my labor, and the labor of my co-workers.

the owner purchases rice at a very low bulk price of about 25 cents a pound. i cook the rice, and within a few minutes, that pound of rice is suddenly worth about $30. the owner did not create this value, i did. the owner simply provided the initial capital investment required to start the process.

what needs to be understood here is that capitalists do not create value. they use the labor of their employees to create value, and then take the excess profit and keep it.

what needs to be understood is that capitalists accrue income by already HAVING money. the owner of my restaurant was only able to get this far because they started off, from the very beginning, with enough money to purchase a building, purchase food in bulk, and hire hundreds of employees.

that is to say: the rich get richer, and they do so by exploiting the labor of the poor.

the owner of my restaurant could afford to triple the income of every single person in their employee if they felt like it, but this would mean that they were generating less profit for themselves, so they do not.

the owner of my restaurant pays me the current minimum wage of my area, because to them, i am not a person. i am an investment. i am an asset. i am a means to create more money. 

when you are paid minimum wage, the message your boss is sending you is this: “legally, if i could pay you less, i would.”

every capitalist on the planet exploits their workers for their own gain. every capitalist, even the small business owners, forces people to stay in poverty so that the capitalist can profit.

This is a really good post

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serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty:

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t4t4t:

Native burial sites blown up for US border wall

"Controlled blasting" for Mr Trump's border wall is taking place at sacred gravesites, tribes and lawmakers say.

BBC News

Colonialism is not a concept of a bygone era.

@defendoodhamjewed on instagram is the best source to keep up with this issue that I’ve seen lately! Plus, they have a bail fund for land protectors!

DEFEND OODHAM LAND Bail Fund, organized by Tohono Oodham

Tohono O'odham, Akimel O'odham and Hia-Ced O'odham tribes have thrived and existed in the S… Tohono Oodham needs your support for DEFEND OOD

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probablyasocialecologist:

“Gandhian tactics do not, generally speaking, work in the US. One of the aims of non-violent civil disobedience is to reveal the inherent violence of the state, to demonstrate that it is prepared to brutalize even dissidents who could not possibly be the source of physical harm. Since the 1960s, however, the US media has simply refused to represent authorized police activity of any sort as violent. In the several years immediately proceeding Seattle, for instance, forest activists on the West Coast had developed lockdown techniques by which they immobilized their arms in concrete-reinforced PVC tubing, making them at once obviously harmless and very difficult to remove. It was a classic Gandhian strategy. The police response was to develop what can only be described as torture techniques: rubbing pepper spray in the eyes of incapacitated activists. When even that didn’t cause a media furor (in fact, courts upheld the practice) many concluded Gandhian tactics simply didn’t work in America. It is significant that a large number of the Black Bloc anarchists in Seattle, who rejected the lockdown strategy and opted for more mobile and aggressive tactics, were precisely forest activists who had been involved in tree-sits and lockdowns in the past.”

— David Graeber, On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets: Broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture

Its a mistake to depend on the media belonging to the capitalist class to talk honestly about the violent crimes of the armed enforcers who serve and protect their class interests and class domination with that violence. If they acknowledged the injustice of their violent moves to quell dissent it would erode the stability of their whole civil order which would be openly revealed to depend on violence to force itself on all of us. For the capitalist media is is imperative to always lie their brutal thugs must remain in the eyes of the public as knights in shining armor lest the dictatorship of the bourgeoise loses the appearance of legitimacy.

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babybear:

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tsscat:

If you were arrested for protesting in Chicago, Indianapolis, or Louisville, the law firm of Derrick Morgan Jr, Esq will represent you pro bono

Here is a thread of lawyers and law firms representing protesters pro bono

also donate to local free legal aid organizations, because as great as it is that these lawyers are providing free services rn, many legal aid orgs already provide free services every day to people who can’t afford to pay for legal help, and rely entirely on donations. bail is important but its only step one in what will be for many a very long and expensive legal process. there are often dozens or more in each state so i wont compile a list but you can easily find the ones in your area by googling. and dont forget about the legal aid orgs geared towards immigrants, because many protestors may face deportation or other retaliation that jeapordizes their ability to stay in the US.

You’re right! Here are two that I’ve found:

Legal Defense Initiative of Know Your Rights Camp: Created by Colin Kaepernick and focused on getting legal resources and lawyers to protesters in Minneapolis

NAACP Legal Defense Fund: legal aid fund dedicated to fighting for racial justice

Guys please add on more if you know any!!

Two more I’ve found:

Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project by Transgender Law Center:  Project dedicated to ensuring “the liberation of all Black people through community-building, political education, creating access to direct services, and organizing across borders”. You can also check out and donate to the other projects the Transgender Law Center has on their website (linked).

Baltimore Legal Action Team:  Dedicated to legal action that “serves grassroots movements” and promotes race equity.

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armchair-factotum:

“We take prisons for granted but are often afraid to face the realities they produce. After all, no one wants to go to prison. Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment. We thus think about imprisonment as a fate reserved for others, a fate reserved for the “evildoers,” to use a term recently popularized by George W. Bush. Because of the persistent power of racism, “criminals” and “evildoers” are, in the collective imagination, fantasized as people of color. The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such dispro­portionate numbers. This is the ideological work that the prison performs-it relieves of the responsibility of seri­ously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— ‘Are Prisons Obsolete?’ by Angela Davis (via smarmyanarchist)

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runcibility:

“People who are incarcerated are not permitted to hold paper money or coins. The funds they earn at work or receive from the outside world are held in what the state calls an “offender account.” They can send this money home or they can use it to buy things from the prison commissary. Things that we consider basic medical necessities—antihistamine, fungal cream, eye drops—are only available to incarcerated people through the commissary, and while they may appear inexpensive, they can cost an incarcerated person several days’ wages. The 65 cents an hour they earn goes right back to the prison. In 2016, one nonpartisan nonprofit group estimated that prison and jail commissary sales amount to 1.6 billion per year nationwide, a number they now believe could be even higher.”

— Sarah Resnick, Release Them All: New York State prisons and Covid-19 (via probablyasocialecologist)