A Giant Wallop of the Fuckening
As much as I aim to at least balance the positive, educational with the corruption and disdain of our overlords here, these last 48 hours have provided so many brazen examples of disdain for us that I had to edit this email down and might even have to send out another one on Sunday. The global return to normality is clearly being paved with no desperately needed changes apart from a new face of oppression and performatory hashtags. With that, let’s start with a closer look at several pieces of news before we get into the shit posting.
American Skin, the new movie by Nate Parker is something to look forward to. I am totally aware of the allegations set forth against Parker and that has played a role in my reluctance to write about this film and I am happy to discuss these below but here is the trailer for a film that is, if anything, going to make the white establishment in the US very uncomfortable.
The Federal Trade Commission is suing Facebook alleging that:
the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. Following a lengthy investigation … the complaint alleges that Facebook has engaged in a systematic strategy—including its 2012 acquisition of up-and-coming rival Instagram, its 2014 acquisition of the mobile messaging app WhatsApp, and the imposition of anticompetitive conditions on software developers—to eliminate threats to its monopoly.
There are ample reasons why Facebook Inc. should be broken up, the leadership punished and quite frankly the entire system, and yes, I mean the entire internet, be made a public entity and de-capitalized. Here is a link to a great article giving you reasons and background for that opinion. However, looking at the history of the FTC and immensely corrupt nature of the US government I can only dismiss this lawsuit as a half-arsed attempt at placating the public, I certainly do not have any hope that his lawsuit is meant in earnest let alone will achieve what it truly needs to do. Feel free to discuss this one as well, I am curious about everyones take on this.
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With that, let’s get into today’s shit posting. Again, I had to edit this down only because there was so much of it. Depending on my schedule I might have to drop another email this weekend but here we go. I’ll focus on some of the mind warping fuckening from the next US president. Myself and many other smarter people have been firing off warning shots that the president elect is going to be just as harmful to us, if potentially not worse than the previous one and the last 48 hours should be the final nail in the coffin of whatever liberal white hopes for a betterment - or probably not but that’s a different discussion. I forgot the take screenshot the tweet from Biden but it started off with him refusing to usher in a desperately needed hard lock down of the US in the face of over 3000 Covid-19 related deaths A DAY, close schools and issue financial support for his citizens. Essentially, nothing will change, the pandemic will continue to rage, people will die unnecessarily, people will be evicted and go hungry all the while he rode into the White House on the premise of following “the science” - which was a lie and you will suffer for it. At this point I do wonder if large parts of the US are engaged in some horribly gone wrong S&M role play where the public has forgotten the safe word:
Ryan Grim over at The Intercept broke a story about a Biden meeting with Civil Rights Leaders and whilst personally not surprising it is the clarity we all need. Obama has been pushing the narrative that “Defunding The Police” is a harmful slogan at best for the last few days and Biden here just pushes that narrative, in the face of a violent, racist police and justice system even further. Fuck all the performative appointments of POC’s to his cabinet, the ruling class give no heed to race or religion as long as you play along with their game. Do read this. It is important for at very least convincing you to organize against this return to normality.
Lest we forget that Time Magazine also put Hitler, Stalin, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Nixon on their cover as Person of the Year as well. Being angry about this is rightful but pointless in the larger context of change.
I am going to leave you with some more mind warping nonsense illustrating the final days of the Western Empire as capitalism is fast approaching its final stages, the Hunger Games becoming a frightening reality with a corporate Fascism already in the starting blocks whilst we continue to ignore the real enemy, punch down rather than organize up.
Finishing this week off, do not for one second believe it is any better here in Europe watch and listen to this. Possibly the best song of the last few decades, if this doesn’t make you cry in anger, as it makes me every time I hear / see this, good luck.