Fast Track Fucke*y
Good Morning Comrades - a couple of notes before we kick off this week. As some of you may know, I started moving into a new apartment this past weekend and will be continuing to do so this week and into the next. With that there is a chance that some of this content may be a little flippant - it’s not a case of blowing this off but trying to pack, maintain some sort home order and actually move in a pandemic and not finding the peace and quiet to sit down and put coherent thoughts into words.Apologies ahead of time. Also, and this is nice, a truck load of new subscribers this week and a warm welcome from the fires of the burning empire to you. The way this place works is that you will receive 3 emails a week from me as a part of your free subscription. You have the option of paying a monthly subscription that seriously helps me keep the lights on that will get you an additional email per week with more in-depth musings as well as a discount code on any and all Black Lodges product I put out. That’s it for now.
New Week, New Playlist and FML I enjoyed this one. Considering all the turmoil over the last week this jam has a surprising small amount of balls to wall metal in it - but you know the new Batushka track made it as well as some older Old Man Gloom because that always gets my blood moving, however, it does then happily move on over into some Kraftwerk, new Warpaint, some love from Fela Kuti and thanks to my musical spirit animal, Alyasha, plenty of tunes that I would not have brought to the table. 3 hours of fucking emotional roller-coasting bliss if you ask me.
Continuing with more of a helpful positive vibe for now and this does fall into the How To Be An Anti-Capitalist in a Capitalist World category a comrade posted this most excellent comic the other day and threw in a grand number of links to help make this a reality. No matter how important it is to expose the fuckery that we exist under it is equally important to provide ideas and plans for an alternative reality. This is one of them that I condone.
How To Form An Affinity Group
How To Organize Community Councils
“Jackson Rising” A Great Book on Dual Power
A Useful Guide To Protests, Direct Action and Riots
There is a lot of “local” news worth talking about as Germany seems to be on an Autobahn path of total lunacy but I am struggling to put all the words into English and more importantly, in some sort of relevance. In short, of course, our coalition government of Conservative Christian Fuckers and the so called Social Democrats are corrupt beyond comparison, incapable or unwilling to actually deal with this pandemic in a logical manner - Hamburg, the city state that I live in just declared it’s 4th official lockdown which isn’t one because people still have to go to work etc - again, are corrupt beyond measure and hell, the cops, individually and structurally have finally decided to drop all pretense and just be the racist, undemocratic, dangerous, armed fascists that we have always said they were. This place is a swamp of bullshit, don’t believe the propaganda machine abroad and we have our work cut out for us. So whilst I don’t talk about it much on here, again, mostly due to the struggle of placing our super small town regional idiot way of life into a relevant global context, we’re utterly fucked over here and it’s a thing.
Now with some of the hot shots from the interwebs that caught my attention