Gamers are all masochists, now?

Many game franchises today, typically after receiving comments and pressure from the hardXcore community, feel like they must update their games post-release to include “extra extra intense nightmare difficulty levels – permanent deathhhhhh” because modern gamers, living through pandemics, economic collapse and subsequent looting covered up by pandemics, late-stage capitalism, and open fascism, don’t get enough stress outside the home.

Sedition? For my constitutionally protected, non-threatening free speech? Bring it on, fascists!

So the fascists who control the US government are making mouth noises about charging anyone who says “Trump should die from the virus”, or just “Trump should be dead/I hope he dies” with *Sedition*, a felony that can carry the death penalty. I thought I should respond to this.

They aren’t calling for people who make specific threats of violence against specific people to be charged, as the law currently proscribes, but they want “sedition” charges for anyone who says “I hope Trump dies”, as fascists will do when you allow them to take power and dictate the narratives of your reality.

I felt like this was a good opportunity to update my blog, as I’ve been avoiding it in favor of brooding, clenching my jaw, and generally avoiding confronting the fact that this may end up bringing us to a civil war before we can free ourselves, and so here are a few supportive words for the president’s real or faked viral disease.

Like any relatively sane person alive, I hope that Donald Trump dies horribly and slowly of the covid, but I hope that his malignant narcissism guides him to do it publicly and on camera so that the populations he has harmed can see it with their own eyes. The American people and many around the world would benefit greatly from seeing this, and perhaps once Trump and his fascist goonsquad are dead and/or exiled, then maybe America can try to be Great Again, perhaps for the first time in 200 years of perpetual war, classism, and Caucasian, Judeo-Christian oligarchy.

Trump’s death would be an objectively positive event for the majority of people alive today. Prove me wrong.

Sadly, the entire thing may have been faked for the opportunity to write more religious propaganda for the Q cult and/or the religious zealots that make up most of his base, but one can hope!

Happy False Revolutionary War Day, Murderous Americans! Time to celebrate who and what you are!

Happy flag-pole noise day, patriots! Rah rah!

This is your day to demonstrate uncritical fealty to the blood-sucking parasites who’ve pitted us all – workers everywhere – against one another for hundreds of years as they maintain and reinforce the perpetual poverty and suffering you blame on black people, ‘outsiders’ and freaks, and/or some ridiculousness you saw on Fox/Breitbart/YouTube, etc.

You should brazenly detonate the loudest quasi-legal explosive devices you can get your hands on for your PTSD-suffering neighbor and their cowering animals, set some houses on fire by way of drunks and alpha-men managing your aerial displays, and generally make obnoxiously loud noises that sound like bombs and bullets in the faces of ANY and ALL in your neighborhood because, lets face it — this really is an appropriate way to celebrate what and who we are!

WAR SOUNDS, IN YOUR FACE! Don’t like it? Here’s 10 more! AMERICAAAAAA

From the very start of this merchant-capitalist colony gone awry, a controlled narrative has been in play that glosses over this nation’s inhumane acts and embellishes and highlights any acts that can be portrayed as good. This is the essence of the America First narrative and its coerced and censored public school history texts, its popular media and Hollywood portrayal, its civilian and governmental army of patriotism-evangelists and Evangelist patriots – who WILL NOT take no for an answer – and the like.

Speaking of narrative control, do you think the first war was a noble and good war? What sort of revolution was at the heart of the Revolutionary war, friends?

Since we are presumably celebrating the independence of this great nation from monarchy, which was a system that featured a church/state merger and a peasant class of worker who were perpetually poor so that the monarch, their family, and the aristocracy could live off their backs, lets talk about why our first war was fought, who fought it, and what they thought about it all at the time.

A few paragraphs to hopefully summarize– the goal of this independence was to allow the wealthy merchant-capitalist aristocracy, who did not wish to pay taxes to nor be controlled by the crown or the church, to separate from that arrangement and control their destiny, including trade partners. The wealthiest of the early American colonists whipped up a sense of patriotism in the poorer colonists by way of promises of happiness and prosperity, religious freedom, etc, but the prosperity would always favor a certain class of American at the expense of everyone else, and the contrived patriotism seen in colonists early-on evaporated as war with the British loomed.

There were large numbers of colonist workers, many who were simple farmers or tradespersons throughout early America, who did not care enough to desire a war with the British, and did not want to fight. Additionally the war was, as always, a war fought by the poor, prisoners, slaves, immigrants, and the lower ‘classes’. Wealthy families literally paid poor people to serve for them, or forced them through other arrangements. Many enslaved Africans fought, and not only on the side of the Americans. Some colonists even had their weapons seized by Washington, who claimed he would not return them unless those colonists agreed to fight the British.

The truth of that first war was, like the truth of every single of our wars, engagements, ‘peacekeeping missions’, or whatever we called it at the time, which is that the poor fought for the goals and aspirations of the rich, who allowed them to die for the economic order that the rich would now control.

We continue to live, work our days away, and die in non-defensive wars for causes that the vast majority of the population have no reason to be involved with at all, and it seems we have clearly defined what sort of ‘revolution’ this first war was; this was a revolution of the rich, who needed a working, fighting force to build America into a great wealth generation system for a few extremely fortunate dynasties and rich families, and they couldn’t have won any wars or extracted a single dime from the land we call ‘America’ without *us*.

Hard pass on Fourth of July, thanks. We will celebrate the struggles of the victims of capitalism on a day like today, such as the indigenous, black and brown folks, immigrants, and the millions of civilian primary, secondary, and tertiary dead we’ve caused around the world in our various theaters, and I’ll do it to the rhythm of your bombs blasting, just like they do in those victim nations all around the world.

We don’t work for family, community, or nation any longer, so why do we work? For whom do we work?

The ‘work’ we do every day went far beyond working for our families, our communities, and our nation a very long time ago, before many of us were even born, and the value of that work is no longer returning to us in ways that benefit us. In fact, the “surplus” value of our labor is being increasingly turned against us by those who ensure we don’t have control over it.

Now we work first and foremost for the capitalist oligarchy and its globe-dominating military, police, and intelligence systems, and what paltry energy and resources remain after they plunder us are allowed to trickle down, maintaining permanent insecurity, classism, fear, obedience, and political, ideological paralysis.

It is time to return to a formula that works for all, and one which supports and enriches our families, our communities, and our nation from the ground up – and treats us all with respect and dignity – as it must be in any healthy, functioning society. Why else would a species group up and develop into societies? To make life *harder* and less satisfying for the vast majority of participants so that a tiny slice of the population can live better than kings? Is that why we built all of this?

I think not. #GeneralAction now! Continue what we’ve started!

Keep an eye on that ‘blacks vs whites’ propaganda surge as blacks and whites fill the streets, demand change

Today, popular blogging sites like Medium, among other opinion blogs and columns, feature opinion pieces that make the claim “There is no such thing as a white ally”, and claim that white people only make everything worse when they try to help.

This of course comes during the largest multi-racial civil rights protests in US history, where pretty much *everyone* came out to show solidarity and fight this system as the system continually tries to claim it’s “just a few radical WHITE leftists and WHITE antifuhs” in order to 1) alienate blacks 2) alienate whites 3) fundamentally disempower the black struggle, and relegate it to a mere performative action by white people. Clever!

We can’t have unity of any kind, says the CIA. We have to insert that wedge. A little back-story on the CIA from Roy McGovern, nearly 30-year CIA analyst, leader of the Soviet Policy Branch, and advisor to presidents. He discusses Russiagate extensively here. McGovern famously published the quote from CIA director William Casey, where Casey said “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” in a meeting with Reagan. Something to keep in mind when thinking about media narratives in the US.

As is standard, the most popular propaganda is based on a kernel of truth, which in this case are the neoliberal centrist and conservative “white allies”, like Hillary Clinton, and other favorites like, lol, Kamala Harris, and of course Corey Booker, who want less to help black people, and more to help life go back to “normal” for themselves and for other people and donors in their class.

Oops! Did I mention Harris and Booker? My mistake. When talking about Useless, Pretend White Allies, who think they speak for black people when in fact they speak for the status quo, I can’t help but immediately think about the neoliberal democrats and their supporters, who do indeed believe they can speak on behalf of black people regardless what black people are saying. Something tells me the media has intentionally conflated neoliberal centrism with leftism, or indeed with “what white people think.”

YES! I think that’s it — what liberals say necessarily equates to what White People say, and the complicit elements in the media and opinion blog-o-sphere reflect this. Do white liberals represent the voices of all white people? Is that what we are being asked to contemplate? lol I *know* we can do better than this.

All ‘peace’ enjoyed by US citizens is not real, and has never been.

Every time tax-paying, voting, working-class Americans have enjoyed a period of “relative peace”, it has never been true, and was always selective.

When you ignore the plight of millions of people who are victims of our wars outside the country, and when you utilize the ready-made, imperialist, America First propaganda that tells you “they deserved it”, that’s how you feel “peace” as an entitled American.

When you ignore the systemic plight of Black and Brown people or blame it on them, when you ignore the largest per capita prison population on the planet, when you ignore the massive, obvious police brutality problem aimed disproportionately at Black and Brown people, and when you ignore how immigrant labor is abused, devalued, and controlled, that’s another way you feel “peace” as an entitled American.

And when you walk by the ballooning populations of indigents and people living without homes, when you also blame their plight on them and on their “decisions”, and when you support a political regime that treats these people worse than most other advanced nations on earth to save a couple bucks for the oligarchy, that is when you feel “peace” as an entitled, classist American.

The only time you can feel the sensation of “peace” as an American is when you turn off a large part of your critical thinking skills and put your head down, ignoring what is all around you, for the short-term escapism that you confuse with peace.

The US does not represent peace. We represent forever-war, classism, and abject exploitation of any weaker person, group, or nation. It is time for this all to change, and that time is NOW.

#GeneralAction now!

Virtual Breadlines, and other quintessentially American problems-

At least during the past, before the internet and online ordering, when the breadlines formed and basic supplies became limited you could *see* those breadlines forming, photograph them, and document them in this way.

Today, under late-stage capitalism and all it has wrought, the ‘breadlines’ are virtual since most people order online and enjoy, lol, “free shipping” because of a gargantuan monopoly that has occurred there, forcing other companies to also offer “free” or similar shipping.

Couple that with an intentionally mishandled viral pandemic, where people were ORDERED to stay inside (and not vote, or think about the economic looting), and the breadlines that formed for basic supplies stretched on in the thousands, but who saw them?

Nobody but the analytics department at your favorite online mega-brand retailer, and that analytics department would *never* damage the brand by admitting the huge queues, delays, and problems with online shipping that are occurring as we speak.

In America, the breadlines are virtual and nobody can see them, meanwhile we ceaselessly attack more social economies around the world as leading to “breadlines”, which of course happens there after the US and its allies have CAUSED them.

Can’t hide those righteous uprisings in the streets, though, nor can you hide the fact that most of the population supports them. #GeneralAction always, until #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd and the abolishment of these militarized, occupying police forces on our streets! NO JUSTICE? NO PEACE!