Let's talk about Trump and the GOP’s red scare rhetoric failing on the youth....
[The right-wing managed to mainstream socialism, which socialists were never able to do, simply by using it as a "derogatory" label for every means of government assistance that helped people most in need.]
[Young people without Cold War experience of socialism embrace the political ideology without associating it with the Soviets.]
He changed the job description of what a comedian could be.
[Selling to a satisfied person is hard.]
[Curiosity is an antidote to the fatigue and paralysis caused by information overload.]
[Listen to the ones who want you to think, not the ones selling you a team to join.]
[Listen to those who don't need anything from you.]
Carney's financialization brought us Trump's fascism
[Carney represents and helped manifest the rules-based order that he admits was a lie (it never applied equally) and that he now mourns.]
[When we have been morphed by financialization into players within a cruel game of artificial scarcity, the feeling of being cheated out of the world we deserve becomes fuel for fascists to exploit in order to take control.]
[Capitalism produced (among others) a crisis of social reproduction that prevents a large portion of population from having enough material stability to start families. Fascists reframe this decline in population growth as caused by LGBTQ people attacking traditional family values.]
[Fascism today breaks with the anti-capitalism of Hitler and Mussolini to use markets as the arena to demonstrate strength and capacity to rule. Cronyism and bribes are common because they signal acceptance by the market.]
[Webcams flatten people and their interactions.]
[Wise guests can turn dumb questions into insightful and informative answers.]
[Not showing their feet in the shot focuses on their face, hands, and fashion, and speaking as Greek busts.]
two worms find themselves
[Stock offerings have historically been a way for the public to generate wealth by participating in a company's growth, but they can limit people's returns via IPO after decades of operation. Microsoft's price today is 750x from 1986. SpaceX's $1.8 trillion valuation after 24 years of operation is ninety-two times its yearly revenue, which means they would need to be eventually be worth over a quadrillion dollars to achieve similar returns.]
Marx, Ecology and the Lie of Separation
[We can go beyond "consume better, recycle better, choose sustainable products" to ask "who owns the land? who controls energy? who profits from extraction? who bears the waste and breathes pollution? who labours? who has water? who gets sacrificed for development?"]
The Diary Of A CEO: Jefferson Fisher
[Walk into a room as if you've been there before and everyone else is visiting.]
[I want to know the names of helping staff, how many times they've done this today, how they're doing, because it's too easy to just talk to the "important" people.]
[Let your breath be the first word.]
[In times of emotional crisis, they walk instead of running. Being calm is contagious.]
[Announce whether either of you is under capacity, and if both are then make a plan for kindness towards each other.]
["Indian belly" as a meme distracts from systemic famines during British colonial rule that resulted in millions unalived and future generation bodies storing energy maladaptively.]
[Talking about the world's problems is optimistic, rather than pessimistic, because it implies we could and should be doing better.]
[Standing up to power relies on believing change is possible.]
[The powerful speak with a tone of inevitability to convince you that change is not possible.]
[There is no secret sauce: any prolonged collective act of non-compliance will do.]
Lessons Learned from Personal Recovery Stories
[Healing can be perceived as a threat to the wounded if it indicates that they resist changing.]
Simon Wardley: An Introduction to Wardley Maps
[Maps depersonalize the strategy, which makes its discussion less political.]
The "Controlling Girlfriend" Trope and the Patriarchy of Male Excuses
[Women assumed to manage everyone's emotions means responsibility for "his promise", "his drinking", "his mother's promise", family anxiety, a friend's insult, public embarrassment, party mood, and her own hurt.]
Hostel Curfews, Patriarchy & Women's Right to the Night
[Sipping tea at night or hanging with friends without permission is political.]
[The night should belong to everyone.]
To remember to protest even if you are alone
[I do it not to change the country, but so that the county doesn't change me.]
Travel for people who love you is the only ethical way to travel at all.
[Go only where you've been invited by people who love you.]
[There is nothing to do in cities. The best part is leaving.]
[Consent and relationship are not things you can buy.]
[Tourism is visiting a "story" of the place that isn't relational.]
DAVE CHAPPELLE in His Own Words: Fame, Family & Finding Balance
[The laughs of my mother, grandmother, and grandfather sounded like music, and it's one of the reasons I wanted to be funny: to hear that beauiful music.]
Harry Mack: How To Improve Free Association
[Practice free association with your notes app by making a list starting with any word and following it with whatever comes to mind. Try to be non-judgemental. More important that it makes sense to you than to other people. When you're comfortable to try with a beat, you can just fill space with "uhh" or other rhythmic sounds and simply land on your next word to practice changing in time.]
Music training really trains you to break things down into manageable parts. Teaching well exposes the atomic elements of a practice so that you can find the right entry point for your level of skill or experience.
Harry Mack: How To Get Better At Freestyle Rapping - Setup, Punchline
[Practice is strategically targetting your weaknesses to help them improve over time.]
[Wanting to sound great means willing to sound bad so that you can practice.]
[Deciding what object in the room you'll freestyle about and what to call it takes up mental RAM that could be spared if you use a simple word generator to practice.]
When you notice conflict or strong emotions being minimized, beware.
[Appeasement is always a red flag in relationships.]
