Auntie Oedipus

Anticapitalism - animal liberation - anime hater
Writings on: media, gender, finance, ecology - useless PhD  

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2024-06-10 03:19:36

Hot take, but anarchism is first and foremost an ethical imperative, rather than a political one.

2024-06-09 23:57:03

Lmaooooo
https://portland.craigslist.org/nco/zip/d/canby-free-velcro-patches/7755430171.html
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2024-05-31 05:44:23

The sum total of my contributions to society: being hot, gay, and pissing all over America.
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2024-05-31 00:13:03

The ideal US economy is a VC fund selling 10 million dollar houses exclusively to cops.

2024-05-29 05:42:40

Given the choice between capital and the poor, who do you think the US will allocate water to?
If your answer is like mine, have a plan for collecting, maintaining, and distributing water that doesn’t rely on the state.

2024-05-01 08:42:04

🎶 THE ONLY GOOD COP IS A DEAD COP🎶

2024-04-27 03:47:24

The police don’t need “good PR” if there’s no substantive mechanism stopping them from beating you to death for no reason.

2024-04-19 23:45:05

A lot of people still not coming to the realization that authoritarianism doesn’t cite evidence, it fabricates evidence and calls it truth because that’s where its power lies.

2024-04-06 23:14:31

Right wingers absolutely want to destroy college because they are racist and hate queer people and the left, but more simply, it is for a lot of people the only time in life when you can explore new interests at your own discretion and they hate that.

2024-03-31 19:50:59

The continued reliance on and subsidization of oil ensures perpetually increasing energy overproduction/inefficiency in the same way dairy subsidies ensure milk is somehow an ingredient in everything; a state-backed impetus one should view, in both cases, as the apocalyptic death drive capital has always had at its core.

2024-03-25 19:52:31

The US could solve its housing crisis tomorrow by banning investment properties, but that would also crater the market, alienating the only constituencies politicians/the economy care about: homeowners and investors. When approached from this vantage, they reveal themselves to be two sides of the same coin, a propertied class wielding their assets to the detriment of society writ large.

2024-03-24 20:21:43

My most ‘out there’ belief is that if someone with real power could get 3M to make the N95 Aura in black, it would genuinely save lives.

2024-03-23 00:21:38

Sorry, people wearing masks are just objectively hotter than those who won’t.

2024-02-28 06:19:17

One aspect of this whole thing I haven’t seen explicitly stated much, is that journalists are brokers of information. They are vectors through which power is channeled and in that they themselves wield power. People justifiably hate them because they understand that 20 people in the NYTimes orbit shouldn’t be the means through which truth is validated.

2024-02-25 19:51:40

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And now even the representational aspects of the story are undermined. We went from a discussion of systemic harm done to a non binary trans person, to a discourse on journalistic integrity centered on two clout chasers. Something is lost in that, as is always lost in the commodification of life.

2024-02-25 19:45:57

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If you never actually threaten the structures of power that enable anti-trans violence, police violence, settler colonial violence, etc., to me, you are useless as a journalist.
All you’ve done is tell a story in which there is a bad person, rather than undermining the means through which bad people are made.

2024-02-25 19:40:35

Maintaining access to people in power is a fundamental attribute of the liberal journalistic ethos. How can you be expected to destroy that which you rely on? The NYT is just the apotheosis of a mindset which Lorenz et al also hold to be sacred and are thus unable to deviate from.

2024-02-23 23:35:23

Structures of hierarchical power endanger children.
- Removing encryption will endanger more kids.
- Attacking queer and trans people will endanger more kids.
- Decimating medical care will endanger more kids.
- Impoverishing children will endanger more kids.
Turns out the way to stop people taking advantage of kids is giving children *more* not less autonomy.

2024-02-22 09:34:44

As relevant as ever:
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2024-02-12 19:39:48

There isn’t a liberal in existence who hasn’t solemnly abandoned their ethics in the name of upholding the status quo.

2024-01-31 06:08:53

I make the same amount of money with a PhD in 2024 as I did as a janitor in 2004.
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2024-01-16 01:23:18

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@npub14rw…w066 Yahoo answers would never.

2024-01-06 23:39:30

I won’t go so far as to say there’s an inverse correlation between awareness raising and action, but people who complain on social media about “no one doing anything about x” tend to do nothing more than post about x.

2023-12-06 23:21:30

AI is the perfect technology for a time of the eternal present, endlessly vomiting out different combinations of already existing data and calling it the future.

2023-12-02 00:11:56

Someone in Atlanta self-immolated in protest of the genocide in Palestine. RIP comrade.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-palestine-protester-sets-herself-ablaze-outside-israeli-consulate-in-atlanta

2023-11-10 01:03:48

Society (across the political spectrum) is so fully invested in media as real life that any and all cultural production is elevated to the ‘real’ battleground of truth while the violences of material day-to-day existence slip into the ether.

2023-10-20 07:22:07

Death to fascism.
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2023-10-02 07:24:08

There are a lot of good things about mastodon, but it being virulently anti-car is one of the best.

2023-08-13 01:05:38

Hey Portland. SE 3rd between Ankeny and Ash, free planters and soil being used for houseless deterrence. There are security cameras in the area tbh
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2023-08-12 22:11:17

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@npub1lyy…t3qm lol have you seen this??
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2023-01-15 20:37:32

There is no subculture small enough to escape the vacuousness of other people and no ideology capacious enough to overcome the insufficiency of being you.