Oh It's The Goblin That Lives In My Brain. What's He Doing On Tumblr?

another person has self-immolated in protest of the ongoing genocide happening in Palestine. his name is Matt Nelson, he self-immolated in front of the Israeli consulate in Boston, he is the 5th known person to have done this. Before he did this, he stated his intentions and reasoning in a Youtube video which has been reposted across several platforms and the condensed transcription is as following:

“My name is Matt Nelson and I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest. We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza […] We are slaves to capitalism and the military industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care. The protest I'm about to engage in is a call to our government to stop suppling Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the ICC indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government […] A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people, not the interests of the wealthy. Take the power back. Free Palestine.”

Remember his face, remember his name. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

good boy

Even the dog isn’t in agreement with your measures 😂

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

wait til you fuckers hear about The Expanse. it's got Jovian moon battles galore and ship crew polycules and maybe even some crazy alien goo please read it please I need a community to talk about it with and you're all so close it's so good. book 2 cold opens on the icy surface of Ganymede with a shooting war about to begin from the POV of a Samoan power armour marine girl from Mars. you get to watch space Mormons get their investments reacquisitioned for a harebrained scheme to save millions of lives. the protagonist has like ten biological parents for tax reasons.

twitter is being overrun by ice war posting. Best this sites been in ages

Dark Souls advice x Elden Ring

disagree. while obviously it's true that slavery is slavery and one of the worst things humans can do to each other, and have done for thousands of years, precise clocks have only been used in the workplace for ~200 years. *factory owners had the government issues fines* to their workers for being a single minute late, then /confiscated their pocket watches/ because they were cheating the workers of their breaks and slowing the clock during work. the sheer amount of machine authority involved in worker exploitation is absolutely an unprecedented change that is the calling card of modern Capitalism. medieval peasants the world over had way more time off than any worker nowadays, as did Egyptian slaves. their employers provided food and drink every day, and all work ever since the stone age has a universal pattern of "hard work day, relaxing work day, repeat"

Historia Civilis explains it better in his best video, titled simply /Work./ and Engels' "/The Authority of the Machine/" is like 2 pages long.

yes suffering and exploitation predates it, but there are undeniable and important differences that only came about around the turn of the 19th century, and they're bad enough to be worth singling out.

being an archaeologist in tumblr is so funny because I see so many text posts and go. Imperialism pre-dates capitalism. Rebellion against empires pre-dates capitalism. Money pre-dates capitalism. Social inequality pre-dates capitalism. Misogyny pre-dates capitalism. Wealth inequality pre-dates capitalism. Unilateral rule by oppressive rulers pre-dates capitalism. People’s dependence on their job for their survival pre-dates capitalism. Capitalism as an economic system is about 200-250 years old max but these problems are much, much older, and capitalism supports, entrenches, or exacerbates many of these problems… doesn’t mean it invented them and doesn’t mean they will simply cease to be problems After Capitalism.

god I love this game. the soundtrack is sick as hell DnB and the dopamine of breaking through to a new cavern is unmatched. a real gem of old Lego games before they all became reskin collectathon slop

It's quite clever really. Snails are famously quite slow. But in this case, the snail is fast. So fast, that it is able to participate in car races.

tear it all down

A new study found that 35 major corporations paid their execs MORE than what they paid in federal income taxes between 2018 and 2022. Each of the companies generated billions of dollars in profit over the same period. When I say the system is rigged for the rich, this is what I mean.

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