Follow Your Passion: A Seamless Tumblr Journey
Be mindful of anti-proletariat rhetoric.
Don't tolerate bullshit ideas like "unskilled labor", all labor is skilled, and capitalists want you to believe in it so they can justify paying hard working people practically nothing. If someone is giving their time and energy to someone else, they deserve respect no matter what.
Don't tolerate parents teaching their children to look down upon common laborers as "trashy work".
Don't tolerate this idea that poor people are lazy, most are poor for a variety of reasons: poor mental health, no generational wealth, bad investments, drug addiction, disability, unwanted children; but none of them are just laziness. If you know any poor people, you know they bust their ass every day to get a fraction of what their bosses have.
Don't tolerate people who say you should vote for a party that doesn't give a shit about the real workers.
Don't tolerate divisive ideas meant to distract the common man from getting back the surplus value stolen from him.
Don't tolerate propagandic opinion pieces from rich folk who want to keep you ignorant.
Love the working class, and eat the rich!
The fact that the large majority of people in America look at a homeless person and think "ew, get this trash out of my sight" rather than empathizing, wanting to help that person, and reflecting on the systematic flaws that allow this to happen is a sign that your civilization has fundamentally failed at being civil, and is more comparable to savagery.
Always remember that anyone who owns little to no capital is your ally, not your enemy, and thinking so means you've bought into capitalist propaganda like a sheep.
It's not because they think that they will be given money or get noticed, it's because they want to maintain the narrative of capitalism as a pure meritocracy. Capitalist theory tells us that hard work and risk is what will make you rich, and an incongruence between what rich people should be and what they are breaks this. To admit that someone like Elon Musk is an idiot who only got rich off generational wealth is to admit that capitalism is inherently flawed. That's why rich people are placed on this pedestal of perfection where they can do no wrong.
They aren't defending the individuals; they are defending the ideal of capitalism they have been taught all their lives.
Alright. Folks. Here is the thing.
Posting on tumblr, Youtube, BlueSky or other social media is nice and all. And it is very important to educate people. I mean, have of what I am doing on this blog is trying to educate people.
But I have realized, that it simply ain't enough. And this is why I am writing this.
I am sorry, folks, but y'all need to get going in the real world out there. And I mean it. No matter where you are, there is going to be some organization at your place trying to make a change.
Maybe it is a political organisation trying to get good people elected. Maybe it is a soup kitchen. Maybe it is some other mutual aid group. Maybe it is an organisation bringing stuff to disenfranchised people. Maybe some folks who band together to phone politicians. I don't what it is. But I can guarantee you, that almost for certain there is something around you, where people are trying to do good.
And you - yes, you! - need to join them. And you need to do it now.
As this is going online (this is prescheduled), I am out in some street canvassing for the German Left Wing party, because there is an election on Sunday. Tomorrow I will be out helping folks set up a protest against fucking fucking nazis. We are expecting more than 10 000 people to come on our side.
Yes, I know you are tired. And I know you might be somewhere on the spectrum. I am too. I am fucking exhausted. I am on the spectrum. Oh, and I am heavily physically disabled.
It does not matter now. We need to organize. We need to get moving. Educating some already similar minded people online is just not going to cut it anymore.
The world is out there. And you need to interact with it. No matter how much it sucks. Because I guarantee you, if you don't do it now, it is gonna suck even more in the future.
We should have done this before. Fuck. We should have done this latest when Greta Thunberg started her thing. At the most latest we should have gotten this going when the pandemic was happening. We had some movement with BLM, but we let it peter out.
No more.
The future begins now.
Diet and beauty culture feeds into capitalism.
Convince us that the natural human body needs to be painted, starved, and pinched into clothing. And then sell us products to achieve their expectations.
Hate capitalism. Love yourself.