Soundgarden – Blow Up The Outside World
Let me break it down for you, make it real simple. America itself is one giant prison, and the key to the lock is that bubble of ‘civility,’ of ‘civil society’ that Biden talks about, that the oligarchs and their politician pets, from the president down to the university administrator, use to dignify what is, at its core, an extremely exploitative and violent system. That’s what holds it together for them, and what allows them to commit so many crimes for which there are no enforceable laws.
And it is the same system, here or in Gaza, using the same command and control nodes and intelligence networks and financing and propaganda. Even now, the same mechanisms of the state, corporate and federal, that were used under Trump to attempt to crush the 2020 BLM and antifascist protests are being used to analyze, categorize, and disrupt opposition to the state and what the state chooses to do with your tax money. Right now, they’re taking names, infiltrating, mapping.
So there aren’t really political or legal solutions to this problem because both parties serve the same masters, and the system itself is a victim of its design. It will always be what it is, a machine that uses violence and intimidation to turn suffering into capital, here or abroad. What is needed is not to hide in bubbles of your own, but to expand. General strikes, non-payment strikes, everyone in the streets, every day, until their bubbles collapse to the size of a green zone in every city.
You, not genocidal old rich people, say what goes. If one climbs up onto a pedestal and starts threatening you or telling you what’s what, and you don’t like it, pull that person off the pedestal, and do it to the next one, and the next, and the next, and to any underlings they would send against you. When nobody’s brave enough to climb up there, destroy the pedestal. That’s what victory looks like. That’s what freedom looks like. Only then can you even start to imagine justice.
It was (very) orderly, up until a few days ago, and for the most part lawful. The students were going out of their way to run a ‘clean’ protest movement, and many of the so-called “outside agitators” (myself included) were supporting their decision, precisely to avoid a situation like 2020, because the students didn’t need that. They had much to lose. But it was making the Israeli government look bad, and they didn’t like it, so their American proxies allowed the police to riot.
Because the Israeli government thinks that the tactics used in Gaza or the West Bank, or even increasingly at home in Israel, are the way to deal with even the slightest, most polite dissent. And now it’s a shitshow, because this ain’t Gaza, but it sure as hell can be if you keep brutalizing people. We won’t put up with it, here. It will be like 2020 again, all summer long. And I’ll say it again, they will hate you forever, now, their whole lives. And you ain’t winning this election.
They will hate you forever, now, just as I do. Their whole adult lives will be an eternal war against everything you stand for. And they will raise their children to hate and fight you. Also, you ain’t winning this election 😀
Nirvana – Come As You Are