halfpipe [they/them]

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Cake day: August 31st, 2020

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  • pre-covid, It used to be a fairly chill place for people who had reached the “acceptance” stage of grief to look at graphs of ice sheet coverage and talk about maybe learning to grow potatoes.

    I hadn’t checked it in years, but it looks like the depressed climate scientists have been replaced by full blown survivalists and scared normies who think that collapse will be something fast, like a disaster movie, instead of the ongoing grind of people watching prices going up as wages stay the same, needing to hang on to clothing longer, no longer being able to see a doctor, or knowing their children will probably be unable to buy homes and start their own families.


  • We were saying 6 months ago that there would be a crackdown, simply because the US can’t support a genocidal colonial project if the victims can livestream their suffering to the world.

    But what’s really weird here, and I think no one could have predicted, is the mass suppression and arrest of Ivy League student protestors. They’re protesting peacefully, which they’ve been told is the only moral and acceptable way. They’re not making any material demands, and they’re not tied into a workers movement that could strike and threaten capital. Anyone with knowledge of previous college protests and the academic year could have told them that this is harmless, and that it would fizzle out as summer started, but instead they’ve violently cracked down in a way that’s causing the protests to spread, while also radicalizing and blackballing the children of privilege , the people that are supposed to carry on the ideological future of liberalism and sign up to be the next generation of the imperial bureaucracy and the NGOs.