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ChapotraphouseA History of Black Rose/Rosa Negra
Introduction
As of 2024, Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN) has been in existence for ten years. Many on the left are aware of who we are and what we stand for. But where did we come from? When, how, and why did anarchist militants create the first national, libertarian-socialist organization in the US since the 1990s?
BRRN was founded through a multi-year unification process of local and regional groups in the US who came together with the ultimate goal of libertarian socialism and with a strategic focus rooted in building popular power through mass movements. Then, as now, we felt that tackling the dangers and possibilities of this era can’t simply be left up to chance. The urgency of our moment not only demands a clear vision for revolutionary social transformation but a coherent and actionable strategy for achieving such an immense goal. This is why various groups of revolutionaries came together over a decade ago, seeing the necessity of long-term revolutionary strategy and recognizing political organization as the vehicle to carry us forward.
This piece aims to briefly present our history within the context of organized anarchism in the United States specifically, as well as to summarize our influences and provide an overview of our accomplishments. A Pre-History of Black Rose/Rosa Negra: The Rise and Rebirth of US Anarchism
From 1870s to the 1930s, anarchism was an influential current within the US socialist movement—from the era of the Haymarket Martyrs when anarchists ran daily newspapers, formed their own central labor union, and led the fight for the eight hour day; to the Magonistas of the PLM (Partido Liberal Mexicano) who organized clandestine networks from the US side of the border to spark the 1910 Mexican Revolution; to the anarchist-influenced IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) union that led pivotal strikes, which were multi-racial and inclusive of women, under the banner of revolutionary unionism. In this period, anarchism was largely rooted in various immigrant communities of German, Italian, Mexican, Cuban, Jewish, Spanish, Caribbean, and Russian workers.
By the post-war period, the influence of anarchism was marred by the successful assimilation of its immigrant base into an American way of life in the US and was largely eclipsed by Marxism. With few exceptions the political tendency of anarchism became an intellectual tendency, promoting moral and cultural ideals like pacifism and bohemianism with little connection to social movements. While a new generation of radicals in the 1960s picked up anarchist ideas, the adherents of this period continued to treat anarchist politics as a principally cultural project without a social base and defined more by anti-authoritarian individualism and rejection of the Marxist left than by a positive program or strategy.
In the 1970–80s anarchism remained mainly subcultural, though this period saw a reemergence of efforts by anarchists to form national organized networks to coordinate action and communication between local groups. Such efforts included the Social Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (SRAF), and the Anarchist Communist Federation of North America (ACF). Still, these efforts lacked cohesion, a common politics, and anything resembling a shared strategy. Another key point of reference during this period was work done to rebuild the influence of anarchism within the labor movement by groups such as the anarcho-syndicalist Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA) and anarchist members within the re-invigorated IWW. During this period, a number of figures from the Black Power movement, mainly incarcerated former members of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, came to anarchism through criticisms of the top-down reformism of the Civil Rights movement and the Leninist vanguardism of the Black Panthers.
US anarchism in the 1990’s was largely marked by the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation, often referred to simply by the name of their widely read publication Love and Rage. Founded in 1991 in Minneapolis, the group had an activist and street-protest-oriented politics with strong participation in anti-war, abortion rights, and anti-fascist movements. Importantly, Love and Rage was an international organization, maintaining a strong local presence in Mexico City which called itself Amor y Rabia. Politically, Love and Rage hosted wide-ranging debates on contemporary politics and theory, which stood in contrast to much of the radical left of the period. They were also highly influenced by the 1994 Zapatista rebellion, publishing news and translated materials on the uprising and making solidarity work one of their key pillars. As Love and Rage grew, it struggled to move beyond its network mode of organization. Two factions eventually emerged within Love and Rage: one that saw the need to develop a more deliberate structure and strategy, and another which wanted to maintain the existing looseness of the network. This impasse led Love and Rage to dissolve in 1998.
The 1998 disbanding of Love and Rage left a legacy and living memory that influenced subsequent groups including Bring the Ruckus (BTR, 2002–2012), the Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC, 2000–2013), as well as BRRN. Its contributions towards anarchist political organization included a culture of lively internal debate, discussions around the structure of national organization, expectations and commitment of a group’s members, the nature of US white supremacy and need for multi-racial organization, as well as questions of contemporary revolutionary strategy.
Coalescing in the wake of the 1999 “Battle of Seattle” anti-globalization protest, NEFAC was founded in 2000, incorporating local groups across the northeastern US as well as French speaking groups in Quebéc and Toronto, Canada. Drawing on the global anarchist tradition of platformism, the group channeled the energies of anarchists coming out of the “summit hopping” protests of the anti-globalization era to reorient radicals towards rooted labor and working-class community organizing. Perhaps most notably, NEFAC was a force for developing pro-organizational and class-struggle politics within North American anarchism.
Another point of influence on the formation of BRRN was the 2007–2008 North American tour, in forty-four US and Canadian cities, by Andrew Flood, a member of the Irish Workers Solidarity Movement (1984–2021). Founded by former Irish anti-colonial (or republican) movement activists, WSM was exceptionally prolific in its campaign activity, publications, and in promoting platformism internationally as a tendency. The tour presentation, “Building a Popular Anarchism in Ireland,” outlined the growth of the Irish anarchist movement from the late 1990s to the late 2000s, making an argument for an outward looking and organized movement. Andrew also scheduled additional meet ups with local anarchist activists.
The Founding of BRRN
The process of BRRN’s founding emerged from a series of invitational conferences that brought together groups and individuals from across the country with panels, discussions, and speakers. These Class Struggle Anarchist Conferences (CSAC) were initiated by the New York WSA with support from other groups and held in New York City in 2008, Detroit in 2009, Seattle in 2010, and Buffalo, NY in 2012. By the end of the Seattle conference a formal network of participating organizations emerged and agreed to a process of rapprochement whereby delegates from each group would participate in structured discussions and debates with the formal goal of building political unity towards the founding of a national organization.
These efforts culminated in a February 2013 conference in Rochester, NY wherein participants focused on developing a points of unity document and planning for what would become BRRN’s November 2013 founding convention in Chicago—though the formal public announcement of the new organization would not be made until January 2014. Core decisions taken at the convention included commitments towards building a shared strategic orientation, merging together localized groups and collectives into a unified national organization, and striving to be a bilingual English/Spanish organization.
The groups involved in this process were locals of Common Struggle / Lucha Común (the new name adopted by NEFAC in 2011) in the northeast, Rochester Red and Black, Miami Autonomy and Struggle (MAS), Four Star Anarchist Organization in Chicago, Wild Rose Collective in Iowa City, and individual members of Workers Solidarity Alliance. Groups that participated in the process but disbanded prior to the founding of BRRN included Amanecer: For a Popular Anarchism in California, Common Action in the Pacific Northwest, and Prairie Struggle Organization in the Canadian prairies. WSA and First of May Anarchist Alliance (M1AA) chose not to join but continued comradely relations. Soon after the formal announcement of BRRN’s formation, members of the Austin, TX based collective Desde Abajo began the process of integration.
**Influences and Activities **
A key influence on the politics of BRRN at its founding was the politics of especifismo, the Latin American current of anarchism that first took shape in 1950’s Uruguay and which inspired and was elaborated further in subsequent decades by anarchists in Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Core concepts drawn from especifismo were the need to organize on the political, intermediate, and social levels; the importance of conjunctural analysis of the contemporary political moment and forces which shapes a shared strategic orientation; and the role of popular power as the lever for revolutionary rupture and transformation. We see popular power as the long-term process of building independent, durable, and combative social movements that can not only wrest reforms from the dominant classes in the present, but function to accumulate the necessary capacity and force to carry out a revolutionary social transformation.
At its founding, BRRN prioritized developing international relations and highlighting the inspiring work of anarchists especially in Latin America, publishing numerous translated documents and interviews, organizing speaking tours such as Struggling to Win: Anarchists Building Popular Power in Chile in 2014 which included nearly fifty events in twenty-two cities across the US. Since then, BRRN has continued prioritizing internationalism through numerous solidarity campaigns, delegations to international gatherings, and our ongoing relationships with anarchist political organizations around the globe, particularly in South America. In 2023, BRRN became a formal member of the International Anarchist Coordination, a network of over a dozen platformist and especifista groups across the globe.
Another early focus of BRRN was the building of a robust external media infrastructure which aimed at presenting a diverse and movement-focused public face for anarchism. This has included strong social media presence, the creation of the From Below Podcast and the publishing of a reader and a series of articles on Black Anarchism, debates on electoralism, anarchism in Latin America, and feminist theory.
In the realm of social movements, BRRN has worked to rebuild the tradition of mass anarchism rooted in contemporary popular and working-class struggles. From rank and file labor organizing among teachers and building new unions with fast food workers; to solidarity networks, popular assemblies, and tenant struggles with ATUN (Autonomous Tenant Union Network); feminist organizing and struggles around bodily autonomy; to fighting back fascists in our cities, organizing students on our campuses, and struggling against the violence of the carceral state. We’ve also participated and played roles in many of the large moments of street protest and rebellion that have occurred in rapid succession since our founding. From the Ferguson Uprising and NYC People’s Climate March in 2014; Standing Rock in 2016; revolutionary feminist interventions in the Women’s March and anti-fascist organizing before, during and after the Charlottesville events in 2017; and the George Floyd Rebellion of 2020.
Most prominent has been BRRN’s focus on labor and workplace struggles. Our members have played key roles in starting new unions in healthcare and higher education, participated in major strikes in K-12 and higher education, helped formed rank-and-file caucuses in the building trades, put forward healthcare worker demands during COVID, organized Palestine and BLM solidarity campaigns in our workplaces, built an organized presence at Labor Notes conferences, and released a 2019 analysis on the state of unions and worker struggles. In contrast to recurring cycles of single-issue, activist-oriented mobilization, our orientation highlights the construction of rooted movement building and sustained bases of working-class power where we live, work, and study.
The Trump Era and Beyond
With the election of Trump in 2016, the US underwent a period of deep politicization and polarization. This moment saw BRRN turn our focus to better understanding the developing conjuncture, with a focus on identifying the threats and opportunities before us. Pushing forward on organizing efforts and undergoing substantial membership growth, we released a series of strategy documents in this period, including 2017’s “Below and Beyond Trump”, a 2018 follow-up piece “Building Popular Power in a Time of Reaction” and, also in 2018, the statement “Kavanaugh and a Feminist Movement Fighting to End Capitalism”. The pieces discussed the growing political crisis of the US ruling class and subsequent social and political polarization that the US was undergoing. Key observations included the rise of the far-right and growth of left and socialist politics, including the rising emphasis by some quarters of the left on electoralism; the fractured and disorganized nature of social movements dominated by the institutional left of nonprofits/NGOs, and bureaucratic labor unions; and the need to rebuild offensive movements from below guided by a clear libertarian socialist program.
In the wake of the pandemic and George Floyd Rebellion in 2020, BRRN wrestled with a period of internal conflict that resulted in a substantial number of members exiting the organization. Rather than simply continue a course that had led to such dire circumstances, BRRN members resolved to take a two-year hiatus from public activity in order to reflect, restructure, and reorient the organization. Coming out of this period of self-examination, we held a year-long process of collective debate and analysis with the intention of developing a more concise and deliberate national strategy for the organization. This long and sometimes arduous process produced our organization’s first ever political program, “Turning the Tide: An Anarchist Program for Popular Power” released on May Day 2023. Bringing new political and practical clarity to our efforts, the document outlines our understanding of the social, political, and economic structures of domination we face, an analysis of the ways that these enduring structures shape the present conjuncture, and offers a clear vision of the world we are fighting for while also laying out the strategic and tactical means to reach our aims. Conclusion
A decade on from our founding, Black Rose / Rosa Negra continues to grow in every facet of organizational life. We are committed to the ongoing practice of discussing, debating, and developing ourselves politically and believe that the introduction of our program represents a significant step forward in this regard. Our membership is growing, with new Locals and contacts in nearly every major city in the United States. Members of Black Rose / Rosa Negra are sinking ever deeper roots in their sites of social insertion, whether in the labor, tenant, student, or neighborhood organizing sectors. We are strengthening our relationships internationally by coordinating with existing sibling organizations and offering support to the fledgling organizations of our current.
Each step we take is informed by the work of those who have come before us. From the earliest examples of organized anarchism in the United States, exemplified by groups like the International Working People’s Association, up to the organizations which directly preceded our own. Their history is our history and we walk the same path. This is why we believe that the retention and transmission of a shared historical memory is necessary for any effective revolutionary organization.
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I'm having bladder issues and was wondering if it was a prostate thing, so I found this quiz that a doctor would give you, called the "International Prostate Symptom Score (I-PSS)".
They really missed the most obvious acronym for it
(I-PSS)
no i don't doc, that's the problem!
Medical acronyms range from bad to real bad.
You could theoretically have an ASD patient with ASD and a history of ASD.
You could have a HONDA who has an ED and ED. (Honda is up there with FLK in terms of mean spirited acronyms I have actually heard)
And RAD isn't nice to have.
Big shout out to hating my job! Been a fucjing miserable week and I hope somwone drone strikes the building in a demonstrative fireball frying all the decadent piggies inside
Do you guys think dental students joke about having oral exams
My friend has a bad habit of not double checking or revising his work. Earlier in 2022 he asked me to look at his resume as he was looking to apply for new jobs. I said sure. Let's say his name was Tom Henderson. I edited the name to be: Tom "The Celery Man" Henderson. I also added a bullet point to each of his positions in job experience that said "Crunching & Munching that Celery."
Why did I do this? I did this as a joke, assuming he'd see it and remove the silly edits. When I gave him feedback on the resume I asked him if he would be sure to make some revisions before sending it out. He said sure.
Well, he didn't. Not only that, but he never noticed the edits.
It turns out since April 2022 he has been sending out resumes with "The Celery Man" on the resume. He has good experience and has been frustrated all year how he got like no interviews. He actually had one initial call with a recruiter and was perplexed when the recruiter guy called him "Celery Man", he had no idea what it meant but just went along with it. Never got a 2nd interview.
Finally, before New Years he had a legit interview. They also made a "Celery Man" joke, which astounded him, and he asked why they made this reference. They told him it was all over his resume. He was mortified. He even told them he had no idea this was on there, but in doing so it basically came out that he had never looked at his resume. He thinks this is the reason he didn't get the job.
In any case, I had to confess to him I was the one who did this, but it had never been my intention that he would actually send it to jobs. I thought he'd have noticed it right away.
Well, he is quite mad at me. He said I've "made him the jackass to all of the NYC tech scene" and that I "went beyond all acceptable lines of pranking". I think he is overreacting a bit, I mean it is just a silly prank really and how in the world does somebody not notice this for almost an entire year on their own resume?
I am worried it might cost me this friendship though so I am hoping to find a way to make it up to him.
TL;DR - I edited the resume of my friend to name him "The Celery Man" as a bizarre moniker, but he never noticed and sent it out to employers, making him seem weird.
This is not even a lathe because it's so obvious it's going to happen: Hollywood executives are going to take the wrong lessons on why Markiplier's Iron Lung was so successful. Instead of the lesson being "audiences want original movies that aren't just from the same few sources", it will be "Audiences like streamers. Put more streamers in the movie!"
Just like how when the Spiderverse movies were successful, the conclusion wasn't "animation is the best medium for comic book movies", it's "audiences like multiverses, put multiverses in everything!"
Remember when 9/11 convinced yanks they enjoyed ventriloquism?
My Instagram account got disabled for "breaking the rules" even though I've never uploaded or commented on anything there
this is like when banks fine you for not having enough money in your account
Maybe lurking is against the rules
ex that i'm still ambiently in love with emails me and tells me she's pregnant. i want to die.
thanks for responses. one of the worst bits is that i feel like i can't share this with my friends. i've been such a sop for her and they've heard it all before forever and it's just so pathetic. maybe some would/will be cool but it makes me feel awful that others would only deign to hear about it.
been there
also was invited to the wedding of another ex
i have to assume they were acting out of sheer spite but who knows
I helped a former fling move in with his boyfriend recently. I don't know your ex, but some people are just very friendly with exes or want to be at the very least.
the wedding invite is a rough move. Tulathimutte has a short story, Pics, about a young woman's failed hook up with a close friend, and it ends with her accepting an invite to his wedding, after a long/brutal fall out. awful stuff, but very funny when not happening to oneself.
you'd think it'd be motivated by a bit of meanness, but she's very kind-hearted but low EQ and genuinely probably just doesn't want me to hear from mutual friends/ wants to gently shake me out of my pining.
I'm really sorry you're going through that
Are we talking recently ex such that the kid could be yours or no?
thank you. no i'm pining for lost love from a few years ago.
my curt, though well wishing response started with, "well, i suppose it's probably not mine!" (i'm very funny even in defeat and wish it were)
Very good response lol
Go ahead, keeping inventing neo pronouns. I don't give a fuck. I'll just keep categorizing them all into "boy" and "girl" pronouns on an instantaneous, instinctual level.
Like colours.
Skit idea: A medieval alchemist finally figures out how to do alchemy, creates gold easily, expects to change the world. Only for merchants to tell him that transmutated gold "doesn't count" as real gold.
(This is about lab-grown diamonds.)
The opposite of a space cowboy is an earth horsegirl
Accidentally bought a book from a zionist ebay seller. More than Words Youth. Gross asf.
::: spoiler poop ::: spoiler no seriously there is nothing here but poop ::: spoiler really? you're sure you want to see this? ::: spoiler alright, i tried to warn you 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I think the containment of the megathreads has made them less active, at least the trans thread anyway. I would have expected a lot more posting in the past day
same for news mega
I only had 6 new inbox notifications instead of 20+ so its definetily less active
Having a criminal argue with me about the rights of convicted criminals right after they got done complaining about police overreach of their own person is making me feel gaslit.
You just got done telling me how the police are all pigs and now you want to tell me how the police need more powers.
Got to spent the day with kids today and am here to tell you that the kids growing up right now, they are all right.
Far more communism positive in all the ways than I ever could have expected and extremely ready to burn capitalism to the ground. Love to see it.
🚨THERE IS A MISSING WHITE LADY. THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨
they never let the number of missing white women make a heap before they make a huge deal of it
https://youtu.be/TMb7tRpRstk
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Bike tyre replaced. Couple days later flat again
I’m not ruling out sabotage no fucking way it happened again
I had a nearly invisible bit of wire penetrate my tire tread and repeatedly pop tubes. Had to run fingers along the inside of the tire to feel it out
the grains of deflation are trying to make a heap of defeat on your tyres! do not let them!
Some ideas:
Could be something is wrong with the rim. Maybe old rim tape / a lack of rim tape? Do you know the type of flat? Too low of pressure can lead to snake bite holes.
Is the tyre itself damaged or just the inner tube?
is the tyre itself damaged or just the inner tube
Now that I’ve calmed down I’m just thinking of getting a new tyre. I’ve also been told that no puncture was found last time it was fixed. maybe just maybe a new tyre is needed
Usually the flat is just the inner tube, usually a snake bite that comes from the tyre + inner tube deforming so that the tube gets cut between the tyre and rim. Easier to happen if underinflated but can also happen if a rock looks at you wrong. There are also often sharp edges inside rims that need to be taped off, so a bad tape job (or no tape job) leads to repeated flats.
If these are the old tyres with new tubes, you could verify that there isn't anything sharp on the inner wall of the tyres (carefully!). Another cause of repeated flats is when you get a tiny puncture by something sharp that embeds itself in the tyre. A new tyre will fix that problem but also sometimes so will pliers.
Every jrpg should just let their party wizard cast a magic nuke that kills literally the entire evil emperor army numbering millions in a flash.
Myy professor and the textbook disagree and both of my usual tie breakers aren't clear. What do?
Go with the textbook and give a citation.
It's an oral exam
I like that I can be myself on hexbear. I like that I can freely talk about my hobbies like computers and music. I like that I'm not judged for having vices. I like gambling and kinky sex and larceny but my god if you bring that up casually on reddit it's like the first time a 12 year old hears a swear word. I'm happy I get to learn and share what I know abouy communism and world events on here.
I love y'all. I'm happy I get to post with my comrades
We love you too, kinky gambler <3
'There's the rub' is from Shakespeare?? huh
Lots of common words and sayings were coined by him, but they were probably in use at the time and he was just the first to write them down. He’s basically a patent troll for the English language
Ik, but that phrase specifically always sounded to me like one of the huge number of phrases that came out of baseball or something
I thought it was an ancient genie saying
maximum, i cannot stress this enough, massive solidarity with san francisco unified school district who go on strike on monday
first strike since the seventies
a million times braver than the troops
Finally went to the range with my friend today after like a year of no shooting, and I forgot how much a few hours there will take it out of you. Feels really good to train a new person, at the start thy were struggling to remember controls and by the end they were hitting small targets and clearing malfunctions on the 22 like a pro. Meanwhile I was building back my breath control and accuracy because my dumb ass wanted a 1911 in 45 because 2 World Wars Big Gun Big Bullet Big Cool. I do like the noise factor though, it's nice to have a blammer. By the end of it I managed to ring the steel from 50 meters with every shot in the mag and a huge grin on my face. It feels good to be proficient. Getting pretty good at mag swapping too.
In "nature is healing" news, there were the obligatory guys in freedom eagle american flag shirts firing one handed in action movie poses, hitting nothing.
Guns are heavy and recoil is a force on your upper body. How big was the steel? 50 meters is a long pistol shot.
Thanks, I would say it was roughly coffee shop sign board-size
Poe 2 making all the str class men in big 2026
Clavicus Vile is just Todd Howard in his true form idk siri delete that shit i dont wanna post it no more
the grains of the reluctant badpost form the foundational heap of goodposting
The Dirtbag left? where did it go off to?
Weird night and weird vibes
Malt is any cereal grain that has been made to germinate by soaking in water and then stopped from germinating further by drying with hot air
tfw
New Sam Raimi is fucking PEAK!
Touchdown Sam has DONE IT AGAIN!
I was like this for a ton of the movie and also like this
Edit: I'd like to add that I knew absolutely nothing about this movie other than that it was directed by Sam Raimi and people were saying it was a return to form. I would highly recommend going in completely blind.
yes it was so good! Rachel McAdams was, as they say, a tour de force
She was terrific! She adapted to the Sam Raimi style perfectly, and in a few scenes strongly reminded me of Bruce Campbell in the Evil Dead movies. Dylan O'Brien was excellent too.
Guitar - BUH-NUH
BENEATH THE VELVET LIES
Guitar- DUH DUH NUH WEEEOW
LIES A TRUTH THAT'S HARD AS STEEEEEEEEEL
Update: BWAH NUH
THE VISION NEVER DIES-IES!
BAH -Nuh -skweeee-NUH
LIFE'S A NEVER ENDING WHEEEEEEEEEL-hey
Big news about the Holy Diver!
YOU'RE THE STAR OF MASQUERAAAAAAAAADE
NO NEED TO BEEEE SO AFRAAAAAAAID
The Grateful Dead has to be the band who's name and logo are least appropriate for their music. They have the name of a goth band abd their logo looks like it should belong to The Offspring or something
I do not understand jam bands.
The Grateful Dead trouble me deeply.
Philistine
Perhaps - my only socialist teacher in high school was into Phish so maybe I'm in the wrong. I can't help it though - I never want to hear that shit.
no accounting for taste
The only jam band I've ever enjoyed is Earthless and that's cause theyre basically Electric Wizard but instrumental, it's sick, but only technically apply. Like you cant call all of jazz Jam Bands. I used to live with gen x hippie revival guys, they love a jam band and were prog nerds and shit. They played a MEAN DnD game by never adopting to 3, they just homebrewed 2 so much over 20 or more years that they had their own edition. 2 of them had masters degrees in math, so the stats worked, they made their money by math gambling, which seemed to me like it was harder thsn having a job but whatever.
I think I struggle with jazz for the same reasons. It feels akin to how certain people will get pissed off at visual art which "doesn't say anything" - sure it looks (sounds) nice but there is something in me that wants music to have a message/meaning that only more structured musical varieties seem to capture.
And now I recall when my ex accused (pre-socialist) me of engaging in philosophy as a form of mental masturbation and I think she was correct. Institutionally sanctioned Western philosophy is just running in circles, trapping intellectuals in a loop of neutered academia.
So, similar to how now I enjoy socialist theory (Which has a point) I guess I insist on art forms to have a point as well.
And naturally I make arbitrary exceptions to this rule - but jam bands (and I guess jazz?) really just seem to be in a meaningless loop on stage.
Jazz is fun to play but I'd never listen to it, same applies to all but the one jam band i mentioned. I do also understand people liking it. I dont think there is any art that doesnt say anything or otherwise it wouldn't be art. I also think it's up to the viewer or listener or whatever to take their own responsibility in that process. That all being said...I think I fundamentally agree with you despite the fact that the art I do doesn't live up to those qualities at all. I do fairly abstract visual art and make noise music. However neither are really public projects, when I do put out noise it's on tapes and the other side has been 90 minutes of Parenti, I just leave them in the library. I did make my art more blatantly political for quite a while having been a stinky crust punk for a good portion of my life, and at this point I'd rather people.get their politics from books than songs cause ive seen the consequences
Here's the noise stuff I've been doing. It counts as communist noise music because im a communist and i'm making it and on some level that has led to the choices to make weird shit like this in the first place.
https://hexbear.net/post/7455671
I think your 'noise' art is pretty interesting - reminds me of audio I'd hear in the backdrop of a prolekult documentary. I think people would really value access to that content as a creative commons digital asset.
And your response has helped me refine my thoughts on this. I agree that all art has meaning - I think the 'point' of some art forms can be harmful though (case in point would be Chernobyl-esque prestige TV) and genres that lend themselves to trapping their audiences in behavior "loops" strike me as harmful as they (by virtue of finite time allocation) deter political organization.
To express this more clearly - if we're inundated by our jobs most of the day and then fall into non-political loops in our free time as well - this is a recipe for political inertia / capitalist stasis. And, obviously I'm not immune to this - it's just too "on the nose" in some mediums like jam bands, games with no endings, substance abuse, etc.
I could forever ambient focused longer pieces for Creative Commkms stuff which would.be more useful in s film edit. That is a good idea.
All art has meaning and sometimes that meaning is bad comes along with the fact that bad ideas exist. I dont like talking about whar any art I make means because I feel like if ive shared.it, the art itself is.the only clue anyone should get. Ive heard my stuff wildly mistenterpreted in very compelling ways. I'm a huge fan of David Lynch and he took a similar stance. Once the art is done and released to the public I dont consider it mine anymore.
I also just have come to prefer in regards to my own art, that i would prefer to express my political views more directly and make my arts and crafts a hobby. I cant make everything be propaganda, sometimes I just wanna doodle Kirby if he absorbed the powers of the cast of 30 Rock. I dont share that shit, but drawing is fun and sometimes things just seem fun to draw. There is such thing as taking some time off mentally.
Thst being said. I do generally agree and don't really know how to release noise stuff through the DIY punk network I have access to without making it propaganda and feel responsible to do so. Most likely Ill keep doing lectures on the B side. There is communism in the intent behind my noise and I hope it comes through co-worker reviews it seems to have gone well. It have heard "this sounds like my brain when 'different frustrations at work happens'" so i guess sonically reproducing industrial anxiety does something
To extend, sound itself isnt necessarily apolitical, I can sniff out nazi harsh noise by hearing it. But its cause I've heard the common influences and not cause the noise sounds Ike nazis. It's like this semi memed image
There are cultural reasons a riff sounds evil, a pentatonic or tritome sounds evil cause some early overnight period guy decided those were devil sounds and it became associated with blues cause of racism which carried to metal. Noise music exposes that aspect of music, I think. Major chords are triumphant and minor chords are sad. But it's only because we are told that. Dunno if we have homophobic sounding music the same way.
Also i build model kits and have been rewatching 30 Rock while doing so. It's okay to Just have fun
I think you're right that sounds carry politics - similar to how language more obviously does. But, there was definitely a time when I thought language was apolitical.
I like your comment on art being a public asset once it is published.
The agit-prop you're doing with mixtapes is rad. I used to do similar shit leaving socialist newspapers on the train.
Have a good night, comrade.
For the longest time I thought the Grateful Dead was a weird metal band with an association with acid that didn’t make sense to me. Then I heard their music and I was like “oh okay, I guess”
Same! I knew they were a jam band but I figured they were doing like Hendrix guitar stuff and like...being a rock band. Ever listen to the Brown Acid compilations? They were collections of recordings and demos etc of late 60s/early 70s garage rock stuff, a lot sounds like it could be proto Sabbath the rest are weird avant garde jams. I thought they'd be closer to that. I would never wanna do acid and listen to Grateful Dead. That being said when I did a lot of acid I would listen to stuff like Godflesh and wander around construction sites
Skateboarding is cool as hell especially street skating. Architecture under communism will be have being Skateable considered. It's been like a decade since ive skated despite saying each summer id get back on, but it rrslly makes you consider the world around you different. I notice nice ledges, pavement that's good ride on and which gives better pop, you can feel it walking. My main problem now witj skating is im in my mid 30s and will be sent to jail for breaking into street spots
Skatings done a lot for me. Made me realize I should aim higher for myself instead of just eating concrete. I'll probably be like Rodney tho and keep doing flatground and ledges till the hip replacements break
The journalist who is embedded with the scientific mission to Antarctica to measure the Thwaites glacier is named Miles O'Brien!
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Eventually we have to stop quoting the christian bible
The Star Spangled Banner is a really dogshit national anthem. And this isn't a socialist thing either, because La Marseillaise clears it by a mile
Marchons! Marchons!
A good national anthem is designed to be sung by the whole crowd
Live by the loosey goosey, die by the loosey goosey
If I were Paradox I'd make being a duchy peasant republic in the HRE a cheevo called Peasants, Put Up Your Dukes and I'd give it to me because I just did that (peasant republic tuscany)
does that mean all the peasants are dukes or just the peasant they elect as consul for the time
Behold, a take!
every time I go to /r/epstein it's striking to me how it's exactly like /r/pizzagate was before it got shut down, like people posting about some island in lake michigan that was probably used for pedo cabal shit in the 80s, people digging up info like Trump buying a sports team that, if he traveled to watch play, would have put him in the area in a time period coinciding with one of the allegations, etc
it really scratches that true crime salacious juicy gossip shit itch for me (I'm not into true crime shit but like I imagine it's the same feeling people who listen to that shit get)
anyone who is curious about what /r/pizzagate was like literally just go to the epstein sub r/n, it's like looking through a time machine
Damn work sucked tonight. We were slammed from 4 until 9 without even enough time to restock the line in between orders
The wonders of the fediverse y'all don't have to witness
I wish when I was younger and in my peak posting prowess I was combating liberalism rather than going on tirades about the latest DotA patch.
You are very cool, Cowbee.
Thanks! Hopefully it makes somewhat of a difference.
Thank you for your service.
The comment also mentions a "proud military history" of the rented out property. Because of course it does. I'm so thankful hexbear exists!
Yea I really didn't want to unpack that whole comment, it just screamed "proud settler"
reading that comment is like reading Settlers
It's paraphrased, but pretty much read that way.
Val Kilmer no
That's a real fuckin fave implicated
Wait wut? Not Val!
Dammiiiiiiiit. He seemed so not evil too
Well, at least he's dead
That means he got away with it
I just read that Scott Adams was never actually an engineer. He was actually middle management and based Dilbert off the engineers he knew.
He thought he was Dilbert, but he was actually the pointy-hair boss all along.
Unfortunately, nowadays a lot of people just don't care if they get accused of an "-ism", especially if they are that thing. Twitter guy was ableist, got accused of ableism, and just went "yeah, and?", and then all their friends started clowning on the accuser.
It carries literally no weight on Twitter anymore. Even left-wing people there seem to have stopped caring, since right-wing trolls sarcastically accuse them of "-ism"s all the time.
Lotta bad takes floating around lately.
heaps of them, would you say?
like grains of sand in a heap for clams
pin the mega you cowards, you swine
women hold up half the grains in a heap
are the men and the they-thems doing 25% each or does it vary
enbies are exempt from sky-holding duties
Should I pull the trigger on a vintage Mesa Boogie Mark II...
This is basically the premise of Pom poko
Fuck it give em full on wingsuits let's get silly with it
wangsuit
Had one of those "take your shirt off" kinda poops today. Ow
My coworker, who had been kind of MAGA a year or so ago, has been like completely jokerfied by the Epstien files. He's getting kind of conspiratorial because of it, talking about the "great reset" and 9/11 being an inside job. But he's also started using the phrases "working class" and "class war," so I think he's already moving leftish, just with some conspiracy brainworms. Does anyone have anything I can recommend to him that makes the jump from conspiracy to left politics?
Just start talking to him about all the real verified shit the CIA has done
They may be ready for marxist literature. If they are conspiracy brained you can point out people have been writing about this for years about the grandfathered capitalist class.
The people's History of the United States is a tame grounded option.
Some podcast like true anon and rev left radio and true anon are grounded.
I mean this with no disrespect for him for it, but I don't think he'd read a book 😅
I thought of TrueAnon, but I've never been a listener. Looks like the latest ep is on the last round of Epstein files. I'll check it out and probably pass it along. Thanks!
I really like Brian Berletic of the New Atlas. Absolutely ruthless critic of Western imperialism, but I would say it is conspiracy coded. He's constantly talking about the think tanks, the policy papers, the media control, etc
Another great one is Ben Norton of geopolitical economy report. He does a lot of the same great analysis but it's quite Left I would say. (He's not obvious about it but he speaks in socialist vocabulary. Also, his analysis focuses a lot more on class and economics versus military and intelligence)
I feel like .world is getting worse, while instances like dbzer0 are getting better (at a median level). Any good stats on instance growth over time?
Absorbing all the chuds from lemmee was probably bad for it, while dbzero has bleed the worst users by not being blue maga
Makes sense! I know some users on dbzer0 are deplorable, but I've seen more and more pop into Hex threads and get along just fine these days. Might be placebo, but I think you're on to something!
Yeah agree I've noticed the occasional dbzer0 user being ok, can't say the same for .worlders
What. The fuck. Are clams?? I don't get it, how do they work how are they alive. Pisses me off
the clam is the most intelligent and human-like of all the creatures.
where most people can only spend part of their day contemplating, the clam spends its entire life trying to sort grains into a heap
most grains pilled and heapmaxxing organisms in the animal kingdom
Yeah and every time i try to interrogate one they clam up
Why are they so happy?
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS YOU LIVING ROCK
Friday frost 💙
unreal!
These are wicked cool, thanks for sharing them!
Wow! That looks beautiful!
session zero actually materializing having not run a tabletop rpg since the late 2010s, nervous
I love getting paid every two weeks on a set schedule but having constant shit happening that I need money for no it isn't stressful at all, yup
I honestly have no idea how much of a pain in the ass it would be for bookkeeping (surely computers could eliminate most issues at this point?) but I really feel like you should get paid pretty much as soon as you clock out. You did the work, where's the fucking money, right?
Payday constitutes a short term interest free loan from the working class to the owning class
With modern banking there's no reason why they couldn't do that. It's how Uber and Lyft do it (if you sign up for their dumb card because they make more money by pushing all of their drivers into it).
Yeah I've been feeling that way since I started working
theres a tulip variety called "Queen of the Night" that is generally regarded as "black" in appearance. truly its just a very, very dark violet. i grew some once. they are cool and striking, especially intermixed with reds.
Oh I love these, grew these last summer as well.
ooh that's pretty. maybe I should grow some of those
they (tulips) are easy peasy, in my experience.
if you're in the northern hemisphere, you're too late for 2026, as the bulbs need to go in the fall. they emerge early in the spring, often before or faster than any weeds so its really chill. you order the bulbs in summer, you dig and plant them in fall, and maybe mulch a little. then mulch again when they're coming up, and the bed is colorful and you look like a pro in the spring.
bulbs will come up usually for a few years each spring, and they pricey relatively. but you can't beat the pop of their emergence in spring and that first color of the season.
One college age girl to another, looking at my food: "...no you see this stuff is good!"
Heh yer dang right it is
First 3 hours in triangle strategy: "we have a desert nation build around eliminating poverty and universal healthcare, BUT unlike the freedom loving monarchies its racist against pink hair people and enslaves them, is a scary theocracy (ahahaha divine right of kings totally not religious too) and also your super genius advisor says equality is impossible"
my caffeine tolerance kinda scary ngl, i should probably do something about that at some point
you won't get it all back at once but if you take a day off it'll hit more afterward
week 73 of sorting through hearts of iron 4 alt history mods that don't heavily feature "american civil war 2 with irrelevant historically niche political ideologies that were never popular"
One of my many ideas that will likely never crystalize is making a DPRK effort-post for linking on the broader fediverse, after I study the juche idea and other aspects of the DPRK in greater depth.
I can barely stand, but I'm still working. I think I permanently fucked up my knee. This isn't the first time I've done something like this to this knee, but this is probably the worst it's been. And the first time I've done it since getting sober, so I don't even have anything to kill the pain.
Who up megaing they thread
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Right now my entire twitter feed is evenly split between Phase Connect and decanting olives.
Guess who just ran dd on /dev/sad instead of /dev/sdb
Big old oof!! I hope you're able to recover any lost data without too much trouble!
I think that's one of the reasons the Arch wiki tries to warn people off dd for making bootable USB's these days. (I still use it, it's what I know and I haven't (yet) nuked an important partition due to carelessness)
I use nvme so just lost a backup drive. It's not a major issue, but it is annoying
/dev/sad
~~sda~~ sad because you're sad you made a mistake
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You can see how I made that mitake
I found an opportunity of talking to [Mussolini] about Spain, and suggesting that the Four-Power Conference should call on the 2 sides to observe a truce, while we helped them to find terms of settlement. He promised to think over this suggestion, which I afterwards made also to Hitler, but he told me that he was “fed up” with Spain, where he had lost 50,000 men in dead and wounded, that he was sick of Franco, who continually threw away all chances of victory, that he had no territorial claims there whatever, that he was satisfied that there was now no chance of Bolshevism getting the upper hand, and that he was very shortly going to withdraw 10,000 men.
Neville Chamberlain, 2 October 1938. (Keith Feiling, The Life of Neville Chamberlain, London, Macmillan, 1946, p. 376)
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Morning tinfoil: those 'explain the joke' subreddits are a ploy to get AI training data explaining the context of images/jokes/memes/references that aren't direct
New mega!
I need input on a silly thing. I haven't purchased a television in pretty much ever. The TV I have right now is like a 40 inch Emerson LCD that I think is 15+ years old. It's had signs of failure for a long time, but they're getting more frequent.
Thing is I know modern TVs are loaded with all kinds of nonsense. I honestly only use my TV as a computer monitor, HDMI. No cable, no Roku, nuthin. It's just a big monitor because I like to compute from bed. If I purchase a smart TV from Walmart or something, budget of about $250, can I just plug it in to HDMI and not bother with all the smart TV nonsense? I don't need it to stream Netflix, I just need it to show a picture. I guess I'm worried I'm going to be doing my thing and my television will decide to overlay an ad onto my computer input. But I do very much want a newer, slimmer TV. The one I have is a pain to move. And, as I said, dying.
Search ebay for digital signage displays. They don't come with the spyware like consumer television
Just don't connect it to the internet/WiFi and you should be fine.
Looks like buying a houseboat and sailing around South America or South Asia is cheaper long term then even a shitty apartment in the US.
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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:
I realize the game mechanics of Uma Musume are so simple and well designed that you could have the whole game exist as just a text game. So the visual element is all marketing, and so it’s own thing that it can be taken to any direction.
So from Horse Girl Racing from Idol training and performing (which the original game engine was built for) we can then make it about anything, so lets use Political Philosophy
You train your philosopher to amass more adherents to your movement, and every event you train for is something like a debate or something. You collect support cards who can assist you with boosts and skills at random with training, and little events can trigger to give further stat boosts.
Now you’re probably thinking “that actually sounds boring as hell”. You’re right. Lets turn them back to anime girls.
CGDCT but with philosopher anime girls has potential. We need to workshop this more. I'm imagining a show where they do stuff like hit the beach and sing karaoke, all the while arguing about what the fuck Hegel was talking about.
What up mega thread?
fuck landlords
fuck cars
we hope this new megathread will be the source of the grains for a brand new, beautiful, heap of posting
Fresh jasmine rice with cold canned smoked mussels on top is one of my favorite dishes
2028 will be:
John Fetterman & Marjorie Taylor Greene (D)
JD Vance & Nick Fuentes (R)
Though I think there's a decent chance they replace Fuentes with a Grok-generated Adolf Hitler. They're all gonna put their differing opinions on Jews aside and agree, in the name of bipartisanship, that non-whites aren't people and to quadruple funding for ICE. Fetterman and Greene initially look like they're gonna win because they're stupid in a kinda amusing way while Vance and Fuentes are just unbearable dweebs, but then Fetterman commits the least surprising murder/suicide in history and takes out his entire family. Greene takes this as a sign that QAnon was real after all and concedes the election to Vance.
The fascists now feel fully emboldened and coup Vance for being a race traitor and Fuentes for being a gay Mexican. Miller and Rubio are next in line but they're Jewish and Cuban respectively, so they get purged as well. With Donald Trump dead of McDonald's, they look to his descendants. Eric Trump and Don Jr. are way too stupid and Ivanka is a woman married to a Jew, so there's only one option left.
In late December 2028, President Barron Trump and his VP Zack "Asmongold" Hoyt are formally inaugurated. It's the first inauguration where the president does not give a speech. Not a single woman is in attendance voluntarily. Their first executive order is to publicly execute Hasan Piker, Anita Sarkeesian and Brie Larson. Their second order is that every white man who achieves a certain rank in one of various online games is entitled to a state-sanctioned girlfriend. The age of consent is abolished, pronouns are banned from the English language and Adin Ross is appointed Secretary of Education. The United States become the esports capital of the world. Life expectancy drops to 53. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
To comment in the general mega and not upvote it, this is the nth type of liberalism
upvotes are the grains on the path to the golden heap of big communist posting
A lot of a little makes a mickle poster
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Damn sometimes u just gotta give it to them
i upbeared the OP because of your comment
Mega mega mega THREAD
