its a tv miniseries

saw it mentioned in a youtube video by FD signifier, I just finished the first episode, and I enjoyed it a lot, something about needing positive propaganda not just constant commenting on reactionary garbage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_a_Virgo

synopsis below, directed by Boots riley, released 2023

Cootie is a 13-foot-tall (4.0 m), 19-year-old Black teenager raised by his Aunt Lafrancine and Uncle Martisse in Oakland, California. He is shielded from the outside world until being accidentally discovered by a group of teenage political activists

“I didn’t vote,” says the Kangaroo.

“Are you not allowed?”

“I am not allowed and I don’t want to.”

“You don’t want to?”

“No, because it’s not an election,” says the Kangaroo. “It’s just the illusion of democracy, a mock poll, the Fata Morgana of popular government. In short, it’s only the appearance of an election, or, to use the official terminology: a dummy ballot.

“A dummy ballot?”

“It’s as if you go into a supermarket and can choose between soup packets by Maggi or soup packets by Knorr, but in reality, it’s all Nestlé. The dummy ballot suggests freedom, but in reality, I tell you: it’s all capitalism, it’s all Nestlé, it’s all chicken. But because I generally do not wish to consume packaged soup, I don’t really give a hoot about brand options at the supermarket.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kangaroo_Chronicles

I never finished reading it, but the first chapter is on youtube as an audiobook read by the author, it's good for a laugh

Marc-Uwe Kling: Kangaroo Chronicles - Chapter 1 (youtube, 4m 17s)

NSFW probably

content warning for the article and anything related sexual violence, sex abuse (sorry this wasn't here initially)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos

I should have shared this sooner, I made one of these events today, was really good, and I left feeling really invigorated and hopeful

November 6 at 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm

Palestine: Hyper-Imperialism and the Global South

November 2 at 10:00 am to 6:00 pm

Teach-In: Socialism and Anti-Imperialism – Vijay Prashad Tour

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre Arts West (Building 148), University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Boorloo (Perth) Activist Centre 15/5 Aberdeen St, Perth, Australia

November 6 at 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

There Will Be No Modi 3.0 in India (Perth) – Vijay Prashad Tour

Herbert Smith Freehills Lecture Theatre Law Building (Building 465), Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia

A comrade just sent me this, from https://cubaisnotalone.art/

I don't know where else to post this, it's a response to some anti-tanki shit I saw locally on the local cool leftist instagram clique 🥸

Its a good critique on online ~~anti-communists~~ very correct ultra-left-ists or whatever they call themselves

https://culture-centered.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-whiteness-of-binaries-that-erase.html

I'm definitely try and see Prashad talk later this month

Being a shithead can manifest itself in many ways:

If your friend says something offensive, and you don't call them out, or you only gently scold them so you can stay on good terms - you're being a shit head.

If you're criticising people behind their back, or holding your tongue in a meeting, and gossiping later - you're being a shithead.

If you're letting people off lightly because what they say doesn't personally affect you - you're being a shithead.

If you're demanding special treatment, while expecting others hold themselves to a higher standard - you're being a shithead.

If you resort to personal attacks, instead of arguing against an incorrect point - you're being a shithead.

If you hear someone state a falsehood as fact, and you don't correct them - you're being a shithead.

If you're at work and you're not agitating, and showing no concern for the well-being of others - you're being a shithead.

If you see someone harming others, while you do nothing to stop them, and do not try to reason with them - you're being a shithead.

If you do the bare minimum, with no direction, plans or goals - you're being a shithead.

If you consider yourself a veteran, better than others around you, and above menial tasks, - you're being a shithead.

If you're aware you've made a mistake, and you do nothing to correct it - you're being a shithead.

Being a shithead might keep you comfortable and safe, but you're doing harm to those around you when you engage in these behaviours.

If you're being a shithead, do not.

I try my best to uphold these principles, so yeah I guess you can say I'm pretty unpopular.

😎

Yes I did just do a shorthand version of combat liberalism and ctrl+h "liberal" with "shithead", the idea of making a poster with these points that just says "DONT BE A SHIT" has been floating around in my noggin for a while, yes thank you, I am very funny.

spoiler 😱 actually if the original copy of this said "shitremoved" and I changed it to "shithead" so I don't upset anyone, is that liberalism? 🤔 /s :::

I feel like this should almost go in c/badposting haha

https://www.instagram.com/p/C-dDXpEgtf_/

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1937/10/29.htm

preemptively putting NSFW on this.

• an uprising in a ghetto against a superior oppressive force
• the ghetto destroyed in response, thousands arrested, deported, killed
• the blame somehow falls on the people being oppressed

You don't have to dig hard to find contemporary people suggesting the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was a mistake and lead to innocent lives being lost, liberals and their proper processes, and civility, it never changes.

guess they should have voted harder. /s

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2984423

Hey comrades,

Fully acknowledging the canvas event is silly, I've made a template for a hexbear logo on a trans flag, I've made this three times and finally gave up on the second canvas because of dorks destroying it for no reason. I'm trying to write HEXBEAR last because that seems to be the sticking point for people (lol)

direct link to template https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/96b43440-beb7-4f40-b160-4a58e1ef1196.png

I'll workout a good way to draw the hexbear logo when the canvas expands

https://i.imgur.com/jOseqQY.png

^ a slightly more ambitious one with a heart going into the kiwi (not sure how they'll take that, I'll try contact them, maybe) (this is the most up to date)

https://canvas.fediverse.events/

ps