FugaziArchivist [he/him] @ FugaziArchivist @hexbear.net

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What's going on with personal identity and the optics of socialism? By that I mean: Zohran is crushing it with college-educated white men, according to the polls. Meanwhile, Establishment Dem Cuomo has won majority support from women, people of color, and old folks. I know socialism is rarified and academic, so for that reason it has a white stigma. I don't live in NY, but I wonder what DSA is doing to reverse that. Any other explanations for why the polls are shaking out this way? How are women supporting Cuomo despite his sexual harassment resignation, or old people after the 2020 nursing home scandal? Or is it as simple as Dem propaganda, powerful business interests, media bias, etc.

I've thought about this a bit but not super in-depth. I think you're right about the fear and anxiety about public spaces. I would also throw in some other theories, such as the Freudian uncanny, where something is off about a familiar space that causes dread, and a desire to correct what's off-putting. Imagine ANY contained space that you're unable to escape; surely any bland office floor you're on must have an exit and a staircase--now imagine that it doesn't. Another writer, Roland Barthes, talked about young people really enjoying building forts and being in boats, what I've seen elsewhere described as "amniotic tranquility," where something is storming or thrashing outside of your contained, safe space. The backrooms seems like an inversion of amniotic tranquility, where the protective fort is suddenly what you need to escape from. Hence the fascination on some subconscious level.

I don't suspect anyone to be interested but I've kept an ongoing list of songs I absolutely can't stand - many feel like lowkey psychological warfare, because I've been hearing them in grocery stores, cars, and gas stations for my entire life, without any say in the matter. How many more times can you play the same classic rock hits....

"The rich and corporations have owned this country since Regan's (sic) presidency" You may want to look further back in US history...

if only the libs I know could see that

yes, sounds almost verbatim what I heard

timed with Game 1 of World Series?

could the GOP have capitalized on the wake of the shooting more? Did they botch the messaging? Everyone thought that fist-pump photo was his guaranteed ticket back to the white house. I guess it doesn't matter since (1) we live in the United States of Amnesia, says Gore Vidal. And (2) Trump has checked out anyway

Very interesting. I hadn't thought about the "use" of violence in an anti-military way before.

As a fellow skater of Hexbear, I am ashamed of the minor notoriety that Taylor has gotten. Fortunately, there's a lot of radical skaters out there -- in both definitions of the word

I don't understand where "the discourse" is at right now (since Biden dropped out). I've seen a lot of surprising rehabilitation of Kamala's record. Calling out racism and misogyny from fash republicans is certainly necessary, but at the same time, there seems to be a vibe-shift in thinking that Kamala is not the same neoliberal sellout and Israel apologist as the rest of the party elite. I guess it's the same "push them left" copium from four years ago. Amazing how that never seems to run out for liberals.

Are they fetishizing the Rust Cohle "humans need to walk hand in hand into extinction" line? Lol. Anyway, Marx helped settle this issue against Malthus and lazy Malthusians by showing how the material level of production sustains whatever the population is at

lol. just punishing the player

nice this sounds like a potential trilogy

hahaha. Who would play a good turbo lib?

you're hired!

wow, wouldn't have guessed a billionaire to favor neoliberal state formation!

I still want to know what the conversation was like in the Clinton household when Epstein was arrested in summer 2019 and then when Maxwell was a couple years later. Did no elites ever panic? Did they always know the fix was in and that they'd be protected?

this guy should learn about class exploitation if he's really interested in injustice

right before the 2020 election, Chomsky predictably got liberal press attention by saying trump is worse than hitler... for climate change denial. Uhhhh ok