Tormato [none/use name] @ Tormato @hexbear.net

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Henry Luce to the Time art director: “Nah. Not good enough. Bring it back with his eyes devil red, just like that bowl of communist hellfire.”

Picks up the phone after: “Hey Dulles, wait til you see this cover I’m gonna let loose.”

“Any word on that drunken Senator from Minnesota who’s hellbent on that commie witch-hunt?”

Tax the fucking fuck out of the rich, firstly.

Disincentives greed and hoarding, which is the end game of capitalism.

At the same time heavily fund campaigns to mock and bully the rich. Not a Ferrari or Porsche should be without broken windows and flat tires. Hound all their residences until there’s no peace for those sociopathic criminals. Form flash mobs to terrorize golf courses.

Make it so they can’t give away their money quickly enough.

Just one tactic for creating socialism, heh….

I love this so much on two fronts:

Finally, the country that was especially revered by Che Guevara has offered and delivered really meaningful material help. Especially that historically the aid from the Soviet Union came with the stipulation that Cuba couldn’t advocate or participate in global communist revolution. China was more amenable.

And secondly BRICS is shaping up to be the long overdue, great international rebuke to the great bully of imperialist America. They’re forming bigger and bigger trade partnerships and mutual aid that will soon enough usurp America's dominant influence in the world.

It’s the End of the American Empire…and I feel fine.

But mostly right now I’m elated for the people of Cuba. Who have endured so much due to the strangling American sanctions. And through it all not only persevered but thrived in many ways.

Caribbean rebels historically are very inspiring.

From Haiti to Cuba those revolutions reflected the strongest and most courageous human spirit.

Didn’t Barbados also recently demand reparations from France?

Need more of this.

Fidel and Che were right. There needed (needs) to be a solidarity block of central and South American countries against imperial US.

Heartened by the immediate pushback to corporate media drivel like this by traditional left and alternative media.

This’ll be an important operation going forward: responding immediately to their pathetic, off key calumny.

So afraid of people who aren’t Real Americans.

I mean, it seems these days that you can go to any small town across this hellhole country and encounter an immigrant/recent citizen from somewhere else - who might have different customs in eating, dressing, decorating, etc. What’s so scary, little boys?

Isn’t that what makes the world interesting, and something to celebrate?

Nope. These stunted adolescents insists on living in a fake dreamworld of conditioned nostalgia preening to make them believe their best days are behind them and that if we could only get these illegals out of here everything would be Aok again.

Can’t believe I’m allowing myself to believe in electoral politics again. Because of this.

But the difference this time…no really, Zohran’s movement, aligned with DSA and consisting of over 50k canvassers (which is staggering), is the thing that really makes me want to help push this over the top.

With a movement behind you comes leverage.

Thing is, he must be willing to mobilize it for massive rallies that will be needed to get the agenda across.

And, we have to make the billionaire scumbags fear us. And that means humongous Tax The Rich rallies.

But most effectively I think DSA must mobilize rallies outside of the meeting Zohran will have with “business leaders,” the NYPD, etc. Especially that those Wall Street criminals and oligarchs think they can siphon him off, basically tell him who’s boss. When they say or imply that he should be able to say, “look out the window down into the street; there are 20,000 people down there. They’re boss!”

They need to know We Are Many.

It really does seem like an incredible opportunity to finally realize some real socialism in this hellhole country.

Was just having this conversation last night with a friend as we were remarking to each other how mesmerizing dusk is with the summer fireflies.

When he said they didn’t exist out West where he grew up I was surprised.

Thought all along fireflies at dusk was one of the more enchanting parts of summer.

Bernie was St John The Baptist .

I dig this Zohran meme.

Hey Seuss Christ…we really do have an incredibly great opportunity in NYC to put socialism on the map. It’s gonna take us all to be involved. But it’s already changed the mood entirely.

Would be the greatest, sweetest irony that a brain drain here could turn Cuba into the greatest socialist country in the world, a Mecca for folks tired of the capitalist soul-suck.

Will come to this everywhere.

Empire falling apart at home.

Just heard about this.

And if your The Mayo a complete mimicking of his gestures and facial expressions.

These fucking ghouls spend more time with public relations goons staring into the mirror to make sure they pass the class.

It’s absolutely so fucking gross.

Been going on for so long too. Mossad and NYPD thug brothers working together.

And of course the Zionist tentacles include all politicians. Who are immediately feted by the official Israeli public relations clowns who roll out the red carpet for trips and all kinds of perks. Guaranteed on every hotel bed I bet is a list of Talking Points they must remember and are fed constantly throughout their congressional terms.

Just witness Gillibrand’s complete hysterical meltdown in Neoliberal poster boy Brian Lehrer’s NPR show. Of which was probably set up by AIPAC to provide the caller to read off all the state Islamophobia and predictable other attacks on Zohran, teed up for her to swing hard at.

Haven’t been following this story closely enough.

But every time I see some fascist apparatus engulfed in flames I reflexively pump my fist triumphantly.

Then I stop to wonder, “could this be another police 101 tactic of shutting down protest by means by setting things on fire or providing them with bricks or….,” as has been done in almost every instance in which a protest rally or action was getting so big and uncontrollable for them that they pull out this kind of subterfuge? Which is what they did In Minneapolis, at Occupy, throughout years of BLM uprisings, etc.

Throughout the ages the cops and FBI have done this kind of shit all the time. To populist uprising as having now stepped over the line, and with the public on their side because they are now sufficiently opposed to “this kind of violence” are onboard to see it totally shut down. “I was all for the protests, until they started to (fill in the blank).”

That said, radical acts are sometimes the only way to get the point across.

What’s the feeling here about it?

“ I fear that Allied policy may be no more than to achieve Fascism which will favor us instead of favor Germany.”

• Edward Murrow

“Germany lost the Second World War; fascism won it."

• George Carlin

Continues along:

“If we become increasingly apathetic in modern times - well, so do fish on river banks, after a little while. Our children often come to resemble apathetic fish - except that fish can't play guitars. And what do many of our children attempt to do? They attempt to form folk societies, which they call "communes." They fail. The generation gap is an argument between those who believe folk societies are still possible and those who know they aren't.

Older persons form clubs and corporations and the like. Those who form them pretend to be interested in this or that narrow aspect of life. Members of the Lions Club pretend to be interested in the cure and prevention of diseases of the eye. They are in fact lonesome Neanderthalers, obeying the First Law of Life, which is this: "Human beings become increasingly contented as they approach the simpleminded, brotherly conditions of a folk society."

Only possible in a socialist system, in which inter-personal relationships are not commodified as we currently are overwhelmed by today.

Carlin speaks pretty profoundly about this subject too. Will see if I can find some stuff later…

Always think of this passage from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Wampeters, Foma, And Granfalloons”:

“[Dr. Robert Redfield] acknowledged that primitive societies were bewilderingly various. He begged us to admit, though, that all of them had certain characteristics in common. For instance: They were all so small that everybody knew everybody well, and associations lasted for life. The members communicated intimately with one another, and very little with anybody else.

“The members communicated only by word of mouth. There was no access to the experience and thought of the past, except through memory. The old were treasured for their memories. There was little change. What one man knew and believed was the same as what all men knew and believed. There wasn’t much of a division of labor. What one person did was pretty much what another person did. “And so on. Dr. Redfield invited us to call any such society ‘a Folk Society’…. In a folk society, says Dr. Redfield, and I quote him now:

“‘[B]ehavior is personal, not impersonal. A “person” may be defined as that social object which I feel to respond to situations as I do, with all the sentiments and interests which I feel to be my own; a person is myself in another form, his qualities and values are inherent within him, and his significance for me is not merely one of utility. A “thing,” on the other hand, is a social object which has no claim upon my sympathies, which responds to me, as I conceive it, mechanically; its value for me exists in so far as it serves my end. In the folk society, all human beings admitted to the society are treated as persons; one does not deal impersonally (“thing fashion”) with any other participant in the little world of that folk society.

“‘Moreover [Dr. Redfield goes on], in the folk society much besides human beings is treated personally. The pattern of behavior which is first suggested by the inner experience of the individual—his wishes, fears, sensitivities, and interests of all sorts—is projected onto all objects with which he comes in contact. Thus nature, too, is treated personally; the elements, the features of the landscape, the animals, and especially anything in the environment which by its appearance or behavior suggests the attributes of mankind—to all these are attributed qualities of the human person.’

“And I say to you that we are full of chemicals which require us to belong to folk societies, or failing that, to feel lousy all the time. We are chemically engineered to live in folk societies, just as fish are chemically engineered to live in clean water—and there aren’t any folk societies for us anymore.”