I think you answered your own question.

puerto rico the US virgin islands DC and guam don’t get them. because fuck those people, for reasons that totally have nothing to do with their skin color, uh, shut up, why do you hate freedom?

no but see that was olden times so it doesn’t count, only now once it’s an established assumption does this rule go into effect and count.

unless I think of a new thing I want you to believe. then it has a teensy weensy time-out while I say that, then it’s back in effect again.

well yes, and I suppose that theft should really earn them a noose in a just world, but they would be doing that no matter what, in addition to whatever other crap.

yeah! I don’t deserve better, but the people whose fault this is deserve much worse.

years, dear. it’s years.

if they’re standing in a line, they’re not raping murdering kidnapping or stealing anyone/anything. I’m fully in support of them doing this.

hey! they would also protect rich secular fascists and poor nazis. give them the credit they deserve.

into? probably. helped by? probably larger.

and it’s altadena, which was recently the hub of some pretty big mutual aid efforts, so there’s a chance some of that might actually happen!

if you’re poor when you get the money, you still get taxed for being poor, and the sin of class mobility. only money made AFTER you get rich is safe.

and now you’ve just made it like 30% less cool. fuck, I may as well sign up for netflix now.

maybe it’s… hope?

like, the assholes in charge have never represented us or our interests. they own everything around us. I will never own a home. I know maybe one person in this shit hole country who’s got even a remote shot at that, who didn’t inherit the noble title of ‘property owner’. none of the supposed prosperity of this place reaches me. I know so many people who have died of preventable illness, and the hoops I had to jump through to get antibiotics for a major injury last year would have killed someone less stubborn. I doubt much of the imperial pillage and fruit of all this internal productivity reaches you. even the old public works projects are a thing that has largely passed from living memory. ancient monuments to a bygone society that I can barely comprehend from old books. We voted for some new ones here in california, twenty years ago, then again and again to increase funding for them, and have yet to see them materialize-because of interference, deliberate interference to keep us from having nice things, by the fuckers who profit off the fact we need to eat food and sleep indoors but have never held a hammer or driven a tractor, by the fuckers who declare war having never been ordered into peril themselves, by the fuckers who work us to the bone until we die, and tell us it’s what we deserve. maybe people in a better position to stand up to these bastards and do some damage to the things they care about actually doing it is what hope feels like.

maybe it will help more of us stand up ourselves. that would be cool.

but they’re not as loudly shitty to europeans about it.

no, most of the good canadian stuff would be fridge/freezer, or is already in another aisle. and im sorry, but mexican food is a contender for ‘world’s best’. canadian food is just fine; maybe ill crave poutine on a cold day.

edit, to canadians: losing a ‘best cuisine’ to mexico is like losing a boxing match to muhammad ali in his prime. there is no shame in this. they’re just better than you. they’re probably better than everybody.

fuck that’s such a good idea. mexican food is so much better, and better for you.

dunno, but I’ve been an anarchist for a while, and I feel it every time I see someone stand up to these assholes I paid taxes to, that one time I made enough money to pay taxes.

solidarity with the free, or at least hoping-to-be-less-constrained, peoples of the world, certainly. we need something shorter.

i also find an odd kind of half solidarity with my ancestors who fought in the second world war, against what america is trying to be, and sort of always was, but were very much flag waving ‘rarara america’ patriots the rest of their lives at the same time.

point being that the non-shitty people from this awful shit hole country aren’t going to begrudge anyone ditching the awful garbage that gets made here. ‘made in america’ mostly means prison slaves anyway. edit:the people who make the decisions and own the stuff here have no common interest with the common people. we are all bludgeoned or manipulated into not putting up a fight. which isn’t to say there aren’t enough insane fanatics and bloated military budget to be a serious threat to the free world, but, like, please fuck our shit up. it’s not like any of us ever see any benefit from it anyway.