In the parts of Capital where Marx refers to dead labor, he actually means it literally and means skeletons doing a lot of labor in society
Kolibri
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I'll just go revolutionary optimize my suicide thoughts away then. I'll just go revolutionary optimize my grief away from my mom dying last year. I'll just go revolutionary optimize my dad drinking himself to death.
It is cultivated by the acknowledgement that only through participation in the struggle to liberate the people can the lives of the people be transformed.
Yea I don't have the means to participate right now! To cultivate such a thing! I hate this fixation on revolutionary optimism because it's ignores what getting in the way of people in participating and feels more like emotional policing or something. But it ignores why is someone a doomer? Are they depressed? Are they dealing with shit? How can those bridges be crossed? Why aren't they taking action? What are the road blocks getting in the way. And the reason I compare it to self help is because of how others like you ignore what I just said!
Besides like, someone can be doomer and still take action. Like there were times when I was very suicidal where I managed to help some people. It's as if emotions don't have to dictate action.
I really dislike the focus on doomerism, mainly just in the sense that like. It just reminds me sort of like. Those self help books that are like "Think positive and manifest your wishes!" that kind of stuff. I don't think doomerism is really the problem. If anything it's just lack of pathways to meaningful action.
In another way it also just feels dismissive on things people are dealing with. It's a good thing movements aren't built off just based on how people are feeling, but on actual action being done. But maybe I shouldn't speak considering I struggle with things like suicide thoughts a lot on a daily basis.
I also hate how JT talked about despair and equated it to liberalism when despair is a complex emotion that stems from a variety of things like trauma. Also I hate that he brought up "continue to mope and whine and wallow in self pity". I hate that phrase so much.
I think Iran will, when they're ready to, I wouldn't doubt Iran. Here a recent article concerning this to.
Israel shouldn’t doubt Iran’s resolve to retaliate: Top military official https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/05/732691/Iran-military-official-warning-Israel-response-Hamas-leader-assassination
and some highlights from it
A ranking Iranian military official says the Israeli regime should not doubt the Islamic Republic’s resolve to retaliate over the regime’s assassination of senior Palestinian resistance leader, Ismail Haniyeh, which took place in Tehran in late July.
The Iranian Armed Forces’ Deputy Chief of Staff for Coordination, Brigadier General Ali Abdollahi made the remarks during a ceremony in the northwestern Iranian city of Koumeleh on Wednesday.
“The Zionist regime should not dream that Iran would not respond to this atrocity...because the Islamic Republic has [already] proven its will to deploy all its capacities towards responding to enemies’ violation of its soil and waters,” he said.
The official quoted remarks made by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei following the assassination, in which the Leader pledged that the Islamic Republic would deliver a “harsh response” to the atrocity.
“The time of the response, however, will be determined by the Leader and the country’s senior commanders,” Abdollahi noted.
just venting a bit/mental health stuff cw: alcoholism, grief
I hate emotional pain. It just hurts. Like I know it not physical pain, but it still hurts. I guess just like. I don't know. I was thinking about my mom lately again. Probably because I had to go like, get something of hers from her dead broken vehicle that just been sitting around for more than a year now since she died. That still hasn't been taken care of. But anyways, I smelt her smell her smell that just lingers in her car. Her smell of smokes. A few of her medical uniform just sitting in the back. A few of her other things like her turtle necklace she had for some reason. She really liked turtles.
I don't know, I guess just. I thought I was doing better about this. Been more than a year right? I am doing better with this, just not at this moment.
But besides that, like. A few days ago my dad was sober again. It was really nice talking to him. He was. Normal. Actually felt like I was talking to him. Like him the actual person. Except today he back to drinking again. And talking to him is just not really talking to him... just like. I don't know how to put this into words.
I really hate this emptiness and loneliness I feel. I guess just like right now. I just miss people. Whether it's my mom or my past friends or others. I miss them all. And it just hurts. My mom not coming back. My past friends aren't, those bridges are burnt. My dad just back drinking again. And just. It's just.. I just need to let this moment pass and things will be okay.
The focus on 'nothing ever happens' is kind of getting annoying on this news mega. Especially since it feels very trivializing as if this all is some sort of entertainment.
sometimes I feel like a sea animal, briefly coming up to the surface before immediately going back down into the depths below
They considered South Korea a part of the Global South, but considered them military colonies of the United States or heavily U.S militarized. Along with the Philippines.
The Global North is an integrated military, political, and economic bloc composed of 49 countries. These include the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, and secondary Western and Eastern European countries. In the military arena, Turkey (as a NATO member), the Republic of Korea and the Philippines (de facto militarised colonies of the US) are included in our definition of the ‘US-led Military Bloc’, even though they are part of the Global South.
Here is some more of their other reasons as well, listed under global south in part three in that study.
The peoples of these two nations (Figure 30) largely align with the Global South. Both countries have had pro-US leaders, as well as independent-leaning leaders. However, these countries are – militarily – entirely controlled by the US.
Historically, both nations have been subordinated to the US through military conquest. After WWII, when the US had militarily occupied the Korean peninsula, and, later, at the end of the Korean War, the Republic of Korea retained a large US military presence. Its economic reconstruction was almost entirely funded and directed by the US. Following the Spanish-American War, the Philippines was a US colony for nearly five decades (1898–1946).
This vassalage is evident today: after the elections of Yoon Suk-yeol in the Republic of Korea and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Philippines in 2022, both have served as frontline positions in containing China. In February 2023, the Philippines invited the US to expand its military presence in the country by adding four more bases to the existing five US-operated bases – 30 years after Philippine lawmakers ruled to end permanently the US military presence in the country. The Republic of Korea has also increased the military expansion of the US, participating alongside Japan ‘to inaugurate a new era of trilateral partnership’ with the US. In addition, the General Security of Military Information Agreement between Japan and the Republic of Korea, facilitated by their closer alignment with the US, expands intelligence sharing between the two countries to include ‘threats from China and Russia’. Their military expenditures should be attributed to the US-Led Military Bloc.
I'm surprised there an emote for that, but yea! I think what's neat is the creativity that went into some of those.
From the Resistance News Network telegram https://t.me/PalestineResist/56729
Presstv and Al Mayadeen also cover this and some highlights from Al Mayadeen below
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/08/732923/IRGC-chief--%E2%80%98Israel-will-receive-revenge-for-its-vicious-acts%E2%80%99
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/irgc-chief-says--nightmare--of-retaliation-terrifying--israe