Nails Nathan

Went to the Ubuntu Farmer Market that kicked off for the summer today on the anniversary of Malcolm X’s birthday, it was great I ran into so many old friends.

What a tangled web weaved

Penelope Featherington, mm mm mm

Ah I appreciate it and I think you’re hitting the nail on the head here

Stars in the Western Conference Finals
Mavs in the Western Conference Finals
Wings and Rangers took a L but we’re not worried.

We up!

Line up elections for team governors with municipal elections and watch shit get wacky too, it’ll be fun!

Since the public subsidizes these teams so much each one should be owned by the municipality in which they play, and teams should only move because the people in the city aren’t getting enough bang for their buck,

phylan @phylan.bsky.social

lmao it's over

12 hours ago

Saw someone say it’s weird leftists are okay with people wearing keffiyehs to protests when people wouldn’t have been okay with people wearing “do rags and kente cloth” to Floyd protests and…y’all know we can read the shit that you’re writing right?

Luka Doncic, Luka Luka Doncic, Luka Doncic, Luka Luka Doncic! #onefordallas

"There is almost a level of defiance when it comes to some of the president's closest advisers on this issue," said a senior White House official with direct knowledge of the matter, who did not wish to be named.”

One hell of a bet to make with a stream of horrific news coming out the area but hey

Despite polls, Biden aides insist Gaza campus protests will not hurt reelection bid

Faced with a choice between Biden and Trump, many officials remain confident even Democrats who oppose U.S. policy will choose Biden.

www.reuters.com

“It’s hard not to see the public and scientific acceptance of Neanderthals as “people like us” as another manifestation of the Enlightenment habit of casting humanity in the European image.”

“An American research group went so far as to try to link the amount of Neanderthal DNA people have with the shape of their brain, implying that non-Africans may have some mental differences from Africans as a result of their interbreeding ancestors.”

www.popsci.com/excerpt-supe...

Europeans looked down on Neanderthals—until they realized they shared their DNA

Scientists were convinced that Aboriginal Australians were further down the evolutionary ladder from other humans, perhaps closer to Neanderthals. In 2010 it turned out that Europeans are actually lik...

www.popsci.com

"The new law bars participating schools from discriminating based on race, though it does allow them to choose which applicants they want to admit."

Part of why fig leaf politics are endemic in the United States is because people simply refuse to be honest about their belief in white supremacy.

ProPublica @propublica.bsky.social

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools.

www.propublica.org/article/camd...

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools.

Seventy years after Brown v. Board, Black and white residents, in Camden, Alabama, say they would like to see their children schooled together. But after so long apart, they aren’t sure how to make it...

www.propublica.org

1 day ago

Have*

Yeah there was someone on camera saying they would secret police pull someone’s fingernails out like, a few months ago.

Sounds good, going to have to check it out

We’re back at it.

Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social

Stars won

06 May

Going out sad

My bad Auburn*

I’d definitely imagine folks in Louisiana going harder than folks in Alabama especially at the high end state school alumni level, but I don’t want to disrespect because Ole Miss is right there

They drink more (no it’s probably the way the architect designed the acoustics)

The framing of the withdrawal from Afghanistan being focused on how we couldn’t keep sending *our* best and brightest into a quagmire looks bad in light of the support for the Israeli operation in Gaza and the international operation in Haiti. Sounds ominous now.

“Chad, how can you be optimistic about the world changing for the better?”

“Dog I’ve seen Naruto talk people into all kinds of shit”

Naruto Belive GIF

Alt: A gif of Naruto pointing at the camera and saying “Believe it”

media.tenor.com

Which is why it’s important to practice discernment rather than subscribe to axioms in these matters imo

Yeah I think this speaks to the denial of syncretism in fascist politics as it applies to leftist concepts. People seem to easily recognize when social justice politics around race are co-opted, there’s a reluctance or refusal to see it when people class politics are co-opted for the same.

I’d put that on the USSR more than folks seeking self-determination

But again, Hamas didn’t spring forth from nothingness but had support and succor from colonial regimes looking to sow discord

I’d definitely put the weight of responsibility for the persecution of communists more on the influence of anti-communist regimes providing resources, training, and diplomatic support into counter revolutionary movements. Thomas Sankara didn’t get killed by nationalists, but by colonial regimes.

But they were able to gain prominence as representatives of Marxist thought, I think the Berlatsky piece is useful here in pointing out they gain outsized influence by being congenial to the right while at the same time being taken seriously as Marxist political actors or thinkers

But again, you have to account for the identities salient to actual people. This is why Marx supported wars for national determination in Europe against imperial powers. This is why communists supported wars for national determination in the Global South against imperialism.

I mean you just named a few and before that I shared the article on all the ironic leftists who became openly fascistic. I think the “no true Scotsman” approach to handling reactionary attitudes on race and gender among leftists is key component in it’s continued festering,

Did he say anything or just sit there like a wimp?

I mean, did go into Tuscaloosa and beat Alabama last year no problem, I don’t think they’ll be too rattled.

There are Panthers who became tough on crime conservatives who called for the killing of Black kids addicted to drugs. Some people are attracted to the idea of being the vanguard and commanding mass discipline, or just always being right more than ultimate aim of a just society

Yeah the thing is people have to get better at recognizing when people are using or losing a left politics to indulge in a politics of transgression rather than a genuine commitment to changing things for the better.

I mean there’s folks like Boots Riley, NK Adjei, Bong Joon-Ho, etc working. It’s around.

I’m aware but the left in the US has had a distinctive issue with people identified with the movement indulging in edgelord racism only to watch people turn to an open embrace of anti-social justice politics.

I’ve found this to be the case across the left-right political spectrum in the US. But that speaks to role of spectacle and theater in shaping the perspective of a broad swath of people

Well you can’t build a mass politics without speaking to the identities people hold and find salient to them. It’s why so many on the left are pot committed to a vision of the average worker as a white man working in industrial production rather than a melange of people working in service industries

Yeah in a lot of ways it seems people have forgotten how to actually engage in mass politics, you have to generate motion if you want to build momentum for your cause. This is why the Rufo’s of the world are constantly churning out bullshit, the energy of the movement matters.

The Geneva Window from Harry Clarke, which is on display down at the FIU-Wolfsonian check it out if you can, was a big part of the effort in forming an national identity for the Irish Free State though it was rejected by the League of Nations. It all matters when dealing with people.

The Black Panthers didn’t decide to wear all black and carry guns on a lark. George W. Bush didn’t figure playing a cowboy for a few years would be a fun thing to do. There’s a lot of thought and planning put into the aesthetic and spectacle of politics for a reason.

Politics is a mobilization, consensus building, persuasion business. You can’t build any effective political movement without theater. You have to actually attract and appeal to people. This should be an obvious lesson after watching Donald fucking Trump become President.

Also, “I only pay attention to things that become policy and everything else is theater” is exactly how you get blindsided by the fall of Roe, the GOP abandoning democracy, and bad faith efforts to take out college presidents.

And we really should ask why feigned ignorance has become such a popular method of argument for explaining away disappointments rather than a genuine effort to bridge the gap between expectations and reality,

A) Theater is a part of politics, and B) no most states did not in fact tell people they planned to make policing worse amidst the Floyd protests. This was just four years ago. This is just cynicism to cover perfidy.

The compromise bill, that again people left of center tempered their criticism of thought they liked Bush’s bill more, was abandoned by the GOP partners despite police union support. Rather than learning the right is not a reliable partner and moving left, the leadership has moved right on policing.