Vicky ACAB

In my book I argue that IP fandoms are a crucial part of the economic model of the current media monopoly landscape, as fan campaigns drive down the value of creative labor via harassment and disposability, scare artists from taking risks with IP, and give execs a direct fan base all their own

The chapter on toxic fandoms is Chapter 10, "The Empire Must Be Defended", built around an analysis of the new Star Wars trilogy, the next chapter "Wakanda Forever" shows how Black Panther's reactionary narrative couldn't keep its imagery from being important to movement, at least for a few months!

In my book I argue that IP fandoms are a crucial part of the economic model of the current media monopoly landscape, as fan campaigns drive down the value of creative labor via harassment and disposability, scare artists from taking risks with IP, and give execs a direct fan base all their own

Organized fandoms act as volunteer pinkertons, and while the creeps enforcing fascist visions are in actuality a tiny minority of most fandoms, loving a of particular franchise/character produces a political ambivalence that often leans towards compliance with corporate aims over artistic ones

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

Theirs is a movement of terror and suicidal despair, projection and self-delusion, and they can only lose since even winning for them is a living death. But our victories will not simply be experiential and affective, we are going to destroy their world and return this planet to itself in liberation

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

They want us to be scared, and sure, there is much to fear. It can always get worse. But a world that can get worse can also always get better, and our power, our vision, our beauty and our joy is stronger than anything they can imagine, and every moment we bring them to one another is a victory

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

The beautiful work of The People's Want project is gathering many of these lessons together, particularly pulling out imo extremely crucial organizing experiments from Syria and Sudan tht have been widely unknown by Anglophone revolutionaries to our great detriment thepeopleswant.org/en/manifesto

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

We are in the beginning of the middle of the revolutionary era, and once again anything can change, everything is up for grabs. Weve learned over the last fifteen years that anything can change can often mean things get worse, but power, solidarity and liberation are building too

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

But despite the lack of clear narratives like eg: Arab Spring, the fall of governments in this wave is actually happening quickly and consistently (Nepal, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Bulgaria)

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

We lived through the beginning of a global era of revolutions, 2011-2020, but the counter revolution, which always nips at the heels of the true movement of liberation, is offset by about 2-3 years, its era emerging in full in 2013/4 (Orban's constitution, Sisi's coup, annexation of Crimea)

The only thing the Bolsonaros love more than going to the hospital is throwing failed coups

Last night I wrote a post about how most Dems were running to the right of Trump 16 on sexual and gender politics and decided that "most" felt hard to defend so i deleted and as a shrill anarchist shitposter i maintain an infinitely more ethical relationship to my audience then the democratic party

Im old enough to remember when the Dems sold out their voters and base in the first few weeks AFTER they got elected

Feeling absolutely uninspired by my game library: please give me ur game recs (platforms are PS5 and an old Mac that runs Steam lmao)

Can't explain it exactly but celebrity affair scandals feel of a piece with reactionary sexual politics turn

*zizek voice* everything they say about AI bots coming to kill them and destroy their world is the knowledge of what they deserve at the hands of the working class, sublimated and returning as a sadomasochistic fantasy, transforming their sexualized self-loathing into profit expanding marketing

TP:UK alternative ulster

S/O to all the trans whose work not only doesnt rely on the Democratic party but undermines both parties and the state's entire capacity to control and dominate us yall are the real MVPs

S/o to all the girlies building bodily autonomy and community safety regardless of our poverty and marginalization, s/o to everyone using our marginal position as a shadow to move silently through, building liberation w/o discourse credit or self aggrandizement