WasteTime [none/use name]

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Those people look like they wouldn’t hurt a fly, so innocent and ignorant. And then go to work for the military industrial complex, the mass media business and other big corpos (pharmaceutical, high-tech, oil, etc.) without even knowing the damage they are doing and the responsibility they have in the destruction of whole countries and the planet itself. It’s a classic example of the “banality of evil”, working as perfect cogs for the empire’s machine.

    Personally I have conflicted thoughts about them. I feel sorry for them but at the same time I wouldn’t care at all if a bomb exploded over their heads if that means saving innocent people from their wretched acts. I don’t tolerate ignorance and stupidity when the consequences are serious.



  • I don’t expect working class solidarity from the people at the imperial core while they are still benefactors from my oppression, even if it is indirectly. They should already know that their luxuries are in great part a product of our exploitation and if they are ignorant about it it is not my fault, fuck them. The day I see them organized and giving substantial help to our struggles in the global south I might change my mind. They are not willing to give up their privileges in order to enact real and concrete international solidarity.

    “Workers of the world unite” is a nice phrase, but call me when there are any American blue/white collar workers organized with Congolese cobalt miners or Mexican factory workers.

    The same amount of money that can feed a Global South worker for a month is spent in a weekend to buy useless shit for fun by an average American/Western-European worker, the latter is not prepared to renounce to their treats. Maybe one day they won’t be able to afford them anymore… I wanna see how they will react.



  • So true. I used to have an old friend, more than 15 years talking to each other for hours several times per week. I like to say we kind of grew together, we had a lot of interests in common and shared many personal things. One day this person ghosted me (I suspect they had mental issues related to paranoia) and I never saw them again. We are from different countries so I could never see them in person.

    When someone you met through the internet has so much prevalence in your daily life and suddenly they disappear, it leaves you with a very similar feeling to that of mourning the loss of a death friend.

    Internet connections might have their advantages but they are quite limited at the same time.












  • Absolutely, they can’t conceive other forms of heroism apart from being some sort of special individual, a typical liberal sickness.

    As an example of something different, a comic I would recommend is The Eternaut (by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Argentinian), it’s a classic from the late 50s. There, the hero is conformed by a group/a collective. I don’t want to spoil it too much but the enemy is a very interesting allegory for western imperialism. It’s available in english at libgen.