Mario Savio:
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part! You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels … upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop! And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!
I stumbled across this on the internets, forwarded it around to a few of my knife-making buddies, and everyone had a good laugh and a snark and then got quiet. The only way to deal with it is to assume it’s a set-up.
I am contemptuous of the stupidity of anti-vaxxers; anyone who studies the merest whiff of epidemiology and virology is going to understand that vaccines are a really good thing. All you have to do is ask anyone you know who has suffered from smallpox. Oh, you don’t know anyone who has had smallpox? End of discussion.
From the “nobody should be surprised but everyone should be shocked” department, Israel has apparently decided that it’s going to keep the Golan heights.
This scared the shit out of me. And, worse, I subsequently figured out a better way to do what I was trying to do, anyway.
The game of tax avoidance is one of the corrupt scandals of the US’ ridiculous regime.
The Father of the Pakistani h-bomb has died, apparently from long-term complications from COVID-19.
Anna sent me this:
Fascists in the US government are trying to legislate against teaching truths such as: The US is systemically racist.
This is interesting, and I’m not sure what it means.
