ordinaryfreak.bsky.social
empathy-pilled fuck up. social domination hater. freak. if sensitivity is cringe then i am straight up cringeworthy
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it's why im having friends teach me how to make mine!
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“Governor is saying close it,” the email reads, “which is at odds with our commitments under ERF.”
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It’s horrifying and terrifying that we have been put in a position where fascism has destroyed the country and the machinery of governance, but we must see the opportunity we have been given and the reality we face and do what we can to help as many people as we can and destroy what has hurt us all
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Gavin Newsom pressured the City of Oakland to violate a contract with his Govt
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“Governor is saying close it,” the email reads, “which is at odds with our commitments under ERF.”
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the city also told the homeless unions legal council that they wouldn't sweep before their next court appearance (there's active litigation wrt Eighth and Harrison) but it looks like that was a lie
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haven't seen this but totally unsurprised by it
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that would be cars in themselves my guy
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"Abundance" is not a social movement. It will not capture hearts and minds, much less generate a broad activist and subcultural consensus. It's a vague aesthetic you've draped over a collection of policy planks. It will not catch on beyond a tiny class of liberal wonks who listen to podcasts.
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Most importantly, the rest of us depend on wages. The relations of production are set up in such a way that we need to sell our labour to capitalists who produce goods and services in order to reproduce ourselves. The proportion of guard labour might change, but this doesn’t.
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Middle men aren’t new (banks and payment providers have been around a long time), but the proliferation of pseudomarkets that allow companies to extract rent from informatic choke points is (platforms don’t just facilitate chosen transactions, they frame the range of choices).
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this is like the louis wain cat art/schizophrenia timeline, but instead it's Trump's tweet progression, beginning with classics like "i would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special day 9/11" and eventually becoming this
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and raw state power premised upon a might makes right secular ethos and/or religious dogma. we must dedicate all of ourselves to stopping this before it gets its footing... if we don't then idek, a thousand yr reich I guess
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effectively highly securitized open air prisons, not all that dissimilar to what we see in Palestine and elsewhere in the global south. when u add the crisis of climate refuges into the mix u can begin to see the contours of a new and truly dystopian social order - one based on otherization genocide
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have developed antihomeless model bills jurisdictions across the country are beginning to implement on a local level. these bills 1) ban homelessness 2) establish "sanctioned encampments" and "shelters" where the homeless will be funneled and detained. these sites will grow over time into what are
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explicit buy-in membership based legal charters, these zones would 1) funnel public funds towards centralized and interconnected nodes of private capital, and 2) would de jure reify class divisions under a system of segregation, ie zones of exclusion
moreover think tanks like the Cicero Institute
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reactionary political narratives/pitches of the network state, posing itself as tho it were some kind of shelter from the storm.
at the same time, the regime has quite clearly signaled its intentions to start converting federally owned land into special economic and legal zones. as polities with
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alone if these cuts go thru. the sudden & quite visible influx of homelessness + increases in poverty, desperation & the consequent criminal activity it produces will adversely impact the material realities of the masses of ignorant, housed ppl sufficiently to render them more susceptible to the
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political narrative/pitch (castigating the homeless as moral degenerates mentally ill welfare queen drug addicts).
the HUD cuts in the new federal budget will render millions of low-income subsidized households homeless. there are nearly 100,000 households who could lose housing in the bay area
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to establish their projects. people simply do not want what they r selling.
in this way there is a certain utility n the phenomenon of homelessness - ie the stigma and fear it inspires in housies (the housed) - that this political project plainly recognizes & has adopted as a central theme n their
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imo the former is a necessary prerequisite for the latter. this is cuz the venture capital, network state, techno-utopian ideologues are deeply unsavory individuals & despite their practically limitless resources theyve hit some significant barriers in their pursuit to use local political systems