Apr 5
d.colonel.eyes commented on Riding with Strangers.
Hang in there Charles, the devil doesn't usually fuck with us lazy marxists for more than a few days.
Feb 6
d.colonel.eyes commented on Don't Eat Fried Chicken.
A nice review, Charles...nice. Why is everyone so damn nice to Jared Diamond!? I understand this wasn't a favorable review, but I still think you were too gentle, Mr. Mudede.
I'm in accordance with sgt_doom, in some strange way, and I believe that with Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond has been the captain of an 'intellectualist' pop-culture voyage to conveniently forget about the past and present violence of colonialism once and for all.
I haven't read the new book, nor will I (understanding all the while that this doesn't make me the most credible critic), but "What can we learn from traditional societies?" sounds a bit like "the conquistadores slaid them, the Dutch and English shackled and sold them, our large corporations have murdered and displaced them, and we the upper-middle class of Western society still have the nerve to romanticize their cute little primitive tricks."
Fuck you Jared Diamond, fuck you.
I'm in accordance with sgt_doom, in some strange way, and I believe that with Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond has been the captain of an 'intellectualist' pop-culture voyage to conveniently forget about the past and present violence of colonialism once and for all.
I haven't read the new book, nor will I (understanding all the while that this doesn't make me the most credible critic), but "What can we learn from traditional societies?" sounds a bit like "the conquistadores slaid them, the Dutch and English shackled and sold them, our large corporations have murdered and displaced them, and we the upper-middle class of Western society still have the nerve to romanticize their cute little primitive tricks."
Fuck you Jared Diamond, fuck you.
Aug 1, 2012
d.colonel.eyes commented on Runaway Train.
Thanks for the write-up Goldy. I hadn't yet thought of the impacts that this export project might have here in the city; I've been too hung up on the grim fact that the train, losing a ton of coal dust along the way, follows the Columbia River the entire way West!
Jul 16, 2012
d.colonel.eyes commented on Why Can't She Learn?.
@19 I have cried. Seriously. I know a few of the women affected by these beaurocratic decisions, all are amazing human beings. To say these people don't deserve educational opportunity because they should have sough it out earlier is outrageous. Would you have finished school if you had to raise your 3 siblings? Been homeless since age 13? Sent through the school to prison pipeline for "behavioral problems"?
If you need some basic information on the realities of incarceration in this country, and I believe you do based on the ignorance which clouds your comment, Michelle Alexander and Bruce Western are good entry-level authors to start with.
Please at least make an attempt at awareness and understanding, and thank your lucky systems-of-oppression-star that you haven't had to face being locked up.
If you need some basic information on the realities of incarceration in this country, and I believe you do based on the ignorance which clouds your comment, Michelle Alexander and Bruce Western are good entry-level authors to start with.
Please at least make an attempt at awareness and understanding, and thank your lucky systems-of-oppression-star that you haven't had to face being locked up.
Jul 11, 2012
d.colonel.eyes commented on Cops Raid Anarchists.
Thanks yet again for the coverage, Brendan.
This is terrible, terrible news for our community. How many feature films about scary Police States does our numbed society need to consume before it realizes we're living in one? V for Vendetta was not an action flick, for fuck's sake!
This is terrible, terrible news for our community. How many feature films about scary Police States does our numbed society need to consume before it realizes we're living in one? V for Vendetta was not an action flick, for fuck's sake!
Jun 4, 2012
d.colonel.eyes commented on Fuck the Vote.
and
@ 24: nice call
@ 32: you're great
@ 33: grow up, loose your ability to abide, and get frustrated
@ 35: chill and check the redundancy
@ y'all: I want a Dunmire lollipop
@ 24: nice call
@ 32: you're great
@ 33: grow up, loose your ability to abide, and get frustrated
@ 35: chill and check the redundancy
@ y'all: I want a Dunmire lollipop
Jun 4, 2012
d.colonel.eyes commented on Fuck the Vote.
Thank, fucking, god, for someone who is so unabashedly able to call out the modern mass of frustration that is representative democracy.
It doesn't need fixing, it needs abolishing.
and @ 1: Getting involved is a great thing to do. that is unless it's primary motivator is one's own $elf interest. Or if getting involved isn't an option because one has insufficient time, stable housing, food, education, or other freedoms that allow for the privilege of participation. Oh yeah, and i forgot to tell you (how Times of me!) that the aforementioned sufferings ARE realities in our community.
It doesn't need fixing, it needs abolishing.
and @ 1: Getting involved is a great thing to do. that is unless it's primary motivator is one's own $elf interest. Or if getting involved isn't an option because one has insufficient time, stable housing, food, education, or other freedoms that allow for the privilege of participation. Oh yeah, and i forgot to tell you (how Times of me!) that the aforementioned sufferings ARE realities in our community.
May 3, 2012
d.colonel.eyes commented on Two Notes on "Violence" vs. "Vandalism".
@30 while I think that property destruction was a failure of the resistance movement in the sense that it gave news media their limited sensational story (however innaccurate), i do not agree with you that this was "not the time to smash windows". a denouncement of capitalism, in the form of property destruction, is not culpable for derailing the rest of the demonstration's message. indeed, the message was NOT derailed at all at the protests themselves, only in their wake as the news media appropriated the events to the benefit of the City's image and their own pocketbooks.
A participant myself, I believe that there were very few actions in the May 1 demonstrationS (yes, there were many!) which at all distracted from the politics of the situation. Most of the violent/destructive/yadayada action came at the hands of excessively armed police, which i believe furthered many participants' understandings of the institutionalized oppression we experience as a species around the globe.
Thank you all for participating in this discussion, but please try to speak only to the level of experience you have with these issues and events. Try to avoid using the words which corporate media have offered us, something I believe Brendan has successfully done. Way to challenge homie!
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A participant myself, I believe that there were very few actions in the May 1 demonstrationS (yes, there were many!) which at all distracted from the politics of the situation. Most of the violent/destructive/yadayada action came at the hands of excessively armed police, which i believe furthered many participants' understandings of the institutionalized oppression we experience as a species around the globe.
Thank you all for participating in this discussion, but please try to speak only to the level of experience you have with these issues and events. Try to avoid using the words which corporate media have offered us, something I believe Brendan has successfully done. Way to challenge homie!
May 3, 2012
d.colonel.eyes commented on On Violence and the "Smashy-Smashy".
Eli, you're a thoughtful dude but I believe you're trying too hard here.
I have to call you out on you parallel between Klan window-smashes and "Anarchist" window smashes (I hesitantly quote anarchist because I want to highlight that this word is also possibly being misused; there are a variety of anti-capitalist identities).
The Klan are indisputably racist, and, as such, have as there targets a group of humans. The black clad "cowards" (again a terribly inaccurate word based on my own experiences at the demonstrations Tuesday) explicitly took/take an anti-capitalism stance. Thus, these folks have as there target a system of oppression which happens to be represented by someone's private property. The destruction of that property cannot, I think, be reasonably linked to a hatred of a group of humans, nor to an intention of causing physical harm to them.
Hence, I oppose the use of the word violence to describe the actions of the protesters, anarchist or otherwise. To reiterate a comment above, I also witnessed violence only on the part of the police, in the form of unlawful seizure (of flags for fuck's sake) outside of McGinn's prescribed 'zone' and in the form of smacking my brothers and sisters in the head and body with their goon sticks.
That said, I'm grateful that the police showed up to direct traffic...but you don't need guns and rods to do that. Thanks, Brendan, for being a refreshing challenge to the media inaccuracies about resistance movements!
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I have to call you out on you parallel between Klan window-smashes and "Anarchist" window smashes (I hesitantly quote anarchist because I want to highlight that this word is also possibly being misused; there are a variety of anti-capitalist identities).
The Klan are indisputably racist, and, as such, have as there targets a group of humans. The black clad "cowards" (again a terribly inaccurate word based on my own experiences at the demonstrations Tuesday) explicitly took/take an anti-capitalism stance. Thus, these folks have as there target a system of oppression which happens to be represented by someone's private property. The destruction of that property cannot, I think, be reasonably linked to a hatred of a group of humans, nor to an intention of causing physical harm to them.
Hence, I oppose the use of the word violence to describe the actions of the protesters, anarchist or otherwise. To reiterate a comment above, I also witnessed violence only on the part of the police, in the form of unlawful seizure (of flags for fuck's sake) outside of McGinn's prescribed 'zone' and in the form of smacking my brothers and sisters in the head and body with their goon sticks.
That said, I'm grateful that the police showed up to direct traffic...but you don't need guns and rods to do that. Thanks, Brendan, for being a refreshing challenge to the media inaccuracies about resistance movements!
Nov 10, 2011
d.colonel.eyes commented on Master of Bation.
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