LA has criminalized houselessness
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Sunday, 8/1/2021
Happy Sunday! Let’s talk about news that made me angry, sad, and glad.
News that made me angry
While wearing a suit that costs more money than your monthly rent*, Nancy Pelosi said that Joe Biden doesn’t have the power to forgive student loans and went as far as saying it would be unfair for people whose children didn’t go to college to have to pay taxes for someone who went to college. This makes me angry because Nancy didn’t bring any of this energy to the government giving 4.9 billion dollars to Elon Musk to fund his hobbies. It seems like the only time we care about the unfairness of giving money to people is if we are giving money to people who actually need it. Need money to live? Absolutely not, that is expensive. Need money to play in space? The treasury is your bank account. If the US was a household, all the kids would be starving while the favorite child and the parents eat gilded omelettes. Despite Nancy Pelosi’s rich nonsense, Biden has the power to forgive student loans and he should.
*Probably. This was not fact checked.
News that made me sad
LA just criminalized houselessness. This makes me sad because housing is a human right but capitalism treats having a roof over your head as a luxury to coerce everyone into working jobs that are bad for the environment and our self-esteem. Working anywhere is not just bad for your self-esteem, in some instances, working doesn’t actually pay enough to live. The minimum wage is not enough to pay rent in any state. Yep, let that sink in. We are told we have to work to live, but the jobs don’t pay enough to live and then not having a home is now a crime in LA. If it feels like we are being scammed, it’s because we are. Capitalism is a legal ponzi scheme; rich people are Madoff, but instead of arresting Madoff, the government makes it illegal for the scammed to be alive. If this makes you feel like the government doesn’t care about you, it’s true.
News that made me glad
While the corporate media has everyone obsessing over the photos of two bourgeoise lovers, I was really happy to find out that Black people came together to shut down the Memphis-Area Pipeline, which would have run “through a series of majority-Black neighborhoods in Tennessee”. This makes me glad because it’s a perfect example of how Marvel movies have lied to us that we need cop superheroes to save us. We don’t. When we mobilize and work together for our own interests, we are much more powerful and hotter than Thor holding his hammer. Yes, we are currently in a class war and so nothing is hotter than getting together with your comrades to fight the exploitative class, which Ironman is happily a member of.
That’s it for the news, but don’t leave yet…
ICYMI…This week on TikTok I talked about TikTok suspending my Live access and Joe Biden breaking his main campaign promise.
There are water protectors standing in the way of the government and corporations to stop the Enbridge line 3 pipeline which would devastate the livelihood of many and the environment. Please follow Sonny for TikTok updates or go to Stop Line 3 to learn what you can do if you are not a TikTok human.
I was talking to someone about how the purpose of segregation is to target Black communities for expropriation and exploitation. I learned this from Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism. It’s a great book. And you can read it here.
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