There is no evil empire without stormtroopers
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Sunday, 9/26/2021
Happy Sunday! If you missed the Feel the News Livestream last week you can watch it here.
Now let’s talk about news that made me angry, sad, and glad.
News that made me angry
Haitians who were deported by Joe Biden report having their hands and legs shackled on their deportation flights. This news makes me so angry because another human being did this. Other than aspiring to be the joker, what would make you follow through with this order? I get it, you have a job, you have student loans, but at what point do you say this is enough? If your boss asks you to shackle someone’s feet and hands, you simply do not. And if they insist, this is the moment you reach out to any teenager in your life so they can show you how to use TikTok so you can record your boss’s order. I get it’s not fair to assign individuals blame for a systemic problem. But at the end of the day these evil systems require foot soldiers. There is absolutely no way the evil empire can do evil without the stormtroopers. If all the stormtroopers were like, yeah, we are done, the evil empire would be dead. So if you are a stormtrooper, please do the right thing and quit your job today. Now that I’ve gotten my feelings out, I would like to congratulate Joe Biden for going above and beyond to not fulfill his campaign promises. It takes a lot of evil in your soul to do what you are doing.
News that made me sad
As people are living in fear of being evicted from their homes, 83% of the rental assistance funds are still sitting in the bank sad and hoping that one day they will do the job that they were told they would do when they were hired for it. This news makes me very sad because it shows how much the government will go out of its way to make sure poor people’s lives are miserable. They claim that the reason why it's been so hard to give money is because they don’t have infrastructure to distribute the money. I’m sorry, since when is giving people money hard? Just give money to anyone who pays rent or get rid of rent. And I know what you are thinking. Marcela that doesn’t make sense. But I’d like to remind you that the US government gives trillions of dollars to build weapons that will never be used and they gave 46 billion dollars for rent assistance. Yes it can be done, they just don’t want to do it because taxes are rich people’s welfare not ours.
News that made me glad
There are cargo ships stuck on the New York coast filled with things that people bought to fill the empty hole in our lives created by capitalism because there are not enough workers to unload the goods and there are too many goods. This news makes me so happy because I hope it shows workers that we’ve got the power. Capitalists are always trying to trick us that they matter more than we do, but I don’t see them getting out there and unloading all those ships a thousand times faster than one worker even though they claim they should get a thousand times more of the wealth created by workers. So next time your boss tells you that you should be grateful for your job, you should tell them that they should be grateful that you showed up to work.
That’s it for the news, but don’t leave yet…
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In case you missed it this week on TikTok I talked about why you should aspire to as rebellious as the Haitian immigrants and prison abolition.
I’m still reading Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges and you should read it too.
I found this really cool video about why you shouldn’t respect time.
If you’d like to see me live, you are in luck. I’m in some shows next week. Head on over to my calendar to see where I’ll be.
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