So, I made the mistake of picking a performing arts degree, so I spend most of my days pondering how pointless of a degree it is. I did manage to pick a module about performance protest, and while some of it gets a bit bullshitty, there’s been other parts like looking at native American performance/protest at the Dakota pipeline and stuff, which have been interesting and useful.
Yesterday there was some group work. It was a bit of a brainstorming exercise but as a group we settled on the idea of spamming the illegal immigrant report line/letterbox with shit so that new reports wont go through. Ok, it’s nothing amazing, but it served the purpose of the exercise we were given.
Then this girl speaks up. Previously her contribution to class has been telling everyone about how she culturally enriched herself by going on holiday in places where poor people exist.
On our idea, she says that it might be illegal to do, so we should create a fake website and have people fill that in as a symbolic message.
A FAKE WEBSITE FILLED IN AS A SYMBOLIC MESSAGE
At that moment I realised why the arts seem so useless at changing things. It’s jam packed with trust fund kiddies.
that is complete insanity. what could possibly drive someone to have that thought at my young age? To remove all potency from the tiniest little act. Seriously ghoulish.
Some of my coworkers regularly get into debates about how they would run out workplace if they owned it (they never will). And you’d think they’d talk about running it more efficiently or more rights to the workers? Nope, they’ll fantasize about reducing PTO, lowering pay, and mandating longer work hours for everyone. One guy regularly says “when I started I made $8 per hour and that was enough.”
They’re so ingrained with neoliberal conservative nonsense they have ceased to identify with their own interests and instead live on imaginary bourgeois interests.
And I tried unionizing there
God, what’s the point of fantasy if you just imagine something worse
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i heard a farmer bragging about paying an undocumented immigrant below min wage and acted like he was doing them a favor
this was at church
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I once asked my brother to name something good that America has done, and he said “the civil rights movement”
“I’m a Trotskyist myself, Lenin was too violent”
Like she’s a nice old lady and seems to actually have decent politics for a boomer but holy shit.
:data-laughing:
I guess she doesn’t know who lead the Red Army during the civil war
That was what blew me away I didn’t even know how to respond to that lol. Like not only that, but what do you think he meant by permanent revolution lmao?
Trotsky also was the one who came up with the KGB
I got points taken off on an essay I had to write about an article that was boilerplate TERF shit about trans women going to public women’s bathrooms for being “biased.” So I basically got a lower grade for vehemently disagreeing with the article.
During the height of the George Floyd protests, a condo in my neighborhood had both a BLM poster up and a “we support [our city’s] police” poster RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER
oh my god i’m not alone. i’ve seen several of these. BLM sign literally side by side with a “we support our local police” kinda signs. the absolute ideological incoherence of americans is so insane.
that just screams “please let the social unrest not be within molotov range of my property”.
