Companion music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC2pgcagyRk

We have had and continue to have a democracy. It may not be the form of democracy you like but no need to pretend otherwise.

• slave owners addressing their "uppity" plantation workers

Hun, your slavish devotion to optics are shackles. Worse, you're policing your peers, prioritizing the abstract appeal of your optics to a hypothetical other over their reality anchored and literal praxis.

Kill the cop in your head, babe. We'll be over here when you're ready.

Cool to see that JellyKey is still going strong!

Having one of their pieces was always a "woah, wouldn't THAT be cool" type of aspirational things for me. Very skilled craftspeople - have lots of respect for their work.

They're a last-ditch liberation movement with four discreet wings of praxis, dude. Moreover, the Palestinian Authority is collaborationist with occupying forces - this isn't about manufacturing an endless war, though I'm sure Lockheed Martin and Elbit shareholders would love that - this is about reclaiming tangible avenues for political agency that were either captured or outright denied, violently, by 'Israel'.

You disagree, sure, but you don't seem to understand the inhuman scale, decades of systemic violence, a population has to endure to make violence the only mutually understood language left.

Also - to your point - it doesn't help how many peaceful community leaders, politicians and organizers have been assassinated by the IOF and settlers in the last 75 years. Democracy, as presented by the PA, was never earnest or effectual in occupied Palestine - it was always a membrane of indigenous skin stretched over the occupiers demands.

Yeah, they're both colonies. Australia was the blueprint for Apartheid. I speak as an Australian - don't trust these snakes. Penny Wong is an avowed ally to the Zionist project.

Yes but also wise up - we're not the same as Exxon Mobil or Rio Tinto. We individually need to make our changes, absolutely - but they won't unless we force them to do so and they dwarf us in output to an inhuman degree.

Simply - we need to stop their machines in a very literal sense. They've already shown that dialogue and scientific reasoning is an utterly useless vehicle for change in the face of their organisations - so we need to start speaking in languages they understand. Remove their ability to function. Direct action is the answer to the question.

Dude. The world is being killed and the people killing it have names and addresses. This is not a untouchable force of nature causing our homes to flood and burn while the ecosystems that allow us to farm collapse.

You have agency. Get angry, channel it and get active.

That'd be right, lol - thanks for the help parsing the context, I really did just assume it was earnest

Ooooh, that's a really interesting read on the situation

This is so cool - machinists are a completely different kind of craftsperson; always so cool to see.

Straight up, that's my dream bike.

We'll get there - it's just about chatting when you have something to offer; we get to be the stimuli, the response or both

Like, for me, I don't start conversations particularly often - but I can certainty riff on topics fed add things along the way once the ball is rolling. That's why I've always been more of a comments section person. Guess I'll have to step out and try posting more!