Post-coronavirus, will “My non-binary status is about life and death” seem more clearly like the joke it is?

by Meghan Murphy 2.6kSHARES

In a matter weeks, we’ve all been yanked back to reality. Most of us, anyway. It seems some stragglers remain blissfully ignorant, continuing on with their lives much as they would have pre-global pandemic. Refusing to care about anyone but ourselves remains a popular pastime among humans, as ever.

GQ published a badly timed article last week, just days before reality (and panic) set in for most, profiling Ezra Miller — an actor I’ve never heard of and wish I had still not.

Miller is 27 years old, insists on being referred to as “they” or “them,” and has a personality to match these demands. He is intolerable, in other words. The fawning interviewer, who can’t have been more than 30 years old themselves, or they wouldn’t have fallen for the embarrassing charade of faux-intellectualism, conveyed through the use of as many big words as Miller could memorize, quotes the actor saying things like:

“Straightness and cis-ness and whiteness and racism, as in the belief in race, physical appearance as a determining factor for fucking anything, including ethnicity, ethnography — these are all like the circus, the carnival, the Hollywood instead of all the different storytelling practices… All these things are relatively recent colonial inventions.”

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Jen Izaakson and Tae Kyung Kim report on the growing radical feminist movement inspiring women across South Korea. June 15, 2020

by Jen Izaakson and Tae Kyung Kim0 2.5kSHARES from Feminist Current shared witrh thanks

Last fall, Jen Izaakson travelled to South Korea to document the rise of the radical feminist movement as part of a Cambridge University working group, after winning a research grant, interviewing over 40 female activists. She co-authored this piece with Tae Kyung Kim, a Korean radical feminist from Seoul, currently living and studying in Berlin.

News of the growing feminist movement in South Korea has reached Western media, but the roots of this radical uprising are undercovered. Mainstream media reporting in the West often covers the aspects of South Korean feminism that mirror our own achievements back to us, leaving the particular achievements of Korean women and the most radical aspects of the movement less visible.

In September, over 40 women from the South Korean radical feminist movement were interviewed as part of academic research. The results of those findings are summarized in this article.

Due to the brevity of this piece, lots of information cannot be covered, but we have tried to include the material that will best demonstrate how the movement emerged; its historical context; and what tactics, strategies, and political formations constitute radical feminism in South Korea.

Male violence politicizes and radicalizes

In 2016, the infamous “Gangnam murder” instigated outcry among women. A 34-year-old man named Kim Sung-min stabbed a 23-year-old woman (whose name remains under a publication ban) to death inside a gender-neutral washroom at a karaoke bar. Kim Sung-min waited inside the washroom, allowing several men to enter and exit before a woman came in.

In court, he explained, “I did it because women have always ignored me.” This is a similar explanation to those offered by other “incels” (involuntary celibates) who have perpetrated violent murders, but in South Korea, government authorities explicitly denied the misogynistic motive, despite Kim Sung-min’s own testimony.

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Another political fault line has been opened up by the rapidly spiralling events of 2020.

As we wrote yesterday, the Covid scare has found us sharing the anti-authoritarian analysis of people beyond the usual anarchic spheres, while many supposed comrades are bizarrely supportive of the official state narrative.

However, the current street uprisings across the USA, sparked by the murder of George Floyd, have revealed a peculiar limit to some people’s opposition to the nascent global police state.

Unlike us, they have not found hope in the sight of thousands upon thousands of people of all races reclaiming the streets of dozens of cities, overturning police cars, setting on fire the buildings used to oppress them.

They apparently don’t think that it is reasonable, or helpful, to come together and physically resist the state and its hired thugs!

In taking this stance, they reveal that they have understood nothing about the system which has controlled and exploited us for so long, and which is now dropping its liberal mask to reveal its true totalitarian nature.

They have not grasped that its so-called “democracy” is fake, that the “reforms” it sometimes offers us are illusory, that the avenues it provides for us to try and change things are all time-wasting dead-ends.

Continue reading “We are many, they are Few.. We will be victorious!”

US Fracking companies are going bust like Party Balloons. Good news for the planet! But…

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But how the hell did they get permission and investment to drill MILLIONS of toxic wells in their own back yards? Well for one thing a whole lot of state and media sponsored nationalistic HYPE to make the US self sufficient in gas and oil. Plus almost free loans backed by the US superpower privilege to ”just print money’.

And always the BIG WIN around the corner, sure to come, just by investing one more time.

There is a huge global spike in methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases driving climate change over the last decade, according Harvard University Studies. The U.S. is the biggest culprit, mostly from oil and gas fracking wells, there are over a million of them active.

Then there was the ‘wizard wheeze’ to compress the glut of gas into LNG and ship it to the US vassal states worldwide, investing lucratively in not one but many conversion and port facilities..

Destroying the environment doesn’t count it seems ‘‘The Earth is put there by God to be used up by me”.. . Does it say that somewhere in the Bible?

So.. Export as Liquid Natural Gas.. A sure fire winner? You bet your bottom dollar ! But US frack gas LNG, even at rock bottom prices, will always be much dearer due to transport costs than Qatari, Russian or Australian gas. And despite US strongarm threats to force vassal states to buy it the giant LNG facilities in construction are already looking like ‘stranded assets’.

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