politics
Twenty-five posts carry this tag.
Posts tagged politics
- BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Nostalgia Is a Political Weapon
The mythologized past that authoritarian movements promise to restore never existed, but the longing they exploit is real. - EVERGREEN — Considered finished and maintained.
The Water Wars Are Already Here
Two billion people already lack reliable drinking water, and the conflicts over what's left are well underway. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The Prison System Isn't Broken
Mass incarceration looks like failure only until you ask what the system was built to do. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Public Libraries Are Radical
If someone proposed the public library today, free and open to everyone with no purchase required, they would be called a socialist. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Meritocracy Is a Fairy Tale
The word meritocracy was coined as satire, and we built an entire economic theology around the joke. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Healthcare Is Infrastructure
We treat healthcare like a consumer product when it functions like a road or a power grid. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Abolition Isn't What You Think
Abolition is not the absence of safety but the presence of something better than cages. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Borders Are Newer Than You Think
The modern border regime is barely a century old, and pretending otherwise distorts every immigration debate we have. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
UBI Isn't Radical Enough
Universal basic income has gone mainstream, and that should make you suspicious of what it leaves untouched. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Nobody Is Self-Made
The self-made billionaire is a myth that serves a political function, and it is time to retire it. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
How Socialists Won New York
How a DSA assemblyman beat Andrew Cuomo with 50,000 volunteers and no corporate money, and what it means for American politics. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
ICE Kills Americans
US citizens have been killed and deported by immigration enforcement. The machine doesn't care about papers. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Bureaucratic Violence
How 'just following protocol' diffuses responsibility until atrocities happen with nobody to blame. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Due Process Is Already Dead
Immigration enforcement already operates outside constitutional norms, and the exceptions it pioneered are spreading into the rest of the legal system. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
The Deportation Machine Has No Off Switch
Once built, enforcement systems don't stay confined to their original targets. Institutional momentum keeps the machine running. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Cruelty As Policy
Some policies hurt people on purpose, and the architects say so out loud when they think it polls well. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Why Reform Fails
You can't vote your way out of structural violence. The system is working as designed. A critique of reformism without nihilism. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
The Myth of the Neutral Tool
Technology embeds politics, and the design is the argument. No tool is a mere instrument; every one shapes what's possible and what's thinkable. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Self-Hosting Is Political
Running your own infrastructure is a small assertion of autonomy against platforms built to make autonomy impossible. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Mutual Aid Isn't Charity
Charity flows downward and keeps hierarchy intact; mutual aid flows sideways and builds power instead. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Climate Change Is a Labor Issue
The workers who extract, transport, and burn fossil fuels are the same ones who'll build what comes next. Climate transition requires labor organizing. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Rural America Isn't What You Think
The countryside isn't monolithically conservative. It's complicated, abandoned, and organizing in ways that defy stereotypes. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Bioregionalism: Thinking Like a Watershed
Political boundaries are arbitrary. Ecological ones aren't. What organizing politics around natural systems actually means. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Liberation Theology Was Right
The radical tradition within Christianity that sided with the poor. What happens when religion takes material conditions seriously. - EVERGREEN — Considered finished and maintained.
Actual Reformation
A look at what we as individuals must do to reform instead of more grandiose gestures that would only cause short-term fixes like electing a new president for example.