j reacts to "anarchist" kids ironically throwing around safe spaces like a neo-pmrc

"i sometimes feel unsafe at punk shows" - self-identified anarcha-feminist.

you know, it's not a crazy thing to say. is rock music dangerous? conservatives have been claiming that for decades. but, it's kind of the point.

the insinuation was not that she should avoid rock concerts, but that rock concerts should change so that she feels more safe at them. no irony. no self-awareness.

i just don't understand why these kids can't see themselves for what they are. i don't want to tell them what to think. i just want them to have a mass self-realization that they're all a bunch of conservatives and just get the fuck out of the left.

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if you want to feel safe, i'd suggest avoiding rock concerts and, instead, stick closer to church-oriented social activities.

j reacts to hillary's vote suppression tactics ultimately being self-defeating

hey hill...

when you say trump is being used as a recruitment for isis, is that before or after your government sends them equipment to carry out it's geostrategic goal of destabilizing the area for saudi expansion?

nonsense piled on top of nonsense. i've pointed this out before: if you're going to keep track of this space over the upcoming election, prepare yourself for sardonic, disconnected rants about the surreal absurdity of the charade. i have no interest in either of these candidates, except to deconstruct and expose them.

the best thing you can do this election is refuse to vote. the candidates themselves won't care. hillary will high-five her advisers that her suppression tactics worked, and she won. but, there's a certain point where low turnout really does send a message.

let's get turnout under 25%. that should be your goal, as an activist. they might not care or react. but, at least they'll hear the message - and that's better than you can say about anything else, right now.

24-05-2016: first alter-reality blog post, a/c nightmare, organizing too many thoughts

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1

j reacts to the role reversal on voter turnout (democrats want suppression this cycle)

i just want to draw attention to another component of this election that is acting in a role reversal: turnout.

sanders has drawn attention to an apparent truth: when turnout is high, democrats win. this is because the democrats have long been the quasi-populist party, whereas the republicans have been seen as fronts for deep money. i mean, the smart kids know better, but that's the popular perception, anyways.

that is about to flip over entirely this election, and it's also just another example of how clinton and sanders are really moving in drastically opposite directions. sanders knows he needs big turnout to have any chance and has been basing his entire campaign around it. but, if the election is trump v clinton and there's high turnout? clinton is going to lose. she actually wants to take more of a traditionally republican tactic, and try and suppress turnout - as she has been doing in the primary.

so, presuming that sanders does fall in line like he's expected to, you're going to end up in the situation where the republicans are trying to run as the populist party and get turnout up and the democrats are pushing the cynical vote suppression tactics designed to make people think it's not worth their time to bother voting.

the democrats have never been particularly inspiring, sure. but i don't think it's ever been this bad.

first alter-reality post

May 22, 1996

 

really enjoying the new soundgarden record

i guess this is my new blog. wow.

i should be asleep, but it's a saturday night and my parents don't really force me to go to sleep. well, how can they, really? they need to sleep, too. fatalism is actually pretty rational, in context - it's an unresolvable problem. and i'm a bit of a hard-headed little punk rascal.

i just find that i only need a few hours of rest, not something crazy like eight hours. who sleeps that long? wow. i'm ok with four hours, really. so, what should i do for the rest of the night, then? toss darts at the wall? count sheep? lying in bed when you're really not tired is just simply being unproductive. if i'm going to be awake anyways, i'd rather stay up and read something, or listen to some music. i guess it's a good time to do some blogging, too.

i don't have internet access in my room, though, so i need to sneak into the spare computer room when i want to use the internet at night. i do have a computer in my room, but it only has windows 3.1 on it. i need windows 95 to use internet explorer. so, i probably won't be able to do this blog every night.

i've been up all night playing civ2 and listening to this new soundgarden cassette on my walkman. i skipped the afternoon class on tuesday (computer class, and i already know it all, anyways, so it's just a waste of time) to go down to the hmv at st. laurent to pick it up. i get a free bus pass from school, so i can go wherever i want in the city whenever i want, which is actually very liberating. much easier than bicycling. there's a music world at billings, too, but it's always over priced and under stocked. the hmv at st. laurent is only a few minutes up the transitway and always has what i want.

it's a little different than superunknown, a bit poppier, but it's still pretty good. parts of it remind me a lot of the beatles, and i really like the beatles a lot. parts of it are sort of weird, and i like that, too. i always like to hear things that i haven't heard before. i think i'd like to teach myself how to play some of these songs, too, but i'm wondering if maybe they're in weird tunings. i know soundgarden likes weird tunings. my ibanez has a locking bridge so i try to avoid weird tunings. maybe, i can figure out how to play them in normal tunings, anyways. when songs are in weird tunings, it's sometimes helpful to find tabs on the internet, because then i can figure out how to play it with normal tuning. sometimes, that means transposing the song up a key or two but it's all relative so it doesn't matter.

i've been playing civ2 ever since i got home last night. dad says i'm totally addicted, but it's a video game, not a drug, so i think that's a weird thing to say. but, i do sometimes play it all night, until the sun comes up and the dogs come running in and i have to pretend i'm sleeping. i like to change the civilizations i play with so that i can learn the names of the cities in different parts of the world. tonight, i am catherine the great of russia. i always liked to learn about geography, ever since i was very small. i knew all the capital cities in the whole world, almost!

i found a tab for burden in my hand, and it is actually in a weird tuning. i should try and convert it to normal tuning when i wake up tomorrow.

i should sneak back into my room now. shhh. 

http://therealinri.blogspot.com/1996/05/really-enjoying-new-soundgarden-record.html