i know who this guy is. he's very right-wing and not somebody i would cite. my argument is that this whole thing is backwards: iran is a fascist state, israel is a liberal democracy (with problems, but nobody is perfect) and the entire spectrum is reversed on this issue. the democrats are the conservatives now, and the republicans are the liberals; the liberals are swinging out to the right of the conservatives, who are not exactly running to the left, but are just letting the liberals cede ground to the ndp. in the united states, this is sort of a correction to historical norms. it's hard for us to understand it, but it's the 1960-2020 period that is actually weird. the democrats are supposed to be right-wing. the republicans are supposed to be liberal.
i don't want to confuse people. i'm a revolutionary socialist and i prefer liberals to conservatives, but the spectrum is broken, and a lot of people are misaligned. a lot of people are disenfranchised. revolutionary socialists believe peace is a naive, stupid thing that reactionary conservatives believe in. class conflict is perpetual. revolution is constant. iran is about the most reactionary, backwards, right-wing regime on the planet, and any socialist that actually reads would be fully in support of regime change in iran. that's the funny thing about the neo-cons - they're all trotskyists. they're all socialists, and they all sound like socialists, until you realize that they're all cynical and vulgar and applying marx to maximize greed. i'm not on their side for that reason. i'm the outsider, the actual socialist, that actually wants the kurds to win in iran. so you will see me break with the neocons quite abruptly. i'm not christopher hitchens, even as i insist that hitch was horribly smeared by both sides, and more than capable of defending himself, even if people decided not to listen near the end.
one of my favourite ironic quips is
i don't have a file, i have a filing cabinet.
i don't have a file, i have a filing cabinet.
variation:
the only target audience i'm reaching is the cia.
i know i have an audience but it's not clear who or what it is.
i've found several threads about me on fourchan, for example. these are creepy people that i wouldn't like much, and a lot of them are probably trump voters, but they seem to like me. they like my writing, mostly. i certainly do a lot of it.
but i'm a musician and i know i have an audience on that level as well, i've just never been able to entirely quantify or pinpoint it.
if you read this site a lot, realize i'm desperately poor. i live on disability. i come from a lower class background and have nothing to inherit. i'm cradle to grave poor, but i'm ok with that. i'm happy with little. what's getting under my skin right now is that i'm struggling to fight off an attack by investors that upended my life. the court rulings have been wrong, but i'm forced to drag people to the supreme court to correct them and the fact is it's not worth my time but i can't pay off the debt in any other way.
if you want to help me stabilize, there are some options on the right hand side of the page. there's a paypal donation link. i accept e-transfers to the email address on the side (the contact link). you could buy my music on bandcamp.
anything you can direct towards me will help get me out of debt, which is all i really need. i'm stable and happy but the debt is impossible, and it's the result of an unfair attack by investors that i was able to survive, but only due to my wits, and some good luck. this baseless and frivolous attack would have destroyed most people in my position, and the court facilitated it, instead of stopping it.
if i can get it to the supreme court, i should win. it's the superior court that's gone apeshit insane. the supreme court still works. most conservatives in canada will make the opposite argument.
but i'd rather focus on my art and i can't until i get this debt wiped out.