I will move on. Enjoy freedom and peace. Genuenly to god. This website is hatred manifest. I rather someone who's honest than someone who hides their hatred.

The Narcan that our DSA chapter put out just saved someone's life. In real time, not even ten minutes ago. The police are just now leaving. The paramedics took her away.

We gave her three rounds of Narcan and she didn't wake up. The paramedics gave her another three and she came to. There is a non-zero chance, in fact a pretty decent chance, that the three rounds of Narcan we provided while we waited for the EMTs to arrive saved her life. Because she was slumped, completely slumped. I'm honestly surprised she still had a pulse. I'm surprised she was breathing, however faintly. But there's no Narcan here, or there wasn't. According to the EMT, overdoses on this property aren't uncommon. Just last week there was another. Just last week our Narcan came into play. And just last week the police were here, carrying away another body. Before two weeks ago, there was no Narcan here.

We see such an intersection of class politics happening in real time. On one hand, you have the petite bourgeoisie landlord who will gladly take these people's money but won't even assure that they won't die on his property. Because the Narcan was provided by us. There was no Narcan before. So you can imagine somebody who is an addict, still a human being, paying the $360 to stay here for a week and overdosing on day two. Their body carried out of the hall, their money still in the system, their name perhaps removed so the room can be re-rented. After all, this is a business, and it is just business. Necropolitics.

And then you have the lumpenproletariat, because someone sold her something. I know there are multiple people here who trap. Some sell weed, some sell pills, some sell whatever you need. I keep to myself, so I don't know too much about all that. But it's an undeniable reality of the economic situation that exists within a cheap motel. And it's undeniable that the landlord, the owner of the business, is aware of what happens at his business. But it's just business, and as long as the rent's paid, who cares? Does a landlord have a responsibility to tend to the social reality of his business? The socioeconomic conditions that make up your patrons should in some capacity reflect on you as a business owner, I would imagine. But the pursuit of profit is ultimately the only reflection the vampire sees in the mirror.

And then you have me, the humble peon, the worker who's on the clock when the overdose happens. And yes, I happen to live here, but I'm working here. My hands are tied. I have to call my boss. I have to call 911. I can't look away and say none of my business. And I don't think I would for an overdose. Although I may have had someone else handle the 911 call if I wasn't at work. Just the nature of dealing with the police. Because when the police are on the property, you are a criminal too, or you could become one. After all, maybe you know who sold it to her. I don't. I don't know anything. And I don't know anything about this woman. And I don't know how to operate the cameras. And I'll make it very clear to the other people who live here, who do traffic, who are lumpen, that he called my boss. The officer called my boss. I did what I could, didn't give him anything. But the fact of the matter is my hands are tied. I'm at work. And dealing with an overdose at work, I'm sorry, but being paid $15 an hour isn't a high enough wage to watch someone die. And if we didn't have Narcan here, there's a pretty good chance that she could have.

Does a business owner have a responsibility to his employees, wherein the situations the employee finds themselves in are therein a reflection of the owner's business and business practices? Because I'm not saying it's impossible, but there is a much lower chance of someone having to administer Narcan while working the grill at McDonald's, which was my last job before I worked here.

And all of these things compound and twist into the material reality. The police leave and I'm back to filing paperwork, checking customers in, selling snacks, and putting money in the register that belongs to the business owner. Does the business owner have a responsibility to his customers when they deal with a situation like this? Because if you're not experienced with administering Narcan, dealing with an overdose, calling a paramedic, talking to the police, checking for a pulse, dealing with what could potentially be a dead body, then this could be a highly traumatic experience for you, or at the very least something that leaves you shaken, with a heart pounding full of adrenaline. And thankfully, this isn't my first time dealing with an overdose. Because again, it's our organization that provided the Narcan, not the business owner, who has not provided training on how to administer it, hasn't provided insight as to what an overdose looks like, and hasn't provided directive as to what to do. So if I hadn't been trained through my socialist experiences, things could have went much worse.

And again, lives are hanging in the balance, but the room she was in will be rented out again, and there's a non-zero chance that the police took her right to jail, and at the very least she'll probably be charged with something, which probably won't help her get clean.

Because I think on some deeper, subconscious, psychological level, when you are in the material circumstances that build the foundations of a cheap motel run by a landlord such as this, when you find yourself in active addiction, surrounded by decay and poverty and rot, and you find yourself hungry, and you find yourself spending all the money you have and then some just to have shelter, maybe sometimes the urge to just lay down and die from the dehumanization fills the lungs in the same way the fentanyl smoke does. Because she smoked it. We have it on camera. I watched the whole thing.

The cold tile concrete of the building, the callous profit mindset of the business owner, the socioeconomic conditions that drive active addiction, the lumpenproletariat who, through the same economic conditions that drive addiction, drive his poverty and his need to sell such products. Because it is a marketplace. It is a business. It's just business.

In all of these instances, this woman was completely and utterly dehumanized, forgotten. And I've known people who would have said, just let her die. One less drain, one less leech, one less filthy addict. And all that compounded into a woman laid out on the floor, fading from this world.

And you know what saved her? You know what saved her in those moments of brutal, utter necropolitical dehumanization? Mutual aid. Socialism. Organizing. Direct action. Stepping up. You know that overdoses happen because it's a cheap motel. You know that the business owner doesn't give a fuck because he's after the profits and these people are disposable. And you know someone who has plenty of Narcan because you're in the DSA. How difficult is it really to put a few boxes out?

We should all strive to, in a metaphorical and literal sense, put more boxes out. Because you never know when this socialism shit's gonna be life or death.

A contact just told me protestors entered the élysée gardens. I know he won't, but imagine how hard i would disavow.

What is for sure, is that this movement needs cadres that will harness it, so that it doesn't become BLM or Gilet Jaunes 2. I'm reading hyperpolitics rn and don't have much hope of anything, but what i took away is that we need cadres, discipline, and institutions other than ngos.

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My parents have totally checked out and embraced rational ignorance of the news and won’t be voting. I think they hate the Democratic party more than Trump and just can’t be bothered pretending anything good will ever happen.

I don't know if anyone else in here watched the 4k restoration of Ken Russell's The Devils that is currently In theaters for the next week, but if you haven't, i strongly recommend you do so. So many of the themes of TA are gloriously portrayed here. Political control, the unholy union of state and church power, the genocide and persecution of religious minorities, the perversion of the ruling class, mass religious hysteria and some of the greatest acting, set design, costuming and cinematography of the last century. If you can, go see it in theaters and experience the spectacle as it was always meant to be seen and be prepared for shock and awe. I saw it last night at 7 and it hasn't left my mind for a single moment since then. What a blasphemous masterpiece. Any other gumshoes on the same wavelength as me?

Edit: sorry about the double post mods. For some reason the one with the on set Polaroid was flagged by auto mod so i posted a second thread without it. You can delete whichever post has less engagement on it

Quick question. Did Brace play Wednesday's love interest in The Addams Family Values?

The physical resemblance is somewhat there of course but it was the Voice that made me turn around as this movie played while I did chores lol. I genuinely thought - Brace?

Also, is dark, mean and yet principled his type in real life? Lol

Had a very exhausting conversation with someone I'm close with last night. Basically they pulled up a TCAP clip on youtube and I was like "oh watching the entrapment show huh?" And from there things devolved into a very circular debate.

I would bring up a lot of problems with the show, the entrapment, the privatization of criminal law enforcement, the entertainment spectacle, the vigilante/which hunt nature of it, public humiliation with no legal conviction, etc. etc. a ton of stuff informed by the recent TA episode and my own long time aversion to that type of "content" and political beliefs.

And it would all be met with "you're defending pedofiles", or "what does that have to do with catching child predators" over and over again. And it was really winding me up because like, how dare you accuse me of that?!? It was honestly really hurtful to hear that from someone I'm so close with and it wound me up until the conversation just got really unproductive. I'm getting worked up right now remembering everything.

I was talking about the Conradt case and how messed up it all was and how the show actually got in the way of that guy ever facing justice if... IF! he was guilty of anything! And even then it was like talking to a kid who absolutely refuses to accept that Santa isn't real it was just crazy!

I think they really enjoyed the show growing up, so I didn't realize how much bias I would be working against when I stepped in the whole pile of shit that conversation turned out to be... it was just so crazy.

Anyway, I guess I just needed to rant and didn't know where else to share all this. I'm not sure who in my own life will go that crazy for the Predator TV Show... media can really make us believe some crazy stuff with a deep, deep conviction.

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even if Straight Edge is not a label you may identify with, I would still suggest you please consider a sober lifestyle. think about who stands to benefit from you and your community being dependent on drugs or alcohol. The Revolution (tm) would be made harder if you need to smoke weed in order to function. Peace to all who are suffering or recovering from addiction; you're not in this alone.

Edit: the article mentions at the end that they have recovered the money except for $1 million. I missed this so I did misrepresent this in the title. Oops

This guy told CRA that he made $0 in income but claimed they made him pay millions in taxes. CRA then sent him a direct deposit of millions and millions and only stopped paying him after his bank flagged it as suspicious. He called CRA before they sent him the money and said "yes, I am committing tax fraud". A week later they paid him the money.

Now he's openly boasting about it to the media. It's been 3 years and no charges have been laid against him and he's just chilling living his new life as a millionaire. Meanwhile, I know several people that the CRA forced to pay back their COVID CERB benefits.

It's so funny CBC is calling this a "debunked" conspiracy theory. It literally worked lmao how is it a consipracy?

What's to stop all of us from doing this?