That's great! Glad to see that you're back for at least a little while

DESTRUXION AMERICA - GRITOS NORTEÑO, by Destruxion America 14 track album

what is your fav punk record so far this year? This is mine: unlawfulassembly.bandcamp.com/album/destru...

I haven't heard this. I've been listening to almost nothing (except the new Clipse singles) but anarcho and crust punk the last couple of weeks

Does this mean we'll be seeing more from EI?

a photo of a set of smashed windows is seen in the image. at center is a tag in white text which reads "FUCK ICE" below in overlayed text it reads, "CITY-WIDE LOS ANGELES GOES UP". in the upper right hand corner it reads "ediciones inéditas.

"What did happen, felt a lot like a riot; even if but for a few city blocks. The tension of everyday life under the regime of Capital was released because the cops were off somewhere else, or were simply overwhelmed by the force of protestors on Sunday."

ineditas.noblogs.org/post/2025/06...

They didn’t overuse pitch shifting. They didn’t rely wholly on super low tuning, or super pingy snares. They wrote good songs and used things like low tuning, dual and pitch shifted vocals to enhance what was already there, not as cover for lack of substance

One of the major difference between Carcass’ goregrind period and many (though not all!) of their followers is that carcass actually wrote good songs

Ne travaillez jamais

DESTRUXION AMERICA - GRITOS NORTEÑO, by Destruxion America 14 track album

what is your fav punk record so far this year? This is mine: unlawfulassembly.bandcamp.com/album/destru...

histories into places that have their own histories of genocide, concentration camps, and other forms of abject violence (that pre-date fascism!). You might even find that drawing upon local histories might give you better insight into how these things are currently functioning.

The need to label something as fascist in order to be able to reject it is weird. I think, at best, it runs cover for liberalism, conservatism, state socialism, and whatever other authoritarian political configuration you can think of. But it is also most of the time just importing euro

lol well if you know any good marxology that also analyzes the global political economy I’d be interested, but only because I trust your taste

No one’s read anything?

What’s the best recent (I mean published in the last year) critical political economy text you’ve read? (Marxist fine; marxology, no.)

its all gotta go.

Kind of like how fascism is "capitalism in decline" but it is also necessary to go through capitalism to get to communism?

In all ways we can imagine

This is why I’m convinced that there is no environmentalism or ecological without anti-work

High protein is out, high fiber is in

Cainsmarsh, by Rigorous Institution 11 track album

Now listening
rigorous-institution.bandcamp.com/album/cainsm...

How could I forget; they are the cooler ones, after all! (but I feel like most contemporary ones don't even know much about the russian nihilists)

The kind of aestheticization that allows for this sucks. And I know you hate contemporary nihilists, and I have my problems with it too, but their obsession with aesthetics (at least online) really feels like it produces these kind of uncritical appraisals of "cool" looking tactics

Reminds of when 'radical' groups were supporting the white supremacist trucker convoy simply because they were blocking the flows of capital. Form over content every time for these guys

No more social war, only state military war for anarchists

Again, there are real structural problems with knowledge production that have nothing to do with using technical language. Expanding your vocabulary is actually good. And sometimes complicated concepts need complicated language.

In my view, this is simply evading the real problems with academia in exchange for anti-intellectualism and a faulty belief that non-academics cannot possibly have the capacity to learn anything that isn't simplified to the point of losing its meaning

I think the problem is less about technical language and more about actual structural inaccessibility like locking education behind exorbitant tuition fees and a world of work that steals time away from you that could otherwise be spent learning