I make it no secret on social media that I support Jill Stein for president in this upcoming 2024 election cycle, but I thought I would make an official blog announcement in case you don’t follow me on those sites.
I have voted in every single presidential election in the United States since I tuned 18 in 1989. I have always been a leftist to one degree or another throughout those years, and I have always voted blue. However, given the political climate, and the insane actions of Genocide Joe, I refuse to ever vote blue again. Genocide is a line I refuse to cross and I’ll be damned if I give any support to those who condone and fund Israel. I have been attacked online by Genocide Joe’s supporters saying that I am going to get Trump elected if I don’t vote blue. Not my problem, because if he loses it is going to be his own damn fault for literally funding a genocide. I stand firm on this and I refuse to be bullied into voting for Genocide Joe.
Over the last few weeks I have seen people wonder who the hell they are going to vote for since they dislike both Genocide Joe and Trump. Jill Stein will cut all funding to Israel and is the only viable candidate not willing to support their genocidal lunacy. The only way the United States is ever going to get rid of their shit two party political system is if people vote for and support third party candidates such as Jill Stein. She talks the talk and walks the walk. She has been taking part in the recent anti-war college protests, and was even brutally arrested at one at Washington University last month.
In the end you can vote for whomever you please, but if you want the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank to end Jill Stein is the only viable candidate willing to go against the far right Israeli government.
The genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people is pure evil, something that will go down in history as one of the biggest war crimes ever committed. For this reason, and many more, I stand with the very brave students on college campuses across the United States who are protesting against Israel and Genocide Joe’s complicity in this genocide.
The rhetoric and lies that Genocide Joe, other politicians, and mainstream news pundits are spreading about these peaceful protests are only going to make even more students want to join in. The only time the protests get violent is when hired white nationalist thugs are bused into campuses to fight the protestors and when the police start attacking the protestors. The anti-Vietnam War protestors went through much of the same thing over 50 years ago; getting beat up and arrested for peacefully protesting wasn’t okay back then and it is not okay now.
The people over at Autostraddle have created a a list of all of the schools that are putting on protests and how to connect to them on Instagram if you want to donate time or money.
Video about what took place because I don’t link to her.
EDIT 30/04: She has apparently been told the names of the people who fought her and her boyfriend and is going to call the cops. You know that phrase ‘snitches get stitches’? I quite honestly don’t think she is going to be welcome in most places after this which can only be a good thing. If I still lived in California I would make the drive to LA to verbally harangue the hell out of her. I’m kind of known for being good at it.
EDIT: Just found out from some online friends whom I trust that she has been accused of raping a guy in the past. She sucked off a dude who was passed out drunk apparently. I knew she was kind of horrible but I had no idea that it ran this deep. Fucking hell. I have now changed my mind about her. Rapists should never be tolerated no matter who the hell they are, and especially if they are using the punk subculture to gain status and money. FUCK YOU ERIN!!!!
Erin Micklow is an ‘influencer’ who uses the punk subculture to make cash. That is who she is and that is what she does. It is also the reason why she is pretty infamous in the punk scene; using a subculture that isn’t about material gain to gain a lot of money. She has been denied entry into Punk Rock Bowling in the past because of her refusing to follow the rules when it came to getting access backstage. So, her being attacked by another chick at a show didn’t come out of nowhere; she has a long track record of treating some other people horribly.
So, what exactly happened? That is kind of up for debate right now because she is telling one story while others are saying something different. She claims she got ‘jumped’ in a bathroom by a group of women, but others are saying it was just one chick who attacked her. Her boyfriend then wails on the other chick. Other chick’s boyfriend enters the combat and proceeds to beat the shit out of Micklow’s boyfriend.
The other side of the story.
Do I think all of this is a bit shit? Yes, because nobody deserves to beat up at a show like that. Personally, as many of you know, I can’t stand influencers period because it is all about material gain in subcultures that weren’t meant to go down that neoliberal capitalist road. I think what we are beginning to see right now in society is a backlash against influencers because people are broke as hell right now and don’t want to watch people brag about everything they own constantly. I think what happened to her was bound to happen at some point because of her long history of using the punk subculture to make money. Like I said earlier she is not completely innocent; she has a documented pattern of some shitty behaviour.
People are telling her to go to the cops, but right or wrong there will be even more backlash against her if she does this because the police have never been liked by the punk community for obvious reasons. She is between a rock and a hard place. She chose the punk subculture to be an influencer and that subculture is now physically fighting back. Do I find her annoying as hell? Yes. Do I think she should have been beat up for it? No. I think it is totally fine to verbally berate somebody when they are being an idiot but punching somebody takes that to another level.
The ‘too goth’ are her words not mine. She publicly posted this photo of herself so I am sharing.
Most of you know that I still doom-scroll goth subreddits, because the drama always gives me ideas for articles. This is no different; a girl has claimed that a mall in her home area of Virginia kicked her out for looking ‘too goth’. I have been wanting to write a screed about how friends don’t let friends wear white-face make-up and this pops up out of the blue!
She was told by the mall security guard that she had to leave the mall because her make-up obscured her features. I used to go to malls all of the time in the late 80’s/early 90’s with friends to hang out because there was literally nowhere to congregate out of the sun and we were never kicked out. However, we didn’t wear white-face. In fact never in my life have I worn it. Back ‘in the day’ it was considered a very theatrical look and even in the clubs of that time I can count on one hand the number of people that I saw wearing it. I guarantee that there are more people wandering about wearing white-face right now than there was 30 years ago.
There are ways to look pale without resorting to white-face. All you need is a foundation shade that is a few levels lighter than the colour of your skin. That way you can easily blend it into you neck without it looking like a white mask. Honestly, that is what the vast majority of us did back then. When I could afford to buy MAC I started using their lightest shade. These days I very rarely use foundation. If I am feeling extra fancy I will wear lipstick and eyeliner and that is it.
The thing with looking over the top and theatrical while out in public is that you will get shit for it in one way or another. It sucks that people are assholes but you have to have a thick skin. Remember when the influencer Black Friday wasn’t allowed to enter the Louvre because of her very theatrical look? There is a time and place for it. In the end you can wear whatever make-up you want, but sometimes there are going to be consquences for that choice. The world that exists online is not the same world that exists outside your front door.
EDIT: Here is an exchange the chick and another person had on her Reddit thread. She is underlined in green. This got a little juicy…and racist. Fucking hell!
Aaron Bushnell was in the United States Air Force and he made the ultimate sacrifice. He filmed himself burning to death in front of the DC Israeli embassy while shouting ‘Free Palestine’ until he couldn’t any longer. He felt that the killing of Palestinians by Israel was wrong and that the complicity of the United States government in it was untenable.
He wasn’t just a soldier, he helped the homeless in San Antonio and was part of the local socialist community. In other words he talked the talk and walked the walk. This sacrifice that he made was done because he had a sense of justice, not because he was depressed.
That you Aaron for standing up for the Palestinian people and for your sacrifice; you will never be forgotten.
Full disclosure on this, I actually knew Vision online over twenty years ago during the deathrock revival. I stopped paying attention to him and the band when they started to look like rejects from a Motley Crue video. It was just a really bizarre shift and I lost track of the band.
I still go over to r/goth, even though I am banned from there, because the drama in that group gives me a lot of ideas for articles. Hi guys!!! Well, somebody over there made a long post questioning as to why Vision from Tragic Black was now a right winger. As proof they showed a few screenshots from Vision’s follow list and a list of all of his follows in a paste bin. I felt like the proof had to be a little more solid so I went over to Instagram and took screenshots of every one of his obvious right wing follows. I will post every screenshot and a brief commentary underneath each one. I know it sucks finding this shit out but if you are a fan of Tragic Black you deserve to be told the truth as to what kind of person Vision really is; a far right wing supporter.
Awwww…….look, he likes Charlie Kirk who is a very well known right wing grifter. How cute!
He even likes the rejected GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. What a nice lad!
Michale Graves is an admitted Proud Boy and Vision thinks that he is peachy-keen enough to follow. Right wing chuds supporting one another? Who knew?
Our boy is following Russel Brand AND Donald Trump. I guess the young lad really loves conspiracy theories. That’s so tragic! See what I did there?
Eric Trump? He is so enamored of the Cheeto that he also follows one of his grifter sons……and he also follows Matt Gaetz, a congressman who had been accused of sex trafficking minors.
He loves his fascist women blonde and extremely dumb; Marjorie Taylor Greene. So if you are a dumb blonde fascist bitch you may get a follow from him! How exciting!
I guess he also likes his fascist women with dark hair because here is Lauren Boebert! Or maybe he likes her because he wants her to jerk him off in a theatre? We will probably never know. Steven Crowder is a right wing grifter podcast idiot. I wonder if listening to his show helps Vision take a shit. Regular bowel movements are important!
Say hi to Josh Hawley, a GOP member of congress who thinks that women who are raped, either by a relative or somebody else, should be forced to have the child. So our little Vision is against a woman’s right to choose. What a peach!
He loves Lauren Boebert so very much that he has followed a second account of hers? Lovely!! Oh, and he follows the very problematic industrial band Nachtmahr, Not a shocker since Vision seems to be okay with racism and woman being exploited.
He follows yet another Donald Trump account and Kanye West. Just when you thought this crap couldn’t get any more stupid he throws us a bone! Thanks dude!
Ted Cruz is sooooo lucky to have a follower like Vision! Like OMG, right?
Awwwww…..I was wondering where his follow of Tucker Carlson was at. Vision doesn’t disappoint does he?
Both Tim Pool AND Ben Shapiro? Wow, Vision sure has his listening to far right wing grifters covered doesn’t he?
He follows Joe Rogan, because of course he does!
He also loves Andy Deane, a ‘goth’ musician who has been accused of rape among other really disgusting things. Bad birds of a feather hanging together. No shock.
We are now at the end of our saga, in which Vision forgot to remove his support of somebody that wasn’t a right wing grifter; President Obama. Vision fell down the far right rabbit hole and I can’t ever see him coming back from this. The end.
First I would like to say sorry for not being on here that much, and it is mostly due to the fact that I have been on Twitter almost all day every day. Since I have MS and can’t do anything physically I am spending my time helping to spread the word about the genocide and all of the lies that Israel has been spreading online.
Basically what is happening right now is that after the ICJ gave the ruling that Israel has to stop the bombing of Gaza Israel claimed that the UNRWA was full of Hamas terrorists. Western countries fell for this lie and have stopped funding the UN humanitarian organization. The Israeli government has always wanted the UNRWA gone so that they could starve the Palestinians into giving them Gaza. Out of over 13,000 UNRWA workers in Gaza only around 10 have been found to be guilty and they have been kicked out of the organization.
Since they have lost a lot of their funding the UNRWA needs all the help they can get. If you would like to help them here is their website. Also, if you live near where marches against the genocide are taking place I highly encourage you to attend them and let your feelings be known. EDIT: Now Israel claims it was only 4 UNRWA workers who were Hamass. Go figure.
Owen Jones’ new video about those who have public platforms who are doing nothing to help end the genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel. It is also my opinion, especially towards ‘influencers’ in the goth and punk subcultures. You cannot be in an alternative type subculture and support a literal genocide. End of. Too chicken shit, that you will lose followers? Oh noes, people supporting a genocide might not follow you. Fuck off with that nonsense.
This is kind of a lazy post but it is freezing cold and my MS symptoms hate me right now.
Before I start I want it to be known I bought these with my own money, I did not receive these badges and patches for free or at a discount.
Since I have been endlessly posting about the genocide in Gaza on social media I decided to buy some politically themed patches and pins. I bought all the pins and patches off of Etsy. I got the badges from Wokerati Party, and I got the patches from Chaos Creations. I have a lot of DIY projects going on at the same time so I am not quite sure where the patches are going yet but I have some ideas. All of the patches and badges are of a good quality so I highly recommend them for all of your leftist political needs.
If you live on the US East Coast and want to make a difference please try to attend this. I am guessing that this is going to be huge so plan accordingly.
