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.
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.
If you follow me on social media you know where I stand when it comes to the genocide of the Palestinian people by the government of Israel. I think it is disgusting what is happening and that there needs to be a ceasefire right now. If Genocide Joe wanted to end the siege he could with a snap of his fingers. Instead he directly sold bombs to Israel without the approval of Congress.
I have always been interested in the history of WWII. I have read numerous books about the rise of the Nazis in Germany and about the European theatre of the war in general. What is going on right now in Gaza, and the West Bank, is right out of a fascist’s 1930’s playbook. The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) have been using propaganda to dehumanize the Palestinian people, calling them animals and inhuman; the same words that Goebbels used in his propaganda against the Jewish people.
If you want to learn about what is really going on in the conflict Owen Jones is an excellent source over on YouTube. He is one of the only Western journalists to devote all of his time to covering what is actually going on; digging up the propaganda to find the truth underneath. He frequently has guests on his show and sometimes he makes appearances on other shows. Besides that there are a bunch of us on Twitter(x) retweeting important news stories and photos coming out of Gaza,etc… John Cusack, the actor, has been very activedoing this so he is another good source to seek out on Twitter(x).
The best thing you can do, if you want to help end the genocide, is to use your social media platform to share articles about what is going on. The reason why Israel is beginning to lose the propaganda war is because of normal everyday people sharing media and turning the tide against them. If you have been listening to political punk bands like The Dead Kennedys for years you know exactly what to do to make a difference. Make uncle Jello proud.
