This Friday is Black Friday. Literally the worst, dumbest day of the whole god damn year. Most days living in the United States consist of being horribly force-fed consumerism as a way of establishing identity and experiencing freedom, but it is soooooooo much worse the day after Thanksgiving (and the week leading up to it, frankly) than at any other time of the year. I find it absolutely disgusting that entire civilizations were wiped out and continue to be oppressed so that the descendants of wealthy white merchants can have the "privilege" of this kind of "liberty." A "privilege" that they impose on the rest of us. A liberty that is bondage, full stop. No blood should have ever been shed to protect the systems that support it.
In recognition of the price others had to pay for this land to be abused by capital, and the shared plight of the people of the United States with this land's Indigenous people in the need to resist this hegemony, I did a write up of the new Nechochwen split with Panopticon. Black metal and folk music which celebrates its makers' Native American heritage. This is the true sound of liberty.
