Red Revolution Tales

I've always loved The B-52's, great punk rock band from Washington, but this was my first time watching "Rock Lobster" the official video. AMAZING CINEMATOGRAPHY TRULY A WORK OF ART. HERE YOU ALL ARE STAY BLESSED

Nietzsche was a scumbag. Tell your friends

I feel as though I am at a cross-roads in my career, which is pretty presumptuous considering I have over a year before I get that Bachelors (God willing). I just got a job at the working families party doing canvassing. Despite my experience, I still took this job because I'm sure that by the time I graduate, I'll be out here being a canvass director. However, the conflict lies in this: the Working Families Party works closely with the Democrats, but beyond that, they have gotten themselves into a position where they are at the Democrat's mercy. They, unwillingly, endorse establishment democrats for fear that these well-known figures will destroy their reputation if they try to go against them. I am everyday growing less trusting of the system. I'm at a cross-roads in my career whether I believe the system can be changed from the inside, or if the system was inherently created to oppress the workers and marginalized communities. I know that as long as we are a nation...

I feel myself unwinding again. My heart beats so fast I think it might pop out of my chest, my head won't be quiet. I couldn't get out of bed this morning, I haven't eaten in days, sleep is impossible.

When discussing nationalism, in my mind, the word itself brings me to the Holocaust and Germany's hyper nationalism. I've found that i have never been one to support the idea of nationalism even with my own people as it gives the people of a nation a sense of superiority and ownership of their “inferiors”, which history has proven it leads people to excuse their violent and oppressive nature. Nationalism and democracy as two terms slinging together leads to a fascist regime, much like the United States current political climate. Nation-branding is the idea of how a nation presents itself to the outside world and the propaganda that it feeds to the people. In the 1930s, when the Germany’s economy was in extreme turmoil and the sentiments of defeat and widespread depression plagued their people, nationalism was in a sense used as a defense mechanism. In the worst way possible, it healed those by taking the blame away from Germany as a whole for their failure and instead placed it...

I've been so uninspired lately. There is a great cloud that is coming and I feel that the belljar may be coming soon, I'm doing my best to resist it. There is so much I want to do but so limited resources to do so, and too much anxiety and doubts. I want to drop everything and move to Peru and start a new life. But i know what I'm here to do if I do stay here long. I have a vision for my life but I don't know the certainty of me doing it. I know what I want to do but is it strange that I can never imagine myself living long, living past 25? I just don't know.

Around April, I had been scrolling through Tinder as it became one of my favorite past-times while on the phone with my friend Alex when I came across a profile with a cute boy who we’ll call Cosmo. I swiped right, mostly for his cute dog in his last picture, and immediately the “It’s a match!” screen showed up. His first message was bold and pretty funny, so even though I mostly used tinder for fun and as a confidence boost, I decided he was worthy of a response. We’d been speaking for a few weeks and I noticed that some of the phrases he used were off and other times out of place. He then told me that he was Romanian and in the country for six months to be with his grandma and cousin who were urging him to try and get residency in the states, but he preferred his homeland. I told him about my activism and how much I enjoyed politics and advocacy, he told me that his friends and him love to protest and rally in Romania as well. We met after a couple of months after we matched in Broo...