Geoff Berner / is on Nostr

Jewish singer/songwriter/accordion player/novelist/some kind of activist maybe. Living on territory belonging to the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil Waututh peoples. Pronouns: He/Him. #COVIDisAirborne #Wearamask #Defundthepolice.

Profile pic is the flag of the old Yiddish Bund--a black square ringed in gold on a red field.

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2024-06-14 19:03:30

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no, see, they actually are political, as they should be. Masks are good, actually, as political symbols and tools for fighting oppression, and should be understand exactly that way. Our enemies understand that. That's what I'm trying to put forward. Masks have always been political, and bemoaning that reality is a recipe for years of defeat.

2024-06-13 19:11:33

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I'm not saying this to be mean. I'm just saying, unfortunately, you have to join a politically organized group, if you want to make an impact. Small or big. You decide. Our opponents understand that this can't be apolitical. That's why they're winning. Your mask ideology is on the left. Find a pro-mask left wing group you like and join it. We are in a political fight here whether we choose to see it and act accordingly or not.

2024-06-13 19:11:33

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2024-06-13 17:54:39

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no. YOU need to understand that masks ARE political, that Covid always was political. That public health is a political concept, and the kind of public health we get is entirely a political question. Always. The reason we are LOSING so badly is that too many people who understand Covid is dangerous, don't understand how their own system works. You can't ring-fence certain things to be "not political". That's just you promoting technocratic neoliberalism, which is the ideology that got us here.

2024-06-03 00:24:55

The way the mainstream media covers Bird Flu is wild. It's like a watchman who sees a giant ogre coming and says, "There's on ogre out there. But don't worry, he's walking the other way. Oop! He's walking this way, but he's probly headed somewhere else. Oh, ok, he's headed this way, but he probably won't eat anybody when he gets here. Ok, he's here, but so far he's only looking at folks hungrily. He's probably just window shopping. Ok, so now..." #avianflu #birdflu #CovidIsNotOver #uspolitics #media

2024-05-18 17:20:35

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what was significant about Kennedy/Nixon was the medium of TV. Nixon won the debate, according to radio listeners. Kennedy won on TV because he was so handsome! Neither Trump nor Biden are handsome, and we've had them both in our living rooms since the 1980s. We know them like our own furniture. This is going to be totally trivial in its effect on the results.

2024-05-18 17:15:46

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people forget that Kennedy won that debate by knowingly, falsely claiming that there was a "missile gap" that America was losing to Russia. Ike had already given him a secret briefing that this was not the case. This ushered in a period of massive nuclear proliferation. But he was so handsome! Like Camelot!

2024-05-18 17:12:04

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no they won't. There's no new info to be had. Nobody is going to find out anything about these guys in a debate that they don't already know about them. The Kennedy debate was significant because it was the first one televised. No debate can have that kind of power now. They will both say bizarre, irrational nonsense and both sides will seize on that as proof that the other candidate is unfit for office. And then the news cycle will move on in four-to-six hours. You'll see.

2024-05-16 17:36:25

I want to note who's paying for the promising research for a future real, full-protection pan-corona virus vaccine: The U.S. Military. Why is that? Because an army can't afford to act like now we have the current vaccines, there's nothing to worry about for healthy young people. They can't afford to play that pretend game. Because an army that ignores the reality of a pandemic is a defeated army. #CovidIsNotOver #uspolitics #usarmy

2024-05-13 17:02:07

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Boeing makes the case that we're living in a Planned Economy. Planned by assholes, for the sole benefit of assholes.

2024-05-03 20:19:14

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those Biden supporters are in fact the same bad kind of people who nominated Hubert Humphry for president in 68 and then blamed young people for electing Nixon. Fuck those people.

2024-05-03 20:09:28

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I'm confused now. Who are you arguing is within your "good people on both sides" model, there? The university admins say they are liberal. Are they part of your good people fighting fascism?

2024-05-03 19:54:50

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false consciousness is what's unhelpful. People who call the cops on you are not good people. They're your enemy. Because they committed violence against you. That's how you know.

2024-05-03 19:50:22

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anybody currently sicking the cops on your kids? Sounds like not.