Collapse on Dirk Kelly

Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself with Dr. Richard Wolff

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0600

American Serfdom, Spending what Little You Have to Build the Walls of your prison

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 09:00:00 -0700

The sad reality of Americans is that they’re so brainwashed by the authoritarian regime that they support the policies that bring on their own suffarage.

As their federal government is shutdown over the building of this wall the diehard fans of the command in chief are throwing their pennies into the fire engulfing the nation.

No different to the enthusiasm for Beto O’Dork who has done little to progress the lives of Americans, and yet is being swept up into the fandom of liberal Harry Potter world.

The Official Ashes Ashes Guide to Ruining Thanksgiving

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:00:00 -0600

Posted on r/ChapoTrapHouse by u/Baader-Meinhof from the Ashes Ashes podcast.

For all the Americans out there, it’s the worst time of year once again: Thanksgiving. It’s a holiday celebrating tricking Native’s into helping you before you kill them, brown colored food, and being forced to spend time with your racist extended family so there’s not exactly much to be excited about. This year we wanted to put together a handy guide for you on how to ruin Thanksgiving and show your family that there’s not all that much to be thankful for, that they should feel guilty as fuck for flying home, and that the collapse of the environment and our civilization are imminent.

Mount St Helens is about to Blow Up

Sat, 22 Sep 2018 23:00:00 +0000

A New Normal, Nuclear Waste and Pig Shit Flood America

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:02:22 -0600

America is being destroyed from climate change, did you know it’s also the number 1 exporter of oil now?

Trump is of course being the piece of shit that he is and ignoring the incoming devastation as he defends his pathetic response to Puerto Rico a year ago. But it doesn’t matter, the people are going to suffer no matter who’s on television.

Amy Goodman starts crying as she speaks to the highest levels of imprisonment of children in US history. Followed by Eric Trump being blatantly anti-semetic on cable news.

Preparing for Life Under a Declining Empire

Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:37:14 +0000

America has been experiencing a steady decline in living conditions for more of its people each year, wealth disparity has been burned into the system by an economic model that rewards the haves and punished the have nots. Regardless of this reality for so many, American government, media, and education proudly celebrate their nation, constantly reminding its own citizens and the rest of the world world that is the greatest nation on earth.

Dear Americans Living in Fascist America

Fri, 06 Jul 2018 22:18:53 -0600

You haven’t heard from me in a while, I haven’t written for a few months and I tend to go quiet when I’m in another time zone, so I thought it would be nice to check in.

How have I been? I’m going really well, having finally moved back to Australia I’m enjoying spending my time with family and friends, settling into a much more stable existence than I’ve experienced over the past 7 years. I’m finally investing in my future again, saving money, planning a home construction project, optimizing my new work and volunteer roles, and going to the gym 3 times a week.

Isaam Zahreddine “Lion of the Republican Guard” Syrian Army

Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:08:11 -0600

If your government is funding and celebrating the destruction of a nation, do you trust its media or some shitty subreddit for the truth?

Who knows what truth is, but here’s some counter-points to the mainstream narrative about one man Issam Zahreddine.

It’s been 6 months since his death from a landmine, hopefully these memes will one day be recognized as some of the more honest reflections on America’s decades long attempted invasion and destruction of Syria.

Phiolosophy of Pessimism

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:21:51 +0000

We should cope as well as we can at whatever we have to do, we have to acknowledge the absurd background to existence and then triumph over the constant possibility of hopelessness.

Albert Camus

America is getting ready to go to war with Syria, Russia, and Iran. We must stop this empire from starting another war.

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 18:20:25 +0000

The American empire is pushing forward in its latest unrelenting war on the world, on both the left and right the media is calling for war based on unproven claims of chemical weapon attacks that are all too similar to weapons of mass destruction.

World Socialist Web Site has covered today in a deep diving article that calls out the latest CIA staged attack, and warns that it will be used to justify an invasion.

Being Julian Assange

Sun, 08 Apr 2018 18:53:45 -0400

source: Being Julian Assange

In 2016 an accused serial sexual predator ran for the US presidency against the notoriously corrupt wife of a previously impeached President – who is also an accused serial sexual predator.

That these facts alone were insufficient to invalidate the entire race is testament to the audacity with which corrupt power operates in the West, and how conditioned the public is to consuming the warped byproducts of its naked machinations.

Israel, Russia, and Amazon. April 2018.

Sun, 08 Apr 2018 14:11:39 -0400

Charlottesville: The True Alt-Right

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 23:02:22 +0000

Uncanny Valley, the Threat of Virtual Reality in the Hands of Empire

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 19:05:13 -0400

Artwork and process in http://www.3dar.com/

Written and Directed by: Federico Heller
Executive Producers: German Heller, Brandon Maseda
Animation Director: Fernando Maldonado VFX
Production Designer: Jorge Tereso

The Global Financial Crisis of 2018 is Starting to Get Noticed

Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:54:35 +0000

Today was a bloody day on Wall Street, and the articles have started pouring in, admittedly it’s been a bloody month, quarter, and year, but finally the media is ready to start realizing there is that there is too much debt , not enough wages , no real profits , a new oil standard , overpriced assets , and too much inequality.

That’s a bit too much to take a for country that isn’t a democracy, is ignoring climate change, starting trade wars, and being run by sociopath.

I don’t Want to Die in America

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 22:52:18 +0000

These magnficant American lands are filled with beautiful people, living in a poisoned culture which is killing both.

That’s why I became so anxious.

That’s why I sunk into depression.

That’s why I stopped caring about anything, anyone.

That’s why I left New York.

That’s why I made jobs in Perth.

That’s why I will go home.

That’s where I’ll die, as we all do.

Americans are Scared of Americans, Not Guns

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:55:27 +0000

As an American

You lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling, worrying about tomorrow, what it will bring, what it will change, what it will kill. It’s not a question of whether these things will happen, you know they will, something always happens, and it’s going to be in your face, and it’s going to make you feel horrible.

Teenager guns down his classmates because of violet video games
Cop shoots a child because black teenagers are out of control
The US government bombed a wedding because the groom hated freedom
Your stupid dickhead of a president opened his dumb fucking mouth again

So you want to ban all guns because horrible people do fucked up things that result in the death of people who look like you.

Concentration of Wealth and Power

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:28:37 +0000

10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power, particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets, which forces the political parties into the pockets of major corporations. This political power quickly translates into legislation that increases the concentration of wealth, so fiscal policy like tax policy, deregulation, rules of corporate governance, and a whole variety of measures. Political measures designed to increase the concentration of wealth and power which in turn yields more political power to do the same thing, and that’s what we’ve been seeing.

This Gun Debate Ignores Empire's Power

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 19:52:17 -0600

Of course people are jumping on Killer Mike because he appeared on NRA TV to provide a position that taking away people’s guns will not solve the issues America is facing.

I have worked as a tireless advocate on the behalf of children and disenfranchised women in society, I’ve also worked with gun groups like Georgians’ Against Gun Violence, so I say if there’s a table to be sat at, a gun owner needs to be there. You have to see a problem from the whole perspective. Killer Mike

Accepting Collapse and Moving Beyond Hope

Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:22:29 +0000

I have to admit that I haven’t been fully honest, in a lot of my writing I’ve implied that it’s important to get engaged in community in order to change policy to avoid extinction.

The truth is that the time for action has come and gone, greedy people made decisions decades ago to force us down the path of ignoring the problem while we had any chance of solving it.

Be Prepared (2018-03)

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 11:59:11 +0000

“The Collapse” sounds like a thing that happens in front of your eyes right? It sounds like an event, a catastrophe that dominates everybody’s attention, like an explosion, or a market crash, or a war.

No, it’s not that simple, nothing in this interconnected hypernormalised world will ever be simple. Collapse of our civilization, of this dominant culture, is a continuing and long process, it has no clear beginning and it’s end will only be defined in the history books.

How Can The Enemy State, Have Citizens This Friendly?

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:55:40 +0000

I feel so much love in this place, this community in Colorado where I am surrounded by amazing people who are doing all they can to make the world better.

But any time I start reading up on the latest happenings in “the world” I am bombarded with just how horrible, cruel, and desperate the US government has become.

Today we had Ann Coulter come at Trump hard for signing the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending package

We Have Monetised the End of the World

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:01:27 -0400

The Shifting Russia Narrative

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:27:22 +0000

So now that we know it was Steve Bannon using the same Facebook backdoor that the Obama campaign used in 2012, we’re not talking about the hacked election story anymore?

Crazy how the week that story left the media it was because Russia had apparently obviously failed to kill an old spy, in London, on ally territory.

This ever shifting narrative is the work of an empire’s mass media which is dedicated to manufacturing consent to allow America to start a war against Russia.

Pain Essay

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:08:26 -0600

Part of the problem is that death is not a part of our daily lives, we have a very curious escapist attitude about death and have managed to distance it through a bizarre form of institutionalization.

What is required is a change of heart, in order to change our hearts we need to see things differently, neither romanticizing or denying death is honest or useful, it’s more useful to be accepting of death as part of the grit of daily life.

Getting in Trouble

Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:42:20 +0000

I hadn’t been using my blog because I was afraid to, afraid of what would happen if I wrote about what I was thinking. When I was 18 I used to write about getting tattoos and making money to get tattoos. These days I write about the atrocities committed by the American Empire both locally and globally, I write in protest to a system so corrupted by power that its current course is set on destroying all life as we know it.

I Love Americans, I Love Russians

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:41:42 +0000

I love Americans, I’ve even been in love with a few of them, they are good-hearted human beings, for the most part, like most people, for the most part.

I love Russians, I am the son and brother of Russians, they are good-hearted human beings, like most other people.

I’ve never lived in Russia, I’ve never experienced their day-to-day life, their culture first hand, their language surrounding me, their food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, their entertainment and advertising filling my waking moments.

Socializing is Work, Social Media is Exploitation

Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:12:18 +0000

Social Media platforms use your content to make money.

They manipulate user’s minds to keep them engaged on a platform.

Even Zuckerberg doesn’t want people using the platform as much as they do.

Get off social media.

America Will Collapse, Earth Will Boil, and Humanity Will Perish.

Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

America Will Collapse

As an Australian who spent 6 years in the hyper-capitalist center of the world (New York City) I’ve had to improve my coping mechanisms immensely as the harsh reality of massive inequality was shoved in my face.

Last year I moved to a small town in Colorado to run-out-the-clock as I shift my career back to Perth to get away from a nation that’s tearing itself apart .

This strongly held opinion of mine (and many others ), that America is a failed nation and heading towards widespread collapse is not something I share too much with the Americans that I interact with on a daily basis, because to most of them that sounds like nonsense.

Big Think: America is Crazy

Sun, 17 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Does the 2018 Financial Crisis Begin With Pensions, Technology, or Something Else?

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

So does the next financial crisis begin with pensions? … Maybe.

It Begins: Pension Bailout Bill To Be Introduced This Week

Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown from Ohio plans to introduce legislation that would allow struggling multiemployer pension funds to borrow from the U.S. Treasury to remain solvent.

There’s so many bubbles, could it be that tech brings things down?

Investors now value a $20 billion company based on its “energy and spirituality”

The Deep Green Resistance Strategy

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Well the Deep Green Resistance strategy has two main goals

I think it’s very important in political movements to actually have a goal

we have two goals and the first goal is that we aim to deprive the rich of the their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet

Derrick Jensen

Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The last two days I have been consuming all I can find that covers the thinking of Derrick Jensen.

I wanted to share some of the pieces I had found so far before continuing on my research of his work.

Jensen has spent his life advocating the protection and restoration of the environment, educating and writing about how to become engaged in the fight against the destruction of our planet. His work correlates the violence perpetuated by the dominant Capitalist culture and how this is driven by the Cult of Masculinity.

HyperNormalisation 2016

Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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Chapo Interviews Adam Curtis

The World we’re living in now is one where the line between fantasy and reality, politics and entertainment has been erased, and we’re living in a semi-synthetic reality.
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