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Using the audiobook. Massive trigger warnings, obviously. Recently I connected amatonormativity with

Like seriously this book limits itself to Capitalism & feudalism & acts like freezing sperm/eggs ain't options so it's very much a mirroring of say USA. I'm not sure whether it's the news of the no fly list & the news about cop city making George W Bush era trauma stronger for me right now, but that's the vibe with this book, outside say queer people not fitting in. Shit IDK if that's the vibe of this series, lol.

So this book has a blend of dysphoria that's similar to soap operas I don't watch much anymore. Like this whole rhetoric of not being able to "escape biology" feels more transphobic in this book than it does in this author's other works. On the other hand, there's a whole thing about chosen family basically. Personally another reason to hate biological essentialism is that it denies the existence of adoption

I guess let this radicalize me *instead of sending me into despair.

Seriously it gives me the reactions I had about the hate crimes against pulse nightclub & qclub. The feel of it being *my* people strikes me odd though.

Far back enough in my family tree when in USA the irish & English eventually had kids so... WTF. It feels like fucking a misogynist

Also how the fuck were the priests allowed to be this mouthy?

As the ending of chapter 7 alluded to, chapter 8 is much more gorier. This time it's mainly focused on the winter of 1846-1847. So this makes me sicker than I am. Like I feel like this is the sort of thing that people felt about krushchev's speech, and just... I guess let this radicalize me interested of sending me into despair.

Also how the fuck were the priests allowed to be this mouthy?

Chapter 8 just got started @ 5:48:32

Also at the end of chapter 7, Trevelyan showed his ass & gave up on feeding West Ireland, let alone East Ireland. the people are rebelling for scraps like wild dogs. A worker (working for relief money) died of starvation because the intensines were empty except for some canbage etc, the coroner blamed the relief program.

So far the focus is on the policies instead of the gore

Mr Huison reported how the guards/cops protecting the export depots had to go out into the fields because the people we're cutting the traces of the horses in order to prevent grain from wing exported

Food riots are less organized & shorter in duration [5 skulls] than more organized political action

I then wrote down a long passage for later citations. I'll need to start a separate doc even data table for uprisings

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Something about time to use home produce, something about the towns needing to combine in odder go take produce away from liverpool, something about expecting a jobs program, but the economy not really allowing, there being too many applicants, and the wages being too damn small to buy the corn meal.

Also this famine is a lesson about the dangers of monocrops

Some landlords do abolish rent but it's not universal

The part about UK Empire knowing more about far away colonies than Ireland & further being incompetent about the production of corn is a mood. Reminds me of how some activists from ACT UP talked about the CDC boards being the charlatans behind the curtain of the Wizard of oz

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Basically in 1846 the Irish weren't able to purchase the food on the "freemarket" because the English/British out bid them & went protectionist on them. The dude in charge got a pay raise, but even he was like this process will not work. Only 2000 tons of corn for 9 million people for a 3+ month supply during winter... Yeah, it was obvious ppl were about to die b/c a pound a day of startch can't feed hard laborer

I don't like this part saying that illness gives a respected way to buy time... Like I find that's not often the case. Like yeah sick days are a thing, but that's not inherently a thing. Often this reasoning from 1996 was repeated to me circa 1998-2014 because not only do capitalists/fascists thing the disabled are all fakers, but because they wanted to shut up my complaints & would rather push me out

This part about the investigation being closed up, my suspicion has been that the white cops wanted to join the local KKK but wanted to make the black cop build it for them.

So yeah, I do have some negative perception of the Colorado Springs PD getting involved with the KKK circa the 1970's. (Especially since in the middle of reading this or at least repeatedly getting recommended this book, WS massacre of ClubQ)

It's hard for my to tell there I'm at in this book, but I'm at the farthest point I have been so far. Sometimes the layout can get disorientating

So I'm adding a quote from where I left off for purposes of navigation

"oyenkondonh, a term which has been rendered ‘warriors.’ This rendering, however, may have a misleading effect. The word has nothing to do with war,"

Using a copy of an audiobook from my library & i started this a while ago.

It opens with a lot of atrocities. It's horrifying how both ongoing & intense the colonization is.

There was a mention about how 6-8 year olds actually just stopped going to schools where they were getting D's because it was English only etc

That black red guard youtube channel recommended this book. I have puerto ricans in my community.