Latest Houdinist praxis:
Look, so let's break down why Houdini Magazine took the stance on freeing Tay-K, that it took, why I decided that this was a good play. One, it's controversial. Tay-K probably killed some people. He's got 55 years in prison. It's a controversial person. But he's also a celebrity, a talented artist. It's a well-known name, so you can attach the back issues of prison enslavement to a well-known name that's going to get attention in the media. That's why I used Tay-K as the example. Trump just freed NBA young boy, pardoned Larry Hoover, he pardoned Kodak Black. Why couldn't he pardon Tay-K? It's in the news. It's part of the spectacle right now. Let's strike while the iron's hot. A lot of leftists just do not understand how to do propaganda, how to sloganeer, how to operate with that mindset. Purity over everything to the point of counterrevolutionary dogma.
So there are a lot of people who just don't get that and will not understand why certain things are pushed for propaganda reasons. They probably don't even know who Youngboy is.
Two, it's a principled stance that's backed by theory, and it's backed by black radical thought. It's backed by material analysis, but it's still controversial, especially to people on the left. I'm being drugged in these comments. Someone even went as far as to say that prison abolition has nothing to do with socialism, or that I am a bleeding heart liberal for this sort of thing. Meanwhile, I can pull up texts from a variety of sources, none of them white, which doesn't escape me, to back up my claim. The face of leftism is a white dude from Austin, Texas who makes $90,000 a year working as a human resources officer or some other bullshit job. That's literally the face of what leftism is. It's not cool. It's cornball. If we want to tap into the culture and tap into the fucking controversy and tap into the spectacle, you've got to fucking take risky positions. And this is a really good one to take, because even if he did the action, I don't necessarily believe that 55 years in prison is restorative justice that makes the thing that he did right. What it is, though, is guaranteeing that the state has another slave for 55 years. I mean, that's facts. So of course the state has an ideological interest in wrapping up the punishment for the crime as 'justice', because they benefit from exploiting the labor of the prisoner. But is it actually restorative justice? No. So it doesn't really
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