Stuff that makes you feel strongly.

[Susurrus]

This is for stuff that makes you feel really strongly, whether getting your blood boiling, making you feel sadness and solidarity, or some mixture or other way. Not just rage, but deep feeling.

My example is from when I was reading Alexander Berkman's The Bolshevik Myth. There's a part where he is traveling around Russia collecting material for a museum. He comes to a village that has been ravaged by multiple pogroms, and talks to the people there about it. It's horrible and sick, and amazing that they still live after what happened. It just really hit me hard and deep. Definitely something I'll always remember. (Link here to the chapter devoted to it for those interested: http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/berkman/bmyth/bmch28.html )

Anyway, more things like this that happened to you, be it experiences, or whatever that got you deeply emotional.

[Black Sheep]

Any good revolutionary song hype me up.

Also tears of anger / goosebumps run accross my spine when watching leftist documentaries (zeitgeists,michael moore stuff)

[Luisrah]

Whenever I listen to the international it hypes me lol

Or movies too. Braveheart, when Wallace dies, the music is great.

And girls too hehe

[tracher999]

good muzik can be hiphop hard house but the muzik that me realy make strong
is biker muzik i love it :cool:

[Zav]

I get such strong feelings whenever I read Walden (or any of Thoreau's work), when I watch environmentalist documentaries (especially ones about oil), when I do some animal liberation, when I attend a protest, when I meet randomly leftists who aren't afraid to hide their politics, when I hear someone quoting Goldman, Marx, Kropotkin, Leopold, etc., and a bunch of other things.

This happened about a year ago:
I was at a movie theatre (a rare occasion; normally I pirate) and the person in front of me was wearing a hammer-sickle-che shirt (it looked homemade). He got some looks and whispers (and a middle finger) from other people coming into the showing-room, and the person he was with asked him why he would wear it in public, to which he replied "Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims." I finished the quote like a game of Marco Polo. Naturally he was quite surprised. I think we both experienced strong solidarity feelings there. I wish that sort of thing happened more often.

[Ocean Seal]

People not getting healthcare, people who support Israel, Israel's atrocities, people who make jokes about rape, the situation in the prisons, Klaners, and pacifists who claim that peaceful protests are the only legitimate way forward.

[Principia Ethica]

Sometimes just life makes me sad. Deeply sad. Not always, but there are moments where I feel like breaking down and crying.

Simple things like being in a grocery store and the family in front of me has to pick and choose what they want to keep because they can't pay for it. I always offer to make up the difference, but a lot of the working class are proud people who will do whatever they can on their own to get by. I want to help so much but I do not want to seem "superior" or deflate anyone's ego. A box of cereal isn't a luxury. Fresh fruits and vegetables are not luxuries. Every child/family should have them in their fridge. What makes it even worse is when I see the dad covered in soot/dirt and I can tell he is working HARD for a living. . . .then not being able to give basic things to his children. I get so mad. . .but especially sad.

In my part of the world, there is so much anti-mexican sentiment. I can't imagine what these families went through in mexico. . .drug wars, rampant govt corruption, dire poverty. . . .then they come here just to try and live a better life and they get some of the same with a different flavor. . .good ole fashioned american southern rednecks. The mexicans I interact with are some of the nicest most hospitable people I've met. I say "hola!" and they open their hearts. I don't understand why other people can't see them as humans just trying to make it. It makes me want to "fight" for them.

Talking to my friends who have aches and pains. . .serious medical symptoms and they "can't" go to the doctor/dentist. They get harassed because they don't have insurance. Some work full time jobs. Some work more than one. I don't want them to feel worse than they do so I cry once I am not in their presence. I feel powerless. I feel small. I want to do something but the "system" is just so big. . .and I feel like it swallows everything up that I care for and love. I've tried the traditional channels. .contacting social workers for them. . .contacting aid groups. . .seems like they are lock in step with the "system."

I'm fucking tired.

The homeless. Goddamn that shit hurts me to the core. Empty buildings, money to erect million dollar statues and fountains to "beautify" the city. It would be BEAUTIFUL if we didn't have homeless people sleeping in the city. Not from an aesthetic perspective but in the sense that we have achieved something great. So I'm fucking tired, hurt, mad, sad. . .but wtf. . .there is still work to be done.

I'm tired of just putting band aids on the problems. I want to be a part of the "big" change. It's what drew me to the revolutionary left in the first place.

I'm not using these social/economic problems as an excuse but I just don't feel "right" going on vacations, flying around the world, taking shopping trips anywhere when there are people just plain ole suffering. . .not just "inconvenienced" but suffering.

I wish maybe sometimes I could put blinders on and just "not see it." But it is everywhere I look. Just little shit like kinds with no shoes on, no jacket in the winter time, someone with a mouth full of no-teeth, a starving looking man with a bottle full of booze. . .

Oh wow. . .I've gotten myself into a state of mind where I need to go "borrow" a xanax from someone. . .

[Cane Nero]

The arguments of the majority of the pro-revolutionaries make me feel at the same time sad and strongly mad at the same time...

[ColonelCossack]

revolutionary songs & stories about extreme capitalist exploitation eg 7 year olds working in bolivian mines, as well as bourgeois slander about good socialists.

[CommieTroll]

Capitalism

[ComradeGrant]

I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but injustice towards oppressed peoples gets me going. Like that Native American man who is being discussed in another thread, the massive injustice done there set me off for a few hours.

[Susurrus]

I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but injustice towards oppressed peoples gets me going. Like that Native American man who is being discussed in another thread, the massive injustice done there set me off for a few hours.

That's not pretentious at all. That got me going for a while too.

[ComradeGrant]

If something like that happened in my area I don't think I'd be able to resist beating someone.

[Zugunruhe]

There are so many things. One of the biggest is definitely Israel. Just thinking about Israel makes me angry, and I get so frustrated when I talk to people about Israel because so many of them have no idea what they're talking about. Every time someone lumps me in with Zionists because I'm Jewish, I want to punch them in the face.

Another big thing that bothers me is homelessness. Every time I see a homeless person, I'm just upset. I don't like feeling powerless, but with the homeless, I definitely do. I can give someone a meal or some clothes, but I can't help everyone. There's so many people to help, but even if I commit my life to it, I could never make a dent.

When I see people showing off their wealth, it pisses me off. It pisses me off, because I think of the homeless. I have an acquaintance who insists on showing me his fancy toys and clothes (always attaching a dollar amount when he shows them off) and I just have no respect for him. He's a greedy, capitalist pig. Nothing more to it.

[Lobotomy]

Rarely does something make me more angry than when people blame rape victims for being raped. "She was drunk and wearing slutty clothing", etc.

[Aloysius]

I wasn't really concerned with women's right until I read this article (http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/314-18/6383-us-women-who-have-stillbirths-face-murder-charges)

That kind of shit seriously pisses me off.

[Pretty Flaco]

I get really mad when people threaten my family and especially any girl that I'm intimate with. A guy slapped my sister once so I fucked him up and he never touched her or even talked to her again. Also, once I had a dream where someone slapped (what's now my ex) girlfriend and I went berserk on his ass. The morning I woke up I was irritated and angry.

I also hate the feeling of emptiness. Sometimes I feel this way when I think about friends that I've lost. Or people I haven't seen in years that I used to be so close with. But other times I feel emptiness for the future like my life will be an ominous storm of worthlessness. As if my life will have no value and my impact on the world will be minute and insignificant. However, finding ways that I could give my life meaning clear the stormy clouds and I see the dawn of a future with a clear and bright sky. :D

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

the end of this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QKvFYQaOkw
this complete commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQxrolGUdk8
2:54 onward:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQR-n6Z7Kxk
4:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLApwePH1rU&feature=related
3:36
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7_fBCnp3xk&feature=related


all of this gives me goosebumps and is what my revolution soundtrack will sound like

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Israel. I can sometimes feel my blood boiling and heart racing just as the topic turns to Israel. It pisses me off so much.

Anti-union discussions. Yes, I'm against bureaucracy and how most/all major unions operate, but when people hate the idea in general, even at the grassroots level, it blows my mind. Some people have bad experiences in corrupt or undemocratic unions and then make stupid assumptions that is how it is everywhere and always will be that way...

A lot of music sends shiver up my spine or goosebumps. Love it.

A lot of other stuff, blah.

[#FF0000]

I get explosively mad when I see bullying, especially when it's the sort you see from someone with actual power over another (e.g. cops).

This is actually a really really bad thing.

[Metacomet]

The TV "news"

Listening to people moan about unions. Or how much city workers make, or firefighters.......you get the picture.

Reading the history of the Americas/Africa

Music.

like these :D
http://youtu.be/XyHVsFdxGRU

http://youtu.be/0yDrtNEr_5M

[praxis1966]

Listening to people ***** about unions.

This post constitutes a verbal warning for discriminatory language.

[Metacomet]

This post constitutes a verbal warning for discriminatory language.


Didn't even notice.

Sorry bout that.

[praxis1966]

Didn't even notice.

Sorry bout that.

Meh Don't apologize to me... I just gave you the verbal warning so you'll be more careful with how you word things. A lot of times, we don't even realize what we're saying when we say it. Anyway, I don't think you're a full blown sexist, hence the slap on the wrist.

[tbasherizer]

It makes me incredibly pissed off when people who dont know what they're talking about try to assume some kind of authority over their subject of ignorance. Like when a creationist tries to lecture people on science or a homophobe tries to tell people that gay people don't actually love each other and are just hedonists.

When people treat Israel like a regular country and not a quasi-fascist apartheid state, I just start seething with rage.

Also, people who voted Tory in the last election just make me doubt the inevitability of the Revolution. How people could have supported the neo-Bushite Harper and his corrupt 'team' of a caucus escapes me. They've doomed the country, and there's nothing to be done for it.

Of course, a lot of other stuff gets my goat. In fact, my friends have pointed out that I get pissed off at pretty much everything, so I've missed a few.

[Aloysius]

Rmp6zIr5y4U

This song gets me pretty pumped.

[Zav]

I wasn't really concerned with women's right until I read this article (http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/314-18/6383-us-women-who-have-stillbirths-face-murder-charges)

That kind of shit seriously pisses me off.
This makes me want to burn an anti-abortion church or three.

[Summerspeaker]

This is for stuff that makes you feel really strongly, whether getting your blood boiling, making you feel sadness and solidarity, or some mixture or other way.

Pretty much everything evokes intense emotion from me these days. I'm an utter mess. :crying: This morning as I walked back to the place I'm sleeping from getting free groceries, two folks I see regularly and assume to be homeless hustled me. I gave $2 out the $7 I had on me and a couple of almond milk yogurts but kept the berry pie I'm taking to a comrade's birthday party. They wanted more. I felt compelled to note my thousands of dollars of student loan debt. It's tragic that we're negotiating for scraps amidst such abundance.

[CommieTroll]

I recently watched ''Capitalism: A Love Story'', that kind of corruption makes me want to pick up the nearest gun and begin the revolution

[Conscript]

Anti-communists telling communists what communism is and isn't. Also fascist/nazis and hearing about comrades being harassed or attacked by them, plus seeing shit like redwatch.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I remember the only movie I ever cried during was Harlen County USA because I felt so damned worried about them. Bicycle Thief and The Grapes of Wrath also hit home. But what I can't stand are cops and racists(especially when I hear they attack people), just the sight of them make me angry now, I've had too many bad experienes with them. What also really makes me feel bad is homeless people with families. Like seeing a mother with a stroller who is also pregnant and homeless. I talked to her one time and she told me her boyfriend kicked her out of the house when she caught him cheating and told her to bring the kids with her. The situation was even worse because she was illegal and all her family was in Mexico. I still get pissed off thinking about that, she couldn't have been even 20 yet and she was to proud to accept charity...

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Also saying goodbye knowing you'll never see the person again. I met this awesome foreign exchange student from Brasil and it was so depressing when he left. I mean me and him were like best friends. I was the only one to cry at his going away party and I still have a picture of him in my wallet. On Monday I had a dream that me, him, and this girl I'm in love with were in the same college class, when I saw him in my dream we hugged and he told me he was moving to the USA. I woke up and realized it wasn't real which made me not want to get out of bed and I was pissed for the whole day and sad. The whole last couple of days this Senior year were like that :( I really want to save up and visit Brasil now.

[praxis1966]

^This cat is me at his age, except my exchange student friend was German... Keep your head up, ART, because shit'll get better.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

Nothing if I could help it, but since I can't, everything.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

I was the only one to cry at his going away party and I still have a picture of him in my wallet.
That is kind of romantic. You carry him in your wallet all the time.:wub: That is very sweet.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

That is kind of romantic. You carry him in your wallet all the time.:wub: That is very sweet.

Yeah we were bromantic, other people thought I was gay for him. I told one other person that I had that dream and she called me a fag. Whatever though. But he is only the coolest person I've ever met, the only other pictures in my wallet are of my sisters so it's a pretty exclusive club.

[Quail]

I think sometimes if I'm in the wrong mood I just start thinking about things that are broken and wrong with the world we live in, and once I think about one injustice I think about more and more until I feel overwhelmed, sad and completely powerless to change anything. It can be so depressing sometimes.

[Rss]

General injustice

Misogyny

Good music

Victories of working class, historical or present

The feeling when capitalists or their henchmen get a taste of their own medicine; the rush of shit-eating grin and Glorious, tension-relieving Schadenfreude... Oh. Hell. Yes.

Tending veggie garden

Frying sausages and making tea in cold, wet tent

[Sensible Socialist]

Sometimes just life makes me sad. Deeply sad. Not always, but there are moments where I feel like breaking down and crying.

Simple things like being in a grocery store and the family in front of me has to pick and choose what they want to keep because they can't pay for it. I always offer to make up the difference, but a lot of the working class are proud people who will do whatever they can on their own to get by. I want to help so much but I do not want to seem "superior" or deflate anyone's ego. A box of cereal isn't a luxury. Fresh fruits and vegetables are not luxuries. Every child/family should have them in their fridge. What makes it even worse is when I see the dad covered in soot/dirt and I can tell he is working HARD for a living. . . .then not being able to give basic things to his children. I get so mad. . .but especially sad.

In my part of the world, there is so much anti-mexican sentiment. I can't imagine what these families went through in mexico. . .drug wars, rampant govt corruption, dire poverty. . . .then they come here just to try and live a better life and they get some of the same with a different flavor. . .good ole fashioned american southern rednecks. The mexicans I interact with are some of the nicest most hospitable people I've met. I say "hola!" and they open their hearts. I don't understand why other people can't see them as humans just trying to make it. It makes me want to "fight" for them.

I feel the exact same way. Sometimes I feel worse seeing a child not being able to go on a school field trip because it costs money, than when I read a story about widespread famine. It's weird, but I think it has to do with the fact that I've felt that, and I can relate. Luckily, I've never known real hunger, and I've always had a roof over my head with two parents. But the little things, kids with old clothes or someone not being able to do something because they don't have enough green slips of paper, that's what really gets me angry.

And I think we as leftists can use that anger. That is the type of thing people care about. I'm not saying hunger and famine are dismissable, god no. But they don't have the same relevance to people that everday problems do. Why shouldn't people be able to eat healthy food and enjoy life? Thinking about the little things is what makes me want to get involved.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

For a specific answer it infuriates me when my dad tries to tear me away from the man I love just because he looks kinda like the young Charlie Manson.

[pastradamus]

For a specific answer it infuriates me when my dad tries to tear me away from the man I love just because he looks kinda like the young Charlie Manson.

If I were your dad id probably be shit scarred of that guy.:lol:

[Aloysius]

This song gets the blood pumping too: ny-POamiHf0

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

If I were your dad id probably be shit scarred of that guy.:lol:
I'm not scared of him. He loves me enough to try to behave himself. At least he's not getting arrested for reverse police brutality anymore. He tends to fight when he drinks. Which is why he doesn't get shitfaced anymore.

Helter Skelter!