Worldwide Intifada by DECIDE TODAY

I wrote The Shit Punx Hate for Realicide in 2005. This version was made for Decide Today around a decade later, maybe 2015? It was about the pathetic narrow-minded dogmas that were common in Cincinnati punk, being discriminated against when our approach defied dominant aesthetic criteria, chronically misunderstood and rejected without consideration.

This experience in my formative years led to a long path of thought as I entered adulthood. Those feelings of being "other"ed, treated poorly based on who I was, started to seem less significant compared to the prejudices I saw friends faced with. Targets of bigotry due not to a subcultural choice, but aspects of themselves they were born into. Of course I mean things like race, gender, class, abilities. If being dissed by punk rockers sucked for me, imagine what it must feel like being the only black kid in a social circle that can't even recognize its own racism, the only woman in places misogyny is the celebrated standard, having a non-white family at risk of deportation, growing up "male" or "female" when you've always known they are wrong about you, etc. This was my mental gateway into prioritizing these struggles, wanting to become an ally, then even more so an accomplice.

Revolutionary Reason was written in 2018 during my time working with Mass Action for Black Liberation, and revised abruptly this year while recording for this record, as it was inconceivable not to address the epitome of merciless colonial atrocity orchestrated by the state of Israel. While I write this, the IOF is massacring families in the West Bank. The death toll in Palestine is currently estimated at around 41,000 and it hasn't even been a year since this modern Nakba began. I hope these songs help make apparent that whatever you said you "would do" during Jim Crow America, Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, any archetypal history now synonymous with wrongness, yes I can confirm NOW IS THAT TIME to do it ...if you were for real about it that is.

Big respect to my Arab friends who are so patient while I learn the stuff my school conveniently omitted, to my Jewish friends tirelessly combating the violence of their ethnicity being shackled to a cult of Zionism, to native resistance across Turtle Island that articulates so well that this fight is also still/always very domestic, to contemporary hiphop telling today's stories while rock music often merely offers retro fashion, and of course to Kieren and Borg my homies in OZ.

All my love to intifada direct action everywhere dismantling the imposed global suicide pact that is white supremacist capitalism.

~ Robert Inhuman 28 August 2024



Addendum: This is being uploaded for public release today, 6 October 2024, during the IOF ground invasion of Lebanon, and days after Iran finally sent its missiles. One year into a full on active genocide, and 76 years since colonial settler violence began in Palestine, anything I've said above only has increased conviction.

Several friends are currently in small town central Ohio jail for 30 days, after allegedly shutting down Boeing manufacturing facilities back in March. They've undoubtedly got all my love and respect, as does anyone risking what they have for those who've been robbed of their land and homes and families and humanity. Legal fund for the "Boeing 5" https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-legal-battle-against-boeing

As for "punk rock" well I went to my first normal punk gig in a long time recently, and it makes me wish the cartoons drawn for this record were more scathing. Half a dozen bands, some even presenting themselves as politically aware, yet not a word about what is transpiring in the world. No advocacy, no outrage, nothing but another drunk party like every other year in white affluent America. How are you different than the football fans last night, walking by laughing as dozens of Arab friends and allies lay "dead" on Central Pkwy (Cincinnati) while audio of recent bombings and real children dying was blasting out the PA system? Fuck you, til you actually do something.

Primary project of Robert Inhuman following the end of the original Realicide band at the turn of 2011. Spanning genres such as industrial, breakcore, darkwave and ambient. Subject matter maintains focus akin to anarcho-punk and radical hip-hop. The mission is contribution to various liberation movements, whether decades ongoing or emerging from the current political climate. Based in Cincinnati.

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