there’s more than one epstein and more than one blackmail book. weird rich guy sex stuff is about power and control more than it is anything else. the centers of these rings just also enjoy power and control over victim and direct perpetrator in a form of violent sexual hierarchy

strictly personal

Oh, so I assume you’ve self isolated yourself entirely and aren’t going within 15 feet of anyone else or letting anyone else come within 15 feet of you?

ha! yes. now it is so!

Small nonsense update that doesn’t matter to anyone but me. I’ve picked a new middle name after renouncing the one I was given. It took me about a year and a half to decide but I’m very proud of the choice I’ve made, even if it’s silly as hell.

Hence forth my middle name is D

i need glass

best i can do is patriot missiles

oh i will take patriot missiles. i think i need about—

gonna stop you there. you’re gonna get 6

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alright good talk!

you can configure muBlock to do everything NoScript does at a lower computational cost on your local machine

What we, societally, call “democracy” is often a small amount of influence or even manufactured consent within an otherwise fascist hierarchical structure. True democracy is an entire process encompassing ways of being and living. Anarchism is democratic, but not necessarily all democracy is anarchic. For example, the Haudenosaunee famously participated in an anti-authoritarian power structure that does not qualify as anarchy, however, I would definitely qualify it as one of the most democratic structures ever established on the North American continent.

In fact, I’d even argue that the entire point of “lefist unity” should be that political movements are, and must be, hyper local. It’s the #1 thing I think Zapatismo gets right about political theory. Urban centers tend to find ML works and processes the most useful for achieving their liberation whereas rural and pre-industrial economies such as mining communities tend to find the most value in Anarchist, Trotskyist, and Council-Communist lines of thought. It’s just that “leftist unity” has a tendency to not work out that way

my people still remember how we had a successful union movement going until Lenin said “All Power to the Soviet”, demanded that we quit striking all the time so that the urban factory settings could industrialize faster, and then the ML Union Bosses of the Stalin era became just as corrupt as the mine operators with both the mine bosses and the union bosses telling us to shut the fuck up and get back to work and stop worrying about whatever the hell “black lung” is.

okay. that’s enough thinking out of me. i’m going back to recovering from RSV.

as always, fuck every extractive economy no matter what color their fascist movement purports to be

a moment from the 2023 wave of protests still sits with me. a woman being dragged away by the morality in a city center screaming “REMEMBER ME” as loud as she could as a crowd watched in silence. it haunts me

fuck i just lost 3 paragraphs of work because i thought i could write this up on my phone now that i’m done with work and my wife’s using the only working charger we have right now. i’m gonna need to regather my thoughts again because now i’m too mad at all that lost work to focus my energy on what i have to say

(stupid cancel button having no “are you sure?” prompt)

i’m still gonna leave my outline for my future self though because i think i’m coming down with something:

• an acknowlegement of the Marxist-Leninist tone of this meme
• a critique of how this is EXACTLY the kind of agitprop the CIA pumps out to discredit leftist groups
• an exploration of what left and right are and have been for the last 16,000 years when the terms old only about 230 years old
• a conclusion questioning if ideological revisionism and historical revisionism can even actually be different when inellectual discourse has only been subdivided into buckets for ~300 years, especially when as leftists part of our outlook on the world is that action, history, and patterns of thought are all interconnected notions (this is the part i’m the most excited about since it leans into the interplay of Focault, Marx, Mao, and Trotsky. no weirdo anarchist thinkers like myself even needed)

placeholder comment that i’m gonna get back to this when i have time to sit at my computer and gather my thoughts so as to avoid being flippant, off-handed, or in any way less than helpful

fair enough. the intended meaning within this context is the self directed effort toward healing and making amends

I will not engage with your politics until you are ready to say to me “I love myself, and I want to love others the way my community loves me”

- Gitxsan saying

The idea being that you can provide for someone and aid their finding their way back to the path of goodness, but you will not listen until they’re a ways along that path. So yes. Fascists will get access to food, water, and healthcare, but they should NEVER be allowed near the guns, ammo, and political stations that they abused us with until they show true repentance for the harm they have done us. And for some of these fuckheads, a single lifetime will not be enough for them to demonstrate repentance and make the people they have harmed whole again

The event I was referencing was 1921, and the last time a picketer was shot was 2023, but whatever I guess…

Why look at recent history when you can make declarations about how this is all ancient history

Tell that to the miners Baldwin-Felts shot

On a basis of Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism, fascism never really went away. It merely changed its aesthetic forms and went back into lurking.

Great historical video though. Want to make sure it’s clear this is not a criticism of this video, merely my own input that I think we have to confront that fascism wasn’t defeated by the allies in 1945. Merely one form of fascism. In the years that would follow, the Soviet Union would implement its own form of police state while in the US the FBI and J Edgar Hoover controlled nearly all forms of political discourse, creating an environment that would erode much of the power the Unions had gained prior to WWs I and II. These forms of covert fascism would eventually give way to the forms of overt fascism we currently experience today with the breaking point coming in the period of 1999 (when Vladimir Putin first became Prime Minister) and 2002 (passage of the United States’ Homeland Security act).

I try to not downvote top level posts without explanation so let me explain:

Revisionists can never be based. Revisionism is a tool of the right wing. It has only ever acted in support of fascism because fascism is the political position that an authoritarian government controls the past, and who controls the past controls the future. Leftism meanwhile is driven by a drive for truth, justice, and peace.

I didn’t find this to be a left-wing meme. I found it to be right wing propaganda. We can have a longer discussion of what the aim of the originator of this was, but I want to keep it brief and on topic.

yup. this terrible call of duty story mode

for sure! you can still find little post war housing developments where every house the same. what i was trying to drive out is its accelerated and the developments have gotten bigger and less smartly planned

I have an opposing theory that Pizza Hut is a symptom of late stage capitalistic cancer. In the late 80s the capitalistic process of consolidating power in the Soviet Union into the new oligarchy had nearly run its course and the USSR dissolved not long after Pizza Hut showed up on the scene.

Here, in the homeland of Pizza Hut, Pizza Hut has shifted from being a casual sit down pizza chain, to a casual pizza buffet chain, to an exclusively carry out fast food pizza chain. The uniqueness of the architecture has been lost just as architectural drive in the USSR shifted over time from Construcivist to Stalinist to Brutalist to Soviet modernist (which is commonly critiqued for lacking personality in comparison to prior eras).

Here in the states we are currently seeing all of our architecture lose personality. Suburban developments are the same house over and over again, often not constructed to code. Car oriented developments are just the same strip mall or basic big box store plopped all over the place with no design considerations given to the surrounding landscape. Even our shitty pizza joints have lost what little personality they once had, now becoming relegated to existing within strip malls next to illusion of choice grocery stores.