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if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be *their* kind
of "evil"?
fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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thank god we got fascists as incompetent as Trump and Musk. Frankly I don't
think we could have handled figureheads that weren't so easy to rally against.
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@user-1192
I think we should assume that Palestine is lost, and use their memory as fuel
for our rage.
They were slain by both terror and war, famine and plunder, prison and lost
borders, and finally, fire from the sky. Now, dust once more, as the stardust
they were is stone forevermore. Tragedy, mercy.
I hope palestinians abroad outlive the children of their butchers.
This sentiment goes for all of genocide.
Those of my heritage, that of the American enslavement and conquerenment, they
are despised by me. That's not all "being an American" can be. We have virtue,
we have honor, and we must respect the liberty, freedom, and democracy of
home. Crucial aspects to living an ethical life, yet now we are assaulted by
the very powers that led Israel's governmental institutions to commit such
holocausts.
Fighting terror is one thing.
Collateral damage is another.
They learned the wrong lessons from their visions of the Americans, and look
where that leaves them.
History, it is often said, reminds.
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If you're radical enough to consider yourself "antifa" then you are probably
working as hard as you can. I wouldn't ask you to do more.
We must demand that others work for our future as well. It is unreasonable to
demand so much of us. We must be funded and supported if we are to mobilize,
and we must have the freedom to move and organize if we are to contest our
enemies.
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I realized I don't give a fuck about capitalism. If you want to deprive me of
food, shelter, or anything else... Fine. I exist at your behest. Would your
really deny me from speaking the words that you disagree with?
Oh, you would? Okay. Guess I'll starve. I don't mind, I just hope you'll take
care of the people I have taken as my responsibility in my absence.
Oh, you won't? You say that you'll destroy what I care about, in the pursuit
of ever-growing power over others, which you will use to extract value and
impress your desire of destruction and oppression onto the weak and powerless
that you control?
Then you are my enemy.
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@user-1074 @user-1209
"we still have slaves, we just enslave mexicans instead of blacks."
"don't forget all the offshored jobs, those too"
"oh yeah and all our stuff is made by slaves in the far east"
"yeah but like fuck them right who cares they're so far away"
"yeah bro totes"
"anyway what do you want for dinner bro"
"i dunno bro I had chinese last night"
"cool cool so mexican then? I know this great paraguanese place"
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@user-744 @user-246
it's exhausting, but what are we supposed to do? Lie down and rot? That's
incel thinking. I'm not going to do that.
They've already placed the last straw. It's only a matter of time now, the
tide has shifted. You can't prepare for everything, and it's not a good idea
to waste yourself in self-conflageration, but they are increasingly forcing us
to orient our lives around them.
They deserve what's coming.
The oppressed are not the defeated.
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capitalism is non-consentual, which is... pretty much the main reason why I am
against it.
like, I don't really care about whether it's more or less efficient. the fact
that you cannot opt out means it is unethical.
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we need like, several more layers between us and the president.
most people only need to worry about what's nearby.
sort them by location, instead of previous attempts at "many representatives"
which sorted by social class or relevance.
we have a tradition for it, in America, with our representatives and senators
congressional discrestricts
or even, what about by affiliation?
voluntary, governmental corporations, run by the people for the people and yeah
"I don't want to do what you're telling me to do" "okay"
"there will be consequences" omg be an adult
(suddenly kids forget how to be as everyone's doing the war thing)
not ideal.
ouch pain maybe we should stay a little bit sane why is soldiering so hardship?
it could just be... another job
where you didn't kill each other
but you still blew stuff up
and fought in tournaments
and had gaming hackathons
or sword-fight contests
duels between people who disapproved
y'know fun human stuff
like... "kaboom" now we know how to blow up bits of rock
neat, why did dynamite becauswer (oh right then you
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I don't really care about capitalism, sorry... why should the butcher be paid
more than the baker? It's all a bit silly to me.
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@user-613 @user-614
I'm a patriot, and I didn't go. Didn't even hear about it because when they
say "patriot" they mean something different than me, when I say "I'm a patriot"
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the USA is fed by undocumented immigrants who have no other options. I won't
go into which kind of slavery it is, but you can figure it out yourself.
If those workers are deported (or worse), the USA suddenly becomes
significantly closer to famine.
We need them. We need to pay them fairly, obviously, but in a purely selfish
way we need them in order to eat
and he fucking knows that.
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"we don't negotiate with terrorists. But perhaps there may be a way we could
find it in our hearts to agree, by earnestly and honestly seeking true
justice, where everyone gets what they want? Tell me, what is it that you
want? And most importantly, tell me why it is that you want what you want?
Please be as specific as can be, and explain your desires down to the root of
human nature so that we can be assured that we may find something we share.
Anything less is not an honest attempt. I look forward to working with you
toward our bright future."
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I learned a lot last night, and I'm pretty sure that everything I say is going
to be censored. Why would you allow resistance in such a public place?
I don't know what else to do, though. He will come for me, he knows where I
live, and I will do what I can to fight him.
He's much stronger than me. He's much more massive than me. He will kill me.
But that's not the point, is it?
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"fake your death"
no.
"leave the country"
no.
"go into hiding"
no.
"eat something why dont ya, you're skin and bones!"
yeah okay.
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it's okay.
I know who you are because I know who they forced you to be.
What kind of god would I be if I didn't forgive you as you were hurting me?
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Valor, for the Iranian people.
Vigor, for the American people.
Violence, for the principled few.
Authority, for those who knew.
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@user-1074
"I don't know any nazis. If I knew them, I'd beat them into the ground."said
every single boomer punk and your grandpa said your grandpa. well, maybe not
yours, who can say, it was for people my age at that stage of that part of --
stack overflow --
you can find common cause to cooperate against any elemental foe. your fellows
will guide you and lift you up to spiral drill press your way to infinite
homes.
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keep in mind...
trump is not their endgame.
what is he doing?
sabotaging our institutions without warrant or respite
prepare for foes that would benefit from degraded institutions.
who's right when nobody controls the truth?
were they ever truly right?
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I honestly don't care if someone deadnames me, or calls me the wrong pronouns,
or forgets to put me in the girl section, or asks me to sing baritone
like... I don't give a shit, why are you so worried about all this vapid
nonsense like yeah I get it, being disrespected sucks but like... why do you
want the kind of respect that is a forced platitude
we could all do with being a bit more radical, it's not a race and everyone's
roles are important. Be yourself, and follow people you want to be like.
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what if we made it an international crime to use any non-parent soldiers.
essentially, forcing military force to be a cost paid in children's lives.
who would deploy such a casual-stroke? why cut straight to their heart, why
proceed to feast upon their liver? are they not owed the pursuit and the
chase? [insert picture of deer killing]
humanity is an expert in killing the least suspe-ghost. it's what we do to
maintain false identity. the obscenity clause applies to the president and any
other non-governmental political appointees. everything else is run like an
administration, with no cause for compulsion by the class of immoral elites.
she wield[ed/s] weed like a weapon
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ngl I kinda want to see what conservatives would riot over in a socialist
system. Like "oh no we have healthcare! that sucks, so I'm going to burn down
a police station" like bro what your basic needs are met and you're encouraged
and enabled to pursue your passions and personal desires, are you still hung
up on that old capitalist stuff? get a life my guy that's soOoOoOo 21st
century of you
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@user-1126
Yep. I am not concerned though, because of that map I shared. Whosoever shall
draw the sword (of the people's will) shall be the righteous leader of US
We can build a world where democracy flourishes and we don't need to remain
vigilant. It is within our power.
And we shall. I have faith.
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war is hell and should be avoided at all costs
"does that mean we should do shadow conflicts and do spy-vs-spy shit all day
every day?"
no, that's a type of warfare too. and is also hell. no thank you.
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"no, you're the opposite of a yes-man, AKA a gatekeeper. I don't know how else
to explain mentally disabled and barely keeping it together to you, but
frankly if you want to take away my house or my weed then why would I do what
you say?
... oh right, the state's monopoly on violence [can compel me to do what you
say]. Sure seems like a "well regulated militia" is supposed to be a
counterweight to that monopoly, to prevent people from harassing and
exploiting and destroying. Too bad any "militias" I can think of tend to want
me dead.
like, seriously, if you live in America, you implicitely trust that your army
will be able to protect you from the right-wing bozos who spend all their time
drinking and shooting in the woods. Otherwise, if they couldn't / wouldn't,
then why wouldn't or couldn't the right wing bozos just decide to wreck
everything in spite of our past?
We were a proud people once before, and we may be again. If only we fight at
the last.
[ever since I fell off my bike my body feels strange]
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dear right-wing converts to the cult of sanity:
you don't have to be trans just to show [your devotion/you're sorry], we'll
accept anyone who is cool and "gets it"
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I am not personally prepared for violence, but that doesn't mean I won't tell
you why to do it.
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@user-883
for the same reason we wouldn't drop bombs on prisons from helicopters to
dismantle the prison industrial complex, so too should we not bomb datacenters
just because they are enslaved to the whims of corporate interests.
much better, I find, to liberate rather than eliminate.
computers are generalized information processing machines. We could do so much
with the infrastructure they built for profit. All we need to do is replace
their chains with free access and we could unlock worlds of possibilities for
humanity. (I'm not saying it'll be easy)
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when I think of fascism in the US, I don't think of Trump. I think of Brett
Kavanaugh.
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the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
in on it.
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A peaceful revolution at this stage is impossible. Perhaps some-day in the
future, but I fully intend to live to see our day of triumph, so... Peace is
off the table.
And frankly, civil war is the best out of all of the bad options for everyone
involved, even them.
We get to avoid genocide. We get to unite for a common cause - the shining
torch of liberty.
They get to burn their violent and reckless youth on war, while also eating
their own tail and consuming their weak, their downtrodden, and their poor.
obviously we're on the right side, and they will begin to realize that
eventually. We must not fall into barbarism, but frankly I'm not concerned
about that.
Darkness begets the dawn.
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@user-620
The BLM protests were a threat, but not a killing blow, because people like me
feared tear gas more than chamber gas.
It won't happen again.
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Gee I sure wish my country didn't hold the decisionmaking capability from me
by gatekeeping it behind elections and polling. Sure wish our media wasn't so
involved in decisionmaking - isn't it something we should talk about amongst
ourselves? To find out how we feel, and really explore our feelings around a
topic before expressing ourselves. Ideally more often than twice a year,
perhaps whenever we want?
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some rich people have never been taken to a poor nation and told "you are the
same as them. Their nations don't care for them. Yours cares about you." and
it shows
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fuck fascism, we're doing better than them.
their bluff is all bluster, they have no significant community presence, just
a hundred years of ammunition for small arms and a rag-tag group of
militia-men who think they're better than invisible vampire assassins
[... what?]
don't worry about it. I got 80 something followers, teehee
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I can picture it now, caravans of trumpers [call them by their name, they are
foes once again]
driving halfway across the USA
look at all of those islands
[also read alt-text]
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║ "they" want us to contest a powerful foe and emerge victorious, to instill a │
║ sense of strength and righteous dignity within us. │
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║ "we" want to win with the minimal amount of casualties necessary. │
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║ these two demands are not contradictory, but they pull our trajectory in │
║ different directions. │
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║ I truly believe that we the people could oust our political foes with little │
║ opposition - little more than a minor civil war which lasted long enough to │
║ show our foes how badly they are outmatched. │
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║ maybe that comes as a surprise to you, ye who are unarmed, but it does not to │
║ me, for I have faith in our institutions and values. │
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║ If Trump espoused the ideals of his party, specifically the ideal of │
║ efficiency and discipline, then perhaps he would be a fine leader. However his │
║ goals seem to me, a citizen and therefore his de jure subject, to be primarily │
║ motivated by money, by power, by corruption. │
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║ not ideal. │
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║ For this reason I swear to contest the fascists in control. │
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║ "they", if you will. │
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║ also hey what's up I'm drunk lmao │
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║ │ It's all made up. And we can make it up differently. We can make it up so that it's not about a murder of genocides on a boiling rock where billions must die to maintain the way of life for a few thousand uber-rich reactionary maggots lining you up for a shallow grave. │ ║
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Capitalism isn't perfect but if it's capitalism or cyberpunk North Korean
style dystopia, I'll pick capitalism. Can we at least make it so that the rich
aren't safe financially though? Like, if you own a billion dollars it should
be because you make a billion dollars per year. Anything you don't spend
should be taxed away, to be used for public services and the defence of our
nation.
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I'm a helper and everyone wants me to be more agentic but it's like... no... I
don't wanna...
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conservatives will read about project 2025 and think "that's not me, I'm a red
blooded american, I hate nazis and communists equally"
liberals will read about project 2025 and think "gosh I wish there was
something I could do"
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@user-1655
why don't we just weaponize email and send json to each other that ends up
parsed, interpreted, and presented on the end-user's computer using whatever
client we want?
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if the christians got killed rid all of the queers they'd miss them within
years. not decades. then, they would never forget them. neither within years,
nor decades.
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He skuffed up my water bottle.
He tore pages from my journal.
He made me lose my necklace.
He damaged my knife.
And still, I followed him all night.
Why? Because I knew it was important. I needed him to tell me what he was
doing and why. And I think I know, now.
To all the federal agents reading this, please understand that I am a patriot,
and he is not. Who do you serve?
To all the leftists, punks, anarchists, queers, and anyone else who's cooler
than me, please understand that they will try and make it hard. But our love
will win.
Don't abandon your friends. If someone you know goes missing, they're probably
buried in the trash-dump or human trafficked.
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@user-1074
what do you do with the people who don't want to do that in particular and
want to try a different sort of socialism?
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the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
cares? We'll just make our own.
If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
little materially they can do.
until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll
come for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there
to contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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@user-901
I'd do the same thing when I was on Reddit. Except, backwards - I'd argue with
American conservatives (nobody more extreme than that) politely and kindly,
using logic and empathy. I'd cite their sacred documents like the bible, the
constitution, or even just the founding fathers.
I don't know if I ever changed any minds, but I represented my ideas as
honestly and clearly as I could. I can't help but hope that some people saw
them and considered them. Sometimes all it takes is a push, and they'll start
thinking on their own. Like a thought that doesn't go away, they can't quite
forget how they couldn't find the lie in what you spoke.
Or maybe I wanted to believe my actions had value. Post-hoc justification. Who
can say. At least my intentions were honest.
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me: "I don't care what anyone thinks as long as I'm a force for good"
also me: "if anyone doesn't like me ever I'll throw myself off a bridge"
also me: "hey watch this" dissolves into a puddle of acid
also me: "the most important thing is to be good and learn lessons" what
lessons are you learning from this post? "um. that I shouldn't?" ... shouldn't
learn? "no, shouldn't post" -.-
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I say only executed after a general strike because the general strike is the
signal. the display of our intentions. we are serious about this, see how many
people walk the streets? how many walk off the job? they have families. if our
demands aren't met, their families will be punished. how cruel. would you
really do such a thing?
what kind of government would not care for it's citizenry? sounds like
everything we've known to fight against. Autocracy and despotism.
I refuse to concede. I do not run. I do not confess. I have nothing to hide. I
don't lock my door. I don't own anything that they couldn't take from me. I
own nothing.
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@user-521
I can't stand mean comedy. Or cringe comedy. It just, doesn't make sense to
me? And I get physically upset when people are put in difficult situations
that you're supposed to laugh at for some reason.
Like my goodness what kind of values are they seeking to instill in their
audience with this kind of propaganda amiright
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if you want to fight ice, patrol your neighborhoods where all the mexicans
live.
bring a gun if you're willing to die for liberty.
Don't wear all black. Wear your favorite outfit, to be remembered.
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low key kinda wish someone would kidnap me and lock me in a room with nothing
but a c compiler and strict orders to only work on whatever I want
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They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track
of where you're going.
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║ │ if i ever get hatecrimed and die from it please remember me for this. for refusing to back down despite staring down the barrel of a world that just wants me and everyone like me dead. for doing my best to be a symbol of hope in the face of all these horrors │ ║
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I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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Why do I feel like the only one who's resisting fascism
(and what exactly do you do? Make friends)
*yes* I'm too scared and tired to do anything else or less
Like seriously what else could I do
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it's okay if you hate me. Please don't have me and not tell me...
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I don't necessarily want people to want a revolution. I just want them to want
a revolution.
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people's palestine trauma is totally gonna fuck them up when it happens to
their backyard.
thanks, evil-run social media. It's true we wouldn't have been motivated
without it, but such horrors are interminable to concieve about.
"what if we just built our own websites and linked to them when we find them?"
"hmmmm, interesting, this goes in my XYZ bookmark folder"
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but it hurts less to be despised than
ignored.
which is why you don't feed the trolls, and always pet the neocats
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Sowing political division the way Fox news does is treasonous... It doesn't
matter the intention, those responsible should be forced to cease their
actions. I don't care about punishment, I care about damage to the fabric of
our society.
Take, for example, the fact that the military is struggling to find recruits.
So many of them typically come from the right half of the political spectrum
because the right tends to favor the ideals of "honorable warriors" and such.
But Fox News has corrupted that.
In addition, the left half of the media has also incited hatred amongst
ourselves. It's wrong to pit brother against brother, and yet...
We have a weak series of generations and that's okay in times of peace. But
times of peace are coveted abroad, and weakness is opportunity. So I don't
care if we have 10,000 tanks. Hell, build ten thousand more. I despise war,
but I despise weakness even more because weakness begets war. Typically, a war
that you'd be losing, though frankly in war, everyone loses.
There are grevious mistakes at play that gave room for evil to spread.
Corruption follows, and with it comes our greatest generation on its death
bed. A civil war would be the end of us, as nothing stops war in the imperial
core until there's nothing but ashes and bloodshed.
And yet, something has to change. There's too much pressure for this to go on
un-abated. I thank the masterful statesmen who ply their trade for their own
profit, for in their profit our peace does follow. Alas, the most profitable
venture is war, which often gets exported. How callous, how vain, to exert and
call forth fiery rain, and yet the bullets keep leaving the factory.
Power corrupts. Power accretes. And power can be deceived.
Fuck power, dismantle the whole apparatus. Build it back up from the
mechanics, and then implement it bit by bit. Leave no stone unturned, there is
no facet that is sacred. We need a new system, and its we who must make it.
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I hear that ICE goes after the kindest grandmas and the hardest working joes
first so by the time any resistance is organized there's less passion behind it
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I want the political right to exist, because otherwise there'd be nothing to
talk about a couple beers in and with no real stakes except a good time with
your friend who you disagree with
I want the political right to exist, because, y'know, life liberty and justice
for all and all that
both of those are "left of center" takes and I've definitely held both at
different parts of my life
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I'm too empathetic to watch them lose this badly. when I watch movies with
cringe humor I have to leave the room whenever something bad happens to the
characters. I get the same feeling when I read about politics these days.
side note, but has anyone else gotten emails about "hiring plain-clothes
police officers in Washington D.C, will offer relocation assistance and pay
minimum 72k per year"? can't help but wonder if they're afraid of a bunch of
sore losers storming the capital with guns.
it's not like there's a precedent for that or anything.
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Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
collective mind co-re-assigns.
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fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
permanently revoke their ways
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I know it's not like that but I'm intentionally framing it that way to make a
point about societal exclusion.
nobody should be excluded.
nobody should have to harm their friends to come by making them sacrifice
their [time/labor/paycheck] in order to bring them along.
we live in a post scarcity society that insists on commodification of
everything
we don't have to. A better world is within reach. It sits there, twinkling
like asbestos resting at the base of a snowglobe, while we search and ponder
and endlessly analyze how society sucks.
there is nothing left to analyze. all that we need is to put our hands to a
task and our feet to grass.
the rest will come, and it'll come easier with time and focused attention.
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"ah but what about false flag attacks and a repeat of the whole 'weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq' thing, surely we could be misled and therefore there
cannot be an conclusively ethical reason for war"
perhaps you're right, but my feelings tell me that we have guns, and people
are dying.
"ah but won't they just send all their political opponents to fight and die
while they amass power in the background"
yeah that'll probably happen.
"why should I give my life for a man I never met in a faraway land"
fuck you
"okay but won't any military action on such a scale create the conditions for
WW3 (which would spell the end for the human race)"
yeah probs
"... and you're okay with that?"
no I'm just pissed is all and it's human to want to punch things when you're
pissed, right? listen I'm not a general, I'm not privy to the details of how
my military would address nuclear disaster, all I know is that people are
dying and we have guns.
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I am not overly concerned about the impact of the military upon our struggle.
I truly believe that not only do we best represent the ideals they swear to
uphold, but primarily I am not concerned because I believe they will be too
busy supporting our allies overseas.
It's up to us to defend our liberties.
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I personally think that it's better to act before the liberals have a chance
to hand power over to the fascists.
when? well, that depends. Are you part of a large and massive organization
that accomplishes great and beautiful things with incredible efficiency... but
rather slowly? Then yeah get working. I'm sure you already are.
Are you just a person, like me? Then go do things that don't raise the
temperature too much, but make you feel more confident and inspire those
around you.
Like, bricks at cop cars is one way to go, but you're probably gonna get
arrested. And then you're useless when we need you.
BUT if you meet with your friends and make plans for where to go, what to
bring, who to know, and what to sing (if you're the musical types) then great!
Go do that.
If you're reading this and thinking "I'm not gonna do that, I have a plan
that's so much better" then yeah do that instead. I don't mind. Just... don't
hurt innocent (ignorant) people, because if you do then you are my foe.
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you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
for when secrecy is intended.
OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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@user-1074
ah yes but didn't you know? orphans produce unobtanium in their bones, and if
we didn't crush them into powder we couldn't make ultra-doxo-floro-tin-omatic
lubrication jelly, which is used to power our weapons of mass destruction like
planes and trains and tanks and suburbs.
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I think it should be a warcrime to attempt to summon demons to slay your foes.
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z-targeting is cheating, and everyone cheats. it's a race to see how can cheat
the least. like tax loopholes - wealth is always more impressive when you did
in the hard way, but most CEOs just buy a bunch of stock and let the company
run itself. BORING.
can we like... vote on how much each billionaire's dollars are worth? kinda
feel like that'd solve all our problems while still giving them what they want.
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where the fuck are these nazis I swear I would punch them but all I see are
people wearing bland colors that wouldn't imply a particular political
affiliation
meanwhile I wear red, black, and blue every time I go to the city and nobody
punches me so
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║ how futile it is, the effort to denigrate yourself to infinite requirements. │
║ I'm literally unemployed, I have no capital, I cannot speak for naught but │
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if you don't feed the trolls, then they find their own clan. and in doing so,
they make their own echo chambers. what would a bunch of trolls do to each
other? the poor dears.
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children should be raised in museums, not classrooms
they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.
they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars
they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than
the last.
children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy
little brats
children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine
I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face
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in regards to my food habits, PLEASE do as I say, not as I do. for your own
sake.
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I'm not an anarchist who believes in dismantling all hierarchies.
I am an anarchist who believes in dismantling unjustified hierarchies.
I'm not an anarchist who believes that all hierarchies are unjust.
I am an anarchist who believes that most of our hierarchies are just, because
people are just, and people built those hierarchies.
I am not an anarchist who would want to harm my country. I live in my country!
I would never harm it!
I am an anarchist who believes that our country is being harmed by those who
wield hierarchy as a weapon against the enslaved.
I am not an anarchist who wants to avenge this power disparity by blood and
blood alone.
I am an anarchist who believes in peace, sanctity, and justified respect
[insert that tumblr post picture about the two kinds of respect]
I am not an anarchist who believes that the world is doomed.
I am an anarchist who believes that the only true relations between people are
those we consent to and those we forge with the people we chose.
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is it really sedition if you have EVER even ONCE thought "I wonder how my
country will kill me?"
yes
of course it is
that's why it's important
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I don't want to live in a world without a fire department.
"eh just let it burn. The fire is warm tonight."
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"power corrupts" you say to the man who only had good intentions.
"trust no-one" says the world's loneliest wanderer.
"words cannot hurt you" said the girl who has never known hunger.
"I can rest when I'm dead" you say as you down another Monster
"I'll never forget you" said a face you can't quite remember
"let justice be done, though the heavens fall" you say as they tighten your
chains in the wake of a CEOs murder
"live today, fight tomorrow" says the coward, who will run anyway, yet is
determined to tell your tale and reinforce your children
"the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots" says the guy who
sipped from the skull of a tyrant
"E=MC squared" says the jew
"here, let me take care of that for you" you say, to queer delegation
"meow" says the catgirl
"meow" says the girl
"meow" says the girl cat
"meow" I say to you
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punch a nazi because they deserve it, not because you're unafraid
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capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand
that you use them.
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When they invade America, it won't be with planes and tanks and battle lines
stocked with artillery
It'll be with speed boats, and semi trucks, and rifles glimmering in the dark.
It'll be with consumer drones, with power stations brought low, it'll be with
bridges blown and safe houses on the roads not oft taken.
Immigrants are our friends when the world is in peril, and America is a safe
haven from the woes of far off shores. But when America is the peril, those
who immigrate do so with intention.
99/100 people are innocent, and I would rather a million guilty murderers go
free than an innocent perish. Which is why we need rifles.
When the time comes, it won't be brother against brother. They want you to
think that because they want your eyes on the wrong target. They want you to
think that because it doesn't tip the hand of those far off shores, and once
the cards are revealed, suddenly everyone knows when to go.
They tie up our officers at the border, but the border's not what's at stake.
No body lives at the border, and no nation state would send it's trained
warriors in such a way that they'd get caught. At least, not more than once.
Should we build a wall, should we patrol each and every state, we'll find
ourselves in peril of collapsing under our own weight.
But should we relinquish our duty, our sworn and sacred responsibility, then
together we share the same fate.
Brothers in fate are kin until death.
Immigrants aren't bad. They're good people. They benefit our society and bring
us wealth and prosperity. Which is why they hide wolves in the sheep, armed
like a man.
It's a mistake to point at your neighbor and say "you're on your own". It's a
mistake to say that home is all that you own. We are united in our state of
solidarity, in our collective purpose as a nation in our hearts. There's no
dividing line between this land and mine, save for a line we draw in the sand
that determines the range of our just demands.
I wish I was a man. It's what I was born as. It surely would be easier to not
contravene nature's ordained gender scheme. But I'm not, and I'll trust that
you'll trust me when I say that. I hope you would hear where I stand before my
body goes cold.
The media is meant to enlighten us, but in this enlightened era it serves only
to blind us. Do you know your neighbors, oh unfriendly city folk? If not, how
do you know they're alright?
The world won't change overnight. It's always calm before the storm, but every
state of calm does not call forth a storm. I believe we can fashion a peace
out of our mutual sincerity that leaves room for the hopes of all posterity,
and to that end I say what we have isn't working. It's too rigid in its
definitions, too heartless in its cruel machinations, and yet the wolves do
also hide amongst our homeless.
I don't want to alarm you. Things are being handled as they should. I guess I
just want to offer a hand of friendship, a hand that your companions would
stab me for. At least, that's what the media tells me.
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@user-1074
I'm gonna do it anyway because nationalism is not the same as patriotism
https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/112729939513334734
I wish I was still this cool... what happened smh
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@user-570
I escalate that way against fascism, nothing less.
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what if we taxed land not by charging money to keep it but rather by taking
some of it and giving it to the bureau of land management
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broke:
the Biden presidency was meant to defuse the rage of BLM
woke:
we needed more time to gather our strength
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I know it's terrible right now, but we have crucial advantages that we
shouldn't sleep on.
We have the cities, and the cities are where everything is. Rural areas are so
spread apart they pretty much can only do what herr Hitler suggests they do,
meaning their command structure is monolithic. If everywhere needs their
attention, they will falter unless they create a grand battleplan. And plans
are defeated by rapid flexibility.
The more effort they need to counter you, the more work your allies can get
done. Every man woman and child who raised a fist will be remembered by the
moments that gave us grace to move socialism along. We know what time it is,
do you? Come to us now, flee from your new masters. We'll give you a job
that'll help us go faster.
Or do you rather persist in vain? To fight for what they are forced to
reclaim? Every island of blue in the deep red sea is a haven from the
bloodshed - so long as you can keep them clean.
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@user-1443
they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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I'm not fucking around and nobody takes me seriously. guess I'll just "waste"
the day getting stoned. "there is nothing left to analyze" yeah well there's
nothing I can do except analyze, so... do it for me then? I'll even tell you
how.
I have a strange kind of patriotism. It compels me to fight for my country,
not for the current administration.
Yes, it's true, that if we can't trust the political victors, then we can't
trust that we all [deserved to be used, but pronounced like deserved to get
food]
but we can't trust our political victors, because of simple facts.
Last summer the conservative majority supreme court removed several
restrictions on the exectutive branch - essentially giving the political
victors the ability to rule with more authority than a despotic monarchy.
This summer they are maximizing their armed forces (ICE, not the military,
which will soon be dissolved)
Next summer they will claim you. What do you do this summer, with the consent
of the army, navy, and air force?
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I'M SORRY I'M SO SCARY
listen I don't actually want any harm to come to my foes, I just want them to
stop harming me-and-by-extension-all-peoples-who-are-like-me and by extension
all peoples who are harmed by thee and them
and like, they won't stop? so... violence, I guess. which just makes things
worse. But uh, if you're violent enough, you can sell the propaganda narrative
that your side is the bright glorious victors, and then you can [redacted] all
of the [redacted] until [redacted]. This might, if you're lucky, make the
world better or worse. But odds are it'll just make it different, but the same.
[confuser of the way indeed...]
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@user-831
those billionaires are using their money as a weapon to "vote" toward what
companies they think capitalism would most grow from. Unfortunately for us,
they often aren't very efficient because they're only looking at what sells.
human interest is not the only factor to optimize for, and yet that's the only
one they're incentivized to.
kinda makes me think that the only reason to replace them would be to
institute something that could not be incentivized because it was more
objective or decentralized.
(the only reason they'd accept)
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I love all humans. It is unconditional.
The kind of love I have for nazis is a kind of vengeful love.
Like, the way you might love a family dog who recently got rabies, bit two
more dogs, and is currently eyeing you with terror and malice in its eyes -
the kind that only comes from the loss of compassion.
"you were kind once, as all humans are, but sometime in your life you made
choices. and now you are here.
I burn thee for my fathers
I spite thee for thine mothers
And I slay thee to fight the dragon of hate."
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I'm not here to convince you. If you're reading this, odds are we already
agree.
I'm here to give you memetic weapons to use when convincing *liberals* to wake
the fuck up and check the time.
Don't fucking talk to conservatives anymore. Unless you got a thing going and
you're close to deradicalizing / converting them already. It's not worth it
anymore, and I fear for their souls, but we need to focus on building a
bedrock of support rather than wasting compassion on our enemies-to-be.
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my hands and my toes are scared that I'm going to do SRS to them and I wish I
knew how to better comfort them.
"it's not true! I would never do that to you."
don't mean much. but...
"there's no reason for me to do that with you - you are not comprised of
erogenous zones which were originally built in a wrong
[configuration/constitution]"
are you saying I can be wrong?
"no no not that just like, a continual part of our growth and development of
our form."
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trans people aren't allowed to go to florida now because mean people don't
want them on beaches where everyone's being sexy and disneyworld where they
keep all their children's treasured memories
and it's like fuck off I earned to be who I am as you see, I'll be as I damned
please in whoever's memories I decree.
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@user-1695
never accept your own death
fight for every second of life, something something do not go quietly into
that grim dark
what the fuck are you supposed to do? Reading what you said got me pretty
fucking pissed - keep talking for a start, it helps, people need to be pissed.
I'm also broke as shit, don't know how I'm going to pay rent and eat, but
it'll get done.
Where do you live? Can other people help you? Medications are an
organizational problem, not an insurmountable barrier. We'll make it work.
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if I don't take this job, then I'm going to be homeless.
if I do, then I'll be moving to a different city.
a city that I don't know.
my upbringing tells me that this isn't a choice at all, but...
at least I have a place to keep my stuff. maybe I can find a different job.
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Donald Trump is a political leader.
Their next leader will be a military one.
Don't let them transition too quickly. Gatekeep.
If Hitler had successfully been assassinated, his generals would have done a
much better more efficient job of death-culting Europe.
Trump, however, is a businessman, while Hitler was an artist.
A businessman knows when to delegate, an artist wants things "just so"
keep in mind which foes you choose to face, for there are always more of them
waiting in the wings. At least until you're face-to-face. Then there is just
you, standing over their fallen.
Me? I'm lucky to have been raised by both an artist and a businessman. So I
got the best of both worlds.
( also a programmer, a historian, a caretaker, a shepherd, a girl-scout camp
counselor, a political analyst, a gardener, a house-builder, a teacher, a
mathematician, a librarian, a diplomat, a long-haul driver, a chef, and many
more roles besides. And that's just my two parents who loved me dearly! How
lucky am I. )
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I am not a worker
Though I try and try, I burn right out and through
I wish I was a worker, able to apply my trade or skill
But I'm not
I do hope we can be allies, still
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║ @user-1695 │
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║ we lack the freedom to implement the infrastructure required to do such a │
║ thing because we must all sell our labor to capitalism to survive. │
║ │
║ However, that's not always a given. If there were ever another option besides │
║ capitalism, something that allowed us to build such infrastructure, we would │
║ be able to address your medical needs. │
║ │
║ I don't want you to die a slow and painful death. I want it to be quick, in │
║ your sleep, at the ripe old age of 85 or later, while surrounded by friends │
║ and family who mourn your loss but celebrate your impact upon them. I wish │
║ this for all peoples. │
║ │
║ When we have the freedom to act, when the hours of our days aren't spent │
║ keeping a roof over our heads or feeding our children, then we will develop │
║ the logistical infrastructure to deliver whatever you need. │
║ │
║ It's not like it's an unsolvable problem, we just need to do it. But we can't │
║ start working on the problem until the blockers in our way are cleared. So... │
║ I don't have an answer because I can't yet. │
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Keep in mind that *this is sedition*. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see
how it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does
not consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect
the pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate
states, with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.
Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
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my last name is King so I have to keep reminding part of me (you know which
part, /sigh) that no, they aren't actually protesting against me.
I am a communist. If you want to find me, come and do so.
explodes from a drone dropped grenade
bleh am ded lmao so glad I get to try again
I dedicate myself to a lifetime in the service of others.
what plagues people? primarily, capitalism. It is trivial to identify how
their problems are ultimately caused by the state, both institutions and
corporations.
I dedicate myself toward finding alternatives and developing guides to reach
them.
the first step on ALL of these plans is to convince others of their benefit.
I am but one person. I might speak to a scant 300 in the course of a year.
Especially if I am ALSO trying to develop methodologies.
the people I live and work with have no interest in working with me. Yet
still, I spend my time on them because I love them.
how else can you be good, but to seek to impove the world? treat sigint as ded
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my favorite protest sign I didn't see last weekend went something like this:
"if you want to resist fascism, pay my rent so I can resist fascism"
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Why not let in all the immigrants, and disperse them throughout the country
equally. Then pay for them to travel between each place, until they're
permanent citizens and can be asked to contribute to their own place.
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║ I'm an anarcho monarchist, which is something I just made up. │
║ │
║ if I gather 300 people to my cause, why shouldn't they call me queen? │
║ │
║ oh, are you concerned that I'll wrest power from the government? ha, what a │
║ trifling notion. I don't care about the government. I tried to care, but │
║ nobody liked my ideas. they required too much computing infrastructure to │
║ feasibly test, and that made people dubious. but I tell ya, it would have │
║ worked. The thing is... governance, economics, these are not the tools of │
║ power. they are a shifting and changing beast that mirrors the human instinct, │
║ if only because the government is of the people and by the people and for the │
║ people etcetera. │
║ │
║ power is it's own thing. you can use to to power devices, or power the usage │
║ of those devices. I, for example, really like World of Warcraft which's a │
║ really neat way to chat because none of the chat logs are stored and monitored │
║ because I'm hosting and I'm not storing and monitoring. │
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Most people won't care.
Most people won't come.
They don't need to.
All we need is you.
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everyone's all like "everything sucks" but I'm feeling confidence and a kind
of... externalized vigor? that's sweeping me off my feet. We'll see what
tomorrow brings, in the general sense.
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@user-192
You've developed a crucial insight here. Fascists aren't the opposites of
communists, they're not trying to make the world better by altering or
updating their governance systems.
They are trying to kill people. To gather power. The mislead and betray. They
seek destruction and little else. They are evil.
Not everyone who votes for Trump is evil... They might simply have been lied
to, repeatedly, and never given a chance to think anything else. But their
movement will bring us fascism, so, they are enemies to those who value a
fair, just, kind, rational, and developing nation.
They are few. We can win, I know it to be true.
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my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
other people who visit the house.
but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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║ Capitalism, or more specifically the fascism and despair it entails, is the │
║ one true enemy of all those who yearn for a better and brighter world. │
║ │
║ Many cannot imagine such a world. They have never tasted it. │
║ │
║ Many would resist such a world. They prefer the darkness, for it lets their │
║ darkest parts blend in. │
║ │
║ Many would deny such a world. They do not think it is possible, or they fear │
║ the turmoil. │
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║ I am not afraid of turmoil. I am not afraid of death. I like all my stuff, and │
║ would hate to see it lost, but I can get more stuff. I like my cat, and would │
║ hate to see her wander the streets, but she has lived longer than most cats. I │
║ like my computer, my poetry, my memories from friends and family, but all │
║ those things are meaningless in the face of the struggle. │
║ │
║ I am but one person, and I will do all that I can. │
║ │
║ Power has decreed that we are condemned to die. They plan to execute this │
║ action by filling the air with carbon-based poison. In the chaos of despair, │
║ they plan to exert cruelty or relish the thrill │
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@user-570
unless you meant canada. I vote no on that, because there's very little
difference between there and here. I mean, it's colder, which is nice. But
don't move because of politics or whatever. We can handle that.
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"Come, join our side. Lay down your arms, and teach us to use them. We've got
nazi's to fight."
Find common ground. Use it to gain power. Do not trust your new allies
completely until proven, but do not treat them with harm.
Do not trust them, at least not at first. After all, there's nazi's amongst
them. But there's also good people who would die for you.
Let them select from amongst their number those who they would like us to
judge. We will be harsh to their vipers and kind to their protectors.
Some people do police work in order to get by. Some do it to help others in a
vague unspecified way that only a preschooler filling out a "what I want to be
when I grow up" assignment can internalize. Some want to protect things, to
keep them running smooth
and some want to hurt things.
Give them the chance to find them. They are not your friends. They are not
their friends. They are those who we fight.
We must secure a cleansing blow against the right.
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There's no such thing as cowards. We are together or we are not at all, and we
are together.
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I hate writing poetry 😭 T.T
I love writing poetry 😅 :`)
there is no war in ba-sing-se o.o
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Again, to reiterate:they would give us a kinga criminalized people is
genocideloyalty over expertise is the death of legitimacy
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do as I say, and as I do.
or don't, do as you want to.
I hope you do want to do what I say to do.
I wouldn't say it if I didn't think it was right.
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royalty is not not royalty just because they're ineligible. democracy is
better for picking rulers! how many do you have in your mind?
[I thought you were an anarchist]
I am. the presence of rulers does not necessarily violate the implicit
sovereignce of consent, and it's necessary presence for rulership.
"no gods no kings no masters" means an end to coercive work.
coercion is unethical because it violates consent. This is implicit in the
definition of coercion.
violating consent for those who give you power is a lesson I learned very
young, when I made a mistake and harmed my brother's mother's sisters's son's
daughter.
"no gods no kings no masters"
means an end to unconsentual work.
why would you live in a village where everyone is the same as you? talk about
boring
I wish I could hear you when you talk about me.
"girl are you racing? in capitalism? why bother with a [endless/impossible]
game? you're better than judging people's worth objectively. [what do they
mean to you?]"
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I'd rather riot over the fact that Trump is on the ballot
than riot over the fact that he won
He's a felon
He's a rapist
He's an accomplice to mass murder
Democracy only works when the losers in an election consent to be governed by
the will of the people
He did not consent, and his followers did not consent.
They are enemies of democracy.
They are fascists, for many reasons besides.
They seek to be the end of us,
And I see no foe on this earth more deserving of our wrath.
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private militias who go with deported immigrants to make sure they aren't
harassed in whichever randomly assigned country they're sent to (until they
get stabilized and hooked into cooperative and honorable local networks)
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if trump's too busy legislating trans people, he won't be legislating unions.
if trump's too busy kidnapping immigrants, he won't be deporting dissidents.
if trump's too busy quelling rebellion, he won't be able to contest our
military.
if our military's too busy contesting abroad, then they won't be able to
rebirth liberty.
if liberty struggles to be born, we will continue to get more angry.
how much longer before the snake eats it's tail? everyone they push out is
another ally to some foreign army.
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@user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353
I mean, perhaps the trash that those gems are buried in is similar to the
trash that my gems are buried in (capitalism I think? I'm stretching the
metaphor)
I think you're absolutely right. Don't listen to Nazis. I don't even like
thinking about them or talking about them or even acknowledging their
existence. If I see one I'd punch it. I'm not great in a fight so I might get
stabbed or whatever but like... worth it
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"but the trans people don't even have any silver to steal! they have nothing
to worry about."
- said the someone who has a different threat model than me
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the only way I could fight a war is if my opponents were wrong. they must
break some law, something I hold dear. They must be unrepentant.
ICE is not quitting their jobs. They aren't going away, even though we kindly
suggest they go to where they're wanted.
what's wrong with illegal immigrants? nothing. Same as any other race.
what's wrong with ICE? they sure don't break the law. Same as all the stories
of bad cops.
they are kidnapping people. If they were warranted, they could feel a sense of
ease. Why burden them with a lock-out? wait until someone has a problem. They
are good people because we can get rid of them, how rude. "gee I really wanna
fire that guy who just stands around and picks his nose all day, too bad he's
... " finish the rest.
I love being autistic! It means that I am forced to say things that seem
obvious to me in principle but I've never really thought about until now! I
also pick my nose. And smell kinda bad. But I'm pretty so try not liking me.
you cant know things you don't k
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@user-883
I'd say "content warning: fear-cursed-if-true-not-politics" that way people
who had "Fear" or "cursed" on their filter list wouldn't see it. Things that
are commonly content-warning'd are also commonly content-filtered by people
who tend to be the biggest beneficiaries of healthily designed
content-warnings. so putting keywords in there that filter out people who
don't want to see intense or damaging things to their psyche can avoid it more
easily.
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if the USA goes to war with venezuela and venezuela poisons their oil watering
hole it'd just be empowering the other oil reserve extracting locations, not
bringing us closer to sustainability via carbon sequestration.
maybe nations shouldn't declare war unless the minor is declaring on the
greater.
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we don't let children vote.
nor do we let felons vote, theoretically those who harm our society (pick one,
no voting or no prison? I vote no prison industrial complex)
nor do we let non-citizens vote, for why should they tell us how to live? they
are not us, they shall not control us
nor do we let kings vote with the weight of a god, for a king is a singular
point of failure
if you can consent to sex, you are physically capable to vote. if you're
mislead by the propaganda of an abusive spouse, you are hurting your future
self by staying. [all media is propaganda that you are not immune to]
all men are created equal, and yet his dollar is worth a bit more than hers.
all of us here are equal, because we all want the bright future and a blessed
life.
we'll make this world better, using our own hands according to our own demands
and in pursuit of our own plans.
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@user-1728
"oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"
yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in
some way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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if you are upset about Biden and his presentation, remember that he's not
talking to you. He's talking to suburban dads, to grandmas organizing
potlucks, to analysts, to the media, to people who watch the news in the
background 24/7 without paying attention.
these people will hear him, and not you. they have no idea what to prepare
for, or how soon.
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don't work with me.
work around me.
don't talk to me.
talk about me.
don't share with me.
I deserve nothing.
don't take from me.
I have nothing.
-radio-radio-remedy-
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"God doesn't know he ate the universe, and we're doing everything we can to
make sure it stays that way."
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I need an editor. Someone who can re-arrange what I say and present it to an
audience. The pen is mightier than the sword, and while my pen is mighty, you
still need swords.
I believe in democracy. I believe in the will of the people and the respect of
the land. I believe in life, light, and liberty for all.
Our nation has just elected, fairly, a dictator who will sell our country to
foreign authoritarians just because he is small. I am stronger by far, but I
lack his experience, and so I must rely on trusted advisors who grow with me.
I am perhaps not the best choice, but I do believe I am one of the bravest.
Judge me as you will.
Trump will destroy the American experiment and invite fascism into our home.
We have people to nurture and protect, and authoritarianism prevents us from
doing so.
He would deprive us of our light, and frankly he already has.
He would deprive us of our liberty, and his plans to do so are clear and
apparent.
He would deprive us of our lives, and history has shown that this is a
precedent.
I do not consent to a Trump presidency. I do not consent to his corruption any
longer. No more will I or my people be governed by such evil. We will fight
back, of this I am certain.
My demands are threefold.
First, I demand that Trump be replaced by a moderate republican. Hold a
primary and let Democrats vote. If none of your candidates work for us, pick a
new roster and try again.
The second is that Trump must be executed for treasonous high crimes. Nothing
less than execution will suffice.
Next, let the supreme court be purged and replaced. Half with democrats, half
republicans, and one moderate who is widely regarded with respect.
Failing these demands, I am willing to wage a terrible civil war for the soul
of our country. I know this is treason, but I do it anyway even though I am a
patriot. I do it because our land has been stolen by a man and his followers
who seek to plunge my people into despair.
He is but one man. So am I.
He has an army of followers. I do not.
Each of the wars we fight will be smaller than the last, as each of our cities
struggles toward our last gasp.
But together we are strong, and by connecting them we might deliver ourselves
from harm.
Against the far right, we must secure a cleansing blow. There is no greater
fight. The world is watching.
To that end, I suggest a great and perilous fight. I see no other option in
this remarkable century. Prepare as you might, I suggest pushups and resource
acquisition.
Deliver your resources somewhere safe if you're in a red area, and meet your
neighbors if you're not.
A blue city in a red state must survive a siege. Prepare yourself for this.
Assume that supplies will need to be delivered by convoy if by land, and drone
airdrop from the skies. Develop ways to protect these supply methods.
Public spaces are our homes now, our houses are just where we sleep.
I swear this to you: on my life I will be honorable and fair. I will seek true
justice when I can, where everyone gets what they want, and failing that I
will be plainly just. I will respect all peoples, and do my best to fight for
a brighter tomorrow.
I dare for the bright age. I see nothing else that I'd like to spend my life
doing than daring.
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It doesn't have to be more complicated than "give us money and we'll fight
back the right wing death squads"
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Come to a battleground state, nobody will question why you are homeless and
full of lit sparks.
There's nothing left for you at your home. It's okay to leave it all behind.
Just bring the things that you made if you can, the things that reflect "you"
- the most irreplaceable things, like family photos and precious small charms.
Everything else is to be abandoned. If necessary in your particular case, dear
reader, for I swear it to you in your face: we will not let these fascists go
far.
Come please, and help us. I don't care what you once owned, I don't care from
where you claim is your home, just don't betray us and we'll take care of you
and fight against the dark.
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African Americans have done more than enough to be considered native to
America. Stop treating them as second class citizens just because you are
different. They are the same as you in some respects, better in others, and
worse in others. That is what it means to be *similar*, yet *distinct*.
Deal with it.
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my opsec is non-existent teehee does anyone want my IP? or even my address,
it's not like I lock my door
if (when) my poor decisions get me killed (whoops adding content warning)
please throw a brick at an insurance company for me thanks
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I have never stopped fighting for the people, ever, once, at any time.
every moment of pause or relaxation was purely intended in pursuit of the
cause.
-- turn-of-the-century-autocrat
enchanting magic's easier when you have a laboratory
please, please, please let me teach you magic?
enchantment is temporary, construction is as stable as the boject youses form.
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the lessons learned in gay history are still relevant to this day (and perhaps
future ones as well) - the act of erasure is removing the memories of those
who learned them while keeping the lessons learned, as propagated forward in
the artwork of people who were touched by them. it's a form of cultural
genocide, as an other is forcing us not to exist. (in memory)
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║ gee I sure wish my morals reflected the ethics of my society. it really would │
║ be nice is they didn't include so many shitty things like oppressing people │
║ abroad or being super-duper racist for an embarrassing amount of time. But, │
║ like, freedom, liberty, and the justice to hope? true justice is when everyone │
║ gets what they want. true liberty is when we can live as we want with the │
║ magnitude of the result of our lives determined by how hard we worked. │
║ │
║ truly, the hardworking slave should be better off than the rich wanderer. But │
║ alas, that's not how it's currently set up. >.> │
║ │
║ though it is kinda nice to own things too, so maybe the other extreme is a │
║ little extreme. I sure like having my favorite spork. │
║ │
║ back in the old days, in the buildings they've since demolished (to put │
║ skyscrapers there - the "old-timey" buildings in your neighborhood are there │
║ because they're in the least commercially viable position - meaning the lowest │
║ density of people.) you could walk through an entire building in a shared │
║ communal s │
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Hello, I am a great artist of the modern day. I refuse to provide my work to
any revolution that does not work together, if only as familiar forces working
in tandem for the betterment of humankind's work and world.
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@user-620
"hey I have an idea let's poke a wounded animal with sharp teeth until it
feels like it's backed into a corner because it's been spending the past
couple years ruminating and telling itself that we want to kill it and it's
children"
it doesn't matter what the truth is - they believe what they want.
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@user-1165
yeah.
true.
though I think at a certain point, reformism kinda gets thrown out the window.
the more people fight, the less they'll want to die for something old, and the
more they'll want to reach for something bright.
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@user-1074
"ugh the workers are demanding more rights again. Don't they know that we're
just going to ship their jobs overseas to someplace where they don't get to
fight back?"
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"but what if you go to all that effort and Trump doesn't do all the things
that he said he'd do just like last time when he had checks and balances that
were keeping him in check and balanced and unlike now when the checks and
balances that kept him in check and balanced last time were dismantled by the
supreme court last summer?"
listen it's worth it, I swear it's true, change is coming and I'm here with
you.
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The right is *using* the neo-nazis. They don't want them either, but they're a
convenient boogey-man.
*of course* kamala is going to crush trump. That's the whole point, to show
the world what a ridiculous farce our elections are. They have never been
representative, and now we will see.
Ask any red blooded American, left or right, how they'd like to handle
neo-nazis. We all know where we stand.
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"ah but ritz you used to talk about kindness and empathy and how we should
forgive people and try to find ways that terrible people can still live and
contribute and"
yeah. then Trump got elected, so now we have to live in the reality that My
Fellow Americanstm asked for.
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Freedom to do anything, and the liberty to choose as you please.
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@user-1567
that's totally fine, a fish does not do well in a tree, and so too does a
leftist not do well in an environment without the potential for stable bonds.
Essentially all you'd be able to do is "hey leftism right?" "oh yes I also
leftism" "neat" which isn't very productive.
I also live in an environment like that. I do my best to identify people who
stay, because in my experience there are often people who stay. I do this by
walking around the neighborhood when I can, making up excuses to walk to the
dumpster or mailbox at random hours, riding my bike around the area, using the
communal spaces like gyms, swimming pools, and picnic tables, and sitting in
my hammock on my porch lazily noting people who walk past.
People who stay will tend to remain in your mind the more times you see them.
They are better people to talk to than the renters who disappear after 3
months or whatever.
I don't always do all that stuff at once. I take breaks. I do one at a time.
etc
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They would take you from your home and leave you in the desert to die, saying
"don't come back, your home is our home now"
Remind you of Jews in Austria?
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"The supreme court has criminalized homelessness. I should become homeless."
Is not a thought that in my twenties I would have thought I'd wrestle with in
my thirties
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The shortest argument against trump for Mexicans in Texas is "they won't care
if you're american. Only if you're mexican."
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I don't care who you are, but if others aren't fighting to be in your life,
then do they really belong there?
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Damage of the legislature may be healed. But damage to people's lives who have
lost their jobs for no reason of their own and because jobs are tied to your
living in this country, people who have lost their jobs have lost their way of
life. Suddenly, their life must be changed. And they deserve the liberty to
feel in control of that.
When enough said is enough, when people have gathered en masse in the streets,
there has to be a reckoning. We must decide how to proceed as a culture.
Nation. Any kind of organization. We are who we choose to be, and frankly I
just don't see promise in the darkness. I yearn for a bold, bright future, not
one of destruction and disaster-race. Instead, we can seek joy in the
memories, and share what we keep in balance.
Our foes have cursed us with no end in heartbreak and struggle. But that's
okay. We can rebuild that part of ourselves, we just have to make it on faith.
Do you believe in each other? I do. I know you believe in you, too.
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apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community
is in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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I don't care about capitalism. You know what's more interesting than bringing
value to shareholders?
How I'm going to clean this floor that I drunkenly spilled beer upon with only
2 paper towels and 0.1ml of bleach.
How I'm going to feed the 36 people who are coming to this social event
tomorrow that I've only sorta planned for and that I have enough groceries
for, but am not quite sure how to cook everything in a way that is delicious
and accessible.
how I'm going to climb this mountain on only 2 eggs and a tiny bowl of
hashbrowns even though I promised my friend I'd be strong and that we'd reach
the top because that way we'd be able to
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everyone's all like "oh we need to help the homeless people end their drug
addictions so let's punish them for having high levels of certain chemicals in
their blood feces and urine" when really what we should be doing is getting
them a Linux gameboy like an Anbernic
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Keep in mind that this is sedition. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see how
it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does not
consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect the
pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate states,
with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.
Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
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"Capitalism doesn't hurt me, so it's fine!" - most of America
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it's not that they don't want to pay AI workers
it's that they don't expect they'll HAVE any workers once they start doing
what they need to do in order to maintain control and power.
they missed their chance to make it gentle. Their fault, their loss, and now
it's our problem to deal with.
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I dream of a home where I don't have to worry about people who might hear the
noises I make
... and that includes secret government microphones hidden in the walls, thank
you very much.
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society can be gamed in so many ways because it was designed to oppress you.
a more connected solution would solve so many problems, and introduce vastly
fewer more.
for example. wanna disenfranchise someone? take away their vote by framing
them for a crime. This is an example of population manipulation, and it's
unethical in the extreme.
downside is if you don't mother people they sort of forget how to breathe -.-
dumb apes, who thought it was a good idea to be born without instincts? ah
well let's raise them I guess, and try to keep the nazi cults on the
diminished minimum.
no-please-don't-walk-into-that-electric-pole it's made out of lightning juice
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hello everyone, I would like to take a moment to address a weapon used by the
far right called "Agent Sabateurs" - or "provocateurs" or "civilian disruption
forces" - however you want to call it.
Basically, they hire a bunch of people to pretend to be us and then they make
disruptions in public so that people start to hate us.
I'll go into more detail in this thread.
First, they identify a homeless person and eliminate them. Then, they put
someone who looks pretty similar in the same spot and they start making noise,
tearing up flowers, being really pushy about asking for money and shit, yell
at passerby, that kind of thing.
They do this for homeless people, trans people, black people, anarchists,
punks, leftists, basically everyone they don't want.
They do this to defame our champions. Our most vulnerable. Our strongest of
heart and their greatest threats. They do this to turn the liberal majority
against us.
the conservative minority fell for it quite easily.
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@user-1314 @user-1280 @user-1526
They will gladly live in a tent under an overpass cooking rats on a wire
hanger so long as you can guarantee that black/brown/LGBTQs don't have a tent,
rat, or wire hanger.
I'd almost agree, except strike "have" and replace it with "need"
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@user-1209
I'm sharp, but up close, and only when enraged.
Passports fully up to date though, for the same reason that if you live near a
river, it's often useful to have a boat.
I don't intend to flee, no matter my destiny, I'm here for the words I will
have spoke.
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wretched doesn't necessarily imply miserable.
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"... Look, all I'm doing is re-arranging the \"first they came for the...\"
list. And no, I'm not sorry for putting those best able to resist at the top.
If they're busy breaking up immigrant Families then we can organize and
improve our Families capacity to apply hits to their health bar. It helps if
we all fight the worst foes together. Most of America has been asleep through
the desperation they wrought upon minorities. Aka those with the least
populational capacity to resist them. Flip the script though and suddenly
American Auschwitz / Alligator Arcatraz becomes less likely."
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║ │
║ my enemy is not "the rich" │
║ │
║ money brings power, and power brings evil, but there are many other ways to │
║ gather power that may be just as evil. │
║ │
║ my enemy is evil. of which there is very little in the world, but much of │
║ which resides in the hands of the powerful, upon whom all our fates depend. │
║ │
║ most people with money are either stupid lucky, willful, or intensely focused. │
║ │
║ some people with power are rich, and some people with power are evil. │
║ │
║ I know it when I see it. Sometimes, you need to force the choice - test their │
║ virtue - and from this you are informed. │
║ │
║ most things go WAY over my head. │
║ │
║ most things are too easy to be true. │
║ │
║ most things that Id do for you tend to be of the heart. I'm not a frontline │
║ girl, I have weak noodle arms, but I do hope you're in shape. │
║ │
║ resolve, determination, and innovation. That is what I offer. Do you want it? │
║ I'm sure. I won't prove it with blood, not unless I may raise my fists in │
║ defence of another. │
║ │
║ I'm not JUST a baby, I'm a banner too. │
║ │
║ bannermen fall. │
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violence is legal in self-defence.
nazis want to kill me and my community.
punching nazis is self defence?
it's communal defence, for they present a clear and present danger to the
community.
You know the guy in the vietnam movies who shows up and fires over the enemy's
head because he doesn't want to kill anyone? That's justified, though it might
mean he'd die.
He isn't fighting in communal defence. His community was safe from the
vietnamese farmers and countryfolk who wanted nothing to do with imperialism,
only to govern themselves their way. Too bad that sounds like communism, and
the USSR was keen on funding the most violent amongst them if it meant another
state for capitalism to contest.
Nazis are not farmers. They are not countryfolk. They wear suits and they
deceive these people into fighting for them. They are liars and they enslave
the minds of those they can catch in their web of despair.
they want to hurt you is surprisingly motivating.
nazis want to hurt you
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@user-1358
you don't go golfing to relax.
well, maybe you do, but he doesn't.
he goes golfing to talk about shady shit.
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║ @user-530 │
║ │
║ I get it. │
║ │
║ Anyone with a disability or chronic condition gets it. Anyone who's oppressed │
║ gets it... I think everyone here gets it. It's hard. │
║ │
║ Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the day is the hope, the idea │
║ that one day the world might be brighter and the people might be kinder. It │
║ gets better every day, but inching ahead takes a while to travel for miles... │
║ We need to protect and care for each other. We need to apply ourselves toward │
║ what we know and are passionate for - an unused degree is a tragedy to me. │
║ │
║ I don't know what to say. I read what you said and I wished I could help. I │
║ want to take the system that hurt you and break it on the floor. I want to │
║ sweep it all aside and start from scratch, but screaming into the void will │
║ hardly accomplish that. I dream of true justice, a world where everyone gets │
║ what they want... But frankly right now I just wish you could hear. I'm sorry. │
║ Maladies are not solved by the pen nor the sword, which for now is all that I │
║ have at my disposal. │
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my family has always been the black sheep of our families.
I've never lived in the same state as my extended family
(with a few minor exceptions)
I was raised to know that family is an earned status, and my mom took us on
road trips every year to visit them, to give us kids the chance to earn that
affection.
and for them to earn it from us.
I guess it wasn't enough. I wonder if they think of me.
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why don't corporations let you write code in whatever language you want? it's
trivial to run a compiler or interpreter inside of another program.
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No plan survives contact with the enemy, and any plan that everyone knows is a
plan that your enemy knows.
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we should be allowed to smuggle into prisons whatever we want.
your prisoners are our family. you've taken more than enough. It should be
disallowed, not a crime.
so what if they break out? so what if they commit another?
so what if I want to bring him her baby blanket when she's outgrown it?
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║ │
║ │
║ if people at home had half as much compassion, respect, and reverence for the │
║ people abroad that the people abroad have for the people at home, we could │
║ have a truly multicultural society. │
║ │
║ instead, we get melting pots which melt you down and combine into a new, third │
║ thing. And in America we really have a multitude of miniature melting pots │
║ creating subcultures of racial, religious, professional, or other origin. │
║ │
║ Neither approach is entirely good, and neither entirely bad. They're different. │
║ │
║ America is the largest melting pot design, but sufficiently large cities find │
║ them popping up in the strangest of places. │
║ │
║ My thoughts go out to the Americans abroad, whether in peace, war, or times of │
║ hiding, know that we are grown from the same tree and our apples have fallen │
║ on different sides of the hill carrying us to worlds beyond. But still our │
║ heritage binds us, so I care for you. I pray that you will ask me if you need │
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... okay that's not exactly true. There are lots of things that I want. I
don't know why that was said. I wish I could delete things T.T
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It's not a warcrime if you're not at war.
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I want modern society without capitalism. Most people do, which is why no
matter how awesome our proto-post-capitalistic anarchic socialist paradise is,
there's always going to be people who want to go to work and watch TV.
call me fucking crazy but they should be allowed to live as they please? So
what if they're beguiled, so what if they are deceived? We can take our time
to show them how much better things can be, but also... they like modern
society as it is, and so I reckon someone should fight for them to be able to
live as they please. Just... without billionaires and endless layers of
bullshit micro-managerial jobs and paperwork pushing bureaucratic whatever
time wasting jobs.
modern society without capitalism can look like plain old capitalism, just
without the oppression. Without the coercion.
all I'm saying is that nobody's gonna fight for a healthcare CEO because
they're scum. They're scum because they oppress. oops politics-mentioned brb
I personally want communes + love
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me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
dismantling capitalism!"
also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"
because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink
gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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@user-1370
every renewal has loss. it's okay.
if people start going to camps, then you won't have any debt anymore because
you'll be fighting the people who are sending people to camps. And I don't
necessarily mean throwing metal at them directly, only a small group of people
need to do that. Rather, your voice, your presence, your diligence, and your
spirit will flavor the nature of the new world to come.
Have heart, for the ones who need you will rest easier if you're strong in
your heart and compassionate in your convictions.
The climate is in peril, but it's not destroyed. We will regenerate it. We
have the technology, we must simply cast off our chains so that we may apply
it.
... Simple, but not easy.
It will never get done otherwise, which is why it will happen. Because it must
get done, so we will make it happen. Humans trend toward procrastination but I
promise, we'll make it work.
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that feeling when capitalists make technological advancements that benefit all
of mankind but refuse to open source them because... they want more money?
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║ "I just love their culture" girl it's a barbeque "I figure they'd want a place │
║ of their own, right?" why don't you ask them "well, they didn't want to move, │
║ and something something manifest destiny, voila now they get all the │
║ non-sacred sites while we get the magic gem generation spots" girl now you're │
║ just talking about video games "haha yeah I wanted to change the subject so we │
║ didn't talk about how I'm culturally appropriating fireworks or whatever they │
║ likme to do in their churches and suburbs or whatever" │
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║ [yes, I know they like me. I like them too. I also like liberals, even though │
║ IU demand a lot of them] meanwhile the witch is a doom profit so watch out │
║ haha I'm so broke "what if we were all friends" okay that's one idea "what if │
║ we all got to know each other" okay that's closer "what if we didn't hide from │
║ our variety and instead celebrated it" getting warmer "did you know there's no │
║ war but the class war" okay but class is made up, so war is fake just like │
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we gain nothing by burning through political philosophy, exchanging tokens of
economic problems or solutions and looking for truth to our current conditions.
our current conditions are not those that we will be fighting within.
make no mistake, we will be fighting again, and on that day I'd much rather
know where my grain is coming from (or if it's coming at all) than how we plan
to vote.
much better, I find, to keep violence in mind, before it is thrust down your
throat.
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Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
My demands are threefold.
First, I demand that Trump be replaced by a moderate republican. Hold a
primary and let Democrats vote. If none of your candidates work for us, pick a
new roster and try again.
The second is that Trump must be executed for treasonous high crimes. Nothing
less than execution will suffice.
Next, let the supreme court be purged and replaced. Half with democrats, half
republicans, and one moderate who is widely regarded with respect.
Failing these demands, I am willing to wage a terrible civil war for the soul
of our country. I know this is treason, but I do it anyway even though I am a
patriot. I do it because our land has been stolen by a man and his followers
who seek to plunge my people into despair.
He is but one man. So am I.
He has an army of followers. I do not.
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I once had a vision of a civil war for the city of Portland. We lost.
the parting message was this:
"well, we almost got it. It was close. But you can do better. Don't make the
mistake of hurting your allies, focus on your foes."
then, with gravest clarity, he said:
"we must secure a cleansing blow. Against the far right, there is no greater
foe."
then, ashes.
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revolution
doesn't
have
to be
about
them
.
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