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Opposing all physical violence is idealistic but I can respect it, i can understand it. But nonviolence only rejects "unofficial" violence, from people who are purported to be on the same side as the ideologue. It is cowardice and total conservatism masquerading as ethos and strategy

oh you made the computer sound like a guy? it can summarize answers really fast? well life-giving liquid just falls out of the sky and a delicious tomato can just appear magically out of dirt. id say "but your thing is cool too" but id be lying. your thing is dumb as fuck compared to a tomato

if there were a way out of this situation, surely it would have happened by now . thus, the class arrangement of society must be a rational public good , it must be that this ordering , for all its wrenches in the works, is still Always Better than the long stretches of time without it . poppycock!!

People want to believe fascism is a sudden rupture from the ordinary state of things but the truth is the opposite: fascism is what happens when you allow the system to continue, to spread, when you fail to tear it down

Citizenship, like all “rights” provided by the modern nation state, has always existed as a weapon, used by the state against either the groups that don’t have it or as an implicit threat against those who do

Anyone who has been paying attention has known for years that Trump will not leave power voluntarily. This time, he has installed loyalists atop all of the agencies that refused to support him in 2020. That means we need strategies to exert leverage via direct action. crimethinc.com/TurningTide

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d ago

2. An administration that does this does not intend to relinquish power. It's dictator behavior. Non-MAGA Americans would do well to start thinking about how to institute political change in a post-legal, post-electoral environment. Serius est quam cogitas.