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2026-03-08 03:49:48 UTC

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:nekoConfused: i'm not a tankie, and I know several marxists on the instance, i think this is the rule you're referring to
> Glorification of unnecessary violence (excluding self-defense), calls for murder, death threats and terrorism.
That's just pretty standard CYA legal statement, and in the case of punching nazis, not sure if that rule would even be invoked, they're pretty laid bad, and there are ways to talk about revolutionary praxis without making legally actionable incitements to violence

2026-03-07 14:08:34 UTC

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you're on mastodon social which has like over a million users, so that makes sense, that's a fed instance anyway
it looks like https://todon.eu has open reg, my alts on that one, it has a pretty large known network, and is explicitly anti-fascist, read the rules and indicate that in the signup form, you'll get along well there i think

2026-03-07 13:26:12 UTC

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hmmm, you might need to add the tabs back in the settings on the web panel

2026-03-07 13:19:47 UTC

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sometimes the cache clears or there's a bug and it has to reload

2026-03-05 11:18:41 UTC

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oh lol this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Sky1AyDzM

2026-03-05 10:48:44 UTC

really fucking good video synthesizing what we know with recent insights from epstein files

2026-02-24 22:12:00 UTC

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yeah i don't know how tor browser is even viable, like they have to remove so much garbage to make it secure
i'm in no way qualified to even conceptualize the scope of doing this, but i feel like firefox has been `done` for many years now and they've just been making it worse sense so we really really need a hard fork, maybe one of those EU foundations can finance it

2026-02-24 22:07:17 UTC

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well, firefox is slop coded now so that's a whole can of worms

2026-02-07 17:59:13 UTC

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i'm sorry I don't really follow your arguments, i'm having a lot of trouble trying to process how asking people to think critically about whether or not they should vote is 'gaslighting' or how that makes me anti regulation???
maybe you should think critically about what the fuck you're trying to say and get back to me

2026-02-06 13:53:47 UTC

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i just think it's really silly how anarcho-lefists act like they are separate from the democratic party but then mostly go out and vote anyway, are completely invested in the outcome of elections, and so implicitly cosign to the strategy of pushing the dems left whether they realize it or not, they are incapable of separating themselves from liberals in any meaningful way
it's really the worst of both worlds because they neither contruct an alternative political ecosystem altogether, nor do they enter the democratic party on the local level and try to oust the DNC leadership and run socialist candidates, so political action amounts to sporadic entryism into popular movements that are mostly led by progressives/liberals that are easily coopted and called off. Meanwhile it's the most milquetoast reformist elements that end up actually doing anything, and naturally, because they like principles and systemic critique, go the route of compromise and opportunism.
it's just a completely ridiculous way of going about things and repeating these radical sounding cliches gets more and more insufferable to me, and if you talk about building an anarchist federation or something it's the most ultra-revolutionary posers who are like "what does organizing even mean? sounds authoritarian, movementism is bad, organizationalism is bad, actually-doing-anything-ism is bad and if you want to do anything besides isolated acts of petty vandalism you're a cop" I'm sick of this bullshit, it's obviously a psyop

2026-02-06 13:23:01 UTC

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i'm not saying you should vote, i'm saying decide for yourself whether you should vote, like actually think about it, fuck your slogans, don't tell me what to do
like whether or not a person votes has no relation to whether i'm involved in organizing or anything else, one can vote and burn down a police station, there is no contradiction
I also fuck with Kwame Ture and his thing is that voter registration is a means of mobilizing people and community engagement, the voter registration drives he did in the deep south laid the foundations of the Black Panther party there, the act of voting or the outcome of the election is not the ultimate end, it's something you can do to engage with the community and build organizational capability
it's pretty clear most white US anarchists/leftists do not have this frame of reference, they haven't studied the civil rights movement, they don't situate their politics in these historic liberation struggles, despite the fact white leftists were heavily involved with these movements in their day, because their politics are largely ahistorical and abstract, and defined solely by a reaction against contemporary DNC liberalism -- so it does not occur to them how weird it is to tell people not to vote, especially for people in the US South, where there's a long history of activists being brutally murdered for registering black people to vote, where mass voter disenfranchisement is still a big thing, where the entire republican regime is almost whole dependent on gerrymandering and systematic voter disenfranchisement.
To be fair there's lots of black folks who consciously choose to not vote, for reasons as well thought out as anyone else. But it's telling how rare this historic reality is even addressed. A big part of is imo is US leftists do not identify their own liberation as proletarians with the struggle of the black colony.

2026-02-06 12:50:09 UTC

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also a pretty big difference between the character of candidates, between a socdem and a liberal, not to mention a fascist and a socdem... A few thousand votes would have been the difference between Gillum and Desantis, and had that happened we might not have trump again
The issue isn't voting as such, it's whether the masses are organized, when they are, then they are able to pressure political parties to support policies they want, or even influence which candidates are nominated, this is why the New Deal happened, it's not just that people voted for FDR, rather FDR was elected and was able to pass social democratic reforms becuase the masses were organized and demanded it and the ruling class was forced to grant these concessions.
So the thing is to get the people organized and they'll decide whether they'll vote or who they vote for, either voting in isolation, finger wagging people about why they should vote, or quixotically telling people who mostly don't vote anyway, why they shouldn't vote under any circumstance doesn't do anything

2026-02-06 12:45:54 UTC

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it's also pretty damn vague, like I voted for medical marijuana in my state, it won, millions of people now have access to medical marijuana, that's obviously good, it isn't 'liberation' but then again, it took me about 15 minutes to go vote
NORML and other orgs i guess spent many years working on that, and ya know, alot of them were getting paid and gained valuable experience mobilizing people, so i don't see how that's a net bad

2026-02-06 12:40:11 UTC

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half of americans already don't fucking vote

2026-02-06 12:39:37 UTC

trying to convince people to not vote seems like a pointless waste of time to me

2026-02-04 22:59:00 UTC

i really hate it when people make these fediblock posts and they're like 'of course it's misskey' or 'of course it's pleroma' or whatever, when most of the nazi or pedo instances are on mastodon, they're never like 'of course mastodon' mastodon.social federates with Meta/Facebook, is terribly moderated etc.
stop acting like Mastodon is inherently progressive and smaller platforms are inherently fascistic, it's really fucked up considering how these alternative platforms are popular among queer/trans people or just people who want a different experience

2026-01-28 06:21:16 UTC

We should actually abolish the entire DHS as such, it's a Bush era centralization of authority in the hands of the Executive Branch, it was never not a fascist power grab.

2026-01-27 12:01:59 UTC

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yes, China is an excellent trade partner, it would also make it possible to drive a wedge between China and Russia, since Europe clearly has more to offer than Russia.
it's pretty obvious that current euro-sino relations have been completely shaped by US interests, otherwise this would not even be a discussion, what's so Ironic is while the US discourages other countries from dealing with China, they've been the primary trade partner with China for 40+ years.

2026-01-22 22:24:07 UTC

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imagine being on a server ran by a guy that looks like this
https://media.possum.city/uploads/webpublic-1259fcc6-36a0-4931-84f6-66dc28839e38.webp

2026-01-17 01:40:45 UTC

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they seem to be fighting a war against life itself, i have many republican neighbors, the way they treat plant life is also sickening, they don't go a day without mutilating trees for no reason at all exept for the thrill they get out of it.

2026-01-14 14:19:29 UTC

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i also oppose a US led regime change, and you're right to distrust how the western media is spinning things, they are lying and distorting the nature of the protests to suit their intersts, but it' important we support the Iranian people, and they are in a very difficult system having to deal with both their own brutal theocratic government and constantly attacks,threats and psychological operations from the US and Israel. and I we shouldn't see them as mere pawns in some imperialist chess board, but people we have shared interests with.

2026-01-14 13:52:44 UTC

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i am taking that into account actually, i know about all those things, that doesn't make the people in iran mindless CIA drones and that doesn't mean Iran isn't a fucked up theocracy, I've actually followed events in Iran for like 15 years, since time of Arab spring, it is much more complex than this 'color revolution' line.
like that video of 'protestors' destroying that mosque, that just looks very fake to me, what Karim there is saying is basically incoherent, he's an obvious iranian gov shill. it's just low quality. You can oppose the US and Irsael and not just shill for Iran it's not hard.

2026-01-14 13:36:50 UTC

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there's no doubt that Israel is mass producing propaganda to influence the situation in Iran, iran also has it's own propaganda machine, it would be a mistake to reject one only to parrot the other, since they mirror each other, you're saying is exactly what the Iranian state line is, what it predictably would be ( they would say it was Mossad even if there were no Iraeli troll farms, luckily there are ) ... of course the US/Israel are utilizing the protests for propaganda, that's what they do, but they don't have a big mind control ray that makes people in Iran love the Shaw ( the protest aren't trying to reinstate the shaw *that is propaganda* lol )

2026-01-11 03:02:10 UTC

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So just some obvious ones
The ABC of Anarchism, ro Anarchist-Communism, it's actually a pretty solid attempt at a text book of Anarchistm https://libcom.org/article/what-anarchism-alexander-berkman
the Anarchist Faq, it's so ubiquitous already but i like it, you can also install it on linux as a package lol
Colin Ward: 'Anarchy as Theory of Social Organization' and maybe Anarchy In Action https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/colin-ward-anarchy-in-action
one by Kropotkin that's short and Easy to read is "The State: It's Historic Role"
Something by Bakunin and/or Malatesta "letts to a frenchman" and "anarchy" maybe
Gotta have less old white men, and more exotic old white men, so like some essays for Flores bros or Lucy Parsons
a bit on Anarchist Theories of Education, Paul Goodman Ferrer https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/francisco-ferrer-the-origin-and-ideals-of-the-modern-school
a section Anarchism and Anthropology maybe Graeber's Debt or something shorter https://libcom.org/article/debt-first-5000-years-david-graeber
Perhaps, just perhaps Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent, maybe, and possibly some of his foriegn policy books
insurrection at the intersections https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/abbey-volcano-j-rogue-insurrections-at-the-intersections
Non-Western Anarchisms http://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/jason-adams-non-western-anarchisms
Anarchism and the Chinese Revolution https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/arif-dirlik-anarchism-in-the-chinese-revolution
Paul Avrich has many history books on anarchism. I read one called *The Russian Anarchists* which is very good. https://libcom.org/article/anarchists-russian-revolution-paul-avrich
https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/paul-avrich-the-anarchists-of-the-russian-revolution
Spanish Revolution, there are many good books on SR but a think a safe choice is "We The Anarchists" Stuart Christie
Anarchism in the Cuban Revolution
Black Anarchism section
Kuwasi Belagoon was an interesting fellow https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kuwasi-balagoon-letters-from-prison
martin sostre https://www.martinsostre.com/
anarchism and the black revolution https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lorenzo-kom-boa-ervin-anarchism-and-the-black-revolution
russel maroon shoats, did not identify as anarchist but kindof an important figure imo https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/russell-maroon-shoats-the-dragon-and-the-hydra
Anarchism in Japan
against the God Emperor https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/stefan-anarkowic-against-the-god-emperor
Imperialism: Monster Of the 20th Century https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/shusui-kotoku-imperialism
https://libcom.org/article/monster-twentieth-century-kotoku-shusui-and-japans-first-anti-imperialist-movement
Maybe try to cover a bunch of different countries, like every country, but say Greece, Italy the Phillipines, South Africa, Mexico, give people se
there are some pamphlets on organizing a tenants union n shit
Bonnano - From Riot to Insurrection https://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-from-riot-to-insurrection-analysis-for-an-anarchist-perspective-against-post
There are several documentaries you could link to, there is the *embarassing* Anarchy In America, there's a 3 parter I think "No Gods No Managers" There's lots of video channels i guess, idk, do people still watch submedia?

2026-01-11 03:00:02 UTC

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preamble: because i tend to overthink things and want to help you, i'm gonna say a bunch of stuff you're free to ignore, they are merely suggestions
so this is an introduction so it's not so much a definitive collection but a popular and general one aimed at 'normies', so it should include classics and representative works across a broad spectrum, from different times and place, so anarchism seems serious, diverse, including many admirable people with intersting ideas, might also want to include a list of archives and resources at the bottom, like marxists.org spunk library., zlib like this one has classics https://www.anarchyisorder.org/
or other general resources for educational materials, also maybe prefer usa.anarchistlibraries.net over the main one, or include both, like there are dark web mirrors of anarchist or marxist library, that's cool af, but in general reframe from linking to shady corpo type sites, just sites that are relatively autonomous
consider having a little more variety in the selection, it's very red and black currently, which is cool, personallyi am very class struggle oriented but i think you could add a little green stuff, just a little nihilism, a little decolonialism, maybe have sections on platformism and insurrectionary anarchism along with syndicalism -- some modern pamphlets, you shouldn't include everything, like Bob Book and Murray Blackchin, fuck them, they're cops, or at least deeply unserious, let's be serious here, let's try and stray away from from great man bs, narrow sectarianism or whatever,and for each other include just a few texts at the most and let users look further if they want... a lot of stuff doesn't belong in an intro, but that's up to you.
also want to design things around most accessible option, so like instead of linking directly to pdf, link to a website or entry where different formats are available, for example audiobooks we should link those, for example Audio Zine has a lot of classics, we could probably find audio books for most of the texts if we're dealing with very well known books. So like each entry can have a pdf, an html, epub, and audio.. and the sites that host it should be other anarchist sites that can get people down a rabbit hole. Luckily the anarchist libraries and libcom make that pretty easy, just gotta link to them along with an audio zine
with accessibility comes alt and title text and semantics and rel attributes, rdfa mf, microformats dawg, seo that shit
As the list i'm noticing these fall into lots of broad categories, like History, Theory, Biography, Geography, they're all interconnected, organizing this stuff coherently will become more challenging the longer it gets

2026-01-11 01:21:40 UTC

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i've neverwatched any videos by anark but this is quite well resesarched, Capital as Power sounds like a great read, a lot of the readingsi was going to suggest are in that video, like 'insurrection at the intersections' and 'anarchism and the black revolution'
I'm working on the list now, I'm just trying to keep it short and only things I've personally read, I think that would be a good approach, like keep it broad and concise, and so very selective, keep people options without overloading them
he html and css is very nice also #p

2026-01-11 00:02:38 UTC

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solid reading list, would you be open to some suggestions?

2026-01-10 23:58:32 UTC

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what a tasteful favicon, i wouldn't be able to resist adding an open graph banner

2026-01-10 23:26:43 UTC

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well that was easy, i guess you can just do that when you have a city with billions of dollars

2025-12-02 22:46:14 UTC

Saw I saw this line of reasoning going around, I get what is the point here that certain people are in a situation where they cannot engage in a boycott because they need to patronize some company or another, like if you live in a rural area and Walmart is the only pharmacy within 100 miles you can't boycott Walmart, i think any reasonable person would understand that situation
But that's not 'privilege' tho, if privilege is some tangible benefit that a hierarchical system provides to some but not others, privilege is like cops showing preferential treatment to white people, employers making things easier fro able bodied people, those are privileges.
When you boycott something you are not receiving a benefit, you are denying oneself access to a service to hurt the provider in pursuit of a goal, you an as individual don't get something out of a boycott that is being denied to someone who is unable to participate.
Like the famous Montgomery bus boycott, they didn't just tell people not to ride the bus and finger wag people who relied on the bus system for work, they organized carpools / rideshares and other services as a temporary alternative to the bus system. That's what a real boycott looks like, these days boycotts are framed as acts of ethical consumerism, totally individual and moralistic. That's the problem, boycotts should be collective strategic endeavors that take into account everyone's needs.

2025-11-23 03:10:35 UTC

tfw you end up leaving the US because it's racist government won't give your gf a visa, so you move to her country and then the US gov wants to coup that country too

2025-11-18 22:02:07 UTC

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yep, you just create so much noise no one knows what's going on, this has political benefits, it also has benefits for grifters of all kinds who can sell you the solution
notice the only people who have any class mobility these days are influencers, people who generate clicks by creating slop, that's what's rewarded, people who create distractions, mental garbage, fuck journalists or artists or engineers, all the capitalists want to pay for is slop

2025-11-18 19:53:54 UTC

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yeah 'shotgun propaganda' is a good term, like it doesn't matter who gets hit or the content of it as such, just that everyone gets personally taylored propaganda narratives. 2016 was about the time this become the norm or whatever, the Russians were innovative in this in that they'd make propaganda targeted at both the right and left, but then the spectre of 'Russian Propaganda" itself became a boogieman, seeing the democrats embrace Alex Jones style Meta Conspiracies during Trump I was a trip.
I mean after that asshole got shot you could see this in real time on shitter, based on people's pre-existing biases there was immediately a taylor made conspiracy theory, and god help you if you're skeptical.
Of course the reason this is so widespread is because the mainstream media outlets have given up any pretense of reliability/ objectivity and are just mouthpieces for states and corporations at this point. Something the media uproar against 'misinfo' back then would never mention. After years of handwringing about misinformation they just gave up lol

2025-11-18 07:02:53 UTC

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like you can't actually do a 'false flag' anymore because everyone already assumes that everything that happens is a false flag and the mundane explanation is a cover story

2025-11-18 07:01:59 UTC

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it tends to be intellectuals with social status who are actually highly susceptible to these kinds of things, if you've spent time studying cults like me, cult recruits or people who become immeshed in conspiracy theories aren't mindless sheep who just believe what they're told but people who are looking for something deeper, who are suspicious of surface appearances and assume there is some higher wisdom underneath, radical politiical ideoogies ( i use that in a neutral descriptive sense ) do appeal to a similar kind of 'seeker' with promises of revealed wisdom, that is what 'radical' means, to dig below the surface, to get at the root... marxism and anarchism as well fascism/nazism, in the latter case the parallels with esotericism are quite explicit.
With mass memetic disinfo campaigns and large spectacular events, this process has accellerated, where one basically speed runs all these stages and gets to the deeper revealed truth, like a recent *event* of this magnitude, all of the major conspiracy theories were worked out in a span of a few hours on twitter, no doubt assisted by AI, itself trained on a century of conspiratorial texts.

2025-11-18 06:53:23 UTC

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then again the same people who act like I'm a crank for being like yeah the ruling elite are that evil and the billions of dollars spent on mass surveillance and psyops aren't just going nowhere -- they'll just fall for the most low tier memetic brainworms imaginable, exactly because they aren't paranoid enough, and don't immediately assume that any information that is spreading viraling is quite possibly an op

2025-11-18 06:49:29 UTC

i may be too eager to indulge in conspiratorial speculation but there certainly is a reactionary positivism that always gives the ruling class the benefit of the doubt and demand an unreasonable level of evidence while perpetuating a childishly naive level of faith in our ruling elite institutions

2025-11-05 03:36:23 UTC

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it's probably a chapter by chapter thing, and my town's chapter was excessively bureaucratic like all left wing shit in FL, totally ineffective

2025-11-05 03:09:11 UTC

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oh they got you lol, I remember i wanted to join the local fb group and before i could do that i had to join their org which required giving them all of my personal information, and I'm just like fuck that lol, i'm sure it's all in a big google doc

2025-10-27 06:29:23 UTC

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right, politics these days is all about narratives, competing narratives, selecting evidence based on what fits the narrative, if you're not promoting this narrative you're the enemy
But these kinds of hot button wedge issues, they follow this pattern, where the fash takes a side, often intentionally inflamatory and simplistic, and this obliges their enemies to take a side which mirrors it which is often also overly simplistic, and you set up a situation where both sides are wrong, to a greater or lesser extent, it's a false binary, encouraged by corpo algorithms to drive engagement thru outrage that leads us all to waste time, become accustomed to terrible reasoning and ostracize people with more reasonable positions. Like I'm pretty sure that pineapple on pizza shit was a test run for what has become the everyday practice of the hate machine.

2025-10-27 06:11:59 UTC

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yes the intolerance of difference and obsession with unanimous agreement and compliance is certainly a symptom of fascism, as someone who is always a little bit skeptical and prone to taking unpopular and obscure opinionsi tend to catch a lot of shit from people

2025-10-27 03:29:55 UTC

shout out to those people who are super cool and nice until you slightly disagree with them about anything

2025-09-21 14:07:17 UTC

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yes, tho i prefer the old school method of throwing chicken bones
@npub14sz…ur2r

2025-09-21 11:17:51 UTC

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used to spend hours on Eliza, and it can be helpful even, because it forces you to think, imo AI chat bots are far worse, because intead of encouraging introspection by repeating the question back, the "AI" just makes shit up and confirms and doubles down on what users put in.

2025-08-19 19:21:34 UTC

something that's often downplayed by anarchists and marxists alike is , a major factor in the collapse of Czarism was a decade long campaign of 'propaganda of the deed' aimed at the ruling class, there were hundreds of bombings and assassinations against capitalists, generals, minsters and so on roughly between 1900-1910
this is often described as a failure, and while it certainly took a major toll on anarchists who were brutally repressed by the state and cut off from the masses, much to the benefit of other socialists, considering how Czarism completely collapsed the decade after, it's strange to say this was a failure. No if you kill thousands of members of ruling class the regime will collapse, or at the very least it will be weakened to such an extent that it is incapable of maneuvering against a mass uprising, it's not that complicated. This is in my opinion why the Russian Revolution succeeded while the German Revolution failed. The leadership of the ruling class, it's generals and industrialists and fascist politics were totally intact after the war, so it was trivial for them to organize death squades to liquidate the communist revolution in 1919, because these good obedient germans, following the advice of daddy Engels, worked almost exclusively within the law. So the most brutal and energetic elements of the German regime just massacred them with little resistance.
conducting such a campaign has the added benefit of undermining the dominant ideology, the moral qualms that prevent people from taking their liberating into their own hands, just like when a healthcare CEO is killed, many people find themselves saying "fuck em, they should die", regardless of previous political alignment, and so realizing the fact these murderous billionaires are allowed to walk around freely is the real moral outrage.
Terror Works. That's why the IDF, the CIA, the KKK and everyone else does it, the ruling class knows that if the workers turn on them violently they do not have a snowballs chance in hell, and that's why you've been taught your whole life that terror doesn't work, that non-violence and working within the law works, because it doesn't. Of course it's not the only or primary thing, and there are ethical consideratio; killing innocent people is bad PR -- the Russian Anarchists were often quite reckless in their attacks, bombing bourgeois cafes and such, it did devolve into a cult -- but don't let anyone tell you that attacking the enemy will never work.

2025-08-15 18:09:32 UTC

The function of Zionism is to get Jewish folks, who have historically occupied a leading role in the international socialist movement, committed to the most racist and reactionary project imaginable, placing them the the front line of white supremacist settler colonialism, canon fodder for the the new crusade, whose entire national identity is inseparable from hating/killing Arabs and settlement.
Zionism operates on Jews everywhere as an internal gestapo, working to ostricize and attack any Jew who doesn't go along with their fascistic aims, not only ensuring it's own justification for existence of "the Jewish State" but as an immune response against international socialism
Zionism, like all fascisms, is class collaborationist, corporatist, in which class antagonisms are subsumed within the nationalist project. Groups like the ADL, who pose as progressives while in fact being unhinged right wingers, will plainly say that any discussion of Bankers or Financiers or Landlords or Capitalists is inherently anti-Semitic. They don't hesitate to call out anti-zionist jews for hate speech or ally themselves with outright nazis like Musk.
The Decline of Labour Zionism and Israel's "socialist" programs coincides pretty neatly with the collapse of the USSR and world socialism generally speaking, because it was always a psuedo-socialism designed to trick left wing jews into agreeing to their project. The decline of the kibutzes who now all function either as IDF training camps or for profit capitalist enterprises, reveal this was the point all along, not as the seeds of socialism but as voluntary re-education camps for Jewish socialists, cut off from politics both nationally and internationally, occupied with the futile tedium and intense conformity of a trying to make a commune work in a capitalist society.
That the leaders of Zionism were historically nazi sympathizers/collaborators and Israel today consciously compares itself to nazi germany and seeks alliances with outright nazis ( trump, elon musk, the AfD etc. ) shouldn't be surprising to anyone who knows the history, beyond Herzl's idea that "anti-semites will be our allies" in a 4d chess kind of way, Zionism was always right wing anti-communist project which collaborated with Colonial Powers. Ben-Burian was a notorious anti-bundist who adopted 'Socialism' as a conscious plan to undermine the left.
Before the US it wads the British who supported Jewish settlement of Palestine for the same reason the Germans did, as a solution to the 'jewish question' to rid itself of Jews by unloading them onto colonial lands, using them as a distribution hub / base of operations for adventures in the middle Asia or Africa, and in this context the alliance between Israel and South Africa, Rhodesia or French Algeria becomes obvious.
The function of Zionism as anti-communism is abundantly clear in Germany, you see AfD who in the same sentence will condemn 'left anti-semitism' in the same breadth as frothing about 'the cancer of Islam" apparently many German intellectuals believe, not what is historically obvious, that Germany never truly broke with it's Nazi past, but Germans were cured of anti-semitism until the evil arabs came and 'imported' it back to Europe. Zionism offers a convenient out for the Germans, who can now be as racist as they like as long as they support Israel. This is nothing new. If you go back to the 60's and 70's, a time where most positions of authority in east and west Germany were occupied by perpetrators of the holocaust, it becomes even more ridiculous, as the brutal authoritarian crackdown of the far left was framed, in part, as combating 'left anti-semitism' -- as always, Germans will believe anything they're told, like when the entire leadership of the red army faction supposedly shot themselves in the back of the head to make it look like they were murdered.
Were outright neo-nazis to gain power in Germany today, they would definitely maintain or even expand their alliance with Israel, claiming that their brutal repression of lefties and brown people is 'combatting anti-semitism', they would probably justify the mass deportation of Jews in terms of 'protecting jews from anti-semitism" and Israel/Zionists would enthusiastically cooperate with them as a solution to their much discussed "population problem." This is barely an exaggeration.

2025-08-01 02:26:46 UTC

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was pretty funny seeing Canada as well as france jump on that "War with Iran" shitshow, as if that had anything to do with their national interest and didn't expose all their anti-trump posturing as meaningless

2025-07-25 07:13:23 UTC

the media running so hard with the Epstein story now is pretty weird, the Wall Street Journal even... why so many trump allies turning on him over this? not like it was a secret before, i think it's the money people trying to reign in trump

2025-07-09 19:55:07 UTC

turns out that blocking ads, using privacy frontends, running custom android roms and linux, browsing with the tor browser and other things actually do protect your privacy and make it harder for the feds and megacorps to know what you're up to because most of mass surveilance is purely *passive* and relies on people to actively give out their personal information to data brokers and their profiling or whatever isn't nearly as advanced as they want us to think.
remembering we had a friend stay with us who used an iphone and apparently you can't block ads on safari ( pathetic ) and then we got targeted ads for the first time in years. People actually think this is acceptable.
Edit: I have been informed that there are in fact ad blockers for iOS, i am glad, iPhone users, you're fine people, please don't take this too personally.

2025-06-28 03:08:38 UTC

people need to stop dunking on xml, xml is great, get the planned obsolescence mindset out of your head, json, xml, csv, sql tables, these have different pros and cons, a big pro of xml is that anyone can learn it and it can be used to mark up anything, it can also be easily converted to html, it's inherently human readable

2025-06-19 04:58:32 UTC

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ain't it wild how they've been trying to prime use for a war with iran since before most of us were born?

2025-06-17 13:53:36 UTC

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can't wait for the scratch and sniff hack to be supported on all browsers

2025-03-23 06:41:34 UTC

motherfuckers casually admitting they charge rent for their brains, mofos ime sharing cognitive real estate over here, fuck you landlords of the mind

2024-12-05 02:42:45 UTC

there's a reason that bluesky and threads have been trying to move in on the fediverse, it's because we have something that's immensely valuable that they can't control, and they want to do to this place what they do with everything, extract every cent out of it until they destroy it and turn it into a toxic simulacra of what it once was.
These corporations want to move in and take everything we have, destroy our communities, monopolie our infrastructure, mine our personal data and force us to consume propaganda. That's what they do to real world, with the state and property laws, on the internet they have different methods, like throwing money around and buying up non profit organizations or forcing everyone to use their corporate protocol ( #Bluesky) these methods are all transparent and well documented going back decades -- a lot of you tech people have not been taught anything about tech *history* and now not only are you drowning in debt for your useless degrees but you're ideologically all fucked up doing unpaid labor for megacorps. Everyone point and laugh at the sincerely confused foss advocate who things threads and bluesky are good for the fediverse.
They're not your fucking friends, they're not just trying to make a contribution to the open web, and if you're afraid to state this openly, if this isn't immediately obvious to you or somehow controversial -- that giant corporations are bad -- you're just deeply unserious, you do not understand basic realities which most people learn as children, read a book.

2024-11-24 22:40:13 UTC

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yeah the concept of "semite" as a racial category is absolutely rooted in 19th century race science, of course, there are Semitic languages of which Hebrew, Arabic, as well as Coptic and many African languages share common lineage, but the idea of a semitic "race" is bullshit.
It is complicated as Jews broadly trace their ancestry back to ancient Hebrews, this is partly mythologized, but even accounting for occurrences of mass conversion, the social norms that encourage Jews to marry other Jews mean such a shared common ancestry is at least plausible for many/most, and this is why many European based Jews have traits more commonly found in the middle east than Europe, but on a long enough timeline basically everyone is related, and there is no such thing as a "jewish/semitic race" nor is ancestry the sole or primary factor in Jewish identity, rather than faith or cultural affiliation.
So Anti-Jewish or Jew-Hatred is probably a more accurate terms and less nebulous. But I do think there is a broader anti-semitism that includes both hatred for Jews and Arabs and all MENA peoples that goes back a very long time. The racist stereotypes pertaining to Jews and Arabs are quite similar, for example. So i find many Zionist critiques of the term to be problematic, since they would like to reject any shared heritage with Arabs or deny that islamophobia and anti-jewish hatred are historically related -- since that would implicate themselves in their anti-arab genocide.
If we want to really go back to the roots of anti-semitism broadly speaking all roads lead to Rome, and their colonial project in the middle east and north africa was anti-semitic in the broad sense, Carthagians referred to themselves as Canaani, i.e. from Canaan, and the cultural similarities between Carthagians and Jews was not lost on the Romans. So there's obviously a connection between the Roman genocide and occupation of Carthage(modern Lybia) and that of Judea / Palestine -- to be clear the Romans didn't have our modern conception of Race, and their proto anti-semitism is very different from what we have today, but it does has a direct influence on everything that came after it.
This structural anti-semitism of Rome was inherited by Christian Europe ( jew-hatred is baked into christian theology itself ) and prefigured many historical events, like the Crusades, or the Inquisition ( the Spanish inquisition in particularly was both Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish )
I understand taking such a long view is very messy, serious historians are weary of making such broad strokes, for at the very least it's very difficult to prove, and i've certainly made grave oversimplifications here and shouldn't be taken too literally. But from a political point of view I think it is necessary to root out this deep sickness endemic to Western Civilization itself.

2024-11-24 09:12:50 UTC

the idea that White Germans have any right to dictate what is or is not anti-Semitic is so fucking ridiculous on it's face.

2024-11-18 06:57:13 UTC

i'm not a fan of bluesky but shaming people for leaving twitter and joining the one alternative that seems viable to them is not cool either, god dammit you fools

2024-11-17 22:22:26 UTC

someone shared this survey by Mozilla asking users what Mozilla should focus on, and "maintaining Firefox" is not even an option, fuck #Mozilla https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

2024-11-17 11:57:25 UTC

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this will likely go to supreme court if he doesn't reach one of his lower level apointees, so uh yeah, that's what they get for being fascist enablers

2024-11-07 04:43:11 UTC

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incredible performances in this movie, i apologize for title of this video, what a scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMEhY11dMbY

2024-11-06 08:18:14 UTC

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also i think class is usually missing from this purely ideological take, working class liberals are obvs not the same kind of people as those who right editorials with the wall street journal, in US context at least 'liberal' just means 'left of republican'

2024-10-29 06:42:43 UTC

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it is disturbing, trump's racism is no normalized and everyone is desensitized to it, people have been screaming about his racism for years, it rarely gains any momentum

2024-09-27 09:34:24 UTC

so around 2 1/2 million people are without power in Southeast US
States by customers out
Florida 1,220,045
Georgia 811,318
South Carolina 420,724
North Carolina 104,545
https://poweroutage.us/
This service has a mastodon account https://bfs.llc/@PowerOutageUS #Hurricane #Helene # #HurricaneHelene

2024-09-27 09:06:46 UTC

some good photos of pre impact storm surge
get used to this
alt text from article
https://www.heraldtribune.com/picture-gallery/weather/hurricane/2024/09/24/photos-hurricane-helene-impact-in-sarasota-and-manatee-pictures-flooding-storm-rain/75359343007/ #Hurricane #Helene # #HurricaneHelene
https://cdn.possum.city/uploads/785207e7-2438-46f4-b883-d41634cd59ae.webp
https://cdn.possum.city/uploads/780fd971-479e-4a87-b1e8-700f4e07eeeb.webp

2024-09-08 21:23:01 UTC

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i think it was, and iirc you are you are right that we should focus on elevating independent studios, publishers, music labels etc. i'm just more on the side of never discouraging piracy even for silly reasons lol, not enough people pirate, and alot of people actually believe the anti file sharing propaganda
My default position is just pirate everything, especially everything that is put out by big corporations, *except* the things you really want to *support* like independent game devs, musicians etc. so yeah bandcamp, buying books or games directly from the creator, leaving a good review, sharing their stuff on the socials, it's fun and easy, builds a community, all that good stuff

2024-09-06 07:24:50 UTC

'i don't think piracy is an effective political practice'
in everyday practice piracy isn't meant to be a political act, it's a way to get things for free, someone stealing food doesn't need to have some political justification to do so, but it's still a political act.
What is I think *revolutionary* about piracy, even if most pirates don't realize, isn't that it hurts corporate revenue ( which arguably it doesn't for the most part ) it's that by torrenting or using/sharing pirate websites you're in effect building distributed network infrastructure that is resilent to corporate censorship and provides needed information for free.
We could just stop calling it piracy altogether and call it 'file sharing' which is what it literally is.

2024-08-21 22:17:44 UTC

it's easy to see most American Liberals as shallow, ignorant, self absorbed people who benefit from the subjugation of 99% of the of the planet and don't give a shit about anything or anyone outside of things that affect them personally -- Palestinians, immigrants, prisoners etc. -- but that is 100% accurate.

2024-08-16 04:10:29 UTC

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how do you propose we buy drugs on the internet?

2024-08-15 22:22:09 UTC

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same, librewolf and waterfox are two solid forks also

2024-08-15 22:20:17 UTC

- Firefox is the only good browser switch from chrome it's so easy and great
- Firefox is ruined, it's AI adware now, the we is doomed

2024-08-15 10:32:08 UTC

to assume there is a binary between 'neurotypical' and 'neurodivergent' kinda negates the entire concept of neurodiversity, there isn't really a 'normal' and never was and that certain neuro-types aren't flagged as abnormal under current social conditions doesn't mean they are a norm or are a homogeneous group.

2024-08-14 01:50:19 UTC

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booo buy monero

2024-07-31 22:14:49 UTC

Xmpp is not an 'alternative' to Signal, xmpp is a protocal on which a variety of apps can be built on top of, text, voice and audio chat (conversations) video conferencing ( jitsi) or social media (movim) xmpp can also use a variety of encryption methods currently omemo is the standard, but other better standards could be used ( and omemo is pretty solid already )
Signal, which requires a phone number, is centralized under a shady organization and only works on smartphones(which are all backdoored anyway) is pretty limited and has some unavoidable privacy compromises that can be easily avoided with xmpp.
Not saying don't use signal but the idea it is some bulletproof gold standard and that Xmpp is 'insecure' is just false
#Signal #XMPP