Nostr notes by AnarchoNinaWrites

Awful nice of Trump to build us a Reichstag Eagle to blow up on ...

2026-04-11T19:01:17Z

Awful nice of Trump to build us a Reichstag Eagle to blow up on the day he dies... hopefully in a bunker surrounded only by the worst people in the world; his toadies and friends.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/arc-de-trump-renderings

shrugs Forest Gump plays football at Alabama for Bear Bryant, ...

2026-04-02T01:40:58Z

*shrugs*

Forest Gump plays football at Alabama for Bear Bryant, willingly fights the Vietnam War, starts a WILDLY successful shrimp trawling corporation, immediately represents his country in a Ping Pong matchup that symbolizes the actual cold war, and shows up both John Lennon and Abbie Hoffman as facile intellects despite being developmentally challenged. He survives rich, loved, and living with his son.

Shall I contrast that with Jenny's experiences? Or you get the drift yet?

Like, you can talk about oaths and duties to the constitution all ...

2025-10-26T22:18:22Z

Like, you can talk about oaths and duties to the constitution all you like - at the end of the day, soldiers work for pay, and the guy paying the bills is the one calling the shots.

I don't think folks have spent any time at all considering what it means that Trump is bragging about one of his billionaire buddies funding the troops during the shutdown but the 10,000 foot view says Trump is buying himself an army - and we already know what he intends to do with that army b/c he's doing it.

One thing I'm noticing that people are not understanding, ...

2025-03-22T23:53:59Z

One thing I'm noticing that people are not understanding, that they really need to understand here:

Trump is not threatening to jail or deport anyone running these big law firms and prestigious universities. He's threatening them with funding cuts, lack of access to federal contracts, and harassment investigations.

So when they agree to collaborate with him, they're saying "there is a monetary cost above which we don't believe in anything and will gladly help install fascism to avoid."

"But we need a way back for our neighbors, coworkers, and ...

2025-03-17T05:02:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…6xsa
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"But we need a way back for our neighbors, coworkers, and loved ones!"

No, YOU need a way back. I need fucking nazis to the stay the fuck away from me. We are not the same.

Naw, they really did say "the leopards won't eat my ...

2025-03-17T04:37:31Z

Naw, they really did say "the leopards won't eat my face" and voted in a fascist because they were *big mad* about not being able to drop racial slurs at work, having to work alongside women and LGBTQ people, and think any program that isn't STEM should be cancelled. No really, it wasn't any more complicated than that.

Source: noted fascist "intellectual" Richard Hanania was reportedly given this by a fellow Trump-voter. PS: big shout out to Vox Media for rehabilitating that nazi two days ago.

Hell, even in a wholly established order, they will lie, they ...

2024-11-17T13:47:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…gh6d
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Hell, even in a wholly established order, they will lie, they will create new official histories. What's "the truth" in a fascist society can change from one day to the next depending on the needs of the ruling fascist order. Hannah Arendt wrote multiple chapters about the way officially recognized truth is manipulated for power in a fascist regime and how folks devoted to that order simply changed stream because there is no "truth" under fascism; only power. Truth is what power can make it.

And NEWSFLASH: fascists are NOT the most HONEST of people. They ...

2024-11-17T13:42:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…lzmg
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And NEWSFLASH: fascists are NOT the most HONEST of people.

They are not going to just come out and say "yeah we're the Nazis, we love Hitler, we're going to fucking murder you" until they have enough power to tell you to get on the truck and ensure your compliance by force.

Fascism adapts its arguments and rhetoric, constantly. And they will and do, lie to you, to obtain power. What never changes is their PURPOSE.

Y'all don't get it, these people don't have anything ...

2024-11-17T13:39:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…ygd8
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Y'all don't get it, these people don't have anything else. You think I'm joking when I say that these guys, nazis, spend literally all day hanging out with other nazis workshopping and game-theorying out how they can get people to embrace fascism, and create the space for a fascist order. But that's not a joke or an exaggeration. Fascists don't really have much else going on; you're busy living your life, they're working out how to ruin it at all hours of the day.

Back when I was getting in trouble for teaching my students about ...

2024-11-17T13:38:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…jrfz
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Back when I was getting in trouble for teaching my students about fascism in a higher learning institute, the phrase I used to use is that fascism seeking power, behaves a lot like water or electricity. It is, broadly speaking, seeking the fastest route to influence and power. They will say anything, they will pretend to be anything, to normalize their ideology and seek that power. So the beast today in 2024, behaves at least rhetorically, different than the literal Nazi Party, to obtain POWER.

Finally (I know, I said I was done already; sue me) I think what ...

2024-11-17T13:35:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…nn5n
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Finally (I know, I said I was done already; sue me) I think what a lot of pedants forget when discussion fascism is basically that it's not 1930 anymore. Nazism and The Holocaust DID happen. Society has a memory about how embracing fascism turns out, so unlike say Nazis and Italian fascism, you can't just pop out and say "hi, we're the fascists" with a smile on your face anymore. Fascists KNOW describing themselves as FASCIST will impede their path to power, so they've adapted their sales pitch.

Here, this might not be the first book I'd recommend, but ...

2024-11-17T13:31:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…zrcs
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Here, this might not be the first book I'd recommend, but it's widely available to read for free and while I think the general lack of a detailed class analysis hurts Paxton's work, he is still the guy who was warning in the 90's that fascism existed, and could quite easily be a threat in the Pig Empire West going forward.

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://files.libcom.org/files/Robert%20O.%20Paxton-The%20Anatomy%20of%20Fascism%20%20-Knopf%20%282004%29.pdf

PS - it took him a while to come around, but eventually Paxton did say Trump was a fascist.

Newsflash: Americans not really understanding what fascism is, IS ...

2024-11-17T12:51:58Z

Newsflash: Americans not really understanding what fascism is, IS part of why Americans have spent the past 70+ years increasingly embracing fascism. The vast majority of people in this society think "fascism is when funny little moustache, Hugo Boss uniforms, and The Holocaust."

And that idea has PURPOSELY been cultivated in them by a hyper-reactionary ruling class order that ABSORBED fascism after WWII to fight the Cold War and installed fascism in puppet states to maintain global power.

The purpose of the fedi, is NOT to elect American Democrat ...

2024-07-27T03:39:19Z

The purpose of the fedi, is NOT to elect American Democrat politicians. That's not what it's here for. Nobody is saying you folks can't post about what you want to post about but just try the fucking concept of "sharing" on for once.

Do you have any idea how many fucking posts I read a day about computer programmer shit I don't care about and literally couldn't understand if I did? It's a lot. I don't tell those ppl how to post cause it's not my thing.

Just, stop being Karens.

I don't want to get your hopes up, because this bill ...

2024-07-25T23:08:54Z

I don't want to get your hopes up, because this bill isn't going to pass unless by some miracle the Dems come together to alter the rules of the US Senate, but bills like this are important to expose what a 6-3 fascist SCOTUS (with full GOP support) is doing here for their corporate donors and if the media won't publicize them, concerned citizens should:

https://truthout.org/articles/warren-introduces-bill-effectively-overturning-extremist-scotus-chevron-ruling/

Warren Introduces Bill Effectively Overturning Extremist SCOTUS “Chevron” Ruling

"By Monday night, Harris had the support of at least 2,471 ...

2024-07-23T02:20:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…khq7
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"By Monday night, Harris had the support of at least 2,471 delegates, according to the AP tally of delegates, more than the 1,976 delegates she’ll need to win on a first ballot."

It's not even close.

Someone in my Discord is proposing an open convention anyway just for the purposes of humiliating Joe Manchin. I support humiliating Joe Manchin wholeheartedly but have no opinions on the convention.

Harris reportedly has "a majority" of Dem delegates; ...

2024-07-23T02:12:02Z

Harris reportedly has "a majority" of Dem delegates; which would make an open nomination fight pretty much a formality.

Announced sometime in the past half hour.

(I have no opinions about this whatsoever, I'm just telling you; please emote elsewhere.)

I dunno folks, I didn't make the hellworld, I didn't ...

2024-07-22T17:47:05Z

I dunno folks, I didn't make the hellworld, I didn't build the power structures, I didn't put rich people in charge of everything, I didn't let them buy our leaders, I didn't build a society for rich crackers who got fat on genocidal land theft, slavery, and arms sales. I didn't decide that some deserved to live and some should die. I didn't decide that some deserve to rule in opulence and some deserve to toil in abject poverty and suffering. Wasn't me.

But pretend is NOT a strategy.

Yeah, me too; all I've got is that she made some efforts to ...

2024-07-22T03:18:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…yfcj
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Yeah, me too; all I've got is that she made some efforts to criticize Netanyahu and distance herself both from ironclad support for a genocide, and Biden's demonization of student protestors, a few months back.

They were tepid, but she went out there and said some shit.

Hopefully that means something; it'll be pretty bad for the Dems if it doesn't.

Like, just this change alone means Michigan might not be a loss. ...

2024-07-22T02:58:58Z

Like, just this change alone means Michigan might not be a loss. And like I been telling y'all for months and months and months - Democrats NEED Michigan; pretty much every single plausible "Trump wins" map, has Michigan in it. No Red Michigan is halfway to "no Trump."

It's like I'm the only person that was living in a world where 100,000+ primary voters picked "none of the above" because they're not gonna vote for the President helping to bomb their relatives and friends in Gaza.

Again, the reality is that Biden's administration is DEEPLY ...

2024-07-18T18:47:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…7y4r
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Again, the reality is that Biden's administration is DEEPLY unpopular, he did not stop the fascists, he did not reign in police violence, and the genocide in Gaza is a stone around his neck for a candidate who promised to "end the forever war." Dem policy guys don't see Gaza as a "forever war" but the base absolutely does. Furthermore, SCOTUS reform is pretty much a given in THIS race - and nobody believes the guy who refused to do anything about it until now when we all saw this play coming.

I know people in this party and right now it's very hard to ...

2024-07-18T18:41:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…ylxl
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I know people in this party and right now it's very hard to even get them to ADMIT that Biden was losing this election long before he went on TV and started talking like the worst mumble rapper in history.

The numbers don't seem to faze them.

2020 was a winning campaign, and it would win again if you had a credible person promising those same things - but to be CREDIBLE, Harris (and it will be Harris) has to admit Biden didn't do it and say "but I'm not him."

That's not how Dems roll.

If you run THIS 2016-esque campaign with a different face? ...

2024-07-18T18:39:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…9xgy
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If you run THIS 2016-esque campaign with a different face? You'll still lose. Bougie liberal powerbrokers have a REAL DAMN hard time admitting that the wonky technocrat shit that means a lot to them isn't super relevant in the electorate. They also have a real hard time ditching their own baggage because it means you admit to mistakes; which isn't something they do well.

You can't just be "Biden but I can talk normal." You need to reject his DEEPLY UNPOPULAR presidency. Will they? No damn clue

(none of that was a joke. My stepdad has terminal cancer and ...

2024-07-17T01:55:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…5dnc
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(none of that was a joke. My stepdad has terminal cancer and it's progressing rapidly. My mom had lung cancer and lymph cancer which is currently in remission. Neither of them can work, and the bank is gonna take their farm if they can't keep making payments. If you'd like to help, I set up a ko-fi account for my work; 100% of any donations I collect for my writing are going to her; both here: https://ko-fi.com/anarchoninawrites and on Patreon. Don't send money you don't have. *I* work for free.)

"We're gonna tone down our rhetoric." I mean if I had ...

2024-07-15T16:40:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…y4ay
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"We're gonna tone down our rhetoric."

I mean if I had been telling people it was the end of America if Trump won and I'm the only one who could save you, I'd probably be looking for a way out too if I came to realize I'm dead in the water. After all, you're probably gonna be pretty mad at me for "blowing the most important election in the history of American politics" to a reality TV show assclown fascist.

Better to blame the shooter; a 20 year old republican gun enthusiast.

"Trump's gonna win now!" This presumes that there are ...

2024-07-15T16:38:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…l6qt
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"Trump's gonna win now!"

This presumes that there are people who wouldn't vote for Trump, who are now going to vote for Trump, because of a Time magazine cover photo. It also patently ignores that Trump was already gonna win according to the vast majority of the polling; he's slightly ahead already in polls that predict a race that doesn't exist and favors Dems because we don't elect Presidents by popular vote.

Honestly? A lot of this seems like excuse making from a liberal ...

2024-07-15T16:36:41Z

Honestly? A lot of this seems like excuse making from a liberal establishment that knows they sold you dummy rounds in the war against fascism.

Tactically however, they had the machine on the run. They were ...

2024-07-15T00:56:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…rtwm
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Tactically however, they had the machine on the run. They were everywhere, protesting everything, throwing monkey wrenches in the gears and grinding a fascist police state to a halt.

Tactically, the protest movements on the late 60's have a lot to teach us; morally? Less so. A lot of those people went on to join the political machine and birth what you call neoliberalism today, or just became Reaganites and got theirs.

But HOW they shook pillars, is a matter of public record; and replicable.

They organized, they fought back in the streets, in the schools, ...

2024-07-15T00:53:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…jrnv
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They organized, they fought back in the streets, in the schools, in their communities, they linked up into bigger and bigger movements, and shook the machine.

Did they win? Depends on what you mean by win; they kept the overt fascism you're facing down today at bay for a while, forced reforms, made the machine pretend to play nice for a bit. We can talk about where they failed some other time, but I'd sum it up as a poverty of imagination and white ppl abandoning the cause because racism.

If you think I'm lying, study the protest movement the ...

2024-07-15T00:51:25Z

If you think I'm lying, study the protest movement the scholars call "the Summer of 68." It was a lot longer than that, but that's what they call it.

It started as a number of separate protests and acts of mass resistance; some folks who protesting against the war, the draft, government repression, some were protesting against the cops, some were protesting for Civil Rights, gender equality, the right to just exist as a queer person.

Literally "we think attacking the fascist after he's been ...

2024-07-14T21:27:42Z

Literally "we think attacking the fascist after he's been shot at would look bad so instead we're going to do the only thing we know how to do - attacking the left."

Weimar America

Axios is apparently reporting that glass fragments are why ...

2024-07-13T23:57:00Z

Axios is apparently reporting that glass fragments are why Trump's ear was bleeding.

Also, the suspected (now dead) shooter was on a roof, outside the security perimeter. BBC apparently reporting.

These are news sources reporting this, so don't blame me if it's wrong later - but it sounds like someone popped some shots off, and then got perished by the cops/secret service.

That's fair; but I still would support "I got banned from ...

2024-07-11T22:01:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…yz73
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That's fair; but I still would support "I got banned from 12 banks and I'm going back" as a platform. :)

Like, I can take you back as far as the abolition movement if you ...

2024-07-09T18:03:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…ksh0
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Like, I can take you back as far as the abolition movement if you want to - every one of those people, for every one of those resistance movements eventually was faced with the exact same choice facing you RIGHT NOW and they decided "well fuck, yeah, it might cost me everything, but that is better than going to chains and the mass graves quietly." And that is the ONLY TIME we've EVER CHANGED ANYTHING.

Why do you know so much more than they did?

I have explained the macro, and the micro. I have explained what ...

2024-07-09T17:56:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…ucmn
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I have explained the macro, and the micro. I have explained what effective resistence looks like, and how to do it. I have explained what the costs will be, and how we can win anyway.

What else do you need to believe this is a plan? Because to me it just seems like a lot of you don't wanna. And well okay then, start learning how to goose step because there is no magic third answer where you respond to a Change.Org survey and everything gets better.

It doesn't matter what you organize around as long as ...

2024-07-09T16:50:13Z

It doesn't matter what you organize around as long as whatever that is, is a legitimate part of stopping fascism. It does no good to organize around voting for a party that won't stop fascism, has expressly refused to do so, but there are a million attack vectors against the fascist project you can pick. We pick one, we organize, then we link up our resistance to other ppl organizing in SOME way against the fascist project until we've built a quilt of antifascist resistance from coast to coast.

One thing you have to understand about nazis is that ...

2024-07-09T04:27:42Z

One thing you have to understand about nazis is that foundationally, they're in on it, and you're not. And what this means in practical terms is that they can lie to you, even ridiculously so, and it has no negative effects on them in their social structures even if they're caught

You aren't real, you aren't a person to them, you're stick people, they're the only ones with agency in this worldview. "Duping the rubes" successfully or otherwise, gains social capital for nazis. Trolling writ large

Man, the shit some people will do because you told them to fuck ...

2024-07-09T03:10:36Z

Man, the shit some people will do because you told them to fuck off/made them lose face on social media.

I got plenty of my own stories, but I just heard one that makes me wish hell was real, because the dude I just heard about it deserves nothing less. Just wildly monstrous crackery and violence - over being called a liar on social media. So awful I can barely process it.

I do not love America, there is nothing positive or humane there ...

2024-07-08T13:06:47Z

I do not love America, there is nothing positive or humane there to love; loving America, more or less means loving fascism. Nor do I have any desire to save said fascist state.

I'm here to fight fascists. You can keep your shitty flag-humping mythology to yourself - it's not useful here, and indeed the fascists we're fighting say the same things, in the same language and have a better historical foundation for that than you do.

"They're DESTROYING our country!" Whose country? ...

2024-07-08T12:52:48Z

"They're DESTROYING our country!"

Whose country? Certainly not mine, and almost certainly not YOURS either unless the people reading this happen to be wealthy landowners who extract filthy lucre from a brutalized labor class.

Treason to America is objectively a good thing, because America is objectively 13 crown corporations reorganized as a fascist state to escape British regulation.

They're not destroying America, they're taking it over. And you talk exactly like they do, in their language.

"Project 2025 is treason!" No, I'm sorry, it's ...

2024-07-08T12:35:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…mqlh
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"Project 2025 is treason!"

No, I'm sorry, it's just fascism - which is wholly consistent with the founding principles of a nation built on a genocide and chattel slavery, that has reserved the right to murder the left, immiserate the poor, plunder foreign nations at the end of the bayonet, and maintain a racialized, white supremacist caste system through force of law.

It really says a lot that you liberals consistently choose ...

2024-07-08T12:31:55Z

It really says a lot that you liberals consistently choose "treason" when "fascism" is right there.

I, an anarcho-syndicalist who supports dismantling the fascist state have been accused of treason by a fairly broad swath of flag humping psychos who vote for either party.

Nobody credible has ever called me a fascist.

Yet you insist that somehow, we're on the same side.

I don't think so. I really don't.

Fascism and neoliberalism are more or less inbred ideologies. ...

2024-07-07T22:55:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…quw7
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Fascism and neoliberalism are more or less inbred ideologies. They both believe some should live, and some deserve to die. They both believe that some deserve to live in opulent luxury, and some deserve to toil in misery to support that luxury; that some should rule, and some should be ruled.

They have different ways of sorting out who is who, but in the final analysis it is almost always the exact same kinds of people getting fucked.

After that, why should I care about what's in your heart?

"You can't say Biden is a fascist, that's ...

2024-07-07T22:51:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…s0qw
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"You can't say Biden is a fascist, that's ridiculous!"

You're telling me I can't say the guy conducting a genocide, enacting fascist immigration laws, actively trying to work with fascists, actively supporting fascist murderpigs, actively smearing antifascist protestors as violent antisemites, and a bunch of other fascist shit, isn't a fascist because "what's in his heart" - and you think *I'm* the one being ridiculous?

That's a take I guess...

Fascists are people who do fascism; so we got a LOTTA fascists in ...

2024-07-07T22:47:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…jruu
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Fascists are people who do fascism; so we got a LOTTA fascists in the Pig Empire.

I mean I think this is why so many of you lose your shit on me ...

2024-07-07T22:47:04Z

I mean I think this is why so many of you lose your shit on me when I say "they're fascists."

It's because a lot of you seem to think fascism is about ideology and what's in your heart. After having spent half my life studying fascism I disagree, strongly.

Fascism is about power, not intent. Fascists are people who do fascism. It doesn't matter what they tell themselves about WHY they do fascism; nobody is the villain in their own story.

If these folks cared about stopping fascism, they would be ...

2024-07-06T13:03:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…q8ml
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If these folks cared about stopping fascism, they would be fighting back, they'd be telling you to get into the streets, they'd be treating it like a war because it is one. Why didn't they just shoot fucking Hitler in the Weimar? Because they cared more about their own wealth and power, than stopping fascism. This is the story, over and over and over. You can't rely on capitalists and power, to stop fascism - they agree too much with the fascists, about so many things that you do not.

This is literally my whole point; the establishment in America ...

2024-07-06T13:01:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…2jj2
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This is literally my whole point; the establishment in America will absolutely pick fascism over surrendering any of their power or wealth. They do it over and over and it does not matter at fucking ALL what party they support/vote for/represent.

Which is why it absolutely enrages me when I say "we have to end capitalism, stomp the fascists, and save a world habitable by 8B+ people" and you fucking muppets are in my mentions going "VOTE for Biden."

Dawg doesn't care man. Not a solution.

I mean you know WHY - because protecting Bill Clinton and high ...

2024-07-06T12:57:38Z

I mean you know WHY - because protecting Bill Clinton and high profile rich Americans/donors was more important than stopping fascism. Just like consolidating power and maintaining capital's control over the Dem Party is more important than stopping fascism.

If we had an opposition to fascism in the US mainstream that TRULY believed "there's nothing more important than stopping fascism" we wouldn't be in the dire predicament we're in. These folks simply do not give a shit, from Biden on down.

Vending Machines for bullets is the kinda shit I'd have ...

2024-07-05T19:32:55Z

Vending Machines for bullets is the kinda shit I'd have scoffed at as unrealistic/contrived in an dystopian future Anime or a William Gibson novel...

Dude's still going: "Why is Nina allowed to solicit ...

2024-07-03T22:38:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…kksw
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Dude's still going:

"Why is Nina allowed to solicit pictures of people committing crimes?

Is she a Fed or just a LARPer?"

"fuck off Nazi scum.

My life is at stake and all you pig lovers can do is beg other people to do the stuff you won't."

Read it yourself, none of that actually happened - screenshots and links above.

Anyway, gonna miss some of you but I guess you shoulda found better friends. Whether that's me or goat, is your call.

yeah, no place in the Pig Empire is safe. If where you live has ...

2024-07-03T20:25:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…pkg5
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yeah, no place in the Pig Empire is safe. If where you live has ever been called "the west" and got billionaires, you ain't safe. (I know you know, just stating it plainly because I got nothing else I can do until people decide they wanna/needa fight back)

Naw I'm dead fucking serious, I ain't interested in being ...

2024-07-03T19:52:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…yhz7
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Naw I'm dead fucking serious, I ain't interested in being moots with anyone who hangs out with that fucking guy who has spent two days trolling my mentions and calling me a fed. You been warned. Just go.

Now, let's roll the tape and see what ACTUALLY happened. My ...

2024-07-03T19:41:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…r8tm
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Now, let's roll the tape and see what ACTUALLY happened.

My Toot (1): https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/112712970258799186

His reply (1): https://mstdn.social/@nus/112712998615869626

My reply (2): https://jorts.horse/@AnarchoNinaWrites/112713000945658283

His reply that I'd have knocked him the fuck out for IRL: https://mstdn.social/@nus/112713001772142161

craving for 1,000 year old duck eggs intensifies

2024-07-03T14:35:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…e3ql
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*craving for 1,000 year old duck eggs intensifies*

I'm sure many fine Germans who weren't themselves Nazis ...

2024-07-03T03:52:41Z

I'm sure many fine Germans who weren't themselves Nazis went to their screaming deaths pretty sure that "they can't DO that" and "someone will stop them."

All without realizing that the rules are made up, by power, and the "someone" was them all along - might I add.

I'm sorry I'm short with you when you say variations of ...

2024-07-03T03:28:45Z

I'm sorry I'm short with you when you say variations of "I don't think it can happen here" or "I think the fascists will fail" but it's frustrating. *I* am not ignorant of American history. You live in a country founded on multiple genocides and chattel slavery. The idea that somehow, something intrinsic about "America" makes what America ALREADY did impossible, is at best delusional, and at worst a type of nationalism. There are books full of US history showing the fascists CAN win and dominate

In many ways, I see the general strike as the preferable option ...

2024-07-03T02:47:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…e0m8
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In many ways, I see the general strike as the preferable option simply because fighting house to house across the entire Pig Empire will take a long time, and has maximum potential for casualties on our side.

Grinding the gears of capitalism to a complete halt will not only solve the problem FASTER, but make it progressively harder to murder us as the machine falls apart without the juice that makes it go - profits.

I mean I support a general strike because there's more than ...

2024-07-03T02:46:06Z

I mean I support a general strike because there's more than one way to kill the beast.

I don't see it as "the noviolent option" because what's going to happen the moment you take away their ability to extract wealth, you threaten the ruling class's power and they are going to send armed goons to force you back into subservience.

So to me, there is no difference between a general strike and a revolution; I'll let you call it whatever you want so long as we end the fuckbarrel killing us all.

You CONSENT to being ruled for two reasons: A) because you're ...

2024-07-03T02:37:15Z

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You CONSENT to being ruled for two reasons:

A) because you're promised a degree of freedom and prosperity if you obey
B) because they will kill your ass if you don't.

When the ruling classes say what they've got for you is slavery and murder, then both A and B are no longer valid.

I'm not crazy, you just play pretend too much for your own (and all of our) good.

Brey, the fascists are literally telling you it's a ...

2024-07-03T00:49:06Z

Brey, the fascists are literally telling you it's a revolution, in THOSE fucking words, and they mean to win it. (They're lying, it's a fascist takeover, but in terms of the breakdown of the political process, it's the same deal.)

And y'all are out here yelling at broke leftists about "what's realistic."

Again - you're the teacher from the Buffy movie, handing out detention slips to corpses while vampires rampage all around you.

Did you just call ME a fucking fed you absolute piece of dogshit? ...

2024-07-01T19:59:06Z

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Did you just call ME a fucking fed you absolute piece of dogshit?

Here's your block you fucking muppet.

"None Officer, why do you ask?" (Get the fuck out of my ...

2024-07-01T19:58:26Z

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"None Officer, why do you ask?"

(Get the fuck out of my mentions.)

Make you a deal libs; I'll talk to you about voting for ...

2024-07-01T19:50:37Z

Make you a deal libs; I'll talk to you about voting for Biden, when you post a photo of yourself bricking a police car. You don't have to show face, I'll take your word for it. But if you're not going to tell me about anything useful, I'm not going to waste my time on your fantasy island scenario where the guy who has been in power for 3 and a half years and done nothing about the fascists, stops fascism

That's the price of admission; one photo, of you doing revolutionary acts, or keep walking.

Me: "It's a judicial coup. Revolutions have been fought ...

2024-07-01T18:14:26Z

Me: "It's a judicial coup. Revolutions have been fought over less."

You: "Vote!"

Me: "For whom?"

You: "Well Joe Biden could pack the courts and charge everyone with treason and also we could call in the Avengers and..."

Do any of you people know anything at all about the actually existing Democratic Party and the actually existing President Biden? Anything? At all?

Folks, the court did not just say "the President can do ...

2024-07-01T17:28:08Z

Folks, the court did not just say "the President can do whatever he wants."

The court said "the president is immune from prosecution for doing whatever WE say is official."

There's a big difference. They didn't make the President king; they made themselves kings.

Just in case anyone needed to hear this; I strongly disagree with ...

2024-06-28T15:18:45Z

Just in case anyone needed to hear this; I strongly disagree with SCOTUS's opinion that judges are God and fascist coup participants are the real victims.

Kay, glad we could clear that up. Hope you like barricades because the "norms" ain't saving anyone...

Y'all don't get it - The Squad IS the compromise. ...

2024-06-28T04:39:43Z

Y'all don't get it - The Squad IS the compromise. They're not my people, they're fucking capitalists for starters. Your "progressive wing" IS the "meet in the middle" point but y'all don't know ANYTHING but punching left and pulling the "adults in the room card" so we're all fucked and need to start planning for "how to survive under overt fascism" because I can tell you right now - this is fucked, and it's probably TOO fucking LATE to save it. The time to panic and change course was 8 years ago

Also, in case you were wondering, yes Neil is the kinda guy who ...

2024-06-20T20:35:02Z

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Also, in case you were wondering, yes Neil is the kinda guy who thinks you're an immoral degenerate, don't love God enough, and should probably be in jail because you're a communist pedophile or some shit. Also infamous for voting AGAINST the state ban on child marriage. Lovely human being.

Also, and as I just mentioned in the replies - given that his ...

2024-06-20T20:29:39Z

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Also, and as I just mentioned in the replies - given that his campaign went with, simultaneously:

"We know nothing!"
"Neil is always exercising his 2nd amendment rights"
"The timing of this arrest is very suspicious."
"Neil's opponent has "deep state" ties."

I'm inclined to believe the rumors are on to something. You don't make up a Mission Impossible script for a D&D, for example.

So, I'm hearing noted fascist, holy roller, Freedom Caucus MI ...

2024-06-20T20:19:08Z

So, I'm hearing noted fascist, holy roller, Freedom Caucus MI state rep Neil Friske got picked up by the Lansing police this morning...

Rumor has it that that Neil brought a stripper back to his house last night, they got to arguing and he opened fire in her general direction.

Moving out here, I have grown to love the existence of hawks - a ...

2024-06-19T00:49:41Z

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Moving out here, I have grown to love the existence of hawks - a bird I would never see in any of the major cities I grew up/lived in. I can't say I like to watch them eat, but they're magnificent birds and I spend a lot of time just watching them soar overhead.

You will, for example, never hear about a "Grand Rapids water ...

2024-06-16T20:57:19Z

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You will, for example, never hear about a "Grand Rapids water crisis" caused by friends of the Gov privatizing the water system and then lying about the toxic lead in the pipes for money. That happened in Flint, because Flint was under management, because the state is (typically) run by cracker fascists who HATE African Americans/brown people, and the cities they live in.

I concede that our current gov is BETTER than that; but the dynamic still exists and one election brings it back.

I mean we're talking about a state that at the height of ...

2024-06-16T20:54:54Z

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I mean we're talking about a state that at the height of American Austerity, put the majority-Black urban centers under state management, thereby rendering elections in those cities largely moot. I don't have to wonder; I lived it - and it would be cracker fascism.

(and to be clear, I didn't say Michigan; I said Detroit. ...

2024-06-16T20:10:02Z

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(and to be clear, I didn't say Michigan; I said Detroit. Michigan as a State has a dynamic where the major urban centers are majority African American, but the surrounding suburban and rural areas are FULL of cracker fascists. The State itself, works to starve the urban centers of funding, while marginalizing non-white people and their elected officials. It's EVERYTHING wrong with American/white supremacist politics in the post Civil Rights Act era. I'm from Michigan; but I am ALL Detroit.)

Everytime I meet someone who is "fascinated" by my ...

2024-06-16T20:06:34Z

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Everytime I meet someone who is "fascinated" by my bluntness and general level of spite, I know I'm dealing with someone who ain't never been to Detroit - because we're ALL like this.

Detroit is a place that has been REPEATEDLY devastated by ...

2024-06-16T20:03:08Z

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Detroit is a place that has been REPEATEDLY devastated by racialized capitalism, and instead of recognizing that, the place is constantly demonized in American discourse as "what happens when you let African Americans into positions of power." Given those realities, folks from Detroit are a little hard, a little brutally honest, and more than a little sick of your racist bullshit and Fox News coverage.

It's not like you see on the news, but also? Don't visit, we ain't want ya.

The best way I can explain it is you folks all have statues of ...

2024-06-16T19:56:25Z

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The best way I can explain it is you folks all have statues of generals and slavers; we have a giant (Black) fist.

That's Detroit. There's a reason we popularized the "Detroit vs Everybody" T-Shirt so many other places and groups have nicked. You grow up in Zombieland and you're pretty much forced to not give a fuck because everyone who isn't from Detroit who finds out you're from there automatically assumes it's war-era Beirut. You learned to LIKE the animosity and fear after a while. Or die.

I dunno, people from Zombieland are just "like this." You ...

2024-06-16T19:51:34Z

I dunno, people from Zombieland are just "like this."

You can find thousands of Ninas with access to a 313 phonebook and a list of folks with DPL cards.

(For anyone under forty, a phonebook is an artifact of a bygone age when they printed your name and number in a giant paperback they shipped out to every house in the region bi-annually. For those of you under thirty, DPL is "Detroit Public Libraries" which nominally still exist, but used to actually be funded and useful when I was younger.)