"Illiberalism is ultimately a demand that a specific pattern...be artificially preserved against the free choices of others. It’s almost always about preserving someone’s place in an existing social hierarchy, or else about setting up some new hierarchy"
- @aaronrosspowell.com
What surveillance tools do we anticipate seeing develop and integrate further into American society in the next three years without legislative oversight?
- Police drones
- Real-time facial recognition
- AI cameras
- AI persona bots cops use to infiltrate online groups
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Get in loser, we're changing liberalism.
My reflections on Adam Smith’s critique of state capture, inspired by my interview with Maria Pia Paganelli to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Wealth of Nations this week:
open.substack.com/pub/kristenc...
In the new edition of his book "Deleting the State: Requiem for an Illusion," philosopher Aeon Skoble argues:
"1. If it's good for people to be free, then political authority is illegitimate.
2. It is good for people to be free.
3. So political authority is illegitimate."
"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."
That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.
An exciting group of important voices!
We’ve launched @liberalism.org! It’s a online journal of liberal ideas, exploring the ways liberalism points to a better future and how we can get there, from me and my @theihs.org colleagues @jkuznicki.bsky.social and @uncanonical.net, and feature essays from top scholars, podcasts, and more.
This is sure to be good! Canon is my kind of liberal, and these are some great podcast guests!
Ines’ lawyer going up again: “None of the zines are illegal… He embraces anarchism, a rejection of a formal government, people taking care of themselves and each other… sounds pretty admirable”
We expect to be sparse on updates until the jury finished deliberating, but we’re still out here in front of the court showing support for our friends and loved ones! We’re also having a fundraiser community dinner tonight! Likely the last one for a while so come on out!
This is such a good example of why I've stayed identifying as a post-leftist for decades. "The Left" has no firm principles or radical vision, it's just a coalition of the oppressed bound by an obsessive hunger for "community" and the sense of feeling "a part of something big."
For a brief moment in 2017, I had hope that maybe the tide would turn and the broader left would finally listen to antifa. But nope. The Left is ravenously committed to this "building numbers" "community" nonsense and will always violently reject drawing lines.
www.facebook.com/chris.crass....
I’ve been a big fan of Aaron for over a decade now. He’s not only one of the most talented podcast hosts around, he’s a careful curator of *ideas*.
Very stoked to see this new project from him along with some other really smart folk.
Check out liberalism.org.
Anarchist endorsed. 🏴
You cannot tell voters (accurately) this is a fascist regime that is hell bent on destroying us - let alone rely on it (as Dems are) as your GOTV while also voting yourselves to enable the regime.
The reason they do this is even dumber than you think.
Imagine spending decades positioning yourself as some sort of anti-racist progressive movement leader and then using that social capital you've earned to not only turn a blind eye to boosting anti-Semitic conspiracy BS but acting like it's inspiring and that raising objections is "purity politics."
Signal recently released another grand jury subpoena which, as always, basically had nothing interesting to turn over in response. For the requested phone numbers they could only provide the account creation timestamp. signal.org/bigbrother/d...
“None of this is illegal to have… Which one of these say antifa? None of it! None of these things were even used against Rueda… We don’t lose our freedom from moving boxes. We don’t lose our freedom when our love ones are arrested.”
“They arrested Daniel for a phone call… They made up inferences… Timelines are important… he was arrested for carrying a box before they even know what was in the box…”
“If someone you love is arrested, can you even answer the phone without being accused of the crime? How long until you can move your things? Towing the car is antifa for concealing evidence, I guess”
NEW EPISODE 🚨in Outlaw’s first ep. with “It Could Happen Here”, we talk with people detained for responding to ICE in Minneapolis. These conversations offer concrete insight into how federal agencies are responding to anti-ICE activity in the Twin Cities, and the impact that has on people's lives.
“Everything I write, in one way or another, is intended to undermine the metaphysical and linguistic systems which seem to justify some Authorities in limiting the freedom of the human mind or in initiating coercion against the non-coercive.”
- Robert Anton Wilson
Nuclear-level attack on basic bodily autonomy.
I don't have words, but I do have bloody fantasies.
Liberal friends, don’t let right-wingers bully you into opposing opening borders.
#OpenBorders is good!
Liberals should defend freedom, including ‘freedom of movement.’
The social and economic control required to restrict migration is illiberal and authoritarian.
This is a fascist regime trying to unilaterally and illegally rob hundreds of thousands of citizenship in pursuit of its vile campaign of ethnic cleansing.
The tree of liberty thirsts.
