49th Minarcho-Cascadian Shitposting Regiment

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Lmao we’ve arrived at A Clockwork Orange unironically

Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?

Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.

And they almost shot some kids in the process.

i don't particularly disagree with a lot of the critiques of anarchist activism by liberals but I bristle when they act as if their best practices are any wiser. we're here because none of us figured out how to avoid being here.

everyone should have some goddamn humility.

it seems like the best tactics so far have been peaceful but not passive: physically blocking ICE from abducting people, going on strike, collective funding to help people for whom it's dangerous to leave the house.

These are neither standing around holding signs in the park, nor burning a walmart

"That's really fucking stupid but I guess I have to put up with it" is a core principle of literally any effective organizing across people of different backgrounds and ideologies

grace for the ordinary and wrath for the powerful

The excesses of "woke" were always just corporate HR training brainrot though. They largely weren't even advocated for by actual marginalized people.

Which is why we're baking anti-corporatism into the foundation of Woke 2

I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

Democrats saw trump get a bunch of unearned credit for putting his name on checks and went "how horrible" and not "how can we get in on this". Fundamentally I think we have too many principles on stuff that fundamentally does not matter. Black cat, white cat, I do not care. Does. It. Catch. Mice.

it's actually a really good political skill that Mamdani convinces people that this is true. I think American politicians, especially dems, really failed/forgot how to slap their names on shit and say that they did, they are why people are benefiting from X etc, even when that isn't strictly true.

In a not unrelated take, god am I ever sick of Millennial Minimalism and Flat Design in user interface design. Retvrn to glassy styling.

do you have any idea how chill you have to be for sex workers to say they felt unusually safe around you WHILE you smoked crack?!

Seems bad that Accessibility™ has become a goto excuse from corporations for why we can't have nice and beautiful things.

Can't have pretty user interface because Accessibility™. Every street must be a fuckugly stroad because Accessibility™.

Guessing this isn't actually disabled peoples' fault.

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

I know nothing matters anymore, but my god how has no level of government ever been sued into the ground over this in the last fifty years? I feel like you'd need one pregnant lady doing nothing illegal and getting teargassed in her house or something, and any lawyer would be all over it.

Leftists need to not get libs killed by bringing guns and setting fires at their winemom demos, and libs need to not get leftists killed by *snitching on them to the fucking cops*. Everybody just be fucking normal and stay in your lane!

Leftists need to not get libs killed by bringing guns and setting fires at their winemom demos, and libs need to not get leftists killed by *snitching on them to the fucking cops*. Everybody just be fucking normal and stay in your lane!

Realistically I have no fucking idea how Stancil & other lib mass movement normies even ended up in the same chats as dedicated radical scene bloc groups in the first place, and it was likely always gonna end this way. People gotta respect the St Paul Principles and stay out of each others business

In terms of reformism or building power towards an eventual confrontation, I believe unions are the single best way forward, though I'm also broadly in favour of any praxis which builds community resilience and camaraderie, especially mutual aid and decentralized, non-hierarchical organizing.

It's a postrevolutionary socialist ideology tbc, and would require the abolition of the capitalist class/bourgeoise via direct collective and equal worker ownership of their workplaces/shops as a prerequisite to sustainable implementation at scale

Which is why I mostly discuss praxis vs end goals

Yeah, basically anarcho-curious.

I'm fine if there's something that sorta looks like a state that says you can't dump sewage in the river, but I don't want them having cops to go kill people over it.

Realistically I'm some kinda libertarian market socialist with syndicalist & demconfed influences.

Defending Will Stancil and then Will Stancil launching into an eight hour lib shittake poasting streak, name a more iconic duo.

(Separation of time and place is important and you're a fucking asshole if you don't respect it, but more importantly than that you never ever EVER snitch on people JFC)

Oh sure, but it's for the community to collectively set the rules around opsec and press engagement, not whatever guy happened to make the signal chat that got big.

And same, I honestly think a democratized reddit with elected leadership would go hard

Got yeeted from a meatspace chat over opsec, but probably really for being annoying lmao. Valid for a group, but it being a decentralised and supposedly leaderless movement space and somebody just unilaterally doing it anyway kinda rubs me the wrong way. Don't love reddit mod syndrome irl.

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I mean everyone outside of Minneapolis is working with incomplete information, which is why I made a general statement rather than specifically saying Stancil did nothing wrong. Even if it comes out he's Literally Just Lying, everything I said remains true.