William Gillis 🏴

FDD is currently experiencing the definition of dog catching the car and not knowing what to do with it— it begged and begged and begged and begged and begged for a war with Iran, in their case explicitly for Israel, and now some of its most senior fellows are freaking out at the repercussions.

today's rampant nihilism reminds me of what conservatives have long warned would happen in a world without god or tradition, but its precisely conservatives who are embracing runaway nihilism because they lost the argument to liberals

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There's a certain class of person who thinks moral injunctions are just made up games of civility that you can violate freely to "make a point." Today it's goat fucking, tomorrow it could be beating toddlers to death with hammers. It's all just a signaling game for these folks.

it's also relevant to the old meme going "they called me a goatfucker so I guess I have no choice but to go fuck goats" making fun of the self-justification used by nazis. But like what's the fucking point? He knows, we know, everyone knows all the dynamics here.

I'm not going to link or share the video of Jake Lang molesting a goat, and I advise that you don't either.

It's honestly just *tiring* that these fascists make parody impossible via their vice-signaling. Yes, it's a contradiction to racistly call Iranians a slur while yourself engaged in such...

One of the instances in which it is actually emphatically true that by stifling left-liberal criticism of Israel on a liberal basis you just leave open room for nutjobs to do it and fill the space instead

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I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now

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The US government is trying to criminalize anarchism in the Prairieland case.

Several defendants are cooperating.

Do not give in to this fascist regime.

Keep paying attention, speaking out, and doing what's right.

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I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

It's not an excuse for cooperation, but the federal government has clearly extracted bullshit confessions under conditions that meet the definition of torture—incl extreme isolation, sexual violence, physical and emotional abuse, and the withholding of appropriate food and medical care.

Why I Am an Anarchist Benjamin Tucker Why I Am an Anarchist 1890

“Abolish the tariffs, issue no patents[,] take down the bars from unoccupied land, and labor will straightway rush in and take possession of its own. Then mankind will live in freedom and in comfort.”
- Benjamin Tucker

Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

Read more about this case in @theintercept.com's article by Jeremy Busby, @joinjeremy.org, in partnership with FPF:

Prison-style free speech censorship is coming for the rest of us: The government wants to make it illegal to possess literature it deems dangerous

There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.

Fascists are stupid whether they call themselves multipolar or antiimperialist, and the great power contradictions between US and China were always much more shallow than their infrastructural, economic and material codependence, hence China doing nothing for Iran and why the US can go full Samson

But it sure is comforting to some.

O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ‘We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation—anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.’ ‘But you do not! You are not even masters of this planet. What about Eurasia and Eastasia? You have not conquered them yet.’ ‘Unimportant. We shall conquer them when it suits us. And if we did not, what difference would it make? We can shut them out of existence. Oceania is the world.’ ‘But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is tiny helpless! How long has he been in existence? For millions of years the earth was uninhabited.’ ‘Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.’

‘Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.’ ‘But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals—mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.’ ‘Have you ever seen those bones, Winston? Of course not. Nineteenth-century biologists invented them. Before man there was nothing. After man, if he could come to an end, there would be nothing. Outside man there is nothing.’ ‘But the whole universe is outside us. Look at the stars ! Some of them are a million light-years away. They are out of our reach for ever.’ ‘What are the stars?’ said O’Brien indifferently. ‘They are bits of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the centre of the universe. The sun and the stars go round it.’

Just re-reading this section and it strikes me that this is the *opposite* of cosmic horror, like, this is like Orwell read Lovecraft and said "nah, the OPPOSITE thing is far more horrible." As I think @rechelon.bsky.social would agree, "nothing is real" is far more horrible than cold materialism.

Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work

It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"

My understanding is the key is generated from user password and Riseup doesn't store it. HOWEVER this had to be manually activated via settings for accounts created before June 2017

"as of March 2017, the storage for all new accounts is personally encrypted. Riseup is unable to read any of the stored content for these accounts. Any user with an account created prior to March 2017 may opt-in to personally encrypted storage."

Don't forget, campists are bottom of the barrel scum. Left unity's a tankie scam. Never stop flipping their tables.

Canada’s Visa Requirements Are Forcing Students in Gaza to Put Dreams on Hold Students accepted by Canadian universities struggle to figure out how to leave Gaza and comply with strict visa rules.

It is horrific that Palestinian students from Gaza, admitted to Canadian universities, are not being granted student visas to Canada.

Amidst an ongoing genocide and occupation, denying Palestinian students is continuation of same violence and anti-Palestinian racism.

truthout.org/articles/can...

I'll also selfishly note that I was the one to raise hell bringing to public attention Riseup's canary going down and an ex of mine sneered a bunch and publicly bet me on twitter $1000 that Riseup did not have a gag order and they have *still* not paid up.

Support Coordinator for Informant Darren Thurston, Megan Adam, Disrupted at Under the Volcano | Vancouver Media Co-op

Also worth noting here re lay of the land that the canadian version of riseup that was once held up as an alternative, resist .ca, ALSO demonstrated some very bad policies, refusing to stop hosting a snitch's support website: vancouver.mediacoop.ca/fr/blog/lyn-...

To be fair to Riseup, they *did* implement account encryption in 2017 after they cooperated.

It's fairly ridiculous that they had dragged their feet until that situation with them snitching on the chud accounts, but they did encrypt finally:

help.riseup.net/en/privacy-p...