Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
It’s also important to remember that non-violence serves the interest of entrenched power. The state is at its core a violence-control structure. When people excersize the power of violence in their own interests, the state must reassert it’s dominion or risk collapse.
Non-violent requests can be accommodated without elites feeling like their ill-gotten power is threatened. But it’s often the violent demands that scare them into doing so.
a unique quality to the feeling of it’s drive
I have to admit I’m skeptical, and not just because it sounds written by a marketing team.
Things like the subjective feeling of something are strongly socially determined. When we’re told something is fancy or high quality we have a different and better experience of that thing.
As humans it’s rarely possible to separate our experience of a thing from our judgements of the people and identities we associate with it.
the deputy marshal “fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE.”
100% chance the description was “Mexican”.
It’s only a crime to be an exploited worker. It’s not a crime to exploit workers.
Sure, these fascists have spent 5 years delegitimizing accusations of electoral fraud and are openly committed to ending democracy.
But so far the only actual evidence of ‘election stealing’ is openly buying votes in direct violation of the law, illegal campaigns tactics sometimes resulting in charges, illegal coordination with PACs, systemic campaign finance violations, direct coordination with at least Israeli and Russian leaders to influence the election, decades of foreign disinformation operations pushing for exactly this outcome and a huge influx of dark money from anonymous plutocrats.
Just not direct voting machine manipulation.
Securing the resources to spend on communal projects that benefit the state is one of the many reasons that state employs violence against its citizens, yep.
Roads are a great example because across the world, major road projects were always built to speed up the military getting to and putting down rebellious provinces - bearing arms against their subjects.
All states are instruments of violence, that’s their sole function. Anything they do that makes our lives easier is just the velvet glove over that iron fist. It’s easy to pretend otherwise when the state hasn’t turned its violence on you yet.
That’s him, the one whose stated goals can be seen in every move the trump regime makes.
Bearing arms against it’s citizens is literally the entire point of a government. The state is just a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. The only time a government is not bearing arms against it’s citizens is when the threat of bearing arms against it’s citizens is enough to get what it wants.
Proving you’re a citizen or not is irrelevant since ICE are not enforcing immigration law they’re conducting an ethnic cleansing campaign.
Not being able to unpin email chains unless you change it to non-threaded replies, select all, unpin, then go back to threaded replies like a civilized lifeform. Otherwise it just repins the chain when it refreshes.
Our office also uses teams phones which still don’t have a way to show missed calls. We literally cannot call people back if we don’t get to the med room phone in time.
A lot of people do seem to think “bush looks good in comparison to trump”, ignoring the fact that the open corruption and rejection of reality under bush was an earlier iteration of our current fascist coup, an important stage in that same process.
Obama openly refusing to enforce the law against those bush era criminals (“I’m looking forward not backward”) was another important step towards fascism.
It’s worth remembering the bush era’s invade the hague act, committing the US to a military attack on the ICC if they prosecute any US personnel for the many war crimes we committed in full view of the world.
Sanctioning judges for acting on an allies’ war crimes is new, sure. But the US is an old hand at spitting in the face of international law to protect mass murderers from justice.
this is an evil incarnate thing.
This is a human thing.
Infanticide of both kin and non kin is a rare but incredibly well documented part of our behavioral repertoire.
There’s an urge to distance ourselves from someone who does this, to say that he is evil, a demon, not human. But he’s us. In very specific and awful conditions, this is what we’re capable of.
A substantial portion of the anthropocene extinction event is the Monsanto extinction event.
How in good conscience are you posting links to a news site that is actively involved in a fascist coup?
Yes! House of reps is what I meant. Thank you.
There are some exceptions and it’s definitely not all they do, but attending to the interest of the powerful is their day-to-day work.
Senators accept bribes from various industries and wealthy individuals in order to block or advance legislation on their behalf.
Because a Senator’s electorate is the entire state, they are more likely to be servants of large state-wide industries like dairy in WI, oil & gas in TX, etc.
This is as opposed to the Congress, where the make-up of their specific district can alter which moneyed interests they benefit most from serving.
Every state has only 2 federal Senators, compared to a variable amount of congressional reps based on population. So individual Senators are generally considered more powerful.
I dunno, teenagers all smoke and they seem pretty on the ball.
“Assassinated by trumpists” is a less weasely way to say it.