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This is the right Greg Brown

How many people did you die for?

LOVE LOVE LOVE Save-a-Fox. I live nearby and they do incredible work

There is no “back to a barter system”, though, because barter isn’t what predated capitalism, it’s what exists in a capitalist system when the system fails and people need something other than money.

For most of her man history, we primarily operated under various styles of gift economies that are more akin to modern conceptions of mutual aid as as envisioned by socialism and especially anarchism.

Yeah, it’s scary how much people don’t remember/don’t know

We colonized croissants a looooong time ago, pal! Or have you not heard of Burger King’s Le Croissandwich?

Nah, it’s American now, just like pizza, football, and Christianity. If it touches these Purple Mountains Majesty™©®, it belongs to us. Shit, even if it doesn’t touch us, but has, like, some cool stuff that we want, then that’s our’s too. It’s our Manifest Destiny.

Right, but how is the “$” supposed to be pronounced? Is is Microcashsoft? Microdollarsoft? It’s just not very intuitive

Being tribal is intrinsic to humanity, but that doesn’t imply borders. Borders are a social construct and product of the state, they aren’t just some natural thing. A coyote doesn’t give a shit about the border, and neither should you. How are you so willing to let others tell you what to do and how to do it?

There’s a BIG gap between open borders and “no borders and world in harmony”. The U.S. had relatively open borders with Canada and Mexico, like, 50 years ago.

Also, why did you believe that borders are intrinsic to humanity? To my knowledge we’ve managed to live without them for the VAST majority of human history

I’m just confused here about how “M$” is supposed to be read

Fascism never left America, it’s just went underground for a little while. And the system problems with this country are the reasons why that’s even possible to begin with. You can’t treat the symptoms and not treat the cause, otherwise we all end up right back here.

I presume it would be the height of the stack if you printed everything out on paper and put the videos on… Tape? Disc?

PR mean Puerto Rico, in this case, and not “public relations”

Whaaaat? Is bleeding out not the cure for hemophilia?

I think, while Nazi comparisons are useful, it’s really important for people to understand that American Fascism is its own thing. Prior to the Nazis and Fascists coming to power, the U.S. was successfully managing an apartheid state and conducting mass sterilizations and popularizing the ideas of eugenics.

The U.S. was MASSIVELY influential on Nazi ideology, and American fascist really appreciated that and supported the Nazis in kind.

American Fascism has grown and developed out of unique American socio-economic conditions (manifest destiny, slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, militia movement, preppers, protestant work ethic, evangelicalism, etc.) independently from other flavors of fascism, and therefore doesn’t map 1:1 perfectly to any other type of fascism.

The fact that European varieties were actively suppressed for so long while the America variety was allowed to actively metastasize means that the kind of fascism that we’re dealing with today is a far more advanced form and it’s already off the map, so to speak.

That’s a really elegant analogy. I’m going to use that in the future while trying to explain this concept to people. Thank you

Resistance at this stage doesn’t look like the People™ taking to the streets and getting into fire fight with federal troops. That would be over and crushed in a matter of days. At this stage resistance is about building the necessary community connections to strengthen your position. Look into prefigurative politics and how they’ve factored into virtually every revolutionary project.

Yes. Through systems of organized and concerted prefiguration. Help your neighbors. Build networks. Make the state obsolete. Not only can you do your part all by yourself, it is essential to the rest of the movement that you do what you can.