it all starts with half assing copying the Haudenosaunee’s system in 1789

Marxist-Leninist are the most active IRL leftists. i know this to be true because they’re always saying that. i find this to be odd given that all the IRL leftists i’ve ever known are anarchists or Trotskyists. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because all the leftists i’ve ever known have been feds. i’ve always found this odd, too, since the only ML i ever knew in real life was an IRS agent who turned Trotskyist after her brother was killed by a soviet agent. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because i’m a fed. i find this odd, too, since so many of my friends are in hiding, in jail, or out on bail awaiting trial and i’m powerless to use any of my fed connections to do anything about this. i wish i knew what we were ivestigating. until i find out i suppose i’ll keep working to build a better world where i am however i can

The cuyahoga was only just declared safe to swim in last year. the bill that led to its eventual cleaning was passed in 1972. it was probably at its absolute nastiest in September of 1972.

thank god for mathematitians

also the 1970s weren’t some magical time for living a naturalist/naturist life. in the northern empires, lead based paint and lead based fuels were in common use. in the global south, genocidal dictators carried out brutal violence to impress whichever northern empire they were affiliated with.

the fact that she wants to revisit the 1970s speaks to a great degree of access to privilege within capitalism, white supremacy, and even the patriarchy despite her presented gender.

and on some level it’s important for good opsec that things that don’t require opsec be done with good opsec

if your whole phone is encrypted this likely doesn’t apply to you so long as you have a strong passpharse (6 characters or more) and a good data shredding policy (shred after 5 wrong guesses)

however, that is not most people

as far as i know signal uses Google’s notification service and if you want it to not you need to use Molly

there’s a lot of things under fascism that shouldn’t be needed

here on lemmy we interpret obvious sarcasm as sincerity

absolutely. you need to own the infrastructure of the network

when authoritarians fight, the people lose

ITT: people posting on the internet about something they found out about from the internet saying that an authoritarian regime shutting down the internet because the people under that regime were using it to coordinate resistance efforts is not so bad

sorry, i’d take y’all a lot more seriously if you were having that conversation over ham radio

i often think about the writers’ dissolusionment with making copaganda and the fact that they had their main character assist in a convicted felon’s escape.

hybrid warfare baybee! the northern empires are real good at it! it’s just mass media manipulation from the 1930s only this time again

“i gave weapons to people desperately fighting for survival to give to people desperately fighting for survival. when the didn’t enact my vision, i threw a tantrum”

what a fuckin’ loser

yup. the cult won’t survive the loss of the cult leader. however, the cultists will still remain. 45/47 wasn’t even the cult leader until about 3 years after the cult had started reshaping republican politics. the death of 47 will bring about a great reshuffling, not the permanent end of all human suffering. the things that need doing are for us to educate the children on how to recognize and resist fascism. fascism will remain a threat to all humanity so long as a single person carries its flame in their heart. so learn: authoritarianism is not about the authority (person) it’s about the authoritarians (people). authoritarianism is only made possible by people voluntarily carrying out the actions demanded by dear leader. if you want to stop dear leader you have to gather a coalition of people who believe other things are possible.

banjo combat of all forms is encouraged

ding ding ding!

you win the prize:

existential dread and a desire to put a nazis head through a banjo

i had someone tell me as an Appalachian, i didn’t understand the power of a union the way she did as a Michigander and i just stared at her, dumbfounded. America’s first unions were in the south. the most powerful union America ever had was based in West Virginia. we absolutely know the power of a union, and wrote many of the tunes that have been solidified as Union Songs. the reason our unions don’t have the power they once did is largely that we couldn’t get solidarity from the Industrial unions for our Primary Unions. our collective direct action was thwarted by class traitors claiming to act on class solidarity.

but the thing is, the southern libertarian trope? that’s not a fuckin’ act. southerners legit hate authoritarians. we hate them because we’ve suffered under them. we don’t need city folk telling us to hate authority. we need help educating our neighbors that a libertarian capitalist is just a fascist faking.

and i’m seeing something i’ve never seen before right now. there were zero pro-trump counter protestors at No Kings. zero nazis. people are unified in their understanding of who the problem is right now that i’ve never seen before. and i live in a right to work state. but still the union is gaining power. people would rather potentially get fired than have their boss be a local microgod.