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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • it’s exactly those actions that are creating ‘terrorists’

    Even this hasn’t born out. We’re not seeing waves of terrorism on US soil by foreigners or radicalized domestics.

    We’re seeing police brutality by state officials aimed anyone who “looks like a terrorist”, with some spycops bullshit to entrap a few useful idiots along the way.

    Perhaps I’d have a different opinion if America/Israel struck military targets;

    They’re dismantling the ability of the Iranian state to defend it’s sovereignty so they can bomb and assassinate locals with impunity.

    They’re also randomly killing civilians, because these military strikes aren’t as precise or informed as the leadership wants you to believe









  • the vast majority of people are just carrying on

    They’re surviving because that’s all they believe they have the power to do.

    the entire last year should have been spent networking, organizing, planning

    All of this has been happening. We’ve had multiple protest marches, fund raisers, and relief efforts for vulnerable people in hostile states and counties.

    If you’re not seeing it, you’re not looking for it. But then this is part of the problem.

    There is no single national organization to rally around. At best you have some short lived movements - No Kings, BLM, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street - that dissolve (or are dismantled) as soon as they emerge.

    Otherwise, you’re organizing with a regional group - your local union chapter, an LGBTQ org, a political outfit like Palestine Action or the DSA or PSL - that’s at best a few dozen, largely disconnected from one another.

    The closest thing to a general strike we’ve seen was the Minneapolis January 23 action, which lasted a day or two and never stretched beyond the city limits.



  • Back when radio/TV were just getting started, the FCC created a set of rules to make sure that the public would be well informed.

    This is revisionist.

    The FCC created a set of rules to manage a broadcasting cartel. Changes in technology shifted the domain of ownership from the production companies to the telecommunication companies and eventually the data center companies.

    But we started as a cartel. We’re still a cartel. The FCC has done nothing to change that (and made many moves to entrench it - the forced sale of TikTok being only the latest).

    As soon as Reagan took office he started ‘deregulating’ the media. By 1996, the Fairness Doctrine was dead.

    The Fairness Doctrine was an enrichment of the two party system. Reagan simply took the next logical step and made it a one party system.