Nagarjuna [he/him]

I don’t think you got the joke

Moreover, the natural development of economic antagonisms, the waking consciousness of an important fraction of the proletariat, the constantly increasing number of unemployed, the blind resistance of the ruling classes, in short contemporary evolution as a whole, is conducting us inevitably towards the outbreak of a great revolution, which will overthrow everything by its violence, and the fore-running signs of which are already visible. This revolution will happen, with us or without us; and the existence of a revolutionary party, conscious of the end to be attained, will serve to give a useful direction to the violence, and to moderate its excesses by the influence of a lofty ideal.

–Ericco Malatesta, Anarchy and Violence

I was comparing more or less heavy handed ways of doing it. I’m advocating for as light a touch as possible. I’m trying to say that authority is a meaningful concept and that we should engage with it because it’s actually very important.

It’s like how some US cities put you on a payment plan for debts, while others put you in jail. They’re both situations of capitalist class rule, but it’s fair to call the latter authoritarian.

I mean, there’s pretty clearly a difference between the Cuban approach of letting capitalists leave vs the Russian approach of imprisoning them.

There’s also a difference between the Bolivian approach of arming and training the peasantry and the GDR approach of maintaining an armed military police into peace time.

There is a meaningful difference between methods of protecting working class power, and pretending there isn’t serves more heavy handed approaches.

For those of us who are abolitionists, this is a central question.

Yeah, but please don’t say that too much, we don’t want to carry water for the CCP

I once botched an alpine start by getting my buddy’s truck stuck in the snow, took two hours to dig it out and once we were on our way, the sun was rising.

I did not climb the south sister that day.

Night hiking is fun and wonderful on well maintained trails if you have food, water, light and warmth.

Ask me about the time I fucked myself by not having those things.

The regulations are so bad because the landlords buisness owners smashed the unions and the organized left.

The only way we’re going to unfuck the situation is by building up those institutions. So contact CWA and organize your IT job, and join the DSA. It’s how we won the minimum wage in the first place, its how we’re gonna win a living wage, paid sick leave, universal Healthcare, and more.

Because good regulations aren’t handed down by congress, they’re forced on it by the grassroots.

Something that feels illegal but you can buy it in a gas station.

Super excited that my box of whippits just federated with your kratom

We’re at the stage in humor where instead of telling jokes, we’re conditioning ourselves to laugh at an increasingly horrifying reality.