deadresonance

deadresonance wrote

A good point, fuck the military industrial complex. Countries like lithuania are colonies of NATO, subjected to horrible threats and extorted for untold sums in order to avert those threats. The people of the countries manipulating lithuania, have a duty of solidarity to overthrow their corrupt masters and turn their missile silos to grain silos.

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deadresonance wrote

This essay is interesting. I think to make film, it's fundamentally collaborative, which has implications of depth for the politics of anything that comes out of that process. In the era of crowdfunding, can deep politics be expressed on the screen? Maybe this will change the, typically authoritarian and bourgeois individualist film tyrannies and studios oligopolies.

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deadresonance wrote

I think that Trainspotting is a great anarchist movie. While it does not have much politics in it, the nihilist perspective of sick boy and the lumpen tragedies depicted are basically the lives of the people dearest to me.

Slacker is another one which seems to typify the anarchist "scene" to me. Even the stealing of handprints for venues. Caught someone at the infoshop doing that once; I told them, you could'v ejust asked to walk in haha

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deadresonance wrote

Reply to comment by OdiousOutlaw in by !deleted24215

Your reservation is entirely warranted. The mode of production additionally ensures that it is white gun owners and the state which will have the most free access to ammunition-- a crucial problem for any gun club starter!

So, white supremacy will ensure even among radical leftists, that most of the gun club members and starters will be white. And that the right wing, rather than the left wing, will have most of the guns and ammo and trained shooters.

It's just not feasible to think of some kind of bolshevik "revolution" being possible, in any part of my country any way. But, there are some things that left, anarchist, queer, disabled, women, and Black gun owners can do to support political and pro-social activity in line with their shared values.

  1. Find appropriate venues to open carry in defense of social movements facing repression. That includes events, as well as marches, and other areas. Rather than defering to "organizers", I think you should think carefully about the places you decide to carry at, and make your own autonomous decision that is appropriate to the context you make that decision in. Specifically, it is best to carry at events that might conceivably go peacefully, except for excessive police violence. It is proven that police violence is aimed less at demonstrations with publicly open carrying gun owners present. Part of this is due to the confusion of correlation-causation and can be disregarded, but there is a real calculus in police decision making which is attested to in leaked documents that states decisions to use munitions enter into a command chain process where the presence of firearms can deter them from using munitions if fear for officer safety is sufficient. So, there is a reason this can be helpful, in certain contexts, if coordinated sufficiently between the autonomous actors.

  2. Run gun safety workshops, which train people specifically in marginalized communities to have the autonomy to exercise their rights. Fundraise for this purpose, and use the money to subsidize marginalized people in getting armed and certified appropriately for their jurisdiction.

  3. Create collective ammo buy groups, and shooting clubs, which are led by and safe for marginalized people of various backgrounds, affinities, and tendencies.

  4. Create shared armories, from vetted groups of keyholders which are knowing each other longer than at least 2 years in cooperation. These may have to be in private land in hidden locations, in case of civil unrest or other emergencies. Emphasize creating these networks within marginalized communities, to distribute resistance broadly in the event of crisis.

  5. Create education groups which train in guerilla tactics and general woodsmanship, and use airsoft weapons to train combat tactics. Use shooting clubs aforementioned, to vet participants.

There's many more ideas, you can come up with your own! By distributing power broadly in our society, we help create the world we wish to live in.

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deadresonance wrote

Reply to by !deleted24215

I wish it were more about violence, given the impending nature of that violence in our very near futures!

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deadresonance wrote

Reply to comment by zddy in by zddy

Even assuming perfect opsec, it's just not ideal to link personas online unnecessarily. Without your knowledge, the info trackers in one account can begin to compromise others that you control, until the threat actor can get your "real" legal ID. So, just be careful. I guess that sounded a little condescending, I didn't really think before I spoke, but I was just concerned for your safety.

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deadresonance wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted23972 in by !deleted20335

the normalization of being against armed action against explicitly white supremacist institutions, is something which happens in banal little isolated sectors of the culture, as well as its centers. In spaces that should know better, it should be vocally challenged, which is really all I'm trying to do here.

If there's a little white supremacist hamlet near me, I'm not inclined to "leave them be" until someone gets killed. That demands action, before tragedies continue, and I vocally disagree with anyone who advances a worldview that contradicts that. You can find that annoying, you can try to trivialize what I said, but you won't earn my silence, so enjoy the back and forth until you tire of it.

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deadresonance wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by !deleted20335 in by !deleted20335

You don't kill them, you stop them from advancing their worldview, by challenging that worldview.

Moreover, if we're talking about white supremacist settlements and communes...there's more than "thoughtcrime" going on, if that is reproducing itself in the real ass world.

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deadresonance wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted23972 in by !deleted20335

many small men with big plans, even in dyssymphony, will make a big problem for others. These little ways of contributing to white supremacy, do add up, and when people in certain circles take them seriously and give them the space to continue doing their small gestures, it again adds up to, but also signals, a much bigger problem for those opposed to white supremacy.

The indirect effects of this are profound, and go beyond mere individual perspectives and into the meta-wargaming of antiracist struggle.

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