Canadian here: it is important to us that you resist your fascist regime. We need you to do that just as much you need to do that for yourselves. It is also extremely important to deeply understand that resistance is NOT a binary switch that flips between “nothing” and “armed resistance”. At this stage in the game, in the US, you guys need to be doing a whole lot more of non-armed and institutional resistance. You need extreme pettiness. Make the trumpofascists pay a price in annoyance every step of the fucking way.

For example, call your senators and congresspeople, even the more radical left ones, and ask them why they are not calling for votes for every fucking little thing that depends on unanimity.. Then threaten to primary those that don’t. RESIST OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.

Then, the question goes to the mayors the ones that bluster with “gtfo ICE”. Why are they not doing road reconstruction in front and round ICE facilities? Why are there no incessant pipe maintenance requests at the sewers and cables and water mains that feed those compounds? RATFUCK THEM.

Then the question goes to the merchants. Why are there no “we don’t sell to ICE” signs on shops around their compounds? Why is it commercially viable to NOT have a policy like that? Why are they contracting work to them? Why is any private entity in the ICE supply chain not being constantly threatened with boycotts and divestment? MAKE IT TOXIC TO WORK WITH THEM.

Do I need to keep going, or do people get the idea?

Beyond that, realize that you have to start small, then build up: https://youtu.be/vvaquOcNEKI Armed resistance is the worst case scenario endgame. Not the start.

I meant he trumpofascists have already blown up marginal deterrence by calling anti-ICE protests terrorists. If you’re going to be persecuted as a terrorist anyway what’s there to lose for actually escalating violence?

Fucking dangerous idiots.

This is a Canadian source. Canadian English spells it centre.

The guy that gave a Hitler salute? That guy?

GAFAM are very, very American.

C’mon Jews, speak up!

Have you been around the last couple of years? From Naomi Klein and Mahsa Gessen to Omer Bartov and Gabor Maté, Jewish intellectuals have been major voices against the genocide. And organizations like JVP and IJV in different countries, have been doing immense legwork and organizing. Not to mention the Refuseniks in Israel, and organizations like Standing Together.

If you haven’t heard Jews speaking up, you haven’t been paying attention.

In my experience that’s not the case. But your mileage may vary. And make sure you have your adjectives right. Jew and Israeli are not the same thing. In any case crushing antisemitism outside of Israel is a huge step to defeating Zionism.

This is how we defeat the Jewish Agency for Israel. Make it antizionist praxis to genuinely welcome migrating Israelis and to encourage diaspora Jews to not do Aliyah (Why move to an apartheid hellhole? Here in [insert your country] is a lovely and safe place to flourish as a Jew!). It’s a double win: you get a good friend and neighbour, and the palestinians get one less colonizer to worry about!

EDIT: Added benefit: you piss the fuck out of far right asshats in your country.

How deep are you willing to go? The biggest obstacle you yanks have is your religious adherence to the Constitution and your enslaver Founding Daddies. You got to kill of the American Civil Religion, man, it’s a cancer.

Beyond that, if I could wave a magic wand here are the reforms I would force on the US political system:

• Massively curtail presidential power, and to do that, actually weaken the federal government, massively. Sorry to sound like a Repubilcan, but it is true that your federalism is too coupled and states are too weak financially because the federal government takes most of the tax money. Canadian federalism is better in this respect: 50%-50%. Let states actually experiment with different economic models.
• Abolish the electoral college and create election standards and procedures, automatic voter registration. Actually create independent election agencies, like Elections Canada. If you need to have each state manage its own affairs, have them all have their own agency, but with each one strictly adhere to the same standard. Voting should be simple and straightforward. No more shennanigans with gerrymandering and arcane laws.
• Massively expand the size of legislatures, ideally also get rid of FPTP for proportional representation. Abolish idiotic things like supermajorities and filibusters. Your legislatures need to be able to function. It cannot be that a few senators can hold 350 million people hostage.
• Massively expand and depoliticize your Supreme Court. 9 justices for life? WTF. There should be term limits, and a pool of justices that rotates. It can’t be that everybody hangs from the whims of a couple of geezers.
• Lobbying and PACs and shit, all that is just corruption. Go after it.

Basically, its just Selectorate Theory: the fewer the decision makers and the fewer the people they are answerable to, the more “cosmic” each election becomes and the higher the chance for corruption and therefore dysfunction. Democracy, democracy, democracy. Kill the ghost of Madison and Hamilton. Bury those fuckers forever.

The video is notable from a “fuck AI” perspective not because of the blathering about its “magical” qualities (eye roll), but because it posits AI enshittification in particular as a credible global geopolitical risk.

I’m just saying it the laziest, easiest way to create a “fait accompli” without technically attacking a NATO ally. From the point of view of NATO, it then becomes a territorial dispute similar to those between Greece and Turkey, or the Whisky war between Canada and Denmark. It’s the easiest way for Rubio to keep him happy without blowing up NATO.

He won’t invade. He will just declare Thule base and an arbitrary amount of land “around it” sovereign territory.

Fuera yanqui de mierda.

I wrote “ostensibly”.

I think the difference in China vs elsewhere is that the powerful people are state/party functionaries, not a bunch of rich guys. Not that they don’t become rich via the state, but they don’t claim the state power because they are rich. If I may be allowed a diversion, this is similar to the difference between the Imperial Medieval Roman Bureaucracy (in Constantinople) vs the feudal European Monarchies in the west. Byzantium actually has been described as functionally very close to a one party state.

It is distressing to read about someone planning to self-harm. Seek some professional help asap please.

You seem to bring this up every time someone asks about this. It doesn’t have to be an endless cycle of whining. It is not difficult to establish some kind of community-curated list of legitimate journalistic substacks that have bona fide journalistic teams and mastheads. It might actually be less work for you to do that instead of having to copy paste the same canned infantilizing response every other week.

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That was the first interaction I had with you, so i don’t know what you mean by me not seeming to get it.

By the way, copying what I wrote further down the thread:

Resistance is a continuum: It can be as simple as shrugging and saying “sorry officer, I didn’t see anything”. Or it can be causing delays, playing dumb, being frustratingly incompetent, being clumsy and unlucky, working by the book, insisting on following every bit of procedure, checking in for directions every five minutes, firing competent personnel, hiring incompetent personnel, forgetting to mention that valuable equipment needs to be maintained etc etc. If you feel more brave, it can be things like passing on information, or active sabotage. Then you can get to things like running propaganda, sheltering people, all the way up to armed resistance. You don’t need to do all of it at once, in fact, for the armed resistance to be effective, it depends on all the lower intensity acts of resistance as well.

You do you.

Sorry no :/ But I’m sure Erdogan would love to be included in the club.

One thing they do have going for them is that in China capital is subservient to the state, and the state still operates ostensibly for the good of society. Chinese capitalists don’t hold sway over the state the way western ones do. For now at least. So if the state decides that this or that part of the economy needs to do this or that, they can make capitalists do it. That’s good. But it’s not enough and the anti-democratic structures are extremely concerning about the future. The capitalists after all only need to capture such a powerful state once.