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  • Imo, a socialist revolution starts by rejecting our current business associations and recreating them as employee-owned businesses.

    What I mean by that is instead of worrying about “Unionizing” start scouting and then taking the capable people in your corporation that would allow you to recreate your current workflow. Then do your previous employer’s job better, while continuously sucking up their work force. Imagine how much money there is to go around when you cut out the middle-men(CEO/Board of Directors), and how easy it would be to steal the talent while leaving them with the mushroom managers.

    As for defending human rights, and freeing people from oppression, that takes violence. And doesn’t require waiting beyond grouping up and dealing with the ugly business at hand.


  • It may not solve THE problem, but it does solve a lot of problems that get in the way of solving THE problem. Billionaires pollute in excess, starve people through fraud and wage theft, corrupt our governments, and often traffic children for depraved and horrific things. And if we include the richest 1% of the past in this same class, our planet is burning because they buried the knowledge of what oil was doing to our planet.

    Let’s not kid ourselves, killing the billionaire class solves lots of problems, and it’s completely justified.






  • They are all distractions. The thing is they are only kinda distractions from each other, but it’s a sleight of hand. What they are really distracting you from is action. It’s a really effective technique that keeps you constantly reacting to the stimuli of these “distractions”, so you can’t effectively plan ahead and take action. It also wears you down and saps your willpower, again making it difficult to take action.

    On top of which it makes it difficult to coherently say why you’re angry in an easy to spread message. If you were paying attention during Occupy Wall Street, the media used that to basically make the apathetic and insulated just dismiss the concerns out of hand. They framed it as OWS just being angry hipsters that didn’t even know what they were angry about.

    All of this is just one of the reasons I believe effective action has yet to be taken here in the U.S…




  • Your argument doesn’t hold much water when the alternative currently is letting them haul you and yours to a concentration camp, and are already killing Americans in the street at unarmed protests. Context and the amount of guns being the big difference, as I could not find any evidence that the Michigan Militia was involved. Only mention of them is that they provided unarmed security for the farm before the conflict arose but we’re not present for the actual standoff.

    So I’m going to need a source backing up your claims.



  • I have been able to talk some of my neighbors into at least saying that we’ll stand together should ICE comes. But getting them to cross state lines? Or even do a Rent/Mortgage strike is just too many steps too far for most of them. Especially when take into account that it’s days of travel, and you still need money for food and gas. Also our families needs food, shelter, and so on.

    Surviving even at selfish costs, is unfortunately the Las Vegan way.

    I at the very least thought a Rent/Mortgage strike would appeal to those selfish and apathetic, but somehow a strike that keeps your resources in your pocket is less liked than a General Strike that you have build resources for ahead of time. And arguing that we should encourage our homeless population to just take up homes that are sitting empty due to corps buying up houses for renting out was… well let’s just say I have to wait until people are more fed up before I can bring up that particular strategy again.

    Hell getting people to go armed to protests has been met with hard no’s even after I point out how different police act when people are armed. And that all you need to do is look at the Bundy Ranch standoff to see how much different police treat those that are armed. (The police at the time came in unarmed, and without body armor to negotiate just so they wouldn’t set off the snipers).

    So you want to know why we’re not using the unique way of protesting? Logistics, survival, and because most Americans prefer to be livestock for the Oligarchs than to actually be wolves fighting for our liberty, and will make every excuse to just wait for the slaughter.