Kaleidic Riot

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Anarchist, music fan, poster

Prosecutors in the case charged and secured conviction for eight of the nine defendants with providing material support for terrorists. The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was not at the protest, but was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record after prosecutors said he moved leftwing zines and other materials at the request of Rueda, his wife, after she was arrested. Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.
Your Score: 69% Transhumanism: High Extropianism: Low Cosmism: High Rationalism: High Effective Altruism: High Longtermism: High
But you are not the target audience. This may come as a shock. We’re all so used to politicians and lobbying groups trying to win our support that the notion of someone completely uninterested in what you’ll say about them over the proverbial watercooler is a little insulting. Tough. To the serious activist on the street it doesn’t matter how you’re likely to vote or whether you’ll donate money — those are not feasible routes to the sort of social change we’re interested in. Are you going to actively join us in struggle or not? Organize your workplace, start a community garden, retake an abandoned building, code better tools, fight off a cop? Are you likely to seriously commit? In practice some people are quicker and more effective allies than others. You don’t have to explain the institutional allegiances of the police to certain communities. Many folks already know the score. All that’s holding them back from joining in active resistance is a sense of isolation, weakness, and despair. In this context street fighting and vandalism are not so much proofs of method but statements of commitment and seriousness. There are others like you who are willing to fight, and we can hurt them, or at the very least we can shatter the air of invulnerability that pervades business as usual. It’s hard to overstate the psychological effect this can have on those who feel ground down or fenced in. Riots are especially useful when passive protest is widely acknowledged in certain circles to be laughably useless and indicative of protesters unwilling to commit. It doesn’t matter if a riot is directly successful on the scale of burning down city hall or permanently evicting the police from a neighborhood, what matters more is the change in perceptions. There’s a long history of social struggle skyrocketing after street confrontations — not because folks believe a few busted windows or bruised cops pave the road to a better world, but because it at least demonstrates potential.
Mom, can we have Effective Altruism? No. There is effective altruism at home. The "effective altruism" at home... [images of ICE agents]
A post in r/calvinandhobbes 22 hours ago titled "The post I hoped to avoid. The end of the C&H Subreddit." The mod who made the post describes repeated copyright takedown notices directed at the subreddit, and how they are therefore banning new posts so as to prevent this from leading to users getting their accounts banned.
The progressive article of faith that increasing taxes on the rich would do enormous good is so bizarre to me. The states those taxes would go to do enormous harm & engage in brutal violence. Their policies are heavily shaped by rent seeking & cronyism. Sure, maybe tax revenue gathered by some ideal state that acts in accord with a beautiful cosmopolitan & egalitarian theory of justice would be beautiful. But that state doesn't exist. Taxes go to the state you have, not the state you want. If you want to coercively take wealth from rich people just fucking rob them & use the loot for stuff that's actually good. Don't say that their money is best spent by a mass incarcerating military empire that violently restricts migration. I trust random criminals more than I trust the state, and if you don't I question whether you believe the global poor matter.
Lierre Keith's bio on the "Staff and Board" page for WoLF, an anti-transgender hate group that shrouds their bigotry in "radical feminism."
Lierre Keith's bio on WoLF's "Staff and Board" page.
A meme: Mom, can we have a libertarian legal scholar from Georgetown? (there is an image of John Hasnas and his book "Common Law Liberalism: A New Theory of the Libertarian Society") No. There is a libertarian legal scholar from Georgetown at home. The libertarian legal scholar from Georgetown at home... (Pictures of Randy Barnett, as well as an op-ed he wrote in 2007 praising the Iraq War and a tweet he wrote more recently effusively praising Trump)
The Myth of the Rule of Law John Hasnas Commitment to the rule of law is one of the core values of a liberal legal system. The adherents of such a system usually regard the concept of a "government of laws and not people" as the chief protector of the citizens' liberty. This Article argues that such is not the case. It begins with what is intended as an entertaining reprise of the main jurisprudential arguments designed to show that there is, in fact, no such thing as a government of laws and not people and that the belief that there is constitutes a myth that serves to maintain the public's support for society's power structure. It then suggests that the maintenance of liberty requires not only the abandonment of the ideal of the rule of law, but the commitment to a monopolistic legal system as well, The Article concludes by suggesting, in a somewhat fanciful way, that the preservation of a truly free society requires liberating the law from state control to allow for the development of a market for law.
One is led today, in the same manner, to stand neither with vigilante murder nor with institutional greed. However, this answer is not enough. In light of such political violence, it is necessary to defend the state, despite its inefficient bureaucracies of forms, functionaries and guarantees. The state must be defended because it can actually help people through the social safety nets it provides, however imperfectly.
Suggested Pages for you Party for Socialism and Liberation, West Virginia
A newspaper clip reads: Northeastern Connecticut - Beyond Bridgeport, in the land of Ford pick-ups, John Deere baseball caps, Bud beer, and Marlboro hardpacks, where the cool thing to do is park your Road Rat at the local K-Mart parking lot, smoke "homegrown" and burn rubber...if you look hard and in the right places, here too, is an ever present undercurrent of non-conformity. Youth who don't find pleasure in the nights of constant joy at the local home appliance store find it much more satisfying to hang out at Ziesing's. Ziesing's Book Store (P.O. Box 806, Willimantic, CT 06226, USA) is owned by (a pal to every two and one legged creature) Michael Ziesing and his brothers. Mike is a 37 year old Anarchist whose inventory includes Fifth Estate, The Anti-Authoritarian News Network, Search Light, much feminist Lit, plus our monthly fix of Ink Disease, Flipside, Thrasher, and MRR. He also has quite a record selection. Mike is part of a group called Lysander Spooner Collective Society. The Collective is a group of people, not necessarily punx, who put out a zine called Instead Of A Magazine, as well as other things. The zine covers everything from health to punk. Check it out, it's cool. Below the article is an image or ad with the word "Gadgets."
A photo negative of the stock photo used for the famous Clickhole article, "Heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a great point."
"I'm against big pharma" What you hope they mean: "Abolish patents! They reduce access to lifesaving medicine." (Pictured: Kevin Carson, William Gillis, Dean Baker, the cover of "Against Intellectual Monopoly", a graph of deadweight loss from monopoly) What they actually mean: "Vaccines & medicines are poison" (Pictured: LNC chair Angela McArdle, RFK Jr. shaking hands with Trump with a "Make America Healthy Again" caption)