Alex 🖤
I'm a trans anarchist living in the pacific northwest. She/they/it
- Reposted by Alex 🖤I didn’t bring any of my gear because surely they wouldn’t gas a daytime march with a bunch of kids, right?
- Reposted by Alex 🖤It's actually completely fucking brain-breaking that Epstein was emailing to Chomsky links to the neonazi website of former right-libertarians that got their start incessantly stalking and attacking C4SS.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- Reposted by Alex 🖤okay yes but contesting that definition is, i would say, pretty important to the project of anarchism succeeding! this goes all the way back to the english civil war and how that word was used to define certain aspirations out of existence humaniterations.net/2017/06/14/y...
- Reposted by Alex 🖤Let’s PLEASE not suggest that the Neighborhood Watch—a civilian volunteer branch of the carceral system—is *anywhere* in the lineage of the direct action being performed by ICE Watches.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤The way that people have memory-holed that Abolish the Police was the actual radical demand in 2020 and Defund the Police was incrementalist reformism to help get there is extremely depressing Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
- Reposted by Alex 🖤there is no amount of training or vetting that would make ICE safe because ICE exists to enact state terror and violence
- Reposted by Alex 🖤I could not ask for a more perfect representation of the core fascist philosophy: the anti-intellectualism of moral nihilism conjoined with a lingering sense that power is all that *should* matter and any exceptions to this crude worldview must be furiously destroyed.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤I haven't even checked to see if Reason did it's annual rerun of that fucking bullshit "Socialism almost killed the Pilgrims" column by Stossel, but I'm sure they have. So here: c4ss.org/content/22792
- Reposted by Alex 🖤I say this to say: intellectual property law is the biggest sham in history it slaughtered millions during covid, it upholds the worst of the worst industry and silos important knowledge from the general public. Abolition of IP is as important as “seize my the means of production”
- Reposted by Alex 🖤There are some things that thus must be destroyed. Prisons don’t exist without violence and coercion. Fire to them. Cops don’t exist without violence or coercion. Completely abolish them. Education of course can exist without violence or coercion. In fact it *works better*
- Reposted by Alex 🖤Something I am continuously drawn to in the concept of abolition is something I learned from “gender abolition”. Which is to say abolition is removing violence and coercion. You don’t want to coercively say “no more gender” that’s a TERF thing. But you abolish the violent coercion of gender.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤It’s no different than the way rapists use rape jokes both to show other rapists they have a possible ally in class solidarity but also to reinforce hierarchies of gender that some people (women, trans people) are raped and that cis men like him do the raping as a form of gender policing
- Reposted by Alex 🖤this is why julian responds by calling his critics things like "puritans, hormonal baby gays," etc--he's using phrases (often appropriated from kink, trans, & queer speech communities of which he is not a member) that signify "outgroup, Other" and signaling himself to be part of the "ingroup."
- Reposted by Alex 🖤You don't need as much "welfare" when more income goes to the workers who produce wealth in the first place, instead of to unearned rents for the wealthy.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤The tl;dr on this is that you should absolutely block @dollspace.gay and you should ABSOLUTELY not use its hosted appview. The BEST case is that it's sharing a brain and body with Laurelai and all your conversations with it (and any data sent through the appview) are easily accessible BY Laurelai.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile
- I think the elite liberal instinct to valorize Charlie Kirk based on the idea that he somehow supported the liberal ideal of free speech makes it clear how important the anarchist idea of unity of means and ends is.
- Normally, when the unity of means and ends is brought up, its to counter the idea of ends justifying the means. An authoritarian state can not lead to freedom, because the use of authoritarian means leads to authoritarian ends.
- In this case, though, liberal journalists are ignoring the ends, and only focusing on the means. In their view, as long as somebody is using "liberal" means such as free speech and debate, then no matter the content of their speech, it supports liberal ends.
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View full threadThis has made them completely unprepared to fight fascists who are completely willing to use the systems liberals have developed until they can gain power and burn it all down.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard—until I realized what he was seeing.…
- Reposted by Alex 🖤If you think fundamental human rights are an area where we have to "respect the democratic will of the public," you have sold your soul to the devil. You have a weathervane where your moral compass should be.
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- Reposted by Alex 🖤Had this idea stuck in my head for a week, finally carved it out
- Reposted by Alex 🖤Here's Rudolf Rocker on how lesser evilism helped pave the way for Hitler. Keep in mind, this is from 1937. He follows this saying, “Democratic countries have learned nothing from this example and are now traveling with fatalistic submissiveness along the same path.”
- Reposted by Alex 🖤Become Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant-pilled www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYN...
- Reposted by Alex 🖤There's more beauty in this world than I'll ever see There's more amazing people than I'll ever meet There's more art than I'll ever experience There's more stories than I'll ever tell And there is no good purpose to immortality? Fucker, I want more life.
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- Reposted by Alex 🖤It's plainly obvious that if true immortality existed the actual moral obligation would be to share it with everyone, not destroy it out of a misguided sense of ressentiment People prefer being alive. That's why we understand murder to be wrong.
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- Reposted by Alex 🖤I think that when folks hear "abuse is ideological" and "the foundation of that ideology is entitlement to power and control over others" they make some incorrect assumptions about what this means
- Reposted by Alex 🖤people are intuitive dualists and arguing against this dualism is nearly impossible because it is an intuition they are post-hoc justifying. this includes searle.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR MASTERCARD’S CEO STEP 1: CALL +1 914 249 2000 STEP 2: TYPE 0 STEP 3: TYPE 6432224# STEP 4: TYPE 1 Congratulations, and have fun calling the executive who matters most in this Steam / itchio censorship situation
- Reposted by Alex 🖤it is impossible to return to a precapitalist past. the world has been eaten up too much. in fact, it is impossible to return to the 20th century. there is no returning. there is no salvation in idealizing the past. we can only take our history with us to build a future we seek
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- Reposted by Alex 🖤finding out a candidate is unpopular 3 years in advance of the campaign is like, the most courteous political favor i can offer the democrats. getting this pissy defending a candidate nobody likes when there is ample time to find someone that people want to vote for is kind of embarassing for you
- Reposted by Alex 🖤I've had this headline rattling around in my brain since January and I finally wrote it. Been hearing too many people in the startup world buying into the neoractionary nonsense that maybe a little light fascism is good for silicon valley. It's not. It's very, very bad.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤idk maybe it's because i just read a history of the industrial revolution, but i think the reason birth rates are dropping is basically entirely because the industrial revolution dramatically changed the economic incentive structures around children in human societies
- Reposted by Alex 🖤My response to the people who praise Milei as a "libertarian" "Everything But the Helicopters: Disaster “Anarcho”-Capitalism Comes to Argentina" ino.to/jaoPpwZ
- Reposted by Alex 🖤Yes let’s figure out who these ICE agents are! But they are used to drawing that kind of attention, it’s part of their jobs as an enforcement branch of the State. But ICE lawyers? Recruiters? Charter plane pilots? Construction crews. Etc. Are just as vital and likely more vulnerable to disruptions.
- I suppose it's good when the prospective enforcers of fascism aren't particularly ideologically committed, but reading people's reasons is pretty bleak www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
- Reposted by Alex 🖤ive said it before and ill say it again a troop is a type of cop. i know some of you don't like to hear that
- Reposted by Alex 🖤imagine being such a loser that you don't experience an elation bordering on transcendent when you see massed groups of citizens confronting the cops unafraid? how did your soul get so twisted and gnarled that you don't feel a vital thrill at the sight of people standing against their oppressors?
- Reposted by Alex 🖤"SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are leaking radio waves to such an extent that it could threaten our ability to study & understand the early universe..Interference from the thousands of Starlink satellites in orbit..has been a continuing concern for astronomers" www.newscientist.com/article/2483...
- Reposted by Alex 🖤I think it’s important to notice why so many Americans believe the criminal group exists: yes the media but also two political parties that kept talking about this criminal imaginary. Two. That appeal to Liz Cheney moderates shit is damaging.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤Comrade card for 3/28/2025.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤love to burn down publicly accessible data for copyright maximalist reasons as long as I can pretend I'm doing it against Big Tech
- Reposted by Alex 🖤Intellectual property enforcement is not about anyone "asking" you to do anything! It's about using state violence & threats thereof to physically intimidate (and, if necessary, cage) those who share or reproduce information in a manner the IP "owner" hasn't authorized.
- Reposted by Alex 🖤The cultural retreat we've seen on basic values around freedom of information and piracy is nearly as sad as the Andrew Tate-ification of gen Z or the rise of fascism. Intellectual Property is an ur-evil and it's a scandal we've allowed any pushback on that consensus.
- "While it has us at each others’ throats right now our love is ultimately stronger, more substantive, more agile, than the fascists’ brute reaction." I love this piece. The reminder of the possibilities of fascism are grim, but it's also important to remember how fascism is inherently limiting.
- "We need to mobilize, build mutual aid networks, get guns & tools, build activist/community infrastructure. But we’ve also got to leverage the things we have that they'll never have. We’ve got to out meme, out culture, out empathy, & out science them." - @rechelon.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/46916
- Reposted by Alex 🖤I think part of what's happening here is that rather than engaging in genuine ethical inquiry, some people seem interested in sorting the world into underdog heroes & oppressor villains. Cops are oppressor villains, teachers are underdog heroes. So comparing them is absurd.
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- Reposted by Alex 🖤the truly weird bit is just a year or two ago he was a screaming pacifist over kylr discourse. it's not that weird.
