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  • Because the United States was founded as a loosely confederated colonial slave empire, and it benefits the caste of people who founded the empire and still control it to continue this form of government, I don’t think “shifting to state’s rights” is going to bring us any closer to freedom. Fascist slave empires shouldn’t exist. You shouldn’t contribute to them. Individually, if you are trapped in a fascist slave empire, you should seek to distance yourself from it in whatever ways you can. You should slow and stop spending money where possible. You should leave the country if you can, and remove yourself from the direct power of petty lords if not by moving out of their jurisdictions. If you are adamant about staying where you are at, you can build and contribute to a local mutual aid network, but understand that makes you ‘the local mutual aid network within a Fascist captured zone.’

    Governments are not immortal. Fascist governments have risen and died before. Unfortunately fascists steal their people’s futures. I liked my future a lot better before I heard about Trump but he isn’t the first and he won’t be the last American Fascist.






  • I can see why you might read my post that way because what other context do you have. I don’t belong to the “us” group you mentioned. I spent 2015-2022ish doing direct service activism and it cost me a great deal. Part of the reason I sound disillusioned is because the fascists directly attacked and destroyed much of my work as I was performing it (especially in 2018 2019 when they were a little better organized). I did literacy and library access work for the incarcerated, primarily. My work was primarily volunteer so it seriously hurt my family’s economy, in addition to being undone in real time as paper bans and mail bans were put in place. People at the universities I “worked” for would provide verbal support, but that was all it ever amounted to.

    Part of the reason I like Doctorow is because he gave a pretty accurate description of how literacy access within the prison system works in The Bezzle except for the part where he was using it to distribute LSD. That sounds cool but its largely based on a myth made up to protect prison employees who trade drugs inside.

    You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked[…]

    Don’t go around telling them they don’t have to “do anything” plz 😅

    Not trying to call you out otherwise, how are you supposed to know







  • There are some things you can do that hurt America.

    1. Leave. You won’t be welcome elsewhere unless you have roughly 125k saved, liquid cash. That may not matter based on where you are at on the ladder but it really wrecks my family. For example, if you’re broke and unwelcome in the USA, maybe roll the dice? This is not legal advice. We’re stuck by family and fake middle class assets. “Not welcome” means you cannot legally work elsewhere, you are subject to the USA. We live under feudalism internationally.
    2. Stop spending money. All USD money is Nazi money. The less you spend, the less the machine goes.
    3. Don’t work for cops. As in outright refuse to do anything to help cops, ever.
    4. Donate to causes that actually erode US sovereignty like Indigenous legal defense funds, and leave your assets to the people your land was stolen from.

    edit* This is all assuming you won’t fight, because I was there in 22 and there wasn’t a fight. That’s when we lost our rights. So don’t pretend like fighting is an option please, this isn’t that kind of forum anyway.



  • in about 201X I was having a terrible time trying to get through the thesis period of a master’s program

    picked up some bundle of the OG 2DS (black & blue variant) and Pokemon X and loved it

    a world where I could pick my friends, people were pleasant, my next career moves were obvious, and my work was rewarded? To this day, this is my escapist fantasy.