I don’t believe in prisons. I want them to have to answer to their victims directly. All of us, and especially those they have harmed the most. I want them to have to explain themselves.

Here’s a longer form answer if you need to understand more: https://hexmhell.writeas.com/wake-me-up-when-the-guillotines-come-out

To get to guillotines, you have to change society. By the time you’ve changed society, you don’t need the guillotines. If you focus on the guillotines instead of building that society, you will end up with a more brutal and repressive system than the one you started in. See the history of the French Revolution and the USSR.

The South of France is literally the place billionaires go to hang out on their Yachts and Russia is literally the most oppressive and exploitative oligarchy in history. Like… That shit didn’t work. Not only did it not work in the long run, but it almost immediately became way worse.

If you build a society that is just and equitable, then the billionaires will starve to death because they can’t exploit anyone. They will starve to death while watching the world for literally everyone else become immeasurably better.

Build a world where they have no power. And no, that doesn’t mean “let’s keep having rallies and hoping they’ll listen.” I want the billionaires to die, but I want them to die because they can’t possibly integrate into a just society.

I’m not a reformist. Literally every time people talk about NoKings I write a big post about how it needs to go way fucking harder. But I am saying that focusing on vengeance doesn’t built community, and community is what actually eliminates billionaires for good.

Go learn the actual history. They just come back, but worse. They also murder the entire left.

Thank you. As much as I am talking about my shit, everything we did was a team effort. A lot of our early organizing I was in the hospital. It’s worth keeping that frame in mind while reading it.

I hope some of the older folks put something like this out and put me in my place, because I was new to organizing when I came in to all this… and some of my comrades had already been doing working hard for years before. Twin Cities folks are the really crazy ones. Some of their organizers go back to the 80’s, and draw on some shit that goes back much further.

I hope it’s a proper response, heh

Because they will always be used against you in the end to get back to an even more brutal version of the previous system. Learn the history of the French Revolution.

Antifascist organizing is extremely difficult without spaces to organize in. So yeah, “just helping people find allies” is essential to make that happen. I say this as someone who spent the first several months of organizing against Trump just looking for places to have meetings.

By the time the guillotines are usable, you’ve already won. They’ll just be turned against you. Build community if you want to win.

For anyone unaware of the context, the political compass is literally fash propaganda intended to appropriate the word “libertarian” from the left, creating the illusion of an antiauthoritarian capitalism. And it worked.

Context matters. The US isn’t trying to greenwash anything right now. It’s external image has completely collapsed. Meanwhile, China is working really hard on it’s external image.

I agree though that the US is one of the most internally propagandized country. Chinese propaganda also operates differently. In China, propaganda comes from the state and corporations are extensions of the government. In the US, media is controlled by corporations and the government is an extension of the corporations.

But the context was on clean energy, and Chinese greenwashing propaganda is ahead of the US.

I was really hoping for a different type of ICE car to be on fire…

The US is much more fragile than it seems. It was able to dominate the world by leveraging control of oil and currency to maintain the internal caste system. Fascism is expensive though, and it’s already choking.

Genocide is a last gasp to maintain power. There is no way to prevent revolution, so the right is flailing. They believe that if they reestablish the “demographic distribution” that existed at their height, they can maintain power. Basically, they think they can ethnically cleanse the US back to the right. But that can’t work. Nothing can possibly work because it’s all over for them. So yeah, the US isn’t going to last much longer… Especially now that they’ve nuked the soft power they used for so long to keep everything in check.

China is the same, but better at propaganda. There can be no centralized solution.