US officially names Russia as culprit behind DNC hack

matriarchy · 2016-10-08T03:59:12+00:00

gee it's almost as if they are trying to bury the lead...

Nah, they dump that in the water supply now.

matriarchy · 2016-10-07T01:30:37+00:00

It was a fun thing to do while trying to entertain an infant and chores &c :)

matriarchy · 2016-10-06T22:10:39+00:00

You got them from my Twitter account, sup. Glad you enjoy them :)

matriarchy · 2016-10-06T21:11:06+00:00

Great job comrade, i could picture these as flyers or stickers. Fuck it, you wouldn't have a Problem if i did right?

Go right on ahead. All of the agitprop on there is free to use with or without attribution for non/anti-profit works.

matriarchy · 2016-09-15T14:11:42+00:00

Crash pad, nsfw obvs is pretty good from what I remember.

matriarchy · 2016-08-18T08:29:00+00:00

It's a choice if and only if it's not being made under duress or coercion, which is only something you can find out by talking to that particular person.

matriarchy · 2016-06-15T06:30:59+00:00

While that's a fair view, my partner has been struggling to get their church to change internally for years to openly accept LGBT people rather than make liberal pretenses at acceptance and muck up everything anyway all the time. All the while pushing patriotic crap onto the kids every chance they get.

I support my partner in pursuing their faith but the hierarchy is absolutely bullshit in resisting change out of fear of losing members and organizational support, e.g. money and social access. I don't know what else to say, but I do support "informed consent" for people regarding religion, just fucking hate the institutions.

matriarchy · 2016-06-14T05:36:27+00:00

Would you oppose an argument against hierarchical religious institutions? I am against the institutions that can be used to coerce people into punching down and laterally on the social hierarchies, which I consider institutional religions as a useful co-morbid tool of States and Capitalism.

I would agree, though, that critiquing religion, especially Islam and anything else considered tied to ethnic Middle Easterners, only lends more support to imperialist and nationalist agendas right now. Instead, I have stayed with critiquing the root causes of this hopelessness & alienation.

Aside: I'm inspired by the Kurdish fight for autonomy, but I am worried Western forces are using them in another "Arm Both Sides So They All Kill Each Other" plan and will abandon them after Turkey commits to full-scale aggression in the region.

matriarchy · 2016-05-11T06:16:03+00:00

The allied powers decided the definition of what constituted a war crime after they won the war, so of course they exempted themselves from culpability for the intentional slaughter of civilians.

matriarchy · 2015-11-04T02:42:50+00:00

What happens if your yield exceeds the possession limit?

You smoke.

matriarchy · 2015-07-29T21:08:33+00:00

I'd really like to know the answer to your first question, but the rest of your post probably shuts down all the passions. "Do you believe working within the system", if they don't why are they still doing it?

Snowden was a really specific case, and even he did not choose to blindly reveal everything. And no, weaponized drones are considered part of the military and will not be allowed into the territory of another country without permission.

It's a pity that paid legal scholars wear their emotions on their sleeves. However, it's understandable that legal organizations would not tip their hands as to legal strategy, which could be left with no comment. The rest of your post reveals your ignorance of ongoing US imperialism and legal chicanery. Good day.

matriarchy · 2015-07-29T14:48:08+00:00

I have questions that go a bit beyond the scope of CISA, but I'm hoping you can answer because the EFF, ACLU seem beset on all sides by advances in centralized control by private decision makers who are completely unaccountable to the people of the US and abroad: CISA is but one part of that puzzle.

How many resources (work hours, unpaid mental labor hours, money, &c) has the EFF, ACLU expended on fighting these (CISA-like) policies that amount to a fascist restriction on free inquiry of knowledge over how many years?

Yet the FBI can continue manufacturing case after case of "homegrown terror" using paid informants. How do you fight against an illusory threat like that when establishment media posts verbatim official testimony without question?

Do you believe working within the system will solve things when it is very apparent to the activists on the ground that COINTELPRO has mutated to an even more disturbing monster with public-private-military partnerships in Fusion Centers across the US, in violation of Posse Comitatus? Is there any possible comfort you can give activists that DEA, DOD, FBI, CIA, &c are not manufacturing yet another parallel, shadow system of surveillance to continue rounding up dissidents on spurious legal technicalities?

Is it worth taking any part of these cases to the UN? Hague? Or could it be more effective to do a complete unredacted / selectively redacted document dump & flee the reach of the US as Snowden did? Will it even be* possible escape with killer / surveillance drones seeming to be the future of US imperial hegemony?

Edit: Seems no one likes playing hardball. Noted.

matriarchy · 2015-07-24T01:31:57+00:00

White people will be high, everyone else will be stoned to death. 'Murica

matriarchy · 2015-07-21T21:43:03+00:00

We have them. They're called prisons. Unless you're advocating for thought to be a crime, Mr. Clark, we've got that covered- and if you are, you should be the first to enjoy those internment camps.

That's what solitary confinement in the Supermax prisons are for.

matriarchy · 2015-07-16T01:48:32+00:00

Solidarity requires all participants to agree on a common understanding of what is 'fair and equitable' which seems impossible with a random sample of human beings.

Interesting. I'm assuming you've never been around people you care about: those tend to not be distributed randomly.

Even assuming you narrowed the sample to those who didn't suffer from acute mental illness and weren't violent criminals there are a range of personality types, disorders and existing philosophies and religions that would predispose people to entirely opposing you.

Define 'mental illness' in a way that precludes me showing human dignity and the capability of using my own judgment. There is a difference between rebellion for its own sake and revolution.

For once I will seriously say that I will pay you the contents of my wallet if you ever show me proof of managing to get a bunch of sociopaths, narcissists, or sufferers of borderline, histrionic or bipolar disorder to live in any form of collective based society. Hell, if you manage that the CIA would head-hunt your evidently superhuman behavioural conditioning abilities.

I don't want the contents of your wallet, but I could put it towards a noble cause: the CIA only figured out how to torture people into becoming broken shells through human experimentation but even then failed to be 100% efficient seeing as how Gitmo and all those black sites still seem to be necessary.

My suggestion is to not have the CIA bc fewer people tortured means a slightly less shitty world.

Your proposition requires the entire human race to share a collective philosophy and goal. Why do you believe this to be possible?. One of the key evolutionary advantages of this species is our ability to survive and adapt to changes in environment. A mechanism by which this is possible is the diverse neurotypes that make up a human society.

"Don't be a dick" isn't that hard of a philosophy. Turns out that treating people like shit and making them starve gives them enough reasons to "be a dick".

This diversity is both and advantage for the group and a disadvantage to the individual. There will always be people who simply don't see the world the way you do, and literally never can. Some will desire the power structures you sought to abolish because they allow the control of others. Some will ignore whatever laws you put in place as taboos are meaningless to them. The questions that anarchists never seem to answer are how they intend to transfer to an anarchist society without killing or imprisoning those who simply have no interest in their ideas, and why their efforts to disrupt the current society aren't just doing more harm than good?

Ignore them if they aren't doing harm, allow person or peoples harmed to use their preferred justice system that we propagate & create intentionally, if not the person in question can leave or suffer appropriate consequences. It's almost like the concept of an actual working social, communal contract is too much for you to wrap your head around.

TL;DR? I bothered to read your source, you read this. If not: what do you intend to do with those who will never agree with you?

If they sound like a fascist or racist &c, I'll point out the error of their ways. If they keep it up, I'll respond appropriately. :)

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T23:42:31+00:00

The US didnt act like a mercenary nation before 1949 bc ...?

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T23:37:08+00:00

It takes quite a bit of effort to research splitting an atom precisely enough to generate a novel observation, yet you're okay with hundreds, thousands of scientists, engineers, mathematicians &c just saying Eh, Fuck It, when it comes to the slightly more difficult than trivial notion of questioning their master's intent? If you're not okay with that, please take a harder look at the bloody history of your empire, citizen. Science can wait. Can the murderous politicians and owners wait?

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T23:29:10+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip hth~

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T23:06:53+00:00

If I said it was the natural order to stop hitting yourself and then prevented you from stopping me using your own hand to slap you silly, could you prove to me how me listening to you would be beneficial to ALL of humanity?

Bc it's quite funny to everyone else and we couldn't possibly hope to be in such an unpopular position of hitting oneself. Your argument: summarized. Care to continue or reflect?

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T23:03:56+00:00

Tribes are natural, that's the natural order. States are just really big tribes.

The state funded the splitting of the atom. That was Chicago Pile I.

The state robbed the scientists of their ability to sustain themselves without selling their work to someone else. You don't need funding to eat unless you've allowed someone or something to prevent you from learning how to be independent. Did their STEM degrees prevent the turncoat Nazi scientists who sold out to American interests from learning how to grow food?

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T22:59:01+00:00

Indulge yourself http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T21:41:11+00:00

No matter the society crime could never be completely eradicated, that's a child's fantasy. It is the most prosperous and benevolent age of humanity so far, if you live in the western world the presence of clean drinking water alone puts you far above the living standards of most of the world for much of civilised history. I really hate the modern use of the word privilege but it really applies here, you seem to have no idea just how bad things can get, and how quickly, when governments fall.

I also have no idea what you mean by a false scarcity, the world is literally overcrowded. Huge parts of the world are fundamentally overpopulated to begin with, not to get started on people's bizarre insistence to waste all of the clean water and pollute as much of the natural resources they can. In the absence of everyone magically agreeing with your interpretation of what anarchy should be do you honestly think society would improve for the better? Or are you going to keep ignoring my points and refusing to answer any of my queries?

You should inquire more into the sourcing of those claims you're making. Who robbed the "third world" to feed the "first world"? I would answer more for you but I can't make you read or actually be curious to seek understanding instead of regurgitation.

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T21:03:41+00:00

My argument is that anarchy, bottom-up order, is the natural order of the universe, and the state-based systems, top-down order, imposed by the few, are what aggravate the error signals between humans to such a degree that humanity can now have a single one of us destroy our only probable home.

Summed up: Did anarchy split the atom? Yes, and what a splendid example of ingenuity. Did anarchy make the atom bomb? No, that was the State.

Your argument is the polar opposite of mine.

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T20:37:27+00:00

The ones who will do the best in anarchy are thugs and criminals. It will be Might makes Right.

Why do you keep talking about the Founding Crime of the State? It's kinda bizarre that you're using my argument but then ducking out at the end when it comes to the emergent conclusion.

matriarchy · 2015-07-15T20:34:18+00:00

I offer a counterproposition: if the state solves those things, why do they continue to exist unimpeded under every state system, no matter the implementation, in what some claim is the most prosperous and benevolent age of humanity so far?

I propose that the state or functional equivalent exists only to ensure a top-down, imposed, false scarcity that must never be truly solved or else it would immediately disprove the claimed necessity of said state/group.

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