absolutely. the extractive capitalist imperial project found safe haven in our governments hall’s (more arguably, founded and defined our government since the origins of the US are an alliance of Virginia’s purely capitalist project and Massachusetts’ purely theocratic project)

practice was officially ended in 2018, but the most recent death that matches this motus operendi was in 2021 in case anyone thinks this is some forgotten thing we’re relitigating

i’m not who chose it. it’s a very popular word to describe the bloody and violent concentration of authority that abolitionists resist

under developed is only preferred in academic circles, particularly economics. most other places refer to such places as “over-exploited”

i would say there’s something to be said for the broad impacts idustrialized food has on the gut biome, and the gut biome’s influence on persona. that’s more of a critique of capitalistic tendancies though than a direct endorsement of any hypothesis that some central cabal intentionally poisons us.

that said, if you told me nestle, nabisco, monsanto, and unilever do intentionally poison us to keep us fighting and themselves on top, i’d endorse that notion, too, and have put at least some thought into the possibility

well i’m glad. i do my best to maintain an empathetic approach while also speaking the truth into the world my government wants to kill. this thread has been more mentally taxing than i would have preferred, but i keep reminding myself that it still connected with at least a few people even if all the comments are saying i’m in denial about that very same government’s core nature and trying to deflect blame from it.

you know Jordan Peterson, famed white supremacist, always saying how white supremacy is a bad thing

coagulate because American power is a dangerous blood clot that will give the world a stroke death if it isn’t dissolved

i grew up in poverty

the most recent incident i could find for the stretch of highway i have Friends near was 2023

Places do not torture, enslave, and rape. People do. I am not interested in absolving or shifting blame, but rather in deconstructing the fascist ideologies used to justify these behaviors. In the case of American Exceptionalism the notion is that white straight cisgender males are superior to all other people, and then violently enforcing that norm.

i have not said that the US does not problems. far from it. I even said it is a coagulation of all the things that make States bad and wrong. what needs to happen is the power of the authority of the United States must be dissolved so that the process of communal healing can actually begin. the settler colonial tendencies that america promotes in the world will continue to go on unabated, just as they have for the last 6000 years, unless we resist these tendencies together

Not present day Europe’s, but we have to understand what the outcomes and origins of settler colonialism are in order to understand how to resist it. American Exceptionalism is rooted in the notion the white Europeans are superior to Black Africans, indigenous Americans, and Asian and Pacific Islander people. There is an America today because in the 1500-1700s the European monarchies under the protocapitalist framework of mercantilism sought to own the entire world, including the inhabitants therein. America’s founding fathers were Europeans influenced by the enlightenment movement, and the country they built was reflective of the Eurosupremacism of the time, which quickly gave way to scientific racism formulated by anglosphere thinkers to justify the industrialized rape of Africa in the 1800s.

All I’m saying is that to resist these things we have to look at the history of how they started and then resist the tendencies that brought them about

this is a form of American Exceptionalism that ignores that Mexico and Canada both have legacies of prison/slavery complexes with profit driven sexual torture. Mexican people have reduced (perhaps even eliminated, i’m not an expert on current Mexican affairs) the presence of this influence through generations of education, healing, and resistance to imperialist tendencies coming into mesoamerica to extract everything of value. In Canada the scars of the provincial school system are still felt today with the last residential school having closed in 1997, 29 years ago. There are 34 year olds alive today who remember first hand the sexual violence they experienced at the hands of Canadian sponsored torture facilities. Canadian police continue the practice of driving indigenous women far away from the warmth of their homes, forcing them to walk through the cold, condemning them to death.

There is nothing special that makes America more wrong than any other State. it is merely a coagulation of the worst tendencies present in all states concentrated by the capitalist necessity to extract everything of value from the land and people. The solution is for the people of the world, everywhere they are, to block the barricades until Sudan, Congo, Ukraine, Palestine, the Dakotas, and everywhere else the imperial tendencies of the global north torture, lynch, and enslave the people are free. America’s torture is resistable just like the tortures conducted in Mexico and Canada.

our prisons, mental institutions, and boarding schools are all reflective of the European patriarchal colonial system that composes the framework of the foundation of the united states. just as Phoenicia made a colony so huge it supplanted Phoenicia’s empire in Carthage, so too has America shifted the center of the eurocentric settler colonial project. you ask why America is why it is, the answer is because Europeans were so sure of the righteousness and superiority of their civilizations that they traveled to this continent and raped, killed, and enslaved the societies they found here.

i think Green Day is misunderstood as having watered down punk for the pop kids. i think what they really did is make pop for the punk kids

Real talk their entire answer was “we under no circumstances discuss our internal operations, no matter how seemingly meaningless”

see edit2

i do have to wonder if 23 years later they’re still with RedHat especially since IBM renegotiated many of the contracts when they bought redhat. i’m almost curious enough to email Ernie Ball with the full expectation that they email back “we ain’t telling you shit about our network topology”

EDIT: Curiosity got the better of me and I sent an email asking

edit2: they emailed back with an extremely reasonable “we ain’t telling you shit about our network topology”