frontrunning the american diaspora
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this is what I'm talking about: Heists, piracy, chips as fungible store of value. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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Rethinking this: Nationwide small-scale protests in fall/winter 2022 is kind of a similar thing in the sense that ending the core national policy of zero covid was the result of united-but-not-coordinated nation-scale collective action
A final contradictory bit: living in the US, I saw elections as a really effective tool for state control. This is still true, but the large-scale, non-predicted collective decision making about ~national affairs~ is pretty impressive & obviously different from the situation here
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This is basically where the US seems to be at, in the sense that party loyalty is done and/but people remain invested in electoral politics as a primary, increasingly-failed way to express their displeasure with The State of Things. Bad time to invest in DSA IMO.
This is the first big-ish election I've watched from China, which changed some of how I've been thinking about it. Generally I think posting about elections is kind of unbecoming & I'm still an anarchist but I do think there are some important takeaways.
It seems like this would be a pretty good moment to generalize some forms of autonomous politics outside electoralism, and it seems to me like this is actually happening in some-to-many places - but I wonder about visibility.
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Prairieland defendants need to be released. Minnesota ICE defendants charges need to be dropped.
Public trials for all ICE agents involved in the murders of Renee and Alex.
Passports taken from all officials most importantly Stephen Miller.
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Dems win and the tenure lines in gender studies immediately start opening up again
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the key turn and entire point of that Vance post is that they don't plan to give up an inch on immigration. the plan is to keep disappearing and killing people in the streets, and run on it again.
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We’re mostly joking around tonight but we’re actually going to imprison you
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A profoundly American thing is thinking your living in unprecedented times every two years and that history just might not apply to you this time
