Posts by alfred@t.cascadians.net
(DIR) Post #291491 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-09-29T22:18:01.287316Z
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im the real coward because i disabled my pleroma for a few days while nazis were stalking our Facebook
(DIR) Post #414469 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T15:08:25.090152Z
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@DetectiveHyde @dtluna interested in cascadia? hmu also don't let DTLuna trick you into thinking it's capitalist
(DIR) Post #414493 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T15:13:28.568839Z
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@DetectiveHyde basically yes we draw the borders based on the geography (cascadia is like a bunch of biomes lumped together) we think that the US government is corrupt and evil, that US corporations are destroying the earth, that if we threw out the old system and made a new one from scratch, we could reduce the amount of damage being done
(DIR) Post #414547 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T15:18:00.554109Z
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@DetectiveHyde the most popular proposal is to essentially have a city-state system, but a key idea is that cascadia wouldn't be a nation-state, eg you would not have to file to be a "citizen of cascadia" , there wouldn't be cascadian border police or a big wall built. each city can probably run itself democratically but if it fucks up, the other cities can say "whoa buddy! you're fucking up"
(DIR) Post #414565 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T15:14:40.014343Z
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@DetectiveHyde the PNW has great soil, clean air, clean water, and tons of pristine nature. we're also the most leftwing part of the north american continent we kind of imagine something like EZLN in Mexico, or Rojava (kurdistan) in Syria
(DIR) Post #414566 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T15:15:33.826378Z
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@DetectiveHyde or kind of like the confederate states of america, except being focused on being bros instead of like, defending slavery, lol
(DIR) Post #414701 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T15:20:23.043619Z
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@DetectiveHyde this is in stark contrast to a system like Leninism or Maoism where there's a "dear leader" who issues orders from the top down. it's also contrasted against the democratic republican system, where people are elected to positions of power to make decisions idk if you are familiar with Libya but it had an essentially leaderless system where simple majority decision could decide major policy
(DIR) Post #414772 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T15:42:20.758172Z
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@DetectiveHyde @shit this is basically where the movement at-large is at.
(DIR) Post #414823 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T15:45:11.897626Z
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@DetectiveHyde @shit it's not like, following a revolution, everyone dies or forgets about their old jobs or becomes a completely new person. let's say, for the sake of argument, 5% of the PNW is really into communism (and that's a stretch). you can't make the USSR happen again if 95% of society doesn't want it. this is also our answer as to how we'll keep neo-nazis / KKK from rising to power. we are a pretty white part of the US, but the last 2 years have shown me that the majority is anti-racist. slavery isn't just anti-anarchist and anti-socialist, it's anti-democracy, anti-liberal, and generally considered to be anti-human. by the majority of the population
(DIR) Post #414991 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T15:47:06.452846Z
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@DetectiveHyde @shit what do you think is the best way to manage power? england is like 600 miles long right? when should you be allowed to decide how someone 400 miles away lives his house?
(DIR) Post #415010 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T16:00:12.778171Z
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@DetectiveHyde @shit and you could be certain this MisesCorp demon factory would hire their own military group to defend their enterprise, knowing fully well that there's no army or FBI to shut them down
(DIR) Post #415050 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T16:05:45.771260Z
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@DetectiveHyde @shit something ironic given that i am involved with the anti-ICE movement (against immigration police) is that, in the big picture I think exile is a much better punishment than jail time or torture, or murderthere are a lot of criticisms of the US justice system in the "cascadia movement" but tbh the hardest thing about American law is that it's so complex and difficult to change. At our trials, 12 random people drawn from society can actually decide "this guy did the crime, but he doesn't deserve to be punished" (this is called jury nullification) but almost no one knows about it. I would certainly hope there is no "private prison" system with "private police" etc , some system of professional kidnappers and revenge-seekers, most Americans don't really want this either
(DIR) Post #415423 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T16:36:32.772782Z
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@detectivehyde > What about if, on top of that, England broke up into smaller componentsyeah, in theory this is what should be happening in Parliament > what if my neighbor turns his house into a tar and soot factory?and that's the other side of the issue. If your neighbor moves way out into the woods and somehow runs a tar and soot factory that no one detects, is he really causing a problem? Cascadia has fairly low population density. outside a few major cities, there are a lot of people living in really rural conditions Cascadia is 16 million people while London is 8 million people . England is 50,000 square miles.Cascadia is 16,000,000 square miles. That's a factor in our thought, as well as our history of well being the United States and the popular mythology about 1776 and Ben Franklin, cowboys, etc etc etc.
(DIR) Post #415498 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T16:38:31.434230Z
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@DetectiveHyde @shit i tend more towards socialism than the black flag anarchy. Black flag anarchy / extreme anarchism can spark revolutions but it doesn't provide any satisfying answers to what happens next basically you could divide England into 48 counties before right?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_counties_of_the_United_Kingdom
(DIR) Post #415590 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T16:48:17.402072Z
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@DetectiveHyde @shit oh I draw a hard line between workers democratically owning the company & neighbors democratically controlling their neighborhood, FROM the communism of Lenin and Maoi am socialist in part because I think neoliberalism is a sham, the stock market is a sham, banknotes (fiat currency) are a scam , Gaddaffi was a socialist who also wanted a gold standard and he was murdered for it.
(DIR) Post #416751 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T16:58:52.411078Z
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@DetectiveHyde @debbie @shit here, most libertarians will talk about how they hate "big capitalism" even if they support "little capitalism", and to diehard ansocs, this is not different from christians differentiation between micro-evolution and macro-evolution, idk, i don't think money or business or jobs are all bad.
(DIR) Post #416753 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T17:31:53.637230Z
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@debbie @DetectiveHyde @shit that is how the really big companies survive though.
(DIR) Post #416754 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-07T17:32:23.728880Z
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@debbie @DetectiveHyde @shit i think that's the textbook definition of fascism -- "state capitalism"
(DIR) Post #435245 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-08T20:22:40.674926Z
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i feel like im one of the only adults who doesnt like candy / soda
(DIR) Post #435295 by alfred@t.cascadians.net
2018-10-08T20:25:54.471089Z
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my twitter game has been extremely On Fire lately but i am either totally ignored, or i draw the ire of SJW type libs