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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 04:04:03 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   People ask me "why now, why fascism, why police states, what changed?" And the answer is literally right in front of your face; they know. Rich people, who own pretty much everything - your media, your educational institutes, the politicians you vote for, the cultural product you consume, know that it's capitalism or a planet that can support 8B+ humans. They've known for decades. And they know you won't die quietly so they can keep accumulating wealth. That's why "fascism" and "police states."

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 04:04:15 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     And we're past the point where that's a theory. Because every day you watch the situation worsen. Every day, they strip more of your rights. Every day they continue ripping fossil fuels out of the ground and burning them even as it brings you and yours closer to extinction. These aren't theories, these are known facts and you can either choose to believe they're all idiots or you can look at what they're doing and extrapolate what it means.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 04:04:20 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     Installing fascists, building police states, arming themselves to the teeth. The message is super clear, it doesn't take a genius to realize they're going to run us right off the ecological cliff for capital and shoot anyone who tries to fight back - their actions point to NO OTHER POSSIBLE CONCLUSION.

     Recognizing this is not crazy; pretending it's not happening while rich people and the states they own line you up for a shallow grave? That's crazy.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@jorts.horse)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 04:04:26 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     Don't talk to me about democracy when rich people own everything and are sizing me and mine up for extermination. Don't talk to me about voting until you can present a choice that isn't "kill billions to keep doing capitalism" because the hour is fucking late, and I have no more patience for pretend on a boiling planet, surrounded by nazis who mean us all harm, and staring down a mass extinction event.

     You want to know why I'm so fucking angry? Well there's your answer. I HATE pretend.

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     RebelGeek99 (rebelgeek99@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 04:04:36 JST RebelGeek99

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites the gusto with which Congress moved to increase protection for the #RogueSCOTUS, amidst dismantling what was left of NPI's during an airborne pandemic, should have been enough for most people to see the light.

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     ErosBlog Bacchus (erosblog@kinkyelephant.com)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 04:05:04 JST ErosBlog Bacchus

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites My apocalyptic view of climate change under capitalism can be captured in a single image: thousands of miles of international borders fortified with automatic machine gun nests, slaughtering endless human waves of desperate and starving climate/famine refugees. It's just one of the many genocidal horrors we'll experience as global population contracts by more than half. I don't know anyone offline (plus damned few on) I can say this to without getting the "you're crazy" look.

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     Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs: (carcosa@emacs.ch)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 04:05:33 JST Inhabitant of Carcosa :emacs:

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites The thoughtful part of the bourgeoisie knows, intellectually, that their best hope for survival is the use of the state as an instrument of class reconciliation — i.e., social democracy. But the actual mechanics of capitalism make that solution unsustainable (it will be worn down over time because the class conflict between the owners and workers is an unavoidable part of capitalism). So they are forced to return to the core function of the state as the instrument of class oppression; some more eagerly, some less eagerly. Fascism and police states are simply a return to the norm of class society, with the use of hard power rather than soft to maintain the rule of one class.