Notices by Kevin Carson (kevincarson1@kolektiva.social), page 2

@SeanCasten TBF the federal government should be spending zero on keeping out migrants and enforcing laws against drug consumption.

Ancaps who adhere to the NAP just assume it's self-evident who's the aggressor and who's the defender in any situation, and it's based entirely on their conception of "property." "I hate the state and consider everything it does aggressive and illegitimate. I also uncritically accept the state's definition of ownership and recognize the titles it establishes and enforces legitimate without question."
I know there are ancaps who will handwave to the possibility, in principle, that property titles can be illegitimate or traceable to an unjust origin. But then they'll respond to any criticism of a landlord, or of what Elon Musk spends money on, by saying "Who cares? It's his proppity!"

What an absolute, irredeemable fucking piece of shit Elon is. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center/

There were ten times as many people on the streets for the George Floyd protests as for Open Up or Stop the Steal.
That's why I think these "Second Civil War" people are in for a really nasty surprise if it ever actually comes down to how many people the pro- and anti-coup regime sides can mobilize in the streets respectively. Any momentarily successful coup attempt or martial law declaration by a MAGA president would be immediately followed by every major city in America being shut down indefinitely by mass protests, the airlines and other transportation systems being paralyzed by strikes, most of the government bureaucracy saboting orders, and probably by the White House fences being stormed by crowds so large as to overwhelm anyone opposing them.
In addition to, um, certain persons winding up like Mussolini and Ceaucescu, this country might finally get the thorough cultural purge it should have gotten during Reconstruction.

Lindsey says the quiet part out loud: “The demographics race we’re losing badly.... [Republicans are] not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”
It's about working racists into a rage that America's been "stolen" from them. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/12/11/republicans-cant-generate-enough-angry-white-guys

Framing the primary group affected as "homeowners" -- and not absentee owners mass-converting family dwelling units into short-term rentals and causing a housing shortage in order to rent-gouge -- is fundamentally dishonest. https://ino.to/obQiKam

@HeavenlyPossum Any tax on billionaires short of 99.99% is less than "their fair share," since virtually all their income is unearned extraction of economic rent.

Know who's really not "paying their fair share into a fund that helps cover road construction and repairs"? The trucking industry. Heavy trucks cause virtually 100% of road bed damage. https://ino.to/gOAUjRi

If the right-wing chuds who say "The Nazis were socialists" and "The Confederates/ Klan/ segregationists were Democrats" actually believe that, why are they so friendly to Nazis and neo-Confederates?

Vivek Ramaswamy thinks anyone younger than 25 should have to pass a test on American government to vote.
He also reportedly said the U.S. Constitution enabled us to win the Revolution. The Constitution was ratified in 1788, five years after the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War.
Ramaswamy would fail his own test.

Billy Bragg's response to "Rich Men North of Richmond."
Fuck you, Oliver Anthony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNFR7pgxDY

"Rich men north of Richmond," LOL. Southern politics is dominated by utterly corrupt Boss Hogg types and Gilead-style theocrats -- often the same people -- with Eric Endicott behind the scenes pulling strings.
If you've read the account of the schoolhouse construction scandal in All the King's Men, that captures the atmosphere perfectly.

A commenter on FB: My hope is [for] libertarians to diagnose private property as an institution the same way they diagnose the state.
For some reason they oppose the institution of “the state” based on historical sociological analysis but cannot do the same with the institution of “private property”.

My reply: And the modern nation-state, the capitalist system, and the modern form of "private property" all had common origins in the same historical process. But right-libertarians act like the latter two were just some kind of spontaneous growth; and they can just remove "gummint," and capitalism and private property will persist in essentially the same form.

One of the best critiques of "rational markets" theory I've ever seen, from Cory Doctorow.
It may be true that in the long run businesses that destroy value and enshittify goods and services will inevitably fail (although, then again, it may not, since most industries are cartelized between a handful of firms that share the same business model, so none of them suffers any competitive penalty).
But in any case, businesses can run a long, long time before the bill comes due. And in the meantime, a lot of vulture capitalists can make one hell of a lot of money off them before dumping what's left of them onto the suckers. https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/10/smartest-guys-in-the-room/

LOL. Eat shit, Elon.
According to a report from The Drive, a security researcher and three PhD students have found an exploit in Tesla's AMD processor-based Media Control Unit or "MCU." The team then "tricks" the car into thinking certain purchases have been made. That means features that require microtransactions like the heated steering wheel, footwell lights, or even the $2,000 "Acceleration Boost" could be turned on for free via the hack.
So, why is this hack irreversible by Tesla? According to the white paper from the hacker team, their exploit can't be patched out by Tesla because it targets the AMD secure processor inside the MCU and not any parts or systems made by Tesla. As long as someone has the knowhow and physical access to the vehicle, this hack can be executed on AMD equipped Teslas. It is currently unknown if the hack can access the Tesla Full Self Driving suite, which currently costs $15,000 to unlock. However, the team plans to talk about the hack at the BlackHat 2023 cyber security event, so they may be saving that detail for their presentation.
"Tesla Hackers Permanently Jailbreak Paywalled Features" -- Motortrend https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-unpatchable-jailbreak-hack/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0juj7VkF8Qj-rvFF8udFl1JUML_RzgX4QFw3xuWA2TZv0ZZGBgSCEyICk

@FinalOverdrive The feel of it would have been entirely different in genuinely self-managed factories where everything was genuinely *theirs*.
The other side of the coin is integrating small-scale production facilities -- coworking spaces, common workshops, etc. -- into self-managed cohousing projects.

Striking Ron Perlman on the studio exec who said "The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their houses":
"There's a lot of ways to lose your house.... One of them is figuring out who the fuck said that.... And where he fucking lives." https://youtube.com/shorts/EcdvuV81F_M?feature=share

"Corbynism isn’t gone – there’s still hope it could shape the UK’s future" -- Open Democracy https://ino.to/C3E2RK4

Reason Magazine: "Here's an article by a student who had to SELF-CENSOR because she was afraid people might *gasp* criticize her for her conservative ideas!"
Also Reason: "LOL at these woke things college students said!"

Reason: The proper way to counter racist and fascist speech is by criticizing it in the marketplace of ideas -- like J.S. Mill said!
Anyone: *criticizes racist and fascist speech*
Reason: CANCEL CULTURE!!!!!!

To me the whole question of "reform vs. revolution," or whether "capitalism can be reformed," is meaningless.
It's like asking whether the transition from feudalism to capitalism was brought about by reform or revolution, or whether feudalism was reformed.
It's an utterly simplistic framework for analyzing the extremely complex process of transition from one historic system to another.