Notices by Ciggy Bringer of Smoke (ciggysmokebringer@kolektiva.social), page 2

@AnarchoNinaWrites

One thing I wonder about is how constantly buckling under test, or not ever facing a personal test on the whole 'Your fams wants you dead or for you to not even be you' leads to this constant grace for familial shitbirds.

I talk a lot of smack about infinite graces for people that wipe their ass with those graces but on some level, I gotta think they just don't get that blood relations are dogshit when the blood relations want you dead and for you to no longer pump blood, and yet...if you're not in the crosshairs...all this flimflam about rehabilitating and moderating your slur dropping uncle or sig heiling grandpa still lingers? It's dopey, people need to drop it.

@AnarchoNinaWrites

LMAO, this hits way too close to home with my illfated attempt in mid 2020 to try and get an antifascist reading/working group up and going within my local DSA...

I went so far as to even ask out loud 'Do you want to just read about it or do want to be about it' and it was mostly awkward 'read about it' which actually kinda stung. I wasn't trying to get this going just so we could know...JFC.

@fiadh @AnarchoNinaWrites

This is the absolute truth of the matter and its flatly more embarrassing to have some Leftist with a glint in their eye about 'Maybe we can get them (Fash) to...' before trailing off as they see everyone looking at them like a pants-on-head fool.

Like, I toss a lot of shit at Liberals but its to hopefully shake some off of putting up with their own Theory of Politics that has a lot of straining things no one should have to put up with even if they aren't very active with their Theory of Politics. It's not a 'Don't you want better?' but more of a 'Why hold onto something doing you dirty and putting you in bad no-win positions and for what?'

Regardless, the golden rule is that putting on a bib and licking your chops at fresh meat that might be a comrade at some point down the road is offputting to everyone, and more offputting with specific types, but for some other strained 'Enemy of my Enemy' shit.

@MediaActivist @BillySmith @kitoconnell @kolektiva

Yeah, I never thought at one point - hey, my rampant jackassery online will have serious consequences until like 2020, but there is so much out of the bag, I like to think myself more like a buoy - if I am not reporting in because I got made or pinched or whatever, you know things are getting tighter.

And did grow ethically and morally and learned to finesse a little bit better and cut the crap better, but...ya know...some of the cat is out of the bag.

@AnarchoNinaWrites

It's a fucking nightmare trip to have the 'Lucky Once, Lucky Every Time' dynamic play out with fascists holding the rock needing to be lucky once, like JFC, how does a non responsive half-captured State even?

@AnarchoNinaWrites

Every single time, these buffoons show they are playing an armchair game in the parlor. "Ahp, you lost the last election, I guess that's a final referendum on whether your fascist overtures had any legs at all" like...we are 8 years deep into this specific era, 25ish with generous rounding into a larger epoch...these fucks have only lost ground in the interim with small politically inconsequential victories for future fortunes and footing...

but yeah...one more election bro...that'll do it.

@AlexanderKingsbury @HeavenlyPossum @neonsnake @gerrymcgovern @RD4Anarchy @gnutelephony @whatzaname

You say all this shit like rent seeking isn't the Capitalist's primary gravy train. Get lost.

@AnarchoNinaWrites

It's always this fear of some retaliatory shoe dropping, as boots are put to our neck regardless. It's borderline kayfabe for all the dramatic 'what if we open the door' fretting they're not even part and party to doing.

Any supposed Vanguard Party would provide a sack lunch, a sling or slingshot, and address every type of casualty with care.

That's how I see it at least, and I'm not just making this up as a program to pursue for some greater liberation good out of the ether, I'm telling you exactly what would keep me and others going longer than we thought we could.

The amount of folks that got washed out in 2020 still fucks with me because the entire shoe of 'we take care of us' was missing! We did not take care of us after repeated traumas, bumps bruises and broken bones, constant social friction around bad actors and bad faith actors who couldn't be rooted out. Of the 20 mil or so that turned out full of fire spitting fire, I wonder how many would make an encore in the next 5-10 years, because there wasn't and isn't a core backbench of support to mend every kind of wound.

And when proven wrong, this is where things are actually bad, there's not a helluva lot of support and care and regrouping to figure out if there's any way to mitigate that shit or if it was just a bad beat on the wrong day.

I really hate the 'if we protest we'll get shot or run over or arrested' because its a nullifying point using an omnipresent potential not even related to protesting, as some kind of individual catastrophic fate.

As much as we might chide the headstrong bravado of 'getting got is something that happens to other people', you kinda have to believe that on end if you wanna make it out the door on end until proven wrong.

A lot of the street level antifascist programs are about making fascism socially unviable, making it hazardous to health, about imposing a consequence to malignancy when there seemingly is none, but we don't have huge numbers and we certainly don't have buy in from a larger political mass that thinks buttressing the gate is the only thing to do because their meemaw is a fascist and they can't rebuke the final arbiter in their Civic Faith.

If The State is the final arbiter of everything related to rights and self governance, pretty unpleasant thought you might have to kill it and start fresh, but I'm here to tell you, it's already dead.

The problem with couching voting as meaningful antifascist defense is that the partisan machine of fascism doesn't just shrivel up and die being swatted away from seizing State Power, especially when fascists have both Capitalist and State benefactors bankrolling the entire machine. Unlike our plucky asses that are entirely self funding off hourly wages and passing the same worn 20 around, they have deep material pockets to wait for chances and kid gloves deployed against them when taking chances.

It's like, if you can see a whole ass army marching towards the bastion, reinforcing the gate might avert a calamitous outcome, not the entire calamitous problem of an army mustering, marching, arriving, mounting a siege and starving out the bastion with regularity.

And there simply isn't an Electoral program that is dedicated to preventing the muster, march and arrival of fascists. There isn't a program within the Democratic Party that even sniffs it.

A huge part of why is Nationalism baked into the very fabric of Liberal Democracy where the Nation State's existence is more sacrosanct no matter how bad it gets, with the flimsiest pretenses of self governance allowed by The State keeping the illusion of Liberal Democracy intact and a single legitimated conduit in voting, the bastion gate, the focal point of most partisan agency.

One of the parts of the Liberal Democracy Social Compact is abiding the outcomes of elections, like em or not.

Quite the fucking bind if you fail the saving throw roll at the gate and it's game over by your own accord.

@hakan_geijer

Unfortunately, more true slogans are a mouthful

"By effective means discovered contemporaneously" is like...a lot

Getting a DM on NextDoor that insist I'm driving people to the right on NextDoor with allusion to horseshoe theory and it's absolutely incredible how much these base fools can not accept that their own fucking avatars and idols have so much agency and just screw pooches with it.

Even the horseshit 'our self governance system is complex and only a handful know how to operate within the ecosystem so who are we to lodge complaint' is the shit a vapid mark comes up with WHEN THE FUCKING SELF GOVERNANCE BIT IS BARFING ON ITSELF AND NEARLY DEAD

Even if I agreed with Proglib Democrats on The Issues, I'd still not associate with them because they're generally vapid marks who obviously can't lay blame in any sensical way.