Notices by A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 (juliusgoat@mastodon.social), page 2

And I published my second book, the essay collection VERY FINE PEOPLE, with the help of all of you nice people, especially the patrons who support me at the level I still for some reason (laziness) call Founding, some 3 years after the founding. https://www.the-reframe.com/a-very-fine-publication-date/

In January, I wrote about my decision to move The Reframe off Substack, which is a platform I quite liked and upon which I had enjoyed quite a bit of success. I lay out the reasons here (Nazis, mostly). https://www.the-reframe.com/hello-i-must-be-going/

But that's what's ahead. Right now I'm looking back at the year that was.

I did a lot of writing on here, it turns out, and some of it I still like OK. So here are six essays from 2024 that I think are best.

I've got an essay teed up about that capitulation; a follow-up to last week's post about the murderous scam that is my nation's founding myth. And, because I can only stare at the eye of Sauron so long at a time, I'll do another palate-cleansing LOST recap soon.

https://www.the-reframe.com/a-system-built-to-eat-people-never-stops-eating/

I wrote about the billionaire system—the murderous scam upon which my country was founded—enabling our coming fascist tide, and lessons of opposition we can learn from the natural human system it captured and perverted for its evil intentions.

A tale of two murders: https://www.the-reframe.com/a-system-built-to-eat-people-never-stops-eating/

"Do I agree with the TV and newspaper pundits that violence is never the answer? I would hope to be one who is not oriented toward violence. I wonder at those who only ask the question of the less powerful. I notice that violence very often is framed as the answer, actually—as the exclusive property of the wealthy upon everyone else. The consternation seems to be saved not for the violence, but the reversal."

https://www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-solutions/

I wrote about the reaction to the shooting of a CEO.

"It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too."

https://www.the-reframe.com/peaceful-solutions/

Every conservative argument about healthcare, like every conservative argument about every other topic, is predicated around the proposition “in what way is our system helping human beings and how can we stop that?”

I wrote about the societal diseases of billionairism and narcissism that our country is suffering to a terminal degree, the reasons why building communities is the most effective treatment for it, and what that means for The Reframe.

https://www.the-reframe.com/we-cant-afford-billionaires/

Let's say we're on the subway in rush hour and it's a little crowded on the car, and I step on your toes. Say you tell me about it in this sort of fashion: "Ow!" or "Youch!" or "Gadfreys! My toes!"

How do I react?

Full Essay: https://www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-engagement/

3) When somebody seems too unsafe to trust with your boundaries, leave. If it's not safe to tell them, or you're not sure if its safe, withdraw from them without telling them. See how they react. They'll tell you who they are.

2) When somebody seems too unsafe to trust with your pain, set a boundary. If somebody has proved themselves less safe than you thought, but you still think it's safe to do so, tell them that you're going to have to withdraw in some way from them. See how they react. They'll tell you who they are.

In this coming age of fascism, it's going to be just as important to discover safe people as it is to discover unsafe people.

Three simple principles I think may work.

1) When someone hurts you, tell them. See how they react. They'll tell you who they are.

https://www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-engagement/

Christians of good intentions need to accept the fact that the signs and symbols of Christianity now represent a genuine menace and a credible threat of violence to all the kinds of people Jesus told followers to serve. The cross once again represents only a tool of authoritarian torture and death.

if you voted for trump, or you excuse those who did, people in your orbit know you’re not safe. When the chips are down, you’ll sell out your loved ones and then retreat to your self-exonerating excuses. Of course you will; you did it when the chips weren’t down.

You’re unsafe, and dangerous times are coming. Bye.

Question of if/when Republican family/friends should be shunned by those who will be directly harmed by their support of Trump—and the fact that the possibility infuriates Republicans so much—comes down to this simple fact:

Bullies need victims. But victims don’t need bullies.

Trump supporters, when people cut you out of their lives because you support their marginalization and abuse and murder, they aren’t ending your relationship over politics; they’re recognizing that you ended it over politics and are reacting accordingly. It’s that thing you say you love—personal accountability. Live with your choice.

Seek people whose lives are hard, and make it easier for them.

Encounter people who have made their lives comfortable by making it hard for others, and make it uncomfortable.

Hope is a thing that fights in the dark.

good morning

"I see TRUMP/VANCE 2024 signs on lawns around my neighborhood, and I know there is somebody inside that house who on some fundamental level cannot be trusted. I know there might be people inside that house who quietly fear that person with good reason."

https://www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-accepted/