WashedAnus [he/him]

I’m much more concerned about the very real and confirmed ties (see:) Zoom, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, my ISP, my cell phone service provider, etc have to the security apparatus of the country I actually live in who have actual power and authority over me and a long history of murdering left wing activists.

I like to go all the way back to Pints of Guinness Make You Strong sometimes. The line

• If I would have known
• Just how things would have ended up
• I just would have let myself die

Always gets me

Might as well just ask what my Recap is:

• All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Bauhaus
• New Dawn Fades - Joy Division
• The Last Thing - Lebanon Hanover
• Autonomy - Boy Harsher
• Ghosts Again - Depeche Mode
• Anhedonia - Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle
• Various Methods of Escape - Nine Inch Nails
• Turn Those Clapping Hands into Angry Fists - Against Me!
• Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash
• 6:45 - Firewater
• The Man on the Burning Tightrope - Firewater (the whole album, not just the song)

Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin shareholders. BAE and Rheinmetall investors are probably doing well, too.

They’re going to turn the “thanks for the gold kind strangers!” crowd even more annoying

I honestly don’t remember where I read it. It was either some insurrectionary anarchist thing or an ELF/ALF thing. The gist of it is:

You have two organizations that legally never meet. One stages protests, does community outreach, fundraising, and all of your standard environmentalist org stuff. The other does illegal direct action activities, divided into independent cells and/or affinity groups. The above-ground network serves to raise funds and recruit for the underground network, but the key is that the leadership of the above ground group can never be connected to the actions of the underground group. This gives a lot more wiggle room to both groups than if they were to go it alone.

The Bush-era Green Scare did a lot to defang the environmentalist movement. There are still some great resources that they made, like A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, and some good lessons learned, such as the above-ground/underground group dichotomy.