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A more potent reason is that those of us who live outside the US are nonetheless shackled to it. We live within the US imperium, and it’s that that poses the threat of fascist infection.

Gold! I’d like to advocate for its inclusion (with full attribution of course) in every class we teach in the Humanities at my university in Australia.

I don’t think it does. One may have polity without a state. Renaissance republics and Greek city states were polities, but were not states. The state is a particular and fairly recent historical formation, whereas polities seem ubiquitous in the human record.

These are people who’ve lived their entire lives in servitude to paymasters. They cannot survive except under the golden showers the rich, powerful, entitled, and privileged precipitate upon them. Their minds have atrophied, their consciences shrivelled. They are emptied, vitiated husks of life.

We should not confuse authority with power. Authority is a quality one recognises or withholds. Power does not care. In the same way, we should not confuse government with the state. Anarchists, it seems to me, were proponents for government (of various sorts) without the state (in any form).

I don’t ever recall an instance of a stand over merchant lauding their “transparency” as an benefit of accepting their protection racket.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Thankyou for your attention to this blather.

40 years flogging motor oil and retail racism. Of course he is.

Asleep at the steal.

None of these factors unique to your country, and yet there you are.

Bumbling stupid cops is one thing, but what really irritates me to my core is the saccharine sincerity with which our media and political elites pretend that universities are the hidden frontline of antisemitism sweeping the country… even as literal Nazis are welcomed onto our streets!

How Americans have allowed their elections to be so maliciously and incompetently managed is one of the greatest conundrums of our era. Just about every other democracy runs their elections more efficiently and fairly. It’s not rocket science.

An image so searingly literal it could not even qualify as a metaphor.

We have paranoia about anti-semitism at universities, while literal Nazis are given the green light to march on our streets. Keystone cops.

The NAACC. The National Anti Anti-Corruption Commission.