David #Graeber - The utopia of rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy

Windows may be a bit of a vulnerability though.

Something to think about.

remember that time the state executed a political enemy a week ago

weird im sure its probably nothing

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So I noticed that the feed of explicitly tactical/strategic posts has gone down a little bit in favor of propaganda and news, which makes sense. I'm sick of trying to scroll through weeks of chat looking for specific things though. So I've decided to start compiling the real top tier important resources that EVERYBODY should know about, just as some reference material. I like Cryptpad but its a lot of work trying to sort and download everything.

So I'm making this channel called Revolutionary Toolbox, with the sort of "best of" for this channel and the new upsurge of insurrection to come. It's not finished yet, but here's the link:
https://t.me/RevToolbox

I'd like to believe that there is some alternate universe where we could have a reformed police and a government that cares, but I don't. The government has always been out to skin us for profit at the demands of the middle class (or whatever class rules the state,) and the origins of the police in the U.S. come from the southern slave patrols.
My goal is nothing short than the abolition of the state and capital, with the police and military necessarily included as defenders of this order. You can't simply negate the ruling order without something to put in its place however, so that's why we push for stronger dual power among communities through mutual aid, so every place the government retreats we can learn to provide.

We're sitting at a time of global upheaval, disasters, uprisings, economic and ecological collapse, plague, etc. etc. The system that the past three generations have complacently accepted has proven itself to be utterly broken, and I think that the polarization in this society is going to tear apart any sense of united government.

Tl;dr fuck the cops and the state

Just a small list of LA county sheriff gangs

The Lynwood Vikings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynwood_Vikings " federal judge hearing class-action litigation against the department described the most well-known of the groups, the Lynwood Vikings, as a “neo-Nazi, white supremacist gang” and found that deputies had engaged in racially motivated hostility"

The Jump Out Boys

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/02/sheriff-fires-gang-unit-clique.html

The Grim Reapers

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-24-mn-20461-story.html

The 3000 Boys and The 2000 Boys

https://www.lataco.com/are-the-3000-boys-las-largest-gang/

The Banditos, The Cavemen, The Little Devils

https://abc7.com/deputy-cliques-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-department-alex-villanueva-east-la-station/5370629/

The Regulators

https://witnessla.com/the-regulators/

and most recently The Executioners

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-30/sheriff-clique-compton-station-executioners

Other agencies and fusion centers have implied this, but this seems like clear confirmation:

The government is treating #BlueLeaks as "a terrorist act" https://muckrock.com/foi/kentucky-147/blueleaks-bulletins-kentucky-intelligence-fusion-center-100147/#file-903357

I think people should make it more difficult to be doxxed, at a minimum. Most people aren't needing to worry about state actors like the FBI, CIA, or NSA, no. Local law enforcement can use stingrays (and do, especially in Chicago, dear god Chicago PD is bad). The more hurdles people put between their data and an unauthorized user, the safer they are (to a point, and terms and conditions obviously apply)

Honestly, I think of the *police* as being in open insurrection against the populace, which is lawfully and ethically and constitutionally resisting fascism. Fascism in the US is white supremacy, which is, fundamentally, what I feel these protests are about. That all aside, everyone who can participate and support should do so, but regimes always refer back to their records when they cement power so they can begin purging political dissidents. I have some very grave reservations about how the next few months will go, given the national catastrophe consistently worsening, and the normalizations of fascist actions by the state under Trump (which, granted, was also occurring before him but at a slower pace imo).

I don't think we're at the point where police will start kicking in the doors of protesters, but that *is* something that has happened throughout history with far less technological access than our tate has now.

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