New video essay: When five skilled musicians formed Snot in the mid-1990s, their punk-infused metal sound influenced the entire music scene. Sadly, before the surprising depth of their debut album had a chance to be discovered, their name became synonymous with misfortune. https://youtu.be/KH_QsXHCdwo

#music #punk #metal #review #antifascism #anarchism

When autocracy takes hold in a country, everything goes on as before—police go on policing, landlords go on collecting rent, people go on showing up to work. The transition takes place so smoothly because all the elements necessary to fascism were present under democracy.

https://crimethinc.com/democracy

People imagine fascism as the opposite of democratic governance. In fact, it employs the same police, courts, property rights, patriotic mythology, and habits of obedience as state democracy. Wherever there is a powerful state with a monopoly on violence, fascism is only an election away.

This is why resistance to authoritarianism must take place at all times, not simply when an army is invading under swastika flags. We must never conflate the smooth functioning of the state with freedom itself. Assuming that the "rule of law" is identical with self-determination gives aspiring despots a free hand.

⁠‪#FYI #FreedomFlotilla #Palestine #Israel #genocide #NeverAgain #NeverAgainForAnyone

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Less than 90NM from #Gaza, sailing in war zone. Everyone is currently safe.

All eyes on the #flotilla! #GlobalNightwatch

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FYI: You cancelled Disney because they bowed to fascism, not because of Kimmel.
Now that they bowed to capitalism, don't sign up for Kimmel.

And while we're at it: Stop paying monthly fees for not owning what you bought. All streaming services will bow to fascism when the time comes, and your protest songs, anarchism ebooks, science papers and queer love stories will be gone.
Torrents are forever.

Be gay, do crime.
When injustice is law, crime is duty.

US Democrats are so enamored with the idea that Trump is “distracting” because a fundamental pillar of US liberalism is that nothing real can ever happen. It’s just not allowed. So when real things do happen, like a fascist takeover and military occupation of the US capital, they can only conceive of it in terms of messaging, of signs and symbols.

The real world ended in 1992, after the Soviet Union collapsed and Bill Clinton became President and neoliberalism settled in as The End of History.

The first real thing that will ever happen to many of these people will be their own deaths.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dem-strategists-urged-party-trump-military-takeover-1235415635/