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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 5h

Lots of genocide apologists out there these days

Always Think 1st so U R #WokeAF @alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social · 7h

How recently was she a registered Republican. As a Progressive I've got nothing in common with this creepy woman. Harping on the mess in Israel when we have big problems here seems disingenuous.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 5h

Cory Booker is forever Trash. Remember that one time Obama was like “hey wall street? Maybe consider that you have enough money and the mode of production is sufficiently rigged your favor for the time being?” & Booker was all “Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Don't be divisively mean to my best friends asshole!”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 5h

Is there a meaningful difference between a chocolate muffin and a cupcake?

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

directorial and executive power over collective action while reserving any plenary powers to the larger collectivity. Both can also operationalize structural benefits drawn from syndicalism, confederalism, sortition, democracy, and even mandarin-style merit-bureaucracy in very large organizations.

Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

of the variations are designed to create an artificial limit on personal liability and these are not obviously applicable to the needs of revolutionary organizing. But two forms-the traditional corporation and the limited partnership-are worth taking a look at for their ability to distribute...

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

What I will say is that this may be an area where capitalist necessity may provide an adaptable model of social power distribution within an organization through the legal construct of the corporate person. A corporate business organization can take many different forms for different reasons. Many…

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

making provision for the need for direction by some entity constituted for that purpose to provide only the needed direction.

Having identified the problem to my own satisfaction, I confess I have not yet seen any solutions.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

scale. Representative democracy fixes the scale problem but places too much weight on the ability of individuals to be fully responsible for passive electors’ delegated powr. What we need is a flexible, adaptable model power-structure that avoids the problem of concentrating authority while.…

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

Alternatives on offer are not much better. Marxist-Leninists are, as I write these words, attempting to enact so-called “democratic centralism” in the DSA in the hopes of either taking over or replacing the democratic party. Pirate democracy fixes the problem of leadership but not the problem of...

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

spent decades pretending to be an American Indian and accumulating academic & activist cred based on identitarian deference to standpoint epistemologymies. This irony illustrates how broken anarcho-radlib organizational theory is and how desperate we are for an alternative to our current practices…

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

anarchists have actually adopted a social norm that discourages any so-called “snitch-jacketing” or “cop-jacketing” to prevent everyone from turning on each other with every hallucination of suspicions. Ironically, the terms themselves seem to have originated from a professional provocateur who…

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

honeybucket is leaking! Liz is our plumber, I’ll call her!), the organization is immediately vulnerable to the provocateurs, demagogues, narcissists, snitches, and cops attracted to any large disruptive association accumulating any kind of social power. That reality can breed so much paranoia that…

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

performing necessary labor to support the growth of the collective effort has more than a single person doing the work. Once you hit the point where everyone no longer knows who everyone else is, what their responsibilities are, and who to alert when any particular kind of problem arises (fuck! the…

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

redirect the movemeht’s interested but not yet committed audience away from distractions and toward increasing support and commitment to the cause. One of the lessons we learned from occupy is that Rhibozomic mutual aid direct democracy organization doesn’t scale up past the point where every job...

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 12h

The underlying anarchist ideology of organizations like Anonymous and effective organizers like Heather Marsh (similarly, David Graeber) is one of the more frustrating impediments to left organizing. The need to not be autocrats, but movements need self-acknowledged leaders to delegate tasks and…

Esmée Streachailt @esmeestreachailt.bsky.social · Aug 7

#NewsSky #Journalist
You want to get the pedos ib #EpsteinFiles out of the #trafficking and child rape biz?

See the link at the bottom of 'graph 2. It's all still public

The Epstein files – Heather Marsh share.google/eynxUMb51QZ2...

The Epstein files

This month, what I have mostly been hearing are demands for ‘the Epstein files’. For some, this is a very reasonable demand for a working justice system and a rare point that most people in the US …

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 13h

My 2-year-old daughter has learned to eat crackers while jogging in order to keep the dog from trying to take them. She’s got a handful of Annie’s bunny graham crackers and she’s doing laps around the kitchen and dining room tables while he just trots along hopefully behind her.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 14h

Why are the using scribd for document drops? Why cabt anonymous get it together to do better than ad supported subscription services for publication?

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 14h

My point is that i am all for changing it but it’s a very heavy lift given the prevailing political ideas within the democratic party.

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Esmée Streachailt @esmeestreachailt.bsky.social · Aug 7

#NewsSky #Journalist
You want to get the pedos ib #EpsteinFiles out of the #trafficking and child rape biz?

See the link at the bottom of 'graph 2. It's all still public

The Epstein files – Heather Marsh share.google/eynxUMb51QZ2...

The Epstein files

This month, what I have mostly been hearing are demands for ‘the Epstein files’. For some, this is a very reasonable demand for a working justice system and a rare point that most people in the US …

share.google

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 21h

A gorgeous fall day here in the burning hellscape of Portland.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 20h

That would require giving teeth to antitrust lawyers which they will never do under the prevailing neoliberal orthodoxy

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

i'm just a little independent journalist but i don't think the credibility of your reporting should be dependent on access to a paid government mouthpiece