When you can't exercise power against your vertical enemies, the pressure blows horizontally. Very common behavior, all too human.

Particularly de facto secession, gradual systematic secession, parallel systems overtaking federal ones type of secession... And open declaration would be too dangerous and fruitless anyways, I'd think.

This said, I wonder what would happen if everyone making the gunpowder and rations just stopped doing that. Wars are fought on stomachs, after all, and we more than anyone hold the forks.

Fair point, but let's not forget that Palestine Action members have ruined a couple weapons manufacturing factories without any gunfire. Just some power tools and cheap messy materials thrown into cleanrooms.

Some fascinating developments from China's navy. Some argue that them revamping cargo ships to modular wartime vessels could lead to a fleet rivaling US naval power.

www.scmp.com/news/china/m...

The hangman has his sickening reasons, the writer tells the truth only through lies, the artist pursues what disgusts others

same 🤔 it's a good time to be a good person

reminds me of Henry Ossawa Tanner! ("At the Gates")

knowing bluesky, I'd probably get blocked if I pointed out their misspelling of "prose" lol

When the venture capitalists behind Prospera - Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel -- got Trump into the White House, they now have the imperial power of the US government to back things like expensive, intensive and invasive coups to protect their investments.

The US government is gonna do what it always does: Coup Latin America to preserve American investments. Like Prospera.

We are losing COUNTRIES to tech fascism, to the Network State, every year now.

Yeah, if anything, Vance is *more* dangerous if people don't take him seriously, if he's actually uncharismatic. He'll try that much harder to be taken seriously, and unlike Trump, he's actually competent. Paper tigers are more dangerous, because they have something to prove...

the war on bobs and vagene

I fear the First World Feminist and the First World Nativist will enter into an unholy (and ultimately scapegoatingly fruitless) alliance against their common enemy: the South Asian Sex Pest

Aw HELL yeah they got my boy Gesaffelstein's music in the trailer (an edit/remix of "Digital Slaves" from his latest album, Gamma)