The road to absolute absence of rulers goes through an infinite number of steps with more and more equality. As long as the public sector promotes equality, any incrementalist anarchist will support it.
I heard there is a very organized organization of organized Professional Anarchists, but can't find out anything online about it. (The interwebs seem very disorganized, almost chaotic, about anarchist organizations, it's like they don't exist except in someones tiny mind!)
"What's also clear is that there is no Nazi, Facist, Neo-Nazi or other similar radical group destroying property, attacking the police, or rioting in the streets on a regular basis anywhere in the US"
No, its clear the right wing extremists are just fucking murdering people!
Typical right wing scum are the people make a big deal of graffiti and vandalism and intentionally ignore their own mass murderers and the regular practices of killing people of color in police custody.
There is nothing to "clean up". For a few days when police weren't there, lo and behold neither was violence or destruction. Its amazing what firing into crowds of unarmed demonstrators does to ramp up the intensity and violence of a situation.
The Constitution and rule of law are worth more than the costs of broken glass, spray paint removal and fire damage mediation.
Portland is already cleaning up. The only cess was the unidentified armed military thugs in unlabeled uniforms attacking citizens exercising their constitutional rights. Once they left, the people and their city have returned to focusing on Black Lives Matter, as they should.
As for "no Nazi, Facist, Neo-Nazi or other similar radical group destroying property, attacking the police, or rioting in the streets on a regular basis anywhere in the US" - the Southern Poverty Law Center and Klanwatch beg to differ. Your mistake is in thinking that such groups don't exist because they are not "rioting in the streets." They don't need to - they have Trump's brownshirts to do that work for them. But they exist, they are armed, and Trump has been signaling them for more than a year that their opportunity is coming.
I hate to break it to you, but those don't exist. Hierarchy rots the brain.
As written by Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman:
After attacking the sacred majesty of kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality. It is of great importance to observe that the character of every man is, in some degree, formed by his profession. A man of sense may only have a cast of countenance that wears off as you trace his individuality, whilst the weak, common man has scarcely ever any character, but what belongs to the body; at least, all his opinions have been so steeped in the vat consecrated by authority, that the faint spirit which the grape of his own vine yields, cannot be distinguished. Society, therefore, as it becomes more enlightened, should be very careful not to establish bodies of men who must necessarily be made foolish or vicious by the very constitution of their profession.
I think prosecuting war criminals is VERY important. At least it was in WWll. Mass killings of civilians and torture are against the Geneva Conventions, not to mention our laws. As far as it taking up OBama's time while he was doing all these other things, aren't investigations taken up by the DOJ and the AG, or the FBI, or the CIA? I doubt OBama would have been involved much at all, except to tell the DOJ to get on it, because he wasn't involved at all in the beginning of those wars.
agree with you, but my point was that a new president only has limited political and social capital and, as much as we would have preferred it, he decided not to spend a lot of it prosecuting John Yoo.
That was just another failed religious jihad, right?
The road to absolute absence of rulers goes through an infinite number of steps with more and more equality. As long as the public sector promotes equality, any incrementalist anarchist will support it.
I heard there is a very organized organization of organized Professional Anarchists, but can't find out anything online about it. (The interwebs seem very disorganized, almost chaotic, about anarchist organizations, it's like they don't exist except in someones tiny mind!)
"What's also clear is that there is no Nazi, Facist, Neo-Nazi or other similar radical group destroying property, attacking the police, or rioting in the streets on a regular basis anywhere in the US"
No, its clear the right wing extremists are just fucking murdering people!
Typical right wing scum are the people make a big deal of graffiti and vandalism and intentionally ignore their own mass murderers and the regular practices of killing people of color in police custody.
There is nothing to "clean up". For a few days when police weren't there, lo and behold neither was violence or destruction. Its amazing what firing into crowds of unarmed demonstrators does to ramp up the intensity and violence of a situation.
The Constitution and rule of law are worth more than the costs of broken glass, spray paint removal and fire damage mediation.
The buildings have been empty since the epidemic lockdowns started.
And notice despite the destruction of the building and loss of life, we did not forego rule of law or Constitutional protections.
Trumpies are just cowards whose plans of enacting martial law are going very badly.
It's clearly a dumbfuckohedron.
Portland is already cleaning up. The only cess was the unidentified armed military thugs in unlabeled uniforms attacking citizens exercising their constitutional rights. Once they left, the people and their city have returned to focusing on Black Lives Matter, as they should.
As for "no Nazi, Facist, Neo-Nazi or other similar radical group destroying property, attacking the police, or rioting in the streets on a regular basis anywhere in the US" - the Southern Poverty Law Center and Klanwatch beg to differ. Your mistake is in thinking that such groups don't exist because they are not "rioting in the streets." They don't need to - they have Trump's brownshirts to do that work for them. But they exist, they are armed, and Trump has been signaling them for more than a year that their opportunity is coming.
Wish us luck on Election Day.
Yep, you have less than 4% of the world's people, and 25% of the world's prisoners.
Militaries own a lot of explosives, but they rarely use them. OTOH Disney uses them every day.
a truly great country
I hate to break it to you, but those don't exist. Hierarchy rots the brain.
As written by Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman:
After attacking the sacred majesty of kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality. It is of great importance to observe that the character of every man is, in some degree, formed by his profession. A man of sense may only have a cast of countenance that wears off as you trace his individuality, whilst the weak, common man has scarcely ever any character, but what belongs to the body; at least, all his opinions have been so steeped in the vat consecrated by authority, that the faint spirit which the grape of his own vine yields, cannot be distinguished. Society, therefore, as it becomes more enlightened, should be very careful not to establish bodies of men who must necessarily be made foolish or vicious by the very constitution of their profession.
That looks like a baby crib with a mounted heavy machine gun.
Keep set theory out of this, that way lies madness.
I think prosecuting war criminals is VERY important. At least it was in WWll. Mass killings of civilians and torture are against the Geneva Conventions, not to mention our laws. As far as it taking up OBama's time while he was doing all these other things, aren't investigations taken up by the DOJ and the AG, or the FBI, or the CIA? I doubt OBama would have been involved much at all, except to tell the DOJ to get on it, because he wasn't involved at all in the beginning of those wars.
agree with you, but my point was that a new president only has limited political and social capital and, as much as we would have preferred it, he decided not to spend a lot of it prosecuting John Yoo.
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