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Fuck'em

Isn't time we all stopped obeying? What is legal isn't necessarily moral, and what is moral isn't necessarily legal. Let us all stop fucking around with legal, and just stick to moral. And if they don't like it, let them come.

The Real Evil Empire

" From the late 20's, when Stalin decreed 'socialism in one country', Soviet foreign policy was geared towards stability and security. The primary reason Stalin set up so many satellite states in Eastern Europe was to give the Soviet Union a security buffer between it and what he considered a resurgent and aggressive west. The Russian experience in WWII meant that they were (to an extent understandably) scared witless of a surprise attack from the West, be it fascist or capitalist. This gives a lot of context to Soviet actions in the Cold War - the Berlin Blockade as a response to what they considered Western intransigence over a unified and neutral Germany, Cuba as a response to American SRBM's in Turkey, right the way through to Afghanistan as a way to secure their southern border. So Russian aims in the Cold War weren't to 'defeat' the west (they believed this would happen anyway, through the Marxist doctrine of the historical inevitability of the c

Fuck Captalists, Truly

It is time for everyone to stop pretending that capitalism works. It has failed. Eight wealthy white men (that's right, men; no women) together control more wealth than 3.5 billion others. That is not the product of equal opportunity. That is the product of privilege handed out to a few, and set in to a cycle that curls back on the the same few people, over and over. The vast majority of people are left entirely out of that. That is by design. It is not an accident that capitalism creates inequality. Capitalists design and redesign capitalism over and over to make sure it happens that way. It is time for this to end. It is time to cut the head off of this ouroboros. It is time for the captalists, one way or another, to go away. The means of production, the banking system, the seats of governments all must be removed from their hands.