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"Razahk" — love the inversion!

"Fat Cheka" — nice touch!

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Michael's avatar

I am grateful for this essay which unpacks some things I have been wrestling with. My many liberal friends have suddenly declared a five-alarm fire with Trump's reelection, after sleepwalking through the last forty-plus years of glaringly corrupt human degradation, as reflected in your essay. And I am receiving invitations to activism like never before, from people assuming my agreement with their democratic worldview. Since Trump's anti-ecology/corporate-takeover mentality indeed presents a threat of further destruction to life, I sense there is an opportunity for blue-check libs and anarchists to rejoin forces in working together (belatedly) for a better world. But the virtue signaling and partisanship and half-ass signwaving marches... and most of all the ignorance of the creeping fascism that has gone on under both parties (more insidiously with the CIA-Dems)... pushes me away from even the causes I want to participate in, especially on the decolonization/ecology/demilitarization fronts. And still NPR's controlled, "liberal" narrative passing itself off as objective news keeps all of these friends from considering the vast conspiracies at the root of it all. Courageous conversations are needed, but I don't know how to begin without devolving into and endless rant encompassing not only the blatant and telling anomalies of October 7th, but also Covid, Isis, Esptein, the Maidan Coup, rigged primaries, 9/11, Iran-Contra/October Surprise, the 60s assassinations, and all the other false history stemming back 800 years at least. Even the socialists, along with many anarchists and communists, were on the mRNA shots/totalitarian shutdown bandwagon. It is a lot to begin imagining a way back to a shared sense of reality again, no less the internal mastery needed to help lead the way. Thank you for your efforts, including this post, in this work!

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