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  • One thing people aren’t talking about is the insane security perimeter they have which bans basically everything other than a cell phone. No backpacks, cameras, laptops, “pointy umbrellas,” hard water bottles, etc. Its made it basically impossible for a normal tourist to bring in normal tourist kit. And obviously no locals want anything to do with this.

    No other event in DC does this. Street fairs, events on the mall, parades - none of them have this kind of security. It’s very clearly a bunch of oddly paranoid fascists buying their own conspiracies about Antifa vandals or whatever.






  • You joke but post scarcity anarchism is probably the only truly viable post capitalist society where the state actually has a real chance of withering away. That means good praxis is anything which reduces scarcity - both in the form of technological developments and sustainability/ecology. And yes, harm reduction measures which foster collaboration and social cohesion and create actualized humans with real agency and a real stake in their own communities.

    The problem with so much leftist thought is precisely that it denies agency to those it seeks to liberate. “Luxury gay space communism” is a meme, but it’s based on a post-left idea which is actually far more rooted in reality than a lot of ML orthodoxy.