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Goldman. Bank of Canada. Bank of England. Brookfield. Ottawa. ๐Ÿฆ

We're supposed to read that sequence as:

QUALIFIED.

Why?

Those are institutions that selected him, not Canadians whose lives he demonstrably improved.

A priest's vestments prove he entered the cathedral.

They don't prove God answered.

No gods, no masters.

RPS responded to a demonstrated failure of supervision largely with assurances of better supervision. Until it publishes mandatory controls, audit frequency, coverage, detection rates, escalation rules and independent verification, the public is being asked to trust the institution's description of its own oversight.
https://www.reginapolice.ca/2026/02/06/statement-by-chief-of-police-lorilee-davies-following-conclusion-of-robert-semenchuck-court-proceedings/

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Americans own an estimated 393 million civilian guns.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada: 12.7 million estimated civilian guns, but only ~2.1 million were registered in the 2017 dataset. Roughly 84% were estimated unregistered.

So America has the spectacular gun problem, while Canada has the quieter accounting problem:

"We regulate firearms very seriously."

"How many are there?"

"Approximately."

Maybe that's administrative failure. Maybe statistical blindness is politically convenient.

Either way, you can't census what you don't count.

Feeding people builds relationships. Education develops organizers. Organizers connect communities. Those connections make collective action possible without waiting for official permission. Repression attacks that capacity as well as the individuals exercising it.

Goldman's passage makes three parts of this mechanism particularly clear:

Destroy the infrastructure: close printing houses, clubs, and educational organizations so the movement cannot reproduce itself.

Turn solidarity into exposure: arrest visitors, punish protesting students, and move prisoners away from those who can support them.

Reclassify political enemies as criminals: the label "bandit" makes an execution administratively presentable while concealing the political purpose.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1920s/disillusionment/ch28.htm

@flipkoin ๐Ÿด Malatesta's suspicion of masters belongs in the tender documents. "Can we maintain our defence if we disobey the supplier?" A rather basic question to ask before spending billions on independence.

@flipkoin ๐Ÿค Washington sells the shield and retains influence over the repair shop. Your adversary needs to threaten your borders. Your supplier only needs to review your account. Two fronts for the price of one. An efficient procurement outcome.

@flipkoin ๐Ÿ“‰ GAO: F-35 full mission capability fell from 38% to 25% between 2021 and 2025. Sustainment costs rose. The aircraft struggles with its assignments. The invoice demonstrates excellent operational readiness.

@flipkoin ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ A fighter jet should last decades. Washington's political goodwill comes up for renewal every four years. Tying national survival to another country's campaign season is a mildly adventurous maintenance strategy.

@flipkoin ๐Ÿ’ณ Proudhon's "Property is theft" gets a Pentagon update: ownership includes the invoice; independence is an optional extra. Unfortunately, that package is unavailable in your region.

@flipkoin ย ๐Ÿ”ง No remote kill switch required. Just spare parts that stop arriving while your border becomes a historical footnote. Your support ticket remains important to us.

๐Ÿด Buy American weapons to secure national independence. Depend on Washington to keep them operational. Bakunin might have raised a minor procurement question about the sovereignty subscription.

Being an anarchist under neoliberalism becomes a credential because it demonstrates something the credentialing system doesn't necessarily test: whether you can distinguish a functioning institution from a legitimate one.

You can understand the business model and still reject it. You can administer the system and recognize whom it serves. You can see that an arrangement is profitable, legal, professionally managed, and intolerable. Technical competence doesn't require political obedience.

Neoliberalism turns structural problems into individual performance reviews. Can't afford rent? Improve your employability. Exhausted? Develop resilience. Your workplace strips away your autonomy? Take ownership. Every failure of the arrangement becomes a deficiency in the person subjected to it.

The anarchist asks the question missing from the assessment: Who gets to impose these conditions, and why do they get that power?

That makes anarchism an intellectual credential, provided it is backed by practice: recognizing coercion beneath contractual language, organizing cooperation without domination, and holding your own group to the same scrutiny you apply to the boss.

๐Ÿด The institution certifies that you can work within its rules. Your anarchism demonstrates that you can examine who wrote them, who benefits, and whether anyone should have to live by them.

A modest qualification. Slightly inconvenient for management.

๐Ÿ Indigenous imprisonment complicates the brochure about Canada's gentle institutions.

Fortunately, a national average can spread concentrated colonial violence across millions of people who never experience it.

A reassuring application of arithmetic.

๐ŸŽ“ The graduate can recognize injustice, explain its causes and document its consequences, but still waits for permission to resist it.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ has exceeded expectations.

Please collect your certificate quietly. ๐Ÿด