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🙊🙉🙈. settler comrade
"If anyone is not hungry for justice, it may be because they are too full of privilege" -Sharmarke Dubow
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🇨🇦 We installed constitutional rights over centuries of inherited Crown machinery without rebuilding the machinery around them.

Then we discovered compatibility problems individually, through litigation. ⚙️

A software engineer would recognize technical debt. 🏴

🇨🇦 Freedom of expression: constitutionally guaranteed.

👮 Restriction: immediately enforceable.

⚖️ Challenge: please obtain counsel.

💰 Government defence: already funded by you.

💰 The robber says, "Your money or your life."
The banker offers considerably better stationery and a 30-year repayment schedule. Very civilized. 🧐📑

🏴 Badge, baton, bullet, bureaucracy. The state builds a murder machine, calls each cog an "officer," then declares the machine innocent because no single cog is apparently the machine. ⚙️

The first writer to call himself an anarchist was a printer's apprentice from a hill town — and he meant something constructive by the word. https://thefederation.felineunion.org/

Goldman. Bank of Canada. Bank of England. Brookfield. Ottawa. 🏦

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/

🇺🇸 Americans own an estimated 393 million civilian guns.

🇨🇦 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 🏴 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 🤝 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 📉 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 🗳️ 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.