Charlatansloci on Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos

back any indictment of war crimes. There is no incentive for governments to stop blowing our tax dollars on morally corrupt countries and their mass arsenals. Liberalism is about maintaining the façade above all else; it is an easily bastardized tool to maintain oppression and force people into a lose-lose-lose situation (continue in the same direction, fully complicit; try to work within an inherently unresponsive and broken system; or be labeled a terrorist for standing with full force against a given disaster). Not only Americans, but especially Americans, are mired in the intentionally disabling liberal rhetoric that we must play by the rules and essentially Be Perfectly Presentable — able at any moment to win some fanciful polite debate of morality — all while the machine grinds on and on and on and on. Suffragettes fire bombed buildings to get the right to vote. Entire wars were waged to cripple American slavery (not for the pro-black reasons of human dignity and basic autonomy, but it worked!). There are LOTS of other excellent examples of this that my memory fails to recall in this moment. But my point is that fascism does not play by the rules. It breaks and rewrites them. So, too, must people aggressively change their perception of what force is necessary and justifiable to resist. Do not accept the narrative that respectability politics is the highest law of any land. Oppressors do not respect us no matter what we do or who we are. Don't let them direct your internal narrative.