The reason I keep bringing up central bank digital currencies even though they still seem insignificant right now is because they will be the cornerstone of our tech-driven, digital enslavement. You need to pay attention to this because it’s going to be one of the most significant technologies of our lifetime.
You will not be able to hold liquid wealth outside of the system. You will not be able to spend it in unapproved ways. You will not be able to save if the central bank decides that saving would hurt the economy. Every purchase will be monitored and fully transparent.
Don’t get hung up on China here, either - every single major central bank is exploring or developing this technology right now.
I’m angry. I can’t watch the damn Chauvin trial because it gives me flashbacks. And while I’m not watching Chauvin’s lawyer blame George Floyd for his own murder, yet another brother, Daunte Wright, has been slaughtered ‘cause he had air freshener in his car. Flashbacks to my friends and fellow Black Panthers being shot dead by police. Flashbacks thinking about every Rodney King incident. Flashbacks to the long list of “say their names” dead Black folks and to the thousands who will remain nameless. Flashbacks to my mom telling stories about our enslaved family members.
What’s next? Are we going backward in time to Dred Scott?
Flashbacks to my dad’s story of being beaten to a pulp in uniform while he was a Tuskegee Airman. Flashbacks to my kid brother’s suicide jumping off the Empire State building because he didn’t want to be Black in America.
I’m fuming and punching the wall because Black people are only 13% of the population of this country we built on our bloody backs and we have to depend on white folks to decide to do something to change our fate and avoid a major race war up in this mother, and how many more centuries is that gonna take?
I don’t want to hear any more “Oh, how terrible” statements of “sympathy.” My AA sponsor told me over 30 years ago that “sympathy is in the dictionary between shit and syphilis,” and I agree. Every time I turn on the TV, and I see yet another elected Republiklansman I get angry ‘cause I don’t just see them — I see all the people who happily voted for them. Those same people would be elated to see me and mine dead. Some of those people are your family members or coworkers or neighbors.
Don’t tell me how you feel about it. Tell me, what the hell are you gonna do about it? …
The article is worth the read and very satisfying as it seems that the tide has changed in that out-right bigotry and fascism now seems to be losing the megaphone of the former president. The progressive groups are more organized and are using cyber infiltrating techniques into the right wing thug groups and their organizing platforms to confuse, intimidate and out those who are planning events that are nothing but racist hatred. …
… There are good descriptions of the infiltration techniques by Antifa activists and other internet savvy progressives. The “ineptitude” of some of these nazi wannabes is also on display and the reduction of platforms willing to put up with most of this violent resurrection nonsense, although there are still some out there. But many people smarter than me can find them and provide various levels of disruption. And by the way there is no indication that I could find of violence by Antifa or any counter protesters.
Check it out, especially if you need a pick-me-up.
All that was an element of progress in the past or an instrument of moral and intellectual improvement of the human race is due to the practice of mutual aid, to the customs that recognized the equality of men and brought them to ally, to unite, to associate for the purpose of producing and consuming, to unite for purpose of defence to federate and to recognize no other judges in fighting out their differences than the arbitrators they took from their own midst.
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Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (via philosophybits)
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