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This episode of It's the End of the World
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as We Know it and I Feel Fine
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was made possible by contributions from
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slaves like you.
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Spank you very much!
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Apathy is killing this country.
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My generation needs to wake up
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and start trying to make
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a meaningful difference in the world.
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Real change requires real action.
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That's why I always share
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political articles on facebook
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whenever I see them.
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Goooooooooooood morning slaves
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and welcome to another sedition of
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It's the End of the World as we Know it
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and I Feel Fine - the show where
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the future looks fucking bleak!
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Donald Trump is likely going to be
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the Republican nominee for president.
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It's Trump all the way!
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I think he may be the next president
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of the United States.
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♫ Cowardice... are you serious?
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Apologies for freedom?
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I can't handle this! ♫
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I am your host the Stimulator
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and for weeks now, Paris, the so-called
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city of love, has been transformed into
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the city of mothafuckin rage!
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Ever since the terrorist attacks
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that rocked France's capital last November
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the whole fucking country has been
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under a state of emergency - after
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its chinless President, Francois Hollande
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dredged up an old law drafted in
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19 fucking 55, as part of France's
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dirty counterinsurgency war in Algeria.
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This emergency law, which places limits
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on protests, and grants additional powers
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to the state security forces,
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was extended for a second time
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on February 16th, and will now
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be in place until at least May 26th
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It's a real challenge to see when
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we will come out of this stage
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of emergency.
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When do we stop it, and how?
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So far, the French state has mainly used
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its expanded powers to harass
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and further alienate the nation’s large
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Muslim population.
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Mosques and Halal restaurants have been
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targeted, thousands of warrantless raids
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have been carried out,
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and hundreds of peeps have been placed
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under strict house arrest without trial.
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I was woken up by a noisy pounding
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and shootings at the door.
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My daughter was hit in the neck.
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Probably by some shotgun pellets.
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Tension against this atmosphere
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of generalized repression has been
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steadily building for months and
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multiple flashpoints across the country
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have since begun to converge into
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a generalized movement of anti-capitalist
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and anti-state resistance.
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Not surprisingly,
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one of these flashpoints is La ZAD
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- the sprawling land defense occupation
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that for years now has been
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actively opposing the construction of
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the planned Notre Dame Des Landes airport.
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Back in January a court handed down
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a ruling upholding the state seizure of
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several farm houses on the occupation site
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and the eviction of their residents.
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Unmoved by the court’s decision,
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residents of La ZAD have vowed to defend
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their encampment from any future attacks
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and have called on their allies for
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solidarity and support.
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On February 20th, militants in the
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nearby city of Nantes answered this call,
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taking to the streets to denounce
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the extension of the state of emergency
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and to express their solidarity with
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the intransigent residents of La ZAD.
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During the demonstration, paint bombs
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and other projectiles were lobbed at
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police lines
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and peeps took the opportunity to
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redecorate a number of banks
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and high-end shops.
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Another flashpoint has been
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the Calais Jungle
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the infamous refugee camp
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home to thousands of migrants trapped
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in France on their way to the UK.
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The demolition and forced eviction
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of the southern section of camp began
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on February 29th, sparking resistance
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from camp residents, including
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a hunger strike launched on March 2nd
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by a dozen Iranian refugees,
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several of whom sewed their mouths shut.
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This hunger strike concluded on March 25th
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after the French government backed off
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from plans to demolish the
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northern section of the Jungle,
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but suffice to say...
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tensions are still fucking high.
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So…. within this context
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of simmering social unrest
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on March 9th
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in an amazing display of chutzpah
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the French government decided to
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introduce a harsh labour reform bill,
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the so-called El Khomri law,
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which seeks to eliminate the country's
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sacrosanct 35-hour workweek cap,
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which most French workers view
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as a hard-won achievement
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earned through decades of
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militant class struggle.
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For many peeps in France
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this was the last fucking straw
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and the response has been a resounding
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FUCK YOU!
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Unions have launched a series of
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coordinated strikes and
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taken to the streets across the country,
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where they have been joined by
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tens of thousands of striking high school
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and university students.
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At a massive demonstration on March 17th
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crowds of pissed off youth clashed with
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the French po-po in the streets of Paris
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lobbing rocks and flares
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and attacking police vans.
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One week later, the country was rocked by
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an even rowdier series of protests
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as the piss-licking capitalists
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of the so-called Partie Socialiste
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met again to try to introduce
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a slightly-revised version of the law.
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In Paris, black clad hooligans
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rained a hail of bottles down
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on the militarized swine
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of the French po-po,
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several undercovers were unceremoniously
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ejected from the crowd
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and several cars were burnt to a
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crispy crisp.
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Later that day, after footage of the pigs
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assaulting a high school student
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went viral, youth responded by
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smashing up two fucking cop shops
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and looting two grocery stores
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seizing food and redistributing it to
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peeps on the street.
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Taco. Free Taco?
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This latest wave of protests culminated,
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on Thursday March 31st, in a nationwide
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general mothafuckin strike.
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266 different protests took place
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with a reported 1.3 million peeps
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participating nationwide.
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Marches were held in every major city
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in the country
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many of which led to street-fighting
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with the police.
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In Paris over 30,000 peeps participated
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in a demonstration that quickly descended
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into violent attacks on the mothafuckin pigs.
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Check this shit out!
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Real change requires real action.
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I am no hero... just a citizen
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who decided to get up and do something.
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I've done my part.
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Now it's your turn.
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At the time of writing, shit in Paris
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is still popping the fuck off,
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and given the intractable nature of
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the multiple issues fueling
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the current wave of unrest,
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it’s a fair guess that things won’t be
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calming down anytime soon.
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Bravo France. Bra-fucking-vo.
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Some of y’all might remember that
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a couple of months ago,
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me and my subMedia slaves put out
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a brief report on the masturbatory
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spectacle that’s been
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dominating the headlines for much
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of the past year in the United Snakes.
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This is a red high chair.
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I wanna have a baby
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so I can bop it with a sharp
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peanut shell.
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That's friggen weird.
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As we explained at the time,
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we did so because as anarchists,
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we're sick and motherfuckin tired
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of having to explain to peeps
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that revolutionary change doesn’t come
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through the ballot box.
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And since the main proponents of this
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brainwashed fucking delusion
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tend to be leftists of the
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liberal-progressive variety,
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that’s who we took to task.
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We gonna bring the neoliberal era
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to a close, my sister.
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We gonna fight the neo-fascism of Trump
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in the name of neo-populism.
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And we're gonna invite you to get on
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the Bernie Sanders love train.
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Oh. My. God.
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Buuuuuuuuuuut while we were
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not altogether surprised by
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the temper tantrum this provoked from
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die-hard supporters of Bernie’s
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so-called “political revolution”….
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I gotta say I was honestly
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pretty fucking shocked to see
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some peeps misinterpret our attack on
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electoral politics as a tacit endorsement
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of Republican front-runner
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and human fucking sphincter,
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Donald Trump.
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Well she does have a very nice figure.
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I've said that if Ivanka weren't
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my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.
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Oh. My. God.
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So... although I’m amazed
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I even have to say it,
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just so there’s no misunderstanding.
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FUCK DONALD TRUMP!
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Now… while Trump’s liberal detractors
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often view his supporters as
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an unidentified mass of wife-beating
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truck-nut aficionados,
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disillusioned Christian fundamentalists
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and a garden variety of
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white supremacists of all stripes,
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the uncomfortable truth is that Trump
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speaks to the injured pride of a broad
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cross-section of working-class Americans
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who despite growing up being told that
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they lived in the greatest country
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on earth, have nonetheless
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seen their livelihoods gutted by decades
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of neoliberal restructuring
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and corporate trade deals
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pushed through by Washington elites
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like Hillary Clinton.
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It’s also no fucking secret that
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the United Snakes is teeming with masses
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of peeps who are generally pissed off
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because shit’s fucked
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I don't want lunch. I want breakfast.
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Yeah well hey. I'm really sorry.
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Yeah? Hey, I'm really sorry too.
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HE'S GOT A GUN!
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yet lack a nuanced understanding of the
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intricate workings of global capitalism
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and its influence on geopolitics.
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Hence the huge following for
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populist bullshit artists like Alex Jones.
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It is an alien force, not of this world.
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This is not human intelligence, okay?
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IT'S NOT HUMAN INTELLIGENCE!
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Oh. My. God.
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And to all those who’d prefer to blame
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their very real everyday problems
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on the colour of Obama’s skin
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or the fact that he’s a shape-shifting
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reptilian from another dimension,
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Trump might seem like a rational choice.
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Plus... the muthafucker was on TV!
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The United Snakes has a storied history
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of electing celebrities from the
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entertainment industry into office
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whether the Governator
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I'll be back.
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Jesse “the Body” Ventura
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The Body will get to the bottom of this.
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or even the ol’ Gipper himself…
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Ronnie fuckin Reagan!
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I like what you're doing with the car.
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Just stick with that.
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Trump is just the latest embodiment
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of this phenomenon - a reality TV star,
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failed real estate tycoon
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and professional Gordon Gecko impersonator
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with a hilarious spray tan
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and a goofy fucking hairdo
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that closely resembles a toupee
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crafted out of the carcass of
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an albino squirrel.
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Buuuuuuut what’s novel about Trump
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is that his whole celebrity persona
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is crafted around him being
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a total fucking prick
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or as it’s known in the professional
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wrestling circuit, a heel.
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Get in the ring Vince. Get in the ring!
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Yup…. the current front-runner
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for the Republican party is a straight-up
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mothafuckin villain.
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And he’s still getting votes!
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From his call for the construction of
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a literal fucking wall
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on the Mexican border
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to his balls-out fascist promise to bar
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Muslim visitors to the United Snakes,
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the fact that this openly bigoted
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They're bringing drugs.
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They're bringing crime.
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They're rapists.
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sexist figure
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Must be a pretty picture
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you dropping to your knees.
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is resonating with millions of Americans
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is fucking terrifying.
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I don't know what it is,
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I just like the guy.
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Let me tell ya, I'm a really smart guy.
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IT'S NOT HUMAN INTELLIGENCE!
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So… to learn more just about what the fuck
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is going on south of the border,
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we recently caught up with B Traven,
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an operative with the CrimethInc.
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ex-Workers’ Collective,
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a US-based anarchist network producing
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analysis and tools for revolution.
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Hey B... how the fuck are you?
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Oh, I'm doing alright.
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Trump's election bid has unleashed some
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pretty ugly displays of
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reactionary politics in the United Snakes.
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His campaign has managed to draw
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the vocal support of leading members
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of the KKK... but despite that,
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it has simultaneously resonated with
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millions of American voters.
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What do you think that this says about
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the current state of American society?
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Basically I think that Trump's success
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tells us about where we are
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in the crisis of capitalism.
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When things polarize, some people
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go looking for a better boss.
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They look for a better authority figure
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to usher them through the crisis.
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This means blaming down the hierarchy.
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Blaming the people who have less power
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than you.
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Which is less intimidating than blaming
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the people who have more power than you,
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because if you blame the people who have
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more power than you, you have to go to war
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with people who are stronger than you.
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Who have more money, who have more guns.
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But of course the real problem is that
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these structures of power exist that could
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put a person like Trump in the position
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of power that he's already in.
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Let alone, enable him to take more power
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by becoming president.
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Trump's campaign has also been targeted
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by protestors who have shut down rallies
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in Chicago and Kansas City
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and have taken to the streets
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in New York and Arizona.
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What do you think of these tactics?
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Well, I appreciate the courage
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that it takes for someone to
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put themselves in that dangerous situation
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to interrupt the spectacle of everybody
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worshiping Donald Trump.
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That kind of spectacle has always been
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important to authoritarians,
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to dictators... to show the sort of image
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of everybody celebrating the great hero.
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The protagonist. The great man.
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I think it's important to show that Trump
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doesn't have everyone behind him.
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And to show that what he's doing
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can be interrupted.
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To show that he can't control us, y'know?
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I really appreciate the things that
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people are doing.
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Of course the most important thing
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in the long run, is not to be able
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to make symbolic gestures, but actually
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to interrupt the functioning of those
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institutions themselves.
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Many commentators,
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including Noam Chomsky, have likened
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Trump's candidacy to the rise of
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the Nazi Party in the 1930s in Germany.
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What do you make of this comparison?
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I think it is significant that Hitler
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came to power by a democratic election
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as well.
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I mean, democracy itself is just
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a set of procedures that can put
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anyone in power, really.
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Trump recently came out warning
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that there will be riots if
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the GOP deny him the party's nomination.
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Republican and Democratic
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National Conventions have historically
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been sites of protests,
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from the 1968 DNC in Chicago,
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to the RNC and DNC counter-demonstrations
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of the anti-globalization era....
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buuuuuuut the spectre of a mass of pissed
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off Trump supporters thrown into the
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mix would change this dynamic totally,
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possibly leading to a three-way clash
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between his supporters, his opponents,
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and the mothafuckin pigs.
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What are your thoughts on this...
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or is it even worth speculating about?
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Since the Ukrainian Revolution a couple
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of years ago, we've seen right-wing
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or nationalist groups appropriating
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the tactics that we develop...
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like the Occupy model.
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In not just Ukraine, but Brazil
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and Venezuela.
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In Romania, and Bulgaria and Macedonia.
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Y'know... in the US, this means that
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the right-wingers now want to...
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y'know... they wanna have, like,
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right-wing occupations or something.
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They want to develop, like a street-level
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grassroots activity.
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And that's what makes the Klan
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really dangerous in this situation.
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Because they're an example of a group
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that can channel this.
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As for the three way clash that you're
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talking about... that's also contemporary
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of our era, where the state breaks down
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y'know...rival groups compete to be the
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alternative to the ruling order.
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And this situation makes it really
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important for us to demonstrate
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that we are the ones who have
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a liberating vision for how we can
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take on the government and win,
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so when people are trying to decide
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what they're going to do with their rage
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about the oppression that
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they're experiencing... that we will
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be the ones to make contact with them.
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Not the Klan.
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So... what the fuck do anarchists have
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against democracy?
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Well, we're anxious about Trump
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coming to power, right?
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But the real problem is that any person
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could wield so much power through
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those institutions.
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Let's look at the institutions
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of government itself.
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Think about... ministries
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the military
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the police, the court system.
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Now, all of these institutions are older
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than democracy.
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They are the same institutions that
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served kings.
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They were invented under kings
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during the monarchy, for ruling people.
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For wielding power over people.
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And now we're supposed to identify with
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these authoritarian institutions...
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just because every four years, or every
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two years we can have a little bit
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of a say on who pilots them.
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But the institutions themselves
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are fundamentally authoritarian.
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Government itself is a means of rule.
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A means of imposing control over people.
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And any system that functions through
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majority rule is going to need
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lines of exclusion and means of coercion.
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Lines of exclusion could be borders,
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it could be citizenship... but it means
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that there are people who are included
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and people who are excluded.
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In a racist society, you know who
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that's going to be.
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As for means of coercion...
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if you have majority rule, you have to
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have a way of imposing those decisions
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on people, right?.
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That's going to mean the police.
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That's going to mean the court system.
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But it means that in the end,
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you're not the one who has power
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over your life, right?
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The institutions have power
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over your life.
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Anarchists are often criticized
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by liberals and so-called "progressives"
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for sitting on the sideline
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during elections, and failing to take
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a pragmatic approach to social change.
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Are there ways that you think
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anarchists can or should engage
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with elections outside of voting?
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Well the most pragmatic thing that we can
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do, of course, is to develop our own
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capacity to act directly to implement
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the changes that we want
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so that we're not dependent on politicians.
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Historically, whenever we come up with
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a narrative or a set of tactics
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that actually could work to do this,
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we see politicians run along behind us
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promising to give us all the things we've
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finally become capable of doing
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for ourselves.
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So if you want to have an influence
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on the political system,
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rather than canvassing or, you know,
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trying to promote some politician,
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the best thing is to develop your own
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autonomous power.
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And then you'll see them trying to
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appropriate your narratives.
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And that about does it for this sedition
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of It’s the End of the World as We Know it
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and I Feel Fine.
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If you like raw unfiltered news read
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you can watch hundreds of back episodes
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or to find a link to Crimethinc’s
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series on Democracy,
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just visit my fuckin website:
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That said, we at subMedia can get away
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with saying whatever the fuck we want
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because we are not beholden to
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corporations or foundations for
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our funding.
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We are sustained by small donations
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from slaves like you.
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So, this week the following peeps deserve
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big gratitude for keeping the tacos
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rolling: Marten, Remy, Max, Jonathan,
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Nicholas, Michal, Artist, Christopher,
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Steven, Dylan, Kyle, Shannon, Maciej,
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Francois, John, Jennifer, Benjamin, Yania,
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Claire, Daniel, Samuel, Justin, Anton,
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Robin, Ranko, Guillaume, Hansen,
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Deda, Rogier, Raul, Stephen, Jay,
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Karlis, Blade, Steve, Matthew, Jamie,
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Jonathan, Joshua, John, Jan, Jane,
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Andrew, Scott, Per, Flyn, Bear, Michael,
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Faloba, William, Sebastian, Daniel,
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Samantha, Michael, Lauren and Andrew.
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Bolillos!
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I would also like to welcome the newest
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members of the taconspiracy: Coby,
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Gabriel, Jamie, Rogier, Anton and Booda
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Churipo!
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Stay tuned next time for more news
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from the globlal muthafuckin resistance.
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Hasta la pasta companeras!