Carrying out “the largest deportation operation in American history,” as Trump has pledged to do, will wreck the US economy. It will deliver no material gains to the vast majority of his supporters, who benefit from the underpaid labor of the undocumented and the resulting cheapness of commodities. From a purely economic perspective, exploiting the labor of the undocumented provides more material advantages to Trump’s supporters than deporting them ever could. Deporting a million people in one year will cost eighteen times more than the entire world spends annually on cancer research.
In other words, mass deportations are a costly luxury indulgence that Trump’s supporters see as worth the expense because they experience the need for violence so intensely.
The solution to low wages is worldwide solidarity against the billionaires who exploit and oppress. Deporting people is performative violence intended to channel anger away from those who cause our suffering.
https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence
In other words, mass deportations are a costly luxury indulgence that Trump’s supporters see as worth the expense because they experience the need for violence so intensely.
The solution to low wages is worldwide solidarity against the billionaires who exploit and oppress. Deporting people is performative violence intended to channel anger away from those who cause our suffering.
https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence
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Refleksje rosyjskiego anarchisty w Rożawie
https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/19/refleksje-rosyjskiego-anarchisty-w-rozawie-on-the-collapse-of-assad-the-future-of-russia-and-the-looming-turkish-backed-invasion
Aby uczłowieczyć przynajmniej jedną z niezliczonych osób, których życie wisi na włosku, przedstawiamy refleksje rosyjskiego anarchisty-wolontariusza w północno-wschodniej Syrii, który od wielu lat uczestniczy w rewolucyjnym eksperymencie w Rożawie.
#Polski
https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/19/refleksje-rosyjskiego-anarchisty-w-rozawie-on-the-collapse-of-assad-the-future-of-russia-and-the-looming-turkish-backed-invasion
Aby uczłowieczyć przynajmniej jedną z niezliczonych osób, których życie wisi na włosku, przedstawiamy refleksje rosyjskiego anarchisty-wolontariusza w północno-wschodniej Syrii, który od wielu lat uczestniczy w rewolucyjnym eksperymencie w Rożawie.
#Polski
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Nationalism means bigotry, chauvinism, and ultimately war and ethnic cleansing. It promises self-determination and delivers tyranny.
Internationalism means we regularly publish articles in seven languages, collaborating with comrades all around the world to pursue collective liberation.
https://crimethinc.com/languages
Internationalism means we regularly publish articles in seven languages, collaborating with comrades all around the world to pursue collective liberation.
https://crimethinc.com/languages
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What's striking about the manifesto left by the Trump supporter who shot himself and set his truck on fire outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas is that the desire to harm others merges with the urge to self-destruction.
Arguably, this characterizes millions of Trump supporters.
It's no coincidence that a man the FBI described as a "heavily decorated combat veteran" would end his life saying "I needed relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Being a killer for hire weighs heavy on the conscience.
These mercenaries are damning themselves to living hell so that billionaires like Trump and Musk can turn a profit.
This tormented anger is common among Trump supporters. On some level, they sense that the climate disasters smashing their communities are caused by the oil profiteers they defend—that they are more to blame for the problems of this society than undocumented people or trans people. Their self-righteousness masks self-hatred.
Their fantasies of civil war conceal a desire to kill themselves.
Arguably, this characterizes millions of Trump supporters.
It's no coincidence that a man the FBI described as a "heavily decorated combat veteran" would end his life saying "I needed relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Being a killer for hire weighs heavy on the conscience.
These mercenaries are damning themselves to living hell so that billionaires like Trump and Musk can turn a profit.
This tormented anger is common among Trump supporters. On some level, they sense that the climate disasters smashing their communities are caused by the oil profiteers they defend—that they are more to blame for the problems of this society than undocumented people or trans people. Their self-righteousness masks self-hatred.
Their fantasies of civil war conceal a desire to kill themselves.
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Сопротивление местному авторитаризму и многополярному империализму в Грузии
Углубленный анализ оппозиционного движения
https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/11/soprotivlieniie-miestnomu-avtoritarizmu-i-mnoghopoliarnomu-impierializmu-v-gruzii-ughlubliennyi-analiz-oppozitsionnogho-dvizhieniia-1
Демонстрации в Грузии выходят за рамки выбора между Европой и Россией, отвергая как местный авторитарный режим, так и иностранное экономическое господство.
#Русский
Углубленный анализ оппозиционного движения
https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/11/soprotivlieniie-miestnomu-avtoritarizmu-i-mnoghopoliarnomu-impierializmu-v-gruzii-ughlubliennyi-analiz-oppozitsionnogho-dvizhieniia-1
Демонстрации в Грузии выходят за рамки выбора между Европой и Россией, отвергая как местный авторитарный режим, так и иностранное экономическое господство.
#Русский
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This weekend and next, events will take place around the country in response to the call for Festivals of Resistance before Trump takes power. This is a crucial chance for communities to come together and build skills for collective defense.
Check out the list here:
https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance#events
Check out the list here:
https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance#events
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
This weekend and next, events will take place around the country in response to the call for Festivals of Resistance before Trump takes power. This is a crucial chance for communities to come together and build skills for collective defense. Check out the…
If you are organizing an event in this vein and you need a poster design to promote it, just download this one and add the details in the empty space provided!
https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance#posters
https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance#posters
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This is Pacific Palisades, one of the wealthier neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
Capitalism is humanity making war on itself in slow motion. Now the process is speeding up and impacting more and more people, including some who were previously protected from the immediate consequences. The climate crisis is just one aspect of this catastrophe.
The floods in Porto Alegre and Valencia—Hurricanes Helene and Milton—the wildfires destroying LA. Neither corporations nor politicians will offer real solutions. We have to take direct action to defend each other and address the root causes.
https://crimethinc.com/Climate2024
Capitalism is humanity making war on itself in slow motion. Now the process is speeding up and impacting more and more people, including some who were previously protected from the immediate consequences. The climate crisis is just one aspect of this catastrophe.
The floods in Porto Alegre and Valencia—Hurricanes Helene and Milton—the wildfires destroying LA. Neither corporations nor politicians will offer real solutions. We have to take direct action to defend each other and address the root causes.
https://crimethinc.com/Climate2024
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The Ex-Worker podcast: Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
https://crimethinc.com/exworker109
We explore the public responses to two different extrajudicial killings—and what they tell us about the different forms of violence contending in our society today.
As we return to the Trump era, it is very important to reflect on what is driving the popular appetite for violence and how our rulers are channeling it away from themselves.
https://crimethinc.com/exworker109
We explore the public responses to two different extrajudicial killings—and what they tell us about the different forms of violence contending in our society today.
As we return to the Trump era, it is very important to reflect on what is driving the popular appetite for violence and how our rulers are channeling it away from themselves.
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Nessun Dio
https://crimethinc.com/2000/09/11/nessun-dio-1
Non esistono il bene e il male, non esiste un bene o un male universale, i sei solo tu... e i valori che scegli per te stesso.
#Italiano
https://crimethinc.com/2000/09/11/nessun-dio-1
Non esistono il bene e il male, non esiste un bene o un male universale, i sei solo tu... e i valori che scegli per te stesso.
#Italiano
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Yesterday, over 600 people gathered in Sacramento to participate in a variety of discussions and trainings about community defense.
At the same time, 200 gathered in Chicago to prepare to fight mass deportations.
Next weekend, gatherings like these will take place all around the US. You can see a list of these here:
https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance
It's time to get our communities together, to share skills and prepare to fight for each other. 🏴
At the same time, 200 gathered in Chicago to prepare to fight mass deportations.
Next weekend, gatherings like these will take place all around the US. You can see a list of these here:
https://crimethinc.com/festivalsofresistance
It's time to get our communities together, to share skills and prepare to fight for each other. 🏴
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