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just a reference to filling a ballot

everyone understood the reference. it was fine

The thing is, whiteness isn't about melanin, it's about belonging to a purity culture in a color coded society. In a white supremacist culture, you will never be white so long as you identify as having some connection to a culture that does not simply label itself as "white" (or whatever the supremacist culture in that domain calls itself). In most of the western dominated world, "white" is really "white-anglosaxon". Anyone who doesn't carry those cultural markers and behaviors gets denied access to whiteness in some way, shape or form. White supremacist fascism plays an interesting trick where it tricks people into joining the coalition of hate by covering up what whiteness is long enough to get people to act against their own best interest. It's the problem with sublimating into the white culture: no one will ever be white enough, and eventually the purges will reach everyone but the aristocracy.

So almost no slavs, celts, or even nords get access to whiteness even if they're pale as hell. They can be deputized into whiteness if the coalition of hate doesn't have enough access to power to gain control, but once control is gained, they will be purged.

This webbook does a really good job of explaining the elements of a white supremacist culture. It's also important to understand that I am speaking on western white supremacy as that's the kind I've spent a lifetime trying to burn down, but other empires also engage in their forms of white supremacy. They just don't call it white supremacy. What you need to look for are the signs of white supremacy:

• Are people treated differently in the empire based on their looks?
• Is there a culture within the empire that is elevated above all others to an extent that it has achieved hegemonic status, and everyone is expected to comply with that culture's aesthetic ideals such as way of dress, style of hair, and skincare routines?
• Are there re-education camps intended at "civilizing" the "savages" who don't comply with the hegemonic group's ideals?

If you see any of those, dig deeper, look for:

• Terror based mechanisms for control
• A single right way of doing things
• Mechanisms for encouraging or even enforcing binary thinking, stripping all nuance from any situation
• Quickness to defensiveness (ie: I can't be X because I do Y) (for example: "I'm not propagandized, I'm above that!")
• Right to comfort (in the west this is frequently in the form of people wanting protests to be clean and easy, or in other words pacifism as a virtue to be signaling rather than a framework of thinking and acting in order to bring about a peaceful world)
• Rampant individualism (whiteness rejects the notion that anyone comes from a people because that would require the white man to analyze that they come from a culture, and whiteness roots itself in believing itself free of culture, and that culture is some sort of trickery of control)
• Valuing progress via objective measurements rather than emphasizing the quality of relationships to others
• Worship of the written word (de-emphasis of oral traditions grants the aristocracy more power over the shared cultural understanding of history in a group)
• Urgency (this is common amongst all forms of Ur-Fascism, everything is always an emergency and the power of the people must be centralized in order to respond to the emergency)

both saw each other as important to furthering their own goals

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-gillis-anarchy-and-transhumanism-2020

fundamentally anarcho-transhumanism is a social libertarian position that "my body, my choice" is true about a great many things. anarcho-transhumanists celebrate scientific advancements that allow a person to alter or modify their body as they see fit.

the national org did but the local groups are still active. probably look for things that say either "redneck revolt" or "john brown society"

a company has no moral guiding principals outside of monetary gain. its board of directors members may have their own individual viewpoints, but as a collective, a corporation is representative only of the shareholder's shared interest in making some money. if they wanted anything else, they would collectivize into another form.

generally speaking the best, i mean the best, you can expect from a BoD member is liberalism and all that entails. from a liberal perspective, pacifism is a virtue to be signaled, not an overall approach to the world with a goal of bringing about a just and fair society. liberals preaching non-violence don't really care if someone is preaching violence so long as they don't practice violence and the results of the preaching of violence remain unseen.

that's how you wind up with liberals saying that the founder of turning point usa did things the right way and denouncing someone doing exactly the things he said were good to do, but moreover, denouncing people who have trained in violence accessing that violence in self defense. in the fight between fascism and anything other than fascism, violence must be used to denounce fascism because it is the only language fascists speak. you can use non-violence to interact with other political positions. those are positions who do not practice solely violence. but fascism believes access to violence grants license to use that violence. you can only counter this belief by rendering it scared to show itself in public

there's also difference between being correct and being effective. right wing propaganda machines program people to exist in binaries and young leftists, new initiates i mean, have to break out of that. they have to learn to listen to the problems people are experiencing and talk about how to address those problems rather than fixating on an us/them dichotomy

real life leftists are fun as hell to be around. if anyone's looking for some:

• IWW
• CWA
• Redneck Revolt

what? they're both announcements that it's prayer time. neither are themselves prayers

the precolonial societies that eliminated their hierarchies have a very consistent pattern of continuing to train military practices while also practicing pacificism. i'm not saying that's the answer for a post colonial society, just that humanity has escaped from hierachy before and people living within the three empires probably need to do an uptick in listening, and that distributed access to violence amongst pacifists is likely part of it

that's an ahistorical view of the crusades…