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We got to Libertopia. (Thanks!) Now let’s get to ISFLC too.

We got to Libertopia. (Thanks!) Now let’s get to ISFLC too.

Man, it has been a while since someone “by that logic…”’ed me.

Hey y’all so I am looking for a place to crash in or near New Orleans this upcoming weekend when I go there to bring the ALL Distro market anarchy for the upcoming New Orleans Bookfair (Friday night 11/7). I would be arriving in the evening, and out of your hair by Saturday morning. Just need a couch, I am not at all picky. Anyone got a place where I could crash, or know someone who might be willing to let me crash there?

In more important news, the weather here is finally perfect for the hot apple cider at Coffee Cat.

“Perhaps it will be said that this consent is not a specific, but a general one, and that the citizen is understood to have assented to everything his representative may do, when he voted for him. But suppose he did not vote for him; and on the contrary did all in his power to get elected some one holding opposite views – what then? “The reply will probably be that, by taking part in such an election, he tacitly agreed to abide by the decision of the majority. “And how if he did not vote at all? “Why then he cannot justly complain of any tax, seeing that he made no protest against its imposition. “So, curiously enough, it seems that he gave his consent in whatever way he acted – whether he said yes, whether he said no, or whether he remained neuter! “A rather awkward doctrine this.” —Herbert Spencer (1851), “The Right to Ignore the State” http://ift.tt/1tWG2pV

http://ift.tt/10pjGBL I have not voted for any candidate for political office in 8 years. Today, I’ll be voting for nobody again. I am boycotting the election. I hope that you will too. I will not vote for any candidate for political office, Democrat, Republican, or other, no matter what promises they make, and no matter what party they come from. I do not support them as candidates, and I do not support the oligarchical political machine they represent. What they promise is mostly terrible. But even where it is not, if the last few election cycles prove anything, they prove that power-plays beat promises every time. It’s not just a few radicals who have noticed that something is deeply wrong; it’s not just a handful of malcontents who know that we need a radically different direction, away from the insane and destructive Beltway consensus — away from this government’s wars, this government’s bail-outs, this government’s borders and deportations and secret surveillance, corporate health-insurance cartels, PATRIOT Acts, runaway police powers, catastrophic economic policies, shameless fear-mongering and constant, unremitting power-grabs. But people have HOPEd and parties have CHANGEd and if it all accomplished anything at all, it was only to prove that we’re never going to get anything but more of the same as long as we maintain a false hope in electoral politics. If what you want is social progress, there is no shortcut around principled agitation, grassroots social movements, community organizing, civil disobedience and direct action. There is no low-calorie political substitute for D.I.Y. social transformation. Elections and party politicking are no way to make a revolution. They’re not even a way to make small change. No matter who you vote for, the winner is always the government. #DontVote

RIP Tom Magliozzi (1937-2014). Damn.

Hey everyone so there is an AltExpo anarchist event going on in Austin this upcoming Sunday. You should go if you can. More information coming soon when I get back home from work.

http://ift.tt/1tqtZku Reparations now.