Proud anti-fascist & bird-person

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  • When I make red beans and rice I use equal parts onion, celery, and bell pepper. I chop them very finely and then cook them till they turn to a mushy, thick, aromatic sauce.

    About an hour before the beans are done I’ll scoop out a cup of them out and mash them up to thicken the sauce some more. It’s at this point that I’ll add some browned sausage into the pot.

    I do like adding some pickled onions when serving, because the acidity balances the fat from the sausage nicely.









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    No. It’s another form of government that has its own issues, but not all authoritarian regimes are fascist.

    On the other hand, neo-feudalists are reactionaries because they want to return society to a mythical past where a heirarchy of elites rules over their subjects. Fascism, neo-feudalism, and conservatism are all subsets of reactionary ideology, but they are not the same thing.



  • I agree that that is what society and government should be for.

    Reactionaries, on the other hand, have a completely different set of values that is incompatible with a free society. They see the role of government as instituting a heirarchy with themselves at the top.

    The recent attacks on DEI are a clear example of their insistence on hierarchies with the “proper” people sorted to the top. They believe that all of society’s problems are due to leftists upsetting the pyramid.

    They don’t think they’ll need protection, because the government works for them, since they imagine themselves at the top.



  • I was just about to bring that book up! I’m reading it now and it’s fascinating.

    The Dawn of Everything for people who are interested.

    Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.