I guess anyone dumb enough to try and plant a pipe bomb like this would be dumb enough to yap their yaps when the FBI pick them up five years later.

Sure, some leave, but it is usually just a handful who do.

I mean, back in the 1980s, there really was a big exodus of fossil fuel companies from the Northeast (NY / NJ / CT) down to the Gulf Coast. My dad was part of that transition, forcing us to leave our beautiful garden state home and decamp to the armpit of America, Houston TX.

But this was a decision made at the executive level largely due to the Nixonian Southern Strategy combined with a national reorganization of Republican and Democrat aligned business interests. The downturn in the O&G economy made real estate in the Gulf Coast dirt cheap, while land prices in the New England area stayed relatively high. And the reorganization helped Reagnite voting coalitions finally flip states like Texas and Florida after decades of entrenched Dixiecrat control.

Nothing like that is shaping up in lower Manhattan specifically for the year 2026.

Not even sworn in yet and Mamdani is already failing to deliver on his promises of lower Manhattan rental prices.

what happens when your profile starts to match up with someone who commits crimes?

I’d dismiss this as fanciful ten years ago. But we’ve got ICE agents staking out grocery stores and flea markets looking for anyone passably “illegal”. Palantir seems to have made a trillion dollar business model out of promising an idiot president the ability to Minority Report crime. And then you’ve got the Israeli’s Lavendar AI and “Where’s Daddy” programs, intended to facilitate murdering suspects by bombing the households of relatives.

I guess it wouldn’t hurt to be a little bit more paranoid.

I gotta say, I’ve never really found the appeal of the self-propelled vacuum cleaners. They’re incredibly finicky and prone to getting snagged on surfaces. They don’t have particularly good suction and their waste storage is minimal. Tons of moving parts that wear through easily over time. Belts, fans, and wheels all get worn away from the device’s heat and exhaustive regular use.

The time savings is minimal and the expense is extraordinary. I just don’t think its worth the trouble.

those three countries like Trump’s America

Why would you think North Korean like being threatened with the kind of bombing Trump delivered to Iran or the coastal murders he’s inflicted on Venezuela?

Okay but then it’ll be double plus undeniable. People will definitely do something in response. You’ll see.

They’ve already gutted the VRA. This is reaffirming the decision.

a single day, a single attack, by Hamas

October 7th could best be described as a concentration camp prison break.

Not at all. She’s a node in a national network of reactionary plutocrats. What you’re hearing is the echo of dozens of NYC billionaires and their multi-millionaire subordinates all chanting the same thing.

Hillary is a megaphone one group of rich people use to talk to another

There’s a line of Bari Weiss types circling the block to replace them

North Korea, Russia and Israel.

What if it’s

America, America, America

And the calls are coming from inside the house?

Trump: “Evil immigrants are destroying the country!”

BlueMAGA: “We agree!”

Oh yeah man, the 1930s brought some real prosperity.

It was bad that the Nazis invaded Ukraine, I agree. Postwar, they saw more economic growth in a decade than they’d experienced in the prior century.

you believe Soviet Union to be a tragically lost utopia

Every industrial era country gets it’s golden age. The question is whether you’re allowed to enter the industrial era or you’re trapped in subsistence for the benefit of your neighbors.

Soviet governments prioritized industrialization, which is what made them rapidly improve in the postwar era.

That upsets a lot of anarchist diehards, because they are convinced the mean old Leninists simply cheated them out of an equivalent heyday

You seem to make the mistake of subsuming the whole of anarchist Ukraine under Makhno.

I don’t think that’s a mistake I made, because it was wrapped up long before I was born. But the Anarcho-Communists of the Ukraine failed to reconcile with their neighbors in Russia, despite having a host of overlapping priorities. There were clearly more Red Guards than Makhnovists. And so they lost to a numbers game long before a shot was fired.

The factory councils sure didn’t rely on him leading all of a sudden.

Didn’t they? We saw what happened to organically constituted Workers Soviets without an armed defense in Shanghai and Paris. Makhno was pivotal in defeating the Whites when they came knocking. So his army was definitely instrumental to the movement lasting as long as it did. And there was even a generous overlap between membership of the Bolsheviks and Makhnovists, given how easily guys like Peter Arshinov changed sides.

How many Ukrainian factory councils slide effortlessly into USSR colors when Lenin came knocking?

The irony of the Makhnovist Movement is that it succeeded because of the Bolshevik Revolt in St. Petersburg and the subsequent splitting of Russian forces into the Red and White Armies.

But because Ukrainian agricultural production was so critical to the survival of pre-industrial Russia, the Reds weren’t inclined to let Ukraine exist independently any more than the Whites were.

The workers can only free themselves be freed by the most dedicated marxists!

Makhnovshchina gets to be a purist movement because it dies in infancy. Compare Ukraine to Yugoslavia, a country that embraced many of the same socialist tenants but managed to persist as an independent entity for half a century rather than half a decade, and suddenly they’re Evil Freedom-Hating Baby-Killing Communists again.

You’re never going to find half as many Tito-lovers on Lemmy as Nestor Makhno-lovers, because Tito died in his 80s while leading his country and Nestor died at 45 - alienated even from other anarchists - of tuberculosis as a penniless exile in France.

Meanwhile, the workers in all these countries vanish from view. No armchair Lemmy anarchist seems to care how Soviet-Era Ukraine prospered. Or how the Soviet collapse in 1991 brought in the corporate vultures to pick all these countries clean. We’re always and forever living in 1917, convinced a short-lived militia movement was the Secret Sauce to Real Working Anarcho-Communism, despite all historical evidence to the contrary.

it’s actually what authoritarianism does

“Authoritarianism” is just when the government leadership disagrees with me, ideologically. Nobody who supports the current state thinks their government is authoritarian, because it isn’t asking them to do anything they wouldn’t be doing anyway.

Meanwhile, an “insurgency” is just a group of people acting against government leadership’s intended policies. So much of the modern policy state exists to confront the contradiction between an individual pursuing their own interests and a state system that insists some share of the population to suffer in order for the rest to prosper.

If you ask liberals whether they oppose “authoritarianism” you’ll get an enthusiastic “Yes!” But then you tell them “better go out there and start doing crimes” and they’ll recoil in horror, because they don’t see a benefit to violating rules they fundamentally support.

The US is trying to do this now, what with declaring the bogeyman known as antifa a mental illness AND a terrorist threat.

They did this 40 years ago, under Reagan, with the “War on Crime” bullshit. And before that under Nixon with the “War on Drugs”. And before that under Eisenhower with the… checks notes… ah, yes, “War on Illegal Immigration”. Damn that sounds familiar for some reason.