Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉

Anarchist, activist, abolitionist, angelenoLOLogist, unschooler, anti-zionist Jew, mathematician. Formerly at https://michaelkohlhaas.org and https://sunshinecoalition.net, now at https://chez-risk.in. Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉 (npub1l27…zpk4)">https://justmytoots.com/Adrian Riskin 🇵🇸🍉 (npub1l27…zpk4)

Avatar: A blurry picture of a bald man's head, shoulders, and hands reflected in a window holding someone else's phone taking a picture. It's me!
email: adrian@foutu.org
Place: Los Angeles -- would we not shatter it to bits and then remold it nearer to the heart's desire?

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2024-10-05 22:25:40

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After editing Wikipedia obsessively for a while many years ago I'd much more seriously consider paying someone *not* to write one about me.

2024-10-04 21:25:51

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Very well stated!

2024-09-22 21:24:18

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Thank you for this!

2024-09-14 16:03:50

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Pretty Bird by Hazel Dickens is one of my favorite a capella songs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FlAfA1AF4TQ

2024-08-23 00:25:06

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got it! I'll get them out tomorrow.

2024-07-04 15:56:01

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I don't know how things are in the UK but in the US it takes massive ongoing carceral violence to force kids into school. I can't imagine anything they learn there that's worth the damage inflicted to make them go.

2024-07-04 15:47:07

Some people favor mandatory schooling because they're afraid kids will learn a lot of crazy shit without it but it's hard to imagine any shit crazier than the crazy shit they learn now. Land of the free? Whoever told you that was your enemy.
#RageAgainstTheMachine #Unschooling #FourthOfJuly

2024-06-24 18:12:58

I was just wondering why I never see starfish in LA tide pools any more -- they were everywhere when I was a kid. It turns out that the population was devastated in 2013-4 by sea star wasting syndrome, a poorly understood phenomenon that can basically dissolve a sea star in just a few days.
#LosAngeles #Tidepools #Starfish #SeaStars #MarineBiology #SeaStarWastingSyndrome
https://marine.ucsc.edu/data-products/sea-star-wasting/

2024-06-21 05:33:53

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If they're right I already know what they say. If they're wrong why would I read them?

2024-06-20 23:58:29

'A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy who died in South Los Angeles in April succumbed to the “effects of methamphetamine,” according to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner.'
#LosAngeles #LASD #SouthLosAngeles #ACAB
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/south-los-angeles-deputy-was-killed-by-meth-coroner-finds/

2024-06-20 22:02:17

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this has been a normal thing in LA since I can remember, back to the 60s so surely before. No idea why. It was even on Six Feet Under.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/651/198/875/632/325/original/f5b9436bf2f3468a.jpg

2024-06-20 17:20:24

Last boost. By far the weirdest anti-anarchism take I've ever seen.
#Anarchism

2024-06-20 17:03:44

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lol human nature. 300K years of anarchy, 5K of violently imposed states, ~200 years of the world-spanning state system, and the latter is due to human nature. Here's a decent starting place to fill in the gaps in your knowledge:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity)

2024-06-20 15:35:49

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No, colonies were part of one state and separated themselves into another state. Not being a state was never an option. Territories were territories of a state. Also, you're equivocating on two meanings of the word "state." Territories were territories of the US state -- already part of a state, and just voted to change their status within that state.
From the beginning of English colonization of North America not being part of a state was never an option. The Virginia Colony was a state-sponsored enterprise. When the Sea Venture shipwrecked on Bermuda on its way to Jamestown and the people decided to stay there and live outside of state control the English sent a military expedition to force them on to Jamestown. Being part of a state has never been voluntary.

2024-06-20 15:24:06

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Nobody chooses the state. From their beginning states have been violently imposed on people by ruling classes that are not themselves subject to state violence. The first states had walls to keep their subjects inside them. States have always violently imprisoned their subjects. Now the walls aren't so physical, but it's still impossible to leave.

2024-06-20 14:25:22

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Right now the people who control polluting industries don't live near the pollution. It's externalized to poorer areas, either locally or globally. If the people living in a place controlled what happened there why would they choose to pollute it?

2024-06-19 19:29:39

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This is a terrible example. Kilns to this very day are made out of mud bricks. There's really nothing else to make them from. The only things stopping anyone from making their own kilns are zoning codes and lack of access to land, both of which are capitalist means of enforcing the exploitation of labor. Plenty of potters make their own kilns if they're not hindered by laws.
With respect to what it seems like you're trying to say, the answer is cooperation between productive workers. Some people now make potter's wheels and kilns, some people make pots. Currently in order to exchange them they have to cede most of the value to capitalists. Take the capitalists out of the equation and the work can go on as before. What would stop it?

2024-06-19 01:59:51

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my mom grew them in the back yard in LA and they weren't a problem ... Not like those goddamn blackberries! They're delicious raw right out of the ground..

2024-06-16 03:12:02

We shut down Olympic Blvd outside the Peacock Theater while Joe Biden's fundraiser took place inside!
#LosAngeles #FreeGaza #Genocide #Protests #Palestine #JoeBiden
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/624/095/534/497/393/original/2f7a5d51bef48dad.jpg

2024-06-16 02:31:12

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LoL that lady! I forget now why she blocked me but whatever it was I'm sure I'm proud of it.

2024-06-13 18:57:09

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Kids are killed by homelessness to ensure the viability of the residential rental market.

2024-06-13 01:36:15

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wow!
https://fgc.ca.gov/Regulations/Current/Upland-Game-Birds#300a1g

2024-06-13 01:34:22

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omg! I've never even heard of this.

2024-06-12 19:14:10

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The other day about 50 people looted an Autozone in Los Angeles. This really upset the ruling class and there's a lot of pearl-clutching going on about it right now. But can you blame them? If you're going to rob people at gunpoint it's only to be expected that they might fight back.
8/8
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-10/video-shows-group-forcing-their-way-into-autozone-after-street-takeover

2024-06-12 19:13:45

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Seen this way the Autozone, and every other capitalist enterprise with which working people interact, is a tool for using violence to extract labor from unwilling workers. In purely economic terms it's indistinguishable from a plantation powered by enslaved people. Yes, workers now aren't owned by a single capitalist, but their labor is owned by the whole class of capitalists. They can choose not to have this or that boss but, apart from some edge cases, they're not free to choose not to have a boss. Even if they work for themselves, because they have to shop at Autozone or the equivalent, a great deal of the money they earn goes to capitalists for doing nothing other than owning property inside a web of laws enforced by violence against the worker. An Autozone is not a neutral supplier of necessities, it's a weapon pointed at working people in order to exploit their forced labor.
7/8

2024-06-12 19:13:35

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Autozone also needs customers with money to pay for their products. As above, these exist in Los Angeles because the City has created and maintains a web of laws that force people to work for money. As I said, when they spend this money a great deal of it goes into the pockets of commercial property owners and corporations, who add nothing to the value of the products. In effect this means that working people spend most of their time working for the ruling class. The Autozone, along with every other capitalist enterprise in LA and elsewhere, is a tool for skimming a large majority of the value that their work produces. The ability of capitalists to do this depends on laws, and the laws are enforced by violence.
6/8

2024-06-11 21:07:59

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tragic!

2024-06-11 01:22:10

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