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Following the most recent Sean Swain update to @news, a particularly awful troll made some comments, which Sean eventually saw and decided to respond to. Check out the original comments here.

I’d like to weigh in, if I’m not too late. Hopefully someone can post this for me. I’m Sean Swain, by the way.
A friend sent a chunk of a debate. In it, Post-Biceps lamented my lack of writings on a world after prisons don’t exist. Fact is, I attempt to avoid prescribing how things ought to be after… My reason is, I know how I wish to live after, but I can in no way construct a model of living and conflict resolution strategies to make 7 billion people happy. I suspect in the “after,” i.e., after THIS collapses or unravels, there will be MILLIONS of localized varieties on how to solve problems.
I do not have the big, big brain to conceive of all of them.
In previous epochs, if you were to tell people, for instance, that a new epoch is coming and the Catholic Church will no longer be all-powerful, or that kings and queens would be reduced to figureheads, and you were to ask them what they imagine the future will LOOK LIKE, 99% of the people would fuck up 99% of what they would present.
We don’t know what comes next. We don’t control it. But we know there is a next, and it’s coming, and it gets closer every day, and it ain’t THIS. I think all life will be localized and that means we can predict that certain principles of organizing and relating, contrary to the present system, will be present. But how that works out in details may differ from one social grouping to the next.
The future is like a flavor of ice cream we haven’t tasted yet, but I bet it’s better than the toxic sludge-flavored cone I’m being force-fed now…
About my case, and indigenist methods for resolving conflict and debt. We have to be careful of overgeneralizations. The offering of gifts or apologies from someone who has offended another makes sense in a kind of tribal setting, where group cohesion is key and everyone is interdependent. We need to hunt the buffalo, and we need to work together, so you better make amends after you got drunk and peed in my canteen. Continue reading →

We sent Sean comments from his recent post to @news, and he wrote this response.

SEAN SWAIN RESPONDS: A couple of important points that need responses. In “De Mystifying”I concluded the US would not carpet bomb its own cities, not because the government if beneficent- it isn’t I believe US pilots ordered to bomb a US city where the pilots family lives,and would be more likely to bomb the White House instead. Also,based on the fear of that being true,the government would never roll those dice .A second issue is the irrational premise that irregular warfare can only be employed by authorizing specifically. Marxist-Leninist : Spartacus led a guerrilla war against the Roman Empire, using strategies learned from the “ barbarian slaves.” It was the greatest slave revolt in history and Spartacus was not a Marxist-Leninist. Also the Shawnee organized a federation of tribes that employed strategies and tactic of guerrilla warfare with great success until the federation unraveled for reasons NOT related efficacy of their approach. Later, the Lakota defeated the US Army in 3 consecutive engagements using guerrilla strategies and tactics, something the Vietcong (who were Marxist-Leninsts) cold not do. Later still, the Chihuahua Apache waged a decades long guerrilla war against the colonizer. If you have to be an authoritarian and a Marxist-Leninist to be an effective guerrilla, clearly Tecumseh, Crazy Horse and Guantanamo never got the memo. Marx never so much as mentioned guerrilla warfare. Lenin never used it . The strategy preceded both of them.

Never forget, contrary to the official story, Lakota women killed General Custer with frying pans. Emulate them.

Freedom.

Sean Swain (the fucking “wingnut”who believes rifles will still fire even if its not a Marxist-Leninist pulling the trigger.)