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ICE killed two people in Minneapolis. The courts issued orders. The orders were ignored. And a major segment of the country is acting like this is fine.
This video is a diagnostic. Not "here's what's happening," you know what's happening. This is about the machinery underneath: how a democracy legally suspends itself, how colonial hardware comes home, and why filming police brutality didn't stop police brutality. Then we look at three historical blueprints, the Black Panthers, the Underground Railroad, and a cook named Georgia Gilmore, for what actually works against a surveillance state that can't be shamed into stopping.
The thesis: fascism isn't a monster. It's a bureaucracy. And resistance isn't heroics. It's logistics.
I've been gone for fifteen months. I'm back.
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SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (2003)
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)
Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitics" (2011)
Jodi Dean, Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (2009)
Jessica Calarco Holding It Together (2024)
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ICE killed two people in Minneapolis. The courts issued orders. The orders were ignored. And a major segment of the country is acting like this is fine.
This video is a diagnostic. Not "here's what's happening," you know what's happening. This is about the machinery underneath: how a democracy legally suspends itself, how colonial hardware comes home, and why filming police brutality didn't stop police brutality. Then we look at three historical blueprints, the Black Panthers, the Underground Railroad, and a cook named Georgia Gilmore, for what actually works against a surveillance state that can't be shamed into stopping.
The thesis: fascism isn't a monster. It's a bureaucracy. And resistance isn't heroics. It's logistics.
I've been gone for fifteen months. I'm back.
——
📰 Newsletter (free tier available): patreon.com/stepbackhistory
💬 Discord: discord.gg/4mRM9WNfJQ
🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/stepback.nebula.tv
——
SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (2003)
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)
Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitics" (2011)
Jodi Dean, Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies (2009)
Jessica Calarco Holding It Together (2024)
Meshtastic Guide: meshtastic.org/docs/getting-started
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