The sequel: The Freedom Fighter's Manual Practical guide to liberating Nicaragua from oppression and misery by paralyzing the military-industrial complex of the traitorous marxist state without having to use special tools and with minimal risk for the combatant.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

OK this is interesting. I am just now reading about the Nicaraguan revolution.

[–] HalfAHero@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Right now, this administration wants the current government to grind to a halt. Many federal employees can resist most effectively be being as good at their job as possible for the public benefit.

It's the next iteration of this government, after they've purged the ranks more completely, where militarized incompetence will be antifascist.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Correction: that's the Office of Strategic Services, long before it consolidated into the anti-communist, pro-western imperialist CIA...

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

The CIA sabotaging fascism, that's a funny joke!

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Flips to page one Ah, we should pull their funding! Why didn't I think of that?

[–] onwardknave@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not paying taxes would work, but only if everyone did it. So is this how we starve the beast? Then again, I feel like I'm already on a few lists, why not paint a target on my back too?

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The federal govt doesn't actually spend our taxes, they just erase that money from circulation as I understand it.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

Classic MMT

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There's not true. There's MMT which says that taxation is a money sink in an abstract sense. But that's not a universally-accepted theory, and even if you do accept it it doesn't say that taxes aren't necessary. According to what I'm seeing on wikipedia, under "Criticism", MMT proponents say they never said a government could spend without revenue.

Both MMT and more widely-accepted economic theories say that if the government prints money without bringing in proportional tax revenue that leads to inflation which gets to a similar result as not having money in the first place.

In practice the government has bank accounts that tax money goes into, and spending comes out of.

[–] Yeat@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

Wait what

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

12(a):

https://youtu.be/erO0UCQ7nfg