Well, it looks like we've had another year. We got it fresh and now it's blown all to hell. We just keep having those things whether anyone thinks it's a good idea or not; and it looks almost certain now that in a few days we're going to have another one.
https://www.the-reframe.com/annual-round-up-2024/
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One good thing about this year is that for the first time in the history of the newsletter, I'm not announcing a move to some other site, and that is a considerable relief. Also, I spent the entirety of this year on the sunny side of 50, though I imagine the upcoming post-50 side is sunny enough.
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And I published my second book, the essay collection VERY FINE PEOPLE, with the help of all of you nice people, especially the patrons who support me at the level I still for some reason (laziness) call Founding, some 3 years after the founding. https://www.the-reframe.com/a-very-fine-publication-date/
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And everyone in my life stayed healthy, and there was no water damage to my house, which isn't always the case in every year. Not bad!
However, in many ways, this year was not a great one here for decent people in my country of the United States of America, and even less great in many other places.
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For example, we had a slow seemingly inevitable crawl toward electoral defeat to some of the most horrible people the universe has ever produced, abetted at least in part by Democratic unwillingness to stop providing military and political support to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
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And now we're witnessing a near total capitulation by our national institutions to the incompetent oligarchical American fascist party that will be taking the reins in a few weeks. This is a gang of empty-souled corrupt thugs and sex-obsessed bigoted religious creeps, and man fuck those guys I says.
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I've got an essay teed up about that capitulation; a follow-up to last week's post about the murderous scam that is my nation's founding myth. And, because I can only stare at the eye of Sauron so long at a time, I'll do another palate-cleansing LOST recap soon.
https://www.the-reframe.com/a-system-built-to-eat-people-never-stops-eating/
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But that's what's ahead. Right now I'm looking back at the year that was.
I did a lot of writing on here, it turns out, and some of it I still like OK. So here are six essays from 2024 that I think are best.
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In January, I wrote about my decision to move The Reframe off Substack, which is a platform I quite liked and upon which I had enjoyed quite a bit of success. I lay out the reasons here (Nazis, mostly). https://www.the-reframe.com/hello-i-must-be-going/
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In April I wrote about the electoral math that the Democratic Party appeared to be applying, and the dangers—both moral and electoral—of running the same old plays, particularly when they fail to create sharp points of differentiation from eliminationist fascists. https://www.the-reframe.com/the-bloody-math/
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In August I wrote about a turbo-creep VP candidate and his statements about women, and what it indicates that the people like JD Vance, who seem to provide our society with the least value, seem most confident in declaring the worthlessness of everyone else.
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-whole-purpose/
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And then, in November, I wrote a few essays around the election that were a bit more tactical than I usually get.
First, before the election, I wrote about the utility of the word "unacceptable" and of refusing to accept apologies of fascists and other bullies.
https://www.the-reframe.com/apology-not-accepted/
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After the election, I wrote about differentiators, and laid out certain things I believe we must practice in the coming age of empowered American Nazis: doing what fascists cannot do, not doing what fascists want us to do, and never accepting the fascist offer. https://www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-the-dark/
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A week after that I wrote about boundaries and permission, people who refuse to hear about the hurt they are causing, and what to do with people who have proved that they are not safe, and are therefore not worthy of our trust, our engagement, or our time. https://www.the-reframe.com/rules-of-engagement/
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Friends, here we are: at the end of the year and the start of another; at the end of neoliberalism—which is the iteration of what U.S. supremacy has been the first 50 years of my life—and at the start of whatever U.S. supremacy is going to try to become now that open Nazi ideology is on the table.
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I don't pretend to know what this will ultimately look like; I know what the American Fascist party known as Republican intends to make it into, because they are very clear in their intention to convert the country into a corporate work prison and bigoted free-range murder factory.
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@JuliusGoat Authoritarian fascists say : Give us your Freedom.
The only correct answer is : We'll give you Hell
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