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Michelle Hughes<p>A friend of mine just sent a pic from after FFS. I replied:</p><p>"I thought I'd question my gender a little. No big deal, right? Well, now I have tape all over my face!!"</p><p>I am referring to a skit from the MTV show "The State". I cannot find this anywhere on the internet, so nobody knows what I'm talking about. Can anyone point to a way to watch this skit or the whole show?</p><p>All I could find is one screenshot.</p><p><a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/ffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ffs</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/TheState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheState</span></a> <a href="https://a2mi.social/tags/TapeAllOverMyFace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TapeAllOverMyFace</span></a></p>
דניאלה סולזמן 🎗️✡️🕎🟦🎥<p>New from Solzy at the Movies: Long Live The State – Tribeca 2025</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/LongLiveTheState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LongLiveTheState</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/TheState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheState</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comedy</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentary</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Tribeca2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tribeca2025</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://solzyatthemovies.com/2025/06/11/long-live-the-state-tribeca-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">solzyatthemovies.com/2025/06/1</span><span class="invisible">1/long-live-the-state-tribeca-2025/</span></a></p>
PandaCabPol, capitalism, the state, anarchist
Strypey<p>One important thing my anarchist mentors taught me about smashing The State (TM), is that we mean something very specific by it; what political scientists call the 'monopoly on violence'.</p><p>The normalisation of "violence down the hierarchy", as Derrick Jensen put it in Endgame, while pathologising even the most trivial use of force against the hierarchy. Police brutality isn't even news. While throwing a cream pie at a PR hack or CEO is "assault".</p><p>(1/?)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheState</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/MonopolyOnViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonopolyOnViolence</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1832568/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1832568/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> State could limit scrutiny of pollution threat from new power plants <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/applications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>applications</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/deadline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deadline</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GasPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GasPrice</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JohnBrooker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnBrooker</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LiquefiedNaturalGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiquefiedNaturalGas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/lng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lng</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LNGPrice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LNGPrice</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NaturalGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalGas</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerPlants</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RogerKirby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RogerKirby</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TheState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheState</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"Ultimately, it is the sort of book which should be mandatory reading for all <a href="https://mato.social/tags/CivilServants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilServants</span></a> and Politicians of every colour. We have to reconfigure the interface between the citizen and the state in order for them to have a more copacetic relationship. We have to redesign <a href="https://mato.social/tags/thestate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thestate</span></a> so that it is able to meet the challenges of today. We have to ensure that it is able to rapidly adapt to the challenges of tomorrow."<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Edent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Edent</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/book-review-platformland-by-richard-pope/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/book-</span><span class="invisible">review-platformland-by-richard-pope/</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"The <a href="https://mato.social/tags/extremeright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremeright</span></a> does not hate <a href="https://mato.social/tags/thestate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thestate</span></a>, but just enough to gain access to it and occupy it. Once in power it does not destroy it, it tries to reconfigure it. <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Milei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Milei</span></a>, <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> or <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Bolsonaro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bolsonaro</span></a> aim to destroy public regulations that deal with social reproduction and favour private regulation of <a href="https://mato.social/tags/capitalAccumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalAccumulation</span></a>. State action is not dissolved but reoriented to constitute a new, ultra-punitive power of command capable of assisting the order required by the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markets</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://autonomies.org/2024/12/diego-sztulwark-one-year-of-mileis-government/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">autonomies.org/2024/12/diego-s</span><span class="invisible">ztulwark-one-year-of-mileis-government/</span></a></p>
Mark Burton<p>Important &amp; timely reminder.</p><p>"Here and now, the state is oriented towards maintaining the conditions needed for the accumulation of capital.<br>"That has been the British state’s role since the 17th century, despite the preservation of several feudal forms. It has taken on and discarded specific functions, including under the pressure of class struggle, but all within that overarching framework."</p><p>Capitalist state cannot be rewired | Morning Star<br><a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/capitalist-state-cannot-be-rewired" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">morningstaronline.co.uk/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/capitalist-state-cannot-be-rewired</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheState</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>