THE RENEGADE TIMES

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Have you forgotten how powerful you are?

welcome Renegades, to my hub of true self-empowerment. Not lessons on how to become the most successful token on the monopoly board, but lessons that can bring us as a psychologically oppressed people to learn the skills necessary to abandon the game. To create a new one.

This is not a place to provoke a violent revolution (although there will eventually be many tools that would help in that pursuit) but a home for ideas on self-reliance and mutual aid. We cannot organise if we cannot work together, and our owners have made great leaps toward dividing us in recent years; so we have much ground to cover.

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Know Thy Enemy

IT will always be most important for as many people as possible to remember that behind every major injustice that you see, behind every corrupted politician, every overreach of government, every lock-down and mark-up, the collapse of public education, spikes in immigration, political division, tax of the poor even the low-life criminals that run around stealing cars and wallets; every time something happens that gives you that “hmm, something doesn’t feel right here” you can bet what little money you have that there are soul-less mega-corporate board members pulling the strings.

Every inch that the collective unconscious shifts further towards fear, financial stress, individualism, scarcity, unease, disease, confusion, political debate, selfishness, ideological tribalism, materialism etc. is another dollar, mind, acre, slave, in the portfolio of the real enemies.

Every time we are pushed toward isolation instead of solidarity, stress instead of support, competition instead of cooperation, we lose ground - and they gain it. This isn’t just about money. It’s about control over time, land, bodies, labor, and even imagination.

Our mission at The Renegade Times is to to unite the people, break corporate dependence, and rebuild community.

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It's surprizing how often both sides of argument want the same thing

during the height of the covid lockdowns (see image above) you were likely aware of the incredible division between our communities online and IRL. The supporters of masks, vaccines and lockdowns V.S. Those who refused to be pushed around by the powers that be. Regardless of what side of this war you were on, the important principle that I want the reader to see is that both sides wanted the SAME THING! The anti-vaxxers wanted our communities to be safe from the violent dominating forces of our government agents and corporate overlords. Those on the other end were desperate to keep our communities safe from the most terrifying pandemic the world had ever seen.

Regardless of my position on the whole subject of COVID, police brutality, forced injections, psychological coersion etc. The point I'm find most important is that we all wanted to keep eachother safe. What a beautiful truth.

And yet...

...We fucking tore eachother apart!

How embarassing that we've let our programming blind us to the fact that we were all in the same boat, and ultimately wanted the same thing for eachother. We watched fathers disown children, friends abandon lifelong friends, lovers breaking up. All over differences of opinion.

My fellow renegades. Regardless of how fucking cheezy I sound in saying this, we truly are all in this together. And we let our ego get the better of us. Just as the dividers, the conquerers wanted.
TV, Podcasts, and social media has taught us that the goal of a conversation about differences of opinion or belief is to win by making the other "Wrong". So, say you're on the subject of morals. You must make the opponent 'immoral' or, atleast 'less moral' through your verbal gymnastics. viewing conversations through this debating mechanism is warfare without weapons; no matter how you slice it.

We will NEVER get free seeing eachother through the lens that we were 'generously' given by our corporate overlords.

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