By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Agnes who no one could hear. Everyone around her, including her own parents, insisted that she was a boy and no matter how loud Agnes yelled “No!” they […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I’m pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Not to complain, but I have kind of a lot of shit on my mind lately and sometimes the shit is almost more than I can bare. This isn’t a flex, but I am a genderfuck hick struggling […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Every once in a while, human beings invent a machine that changes everything and more often than anyone would like to admit, that change seems to be for the worse. For every vibrator there seems to be at […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Everybody seems to be going fucking crazy lately and it seems to be going on everywhere you look, or at least everywhere they can jam a fucking news camera. You see mothers smothering their own children in basement […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The shit is going down hard in Yemen right now, and it’s looking a lot like war. The Saudis are making major moves, kicking off the latest escalation with a foiled airstrike on the Sanaa International Airport in […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It has kind of become an exhausted trope at this point, the often-screeched mantra of “Donald Trump is the worst president in the history of mankind!” I’ve been hearing it ad nauseum from across the 9th aisle of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s hard to believe but it’s coming on three years now since I recovered the last tranche of horrific trauma memories stored in my subconscious from a childhood held hostage by the Catholic Church. It took a dedicated […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, things are going pretty bad for Donald Trump in the Middle East lately and they just keep getting worse. At the behest of his Zionist masters who have played that child molester like […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley They are watching us, everywhere, all the time. Big government, big tech, the NSA, Blackrock, Oracle, Palantir… The thousand tentacled data Cthulhu known collectively as the surveillance state… “They” are everywhere. They are all the time. And they […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.” -Werner Herzog The blacktop […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley They say that the arch of history bends towards progress but as a trans person in the midst of the second decade of the twenty-first century, I find myself torn at the crossroads of an increasingly bewildering age. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley So, the communists are coming again or at least so screech the doom merchants over at the GOP. Fox News is ablaze with round-the-clock, wall-to-wall coverage of the Democratic Party’s fall beneath the unstoppable onslaught of the deadly […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Middle East has a serious fucking problem and any semi-sentient anti-imperialist with two brain cells to rub together can tell you that the problem isn’t Iran. It’s America and its dead-eyed flunkey Israel, or is it Israel […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It seems to be a tried-and-true trope even if it is a bit of a tired one for a seasoned Oliver Stone-style conspiracy enthusiast such as myself. The dreaded Zionist Occupied Government (or ZOG if your nasty) is […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Nobody likes to talk about rape, but it seems morally absurd not to considering that it seems to be everywhere you look; from frat row to death row, from the Vatican to Nickelodeon, from ICE to the IDF, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermity Exile in Happy Valley Dear Amerika, It’s me Nicky. You know, the genderfuck gonzo raconteur with all the knives in her purse. Or perhaps you know me by my Indian name; That-Bitch. That bitch with all the unsolicited opinions. That bitch with […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I grew up very Queer in a very small and very conservative town in Central Pennsylvania. I didn’t have the word ‘Queer’ or really any word to properly describe my feelings of visceral otherness, but I couldn’t seem […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a narrative running through the western zeitgeist and slowly trickling out to its various victims in the Third World that ‘Queer’ or at least ‘LGBTQ’ is somehow synonymous with colonialism and imperialism; that queerness in and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If it’s June, then it must be Pride and straight people everywhere are celebrating how far you’ve come. You know, out of the closets and onto MTV. But what if you don’t particularly feel like celebrating? What if […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Joe is a gay man. A real swell guy who parts his hair down the side, says his prayers, and pays his taxes. He just so happens to suck cock. Well, one cock at least; his husband’s cock. […]
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley ” a libertarian foreign policy program for America must be to call upon the United States to abandon its policy of global interventionism: to withdraw immediately and completely, militarily and politically, from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, from […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you have no earthly idea what in the hot fuck is going on with the Iran War right now, then you are probably paying attention because the Trump Administration and the mainstream news appear to be equally […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.” -Thomas Szasz In the beginning, there were shamans; wild eyed wiseman communing with the ancestors, drawing down the moon, and swapping genders like loin cloths. They were […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley So, another motherfucker took a shot at the president; another bored kid with a gun and an iPhone looking for immortality in all the wrong places. The desperate details are less important than the fact that this was […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well folks, it’s that time of year again. The birds are a-chirping, the flowers are a-blooming, and Trotskyites and Stalinists alike are falling head-over-heals in love with the working man like it’s the very first time. That’s right […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very strange is shifting in the darker corners of the internet. Something serpentine slick and black as ink. While Donald Trump moves farther and farther to the right and much of his cultish base mindlessly follows him […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As a badly battered Middle East hangs off the edge of a cliff by a string with a temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran, peace or anything remotely resembling it looks even less likely for Southern […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is no more room left to mince words in the name of political correctness or anything else for that matter. Israel has become a menace of downright international proportions, and the world must come together to confront […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley At the writing of this post, it has been nearly a month since Israel and America began their savage aerial assault on Iran, and the Islamic Republic has been throttled and decimated in nearly every way conceivable. The […]
By Nicky Ricky aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley A wise man once said that rage is merely depression turned outward. I don’t know what that motherfucker’s name was, but I’d like to rip his fucking head off and kick it through a stained-glass window because outward […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Trump has seriously fucked up in the Middle East this time and even he knows it. In the first two weeks alone of Bibi and Donald’s latest savage bombardment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, neither regime has […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I think a lot of people take words like ‘home’ and ‘family’ for granted and I suppose I was one of them. I grew up in what I thought was a pretty stable home, a three-bedroom house with […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If it’s February, then some liberal white dude is probably telling you about Black history and he’s probably totally missing the point, going on about how far someone else’s people have come and how far the nation that […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I realized that there was something deeply terrifying about my body when I was two or three years old. I didn’t exactly know that I was a girl, I just knew that something was profoundly wrong. I didn’t […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley One might be forgiven for assuming that the man in the White House is a lunatic and Donald J. Trump certainly couldn’t be confused with the picture of mental health by anyone with half of a functioning brain […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “We will have everything we want; we’re getting everything we want, at no cost!” the President of Babylon barked triumphantly over his latest diplomatic conquest in Greenland. After weeks of mounting tensions between our dear leader and his […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, it’s official dearest motherfuckers, America has become the world’s largest third world dictatorship. If the first two months of 2026 don’t prove this to you with flying colors than I’m terrified to ask what will. Since Christmas, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America is in the grips of an epic gang war the likes of which it has never seen before. Masked and heavily armed thugs stock the streets of some of America’s biggest cities with total impunity, thousands of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It all went off without a hitch. Donald Trump’s huge, beautiful, helicopter coup of 2026. After two years of bungling pretty much everything from tariffs to the Epstein cover-up, our dayglow Caesar rolled the dice in Venezuela, and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Two events from my bleak rural Pennsylvania childhood have scarred my soul more than any others, fundamentally defining my entire outlook both psychologically and philosophically. The first event was very personal but became very political and the second […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society that you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “No matter what God’s power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.” -Jacques […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve gone through this scenario a million fucking times before and it always seems to play out the same way. I meet some vanilla white progressive ally who feels my pain. You know the type; the non-profit industrial […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “What transforms this world is… Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Way back in the 1700s there was this fucked up little place called Florida, or at least that’s what the Spaniards called it. The original natives of the region had multiple different names for this untamable swampland but […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Statistically speaking, you or someone you love has been preyed upon by a man with more power than he deserves. RAINN estimates that 17.7 million American women have been the victims of rape in the United States and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It stuck. Donald Trump nailed it. The impossible peace deal that will remake the Middle East in his own gawdy gilded image. After just over two years straight of total war, after billions of dollars of bombs and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, Satan died last week, or at least so I’m told. Speaking personally, I won’t sleep easier until I see a body because that neocon fossil should have died centuries ago. I can’t help but to feel like […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Once upon a time, not so long ago, I was a goddamn commie, and I’m not talking Bernie Sanders here. I’m talking hardcore, blood-red, dyed-in-the-wool, revolutionary Marxism. I was a goddamn tankie and while I quoted Lenin and […]
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