By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Every victim of statism has internalized the state to some degree… Should the taxpayers completely cut off the blood supply, the vampire state would helplessly perish, its unpaid police and army deserting almost immediately, defanging the monster.” -Samuel […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Where there is official censorship, it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.” -Paul Goodman America is a nation that loves its folklore […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.” -Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization It has been said that these are dangerous […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is no use arguing that Donald Trump hasn’t existentially altered the conversation on war in this country and sweet Kali knows that I’ve tried. I’ve been crying bullshit in all caps on that swinging bologna salesman’s phony […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “From these unfolding vistas of human misery and from personal misery, man must forge convictions, call other men his brothers, and fight for freedom. Man is only free if he is prepared to kill every hangman and every […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit I love reading the French radicals from both the left and the right and they intrigue me for largely the same reasons. For better or worse, from Louis Althusser to Alain de Benoist, they all fucking “go there.” Damn the torpedoes! With […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I have a tendency to view most pharmaceuticals, be they therapeutic or recreational, as neither good nor bad, but fentanyl is one lethal concoction that has really sunken its fangs deep into the collective throat of this nation […]
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 you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As someone who proudly self-identifies as an aggressively open genderfuck anarchist, I get called a lot of ugly words and I’ve made something of a tradition of owning most of them. In fact, coming from the Eazy-E school […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley On June 10th, 2023, a madman died alone in his cell at the age of 81 in a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina. This morbid list of details wouldn’t exactly be considered news if it […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This June has been a dark month for the long embattled Queer folks of Uganda and no pinkwashed corporate Pride parade is coming to save them from the jaws of state sanctioned violence. While the paler people of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The worst thing that can happen to any minority in this twisted empire in decline is to be integrated into the official zeitgeist of mainstream history because that inevitably means being neutered post-mortem and turned into some taxidermy […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I know this sounds gay, but I’m in love with being Queer and I’m kind of gross about it. I celebrate my flamboyant tribal freakiness in everything from the fluorescent pink color of my hair to the words […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Jordan Neely was kind of a weird kid. If you ever saw him, you would know what I mean. There was just something profoundly ‘other’ about his spirit and through the right set of eyes, it was something […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley They say that a picture speaks a thousand words. If that’s true, then a hostage video must speak at least a million. The only problem with this technology and indeed most technology is that most of these words […]
Donate to the Uhuru defense fund here: https://handsoffuhuru.org/ By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Sometimes our positions are unpopular in the short term, even among the masses, only to be vindicated as events unfold to reveal a truth that was obscured by the faulty […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Why don’t you guys do something?” Those were the eternal words of Storme DeLarverie as the pigs hauled her away in shackles, bloodied but unbowed, after she threw the first punch of the Stonewall Uprising. I feel like […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 34 felony counts and homicide ain’t one. That is all I can think anytime I see another news reel about the supposedly historic indictment of former and possibly future President Donald J. Trump. This son of a Klansman […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Branch Davidians were a bunch of weird people who just wanted to be left the fuck alone. The buzzing hivemind of the mainstream maelstrom will scream otherwise on every conceivable platform that they have at their disposal […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Another day, another school shooting. It seems to happen every week in this shithole country. Probably because it pretty much literally does. We’ve had 19 of these goddamn things in the first few months of 2023 alone and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Boys are loud and rambunctious. Girls are quiet, meek and well behaved. Boys get dirty, climb trees and scrape their knees. Girls stay neat and clean. Boys are husky growing lads. Girls are thin, dainty creatures who must […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Those motherfuckers in the GOP have been talking shit about me and my tribe again lately. In fact, it doesn’t seem like they’ve shut the fuck up about us over the last six or seven years and the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Every time an ex-president dies a demon gets his wings. It’s a time-honored tradition in these hallowed halls of Babylon. Lucifer himself could drop dead and provided that motherfucker spent no less than a hot minute in the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I know this has kind of become a virtue signaling cliche in this day and age, but Black History Month really does end way too goddamn soon. I thoroughly recognize that the entire month is largely a contrived […]
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley History is fucking boring in this country and sadly, Black history is far from the exception that proves the rule. According to the straight white corporate guardians of Black History Month Incorporated, It’s all pacifism and peanut butter. The […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, I lived in a small house surrounded by a great big forest. I won’t lie to you and tell you that my childhood was idyllic because in […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Israelis are pissed off and for once they’re not just pissed off at the Arabs. They’re pissed off at Bibi. They made this pretty clear during the final days of the first month of 2023 when they […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm impermanence So the days float through my eyes But still the days seem the same And these children that you spit on As they try […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is something happening at the border, and it’s fucked up. These are the only two things that the loudest of the yammering heads on either side of America’s partisan divide seem to agree on when it comes […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I may be the queerest anarchist between Fire Island and the Salton Sea, but I’ve never had a great deal of patience for the current fad of political correctness that seems to be all the rage with the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 2022 sucked. That’s how I usually introduce this annual list of people who miraculously didn’t, and I wouldn’t be totally off base to do so again. 2022 was a year as chock full of horrors as any other […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America has become a downright surreal place during the twilight hours of our imperial decline. We can’t seem to finish one potentially apocalyptic cold war before starting another and the lesser evilism of our sham elections has reduced […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Russia is the least statelike, the most anarchistic land in the world. And the Russian people is the most apolitical of peoples, never having managed to set its land right.” -Nikolai Berdyaev “Whoever fights monsters should see to […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I do my damnedest to put up a bad bitch front but I can’t lie to you dearest motherfuckers, sometimes it really hurts to be a Queer anarchist in Trump Country. The pay is shit, the hours are […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Where is the sun? Have we been marching through this darkness forever? It’s barely December but it already feels like the longest winter in recent memory. In fact, it feels like last winter never really ended. That was […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very stupid is happening in America. People have never been more disgusted with their bullshit form of government and yet they’ve never been more devoted to engaging in the partisan bullshit that defines it. It is a […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’m a crazy person, or at least, so I’m told. I could dress it up with all kinds of politically correct labels and DSM approved diagnoses for you, but let’s just cut the bullshit right here and call […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you’re reading this now, chances are you’ve already saved democracy by voting for some asshole and chances are you were probably guilted into it on the fear of semi-fascism by a relentless campaign of 24/7 multimedia harassment. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Those dusty old dominionist douche bags in the Supreme Court really kicked the Democrats a Midterm field goal when they shot down Roe this summer. After tanking the fucking economy with their nuclear proxy war in Ukraine and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve been compiling this twisted little list of frighteningly anti-authoritarian films for about four years now and a lot has changed during that short time for both cinema and authoritarianism. With the epoch shattering cataclysm of the pandemic […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “What about the children!” This has been the shrill clarion call of hysterical Karens on both sides of the aisle for generations. “What about the children!” A sure fire response to any politically incorrect question that would otherwise […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve always found conspiracy theories to be fascinating, not just individually, but as a concept in and of itself. I spent the darker portion of my teenage years happily lost down dark-web rabbit holes, searching for deeper meaning […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Republican Party wants to erase trans people. Over the last couple of years, they have made this sickeningly clear, not just with their colossal barrage of brazenly bigoted legislation overwhelmingly targeting children in one of the most […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The shit is getting real again in Ukraine and every neoliberal and his lobbyist seems super stoked about the carnage. After months of pulverizing battlefield gridlock and mounting global war fatigue, the Western warmongers finally have a tangible […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ll tell you a secret, dearest motherfuckers, if you promise to tell everyone else. The two-party system is nothing but a great big fucking distraction. When it comes down to the big money issues like war and peace, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Joe Biden is pissed off again and coming out swinging and it isn’t those pesky Russkies or dastardly Chinamen this time either. It’s those stupid assholes who voted for the other moron, you know, the orange fella. But […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The right of self-determination of the peoples includes the right to a state of their own. However, the foundation of a state does not increase the freedom of a people. The system of the United Nations that is […]
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 you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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