I've asked the Succ-Dem/ Anarcho-KHive types that very question, and their answer is "Mass murder is the official policy of both parties, but one of them wants to hurt us too (slightly more) and that's what really matters! We gave you fun uncle why can't you give up your unrealistic policy demands of no genocide!?"

(Sorry for the digression, but the "living in a cave" bit set my brain off.)

I'm watching some videos by some "primitive survivalist" dude who allegedly just hikes out into the south-western U.S. desert hills and builds little huts to live in. The only thing I've been able to think about while watching them is that it must actually be some corporate-funded project done with U.S. government subsidies or at least permission, or done on the private property of some billionaire or something.

Like, I can believe some person could go out onto Bureau of Land Management land somewhere and hunt and gather and build semi-permanent shelter...but this guy is fucking televising it on YouTube with a couple million subscribers. There's no way in hell the U.S. government doesn't know exactly who he is, where he is, what he is doing, and what kind of cash he is raking in from his little endeavor. How are the feds not driving up in a dune buggy and hauling his ass off?

He's white and not saying anything particularly political, though. Is that enough for the state to just give up on the whole notion of making sure people must own property to do shit?

the ones who were radical enough to present an actual threat to the present order got their heads smashed by scumbag pigs and fascist mobs within a month; the ones whose demands could be accommodated while maintaining the overall structure got allowed to peacefully disband their camps and enter "negotiations" with bloodsoaked faculties. very similar to how the 2020 uprisings went, really. the positive to draw from this is that the radical wing was way better organised, theoretically much more advanced, and able to move more quickly and adapt more effectively than in 2020 - which featured nothing like the level of organisation or vision we saw last spring.

to compare directly - look at the difference between the hopeless CHAZ/CHOP occupation, which was really the zenith of productive radical action during 2020's uprisings, and the militant occupations of many buildings on campuses across the US - which went on for days, produced an outpouring of revolutionary theory and agitational material, and fended off all sorts of assaults before they had to send in police with damn near shotguns and accompanied by fascist mobs to dismantle them. that's the difference that four years of development of the underlying social base for revolutionary politics has made. no signs point to this development slowing down, in fact the conditions in our societies mean that it's likely to carry on accelerating. and the lessons learned from these uprisings will be learned and integrated just as the lessons learned from 2020 were in this last wave.

so keep your chin up and prepare for the next rupture, comrade, it's coming.