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Speaker 2: Reports from the Dinah War, your source for everything World
Speaker 2: War three point five. I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and
Speaker 2: today we've got something extra special for you. Today we
Speaker 2: are talking to the Witch of Warcraft, the Mistress of Macnovia,
Speaker 2: the Conquering Queen. She's either the Prince of Portland or
Speaker 2: the Butcher of Beaverton, depending on who you ask. Today
Speaker 2: we're talking to the one, the Only, General, Sophie Lickterman.
Speaker 2: How are you today, Sophie?
Speaker 1: Well, all my dogs are good, so I'm good. All right.
Speaker 2: I've got a bunch of questions for you, some are
Speaker 2: for me, some are listener recommended. And hey, if you
Speaker 2: want to ask our guest questions, anyone with a service card,
Speaker 2: civil or military can send them along to us using
Speaker 2: the social media app of your choice. As always, we'll
Speaker 2: pick the best ones to ask our guests. And no,
Speaker 2: we don't sort by rank privates in generals, you're all
Speaker 2: equal here, just like you are in all the best militaries.
Speaker 2: But first you might be asking yourself, dear listener, what
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Speaker 2: I would do adreads. Before I get into it with
Speaker 2: the questions, I've got to pretend like there isn't anyone
Speaker 2: in the audience who might not have heard of you,
Speaker 2: just in case you were born yesterday. General Sophie Lickterman is,
Speaker 2: of course one of the most decorated commanders in the
Speaker 2: Internationalist forces, and I believe the only person alive who
Speaker 2: holds the rank of brigadier general in three different armies
Speaker 2: four armies. Four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Freeqrumpy of Louisiana just promoted me after last.
Speaker 2: Week's campaign four Armies. The only person currently alive who
Speaker 2: holds the rank of brigadier general in four armies. You
Speaker 2: are the woman of the hour. It seems like jet
Speaker 2: setting and organizing forces everywhere in the world. Whenever a
Speaker 2: new internationalist force needs help getting up and off the ground,
Speaker 2: you're there. You're still on the board here at cool
Speaker 2: Zone Media, of course, which you've founded decades ago at
Speaker 2: this point, but you've still got time to dog mom
Speaker 2: two amazing pups. I think you've got more hours in
Speaker 2: the day than the rest of us. But on to
Speaker 2: the questions. You first rose to political prominence back in
Speaker 2: twenty thirty six, during the whole Fight for the Future thing,
Speaker 2: when you became a household name after a well televised arrest.
Speaker 2: In your own words, what happened there?
Speaker 1: I mean most of you have seen it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: so the Fight for the Future kicks off and recovering
Speaker 1: it on a bunch of our shows. I didn't even
Speaker 1: mean to get more directly involved. I'd had my own
Speaker 1: podcast for a couple of years, but already given up
Speaker 1: on it because I like getting stuff done behind this
Speaker 1: sear I mean, always have. I love you all, but
Speaker 1: someone's got to keep things organized, you know. Anyways, I
Speaker 1: made this offhand comment February twenty fourth, twenty thirty six,
Speaker 1: on It's Still Happening Here, That was our lead show
Speaker 1: at the time, just a quick little I hope someone
Speaker 1: kills that man.
Speaker 2: And then someone killed that man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his own, a strange son killed him, And like,
Speaker 1: how was I supposed to know that kid listened to
Speaker 1: our shows.
Speaker 2: And so later that day you're just out shopping.
Speaker 1: I was just at the pet store the day after
Speaker 1: that asshole died and Suddenly there's the camera crew there,
Speaker 1: drones everywhere, plus two actual talking heads. Run from Fox
Speaker 1: and run from that garbage man media. I think it
Speaker 1: was that old right wing show that Jamie Loftus eventually
Speaker 1: drove into relevance. So these two men are there, They're
Speaker 1: sticking MIC's into my face and asking me about why
Speaker 1: I did it or what I why I masterminded that assassination,
Speaker 1: and I don't know. It's been a long day. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to go home to the dogs, and they're all,
Speaker 1: why do you hate innovation? And why does Antifa support
Speaker 1: murder as a tactic? And tried to get out the door,
Speaker 1: but they were both just there and they weren't small men,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, And.
Speaker 2: So you pepper sprayed both of them.
Speaker 1: I pepper sprayed the shit out of both of them,
Speaker 1: but the cameras caught it all and I was arrested
Speaker 1: in the parking lot. They clearly planned the whole thing.
Speaker 1: The cops wanted to hold me in jail until trial too.
Speaker 1: Our words are more dangerous than a ghost gun, the
Speaker 1: judge said, which is a compliment, I guess. But I
Speaker 1: just wanted to go home see my dogs. And I
Speaker 1: told the judge and the camera saw and yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess people listen because Right for the Future laid siege
Speaker 1: to the courthouse and they brought the cake mortar and
Speaker 1: started kicking everyone trying to get in and out of
Speaker 1: the building, and all the while everyone is standing around
Speaker 1: with actual ar fifteen chanting let her see her dogs,
Speaker 1: Let her see her dogs. It was a weird time.
Speaker 1: Fight for the Future was a weird movement, still throwing
Speaker 1: pies at people, but defending ourselves with guns.
Speaker 2: And so the cops they let you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, turns out the whole power concedes nothing without a demand.
Speaker 1: Thing is right. The state of Oregon decided they'd be
Speaker 1: better off without a small army of protesters camped outside
Speaker 1: the courthouse, and I got to go home that night
Speaker 1: to see my dogs, and I agreed to come back
Speaker 1: to trial, but with an escort of my choosing who
Speaker 1: would make sure I wouldn't go to jail unless I
Speaker 1: was convicted. And yeah, I don't know. It was a
Speaker 1: whole big thing. They wanted to get me on terrorism charges.
Speaker 2: And I was at some of these protests. Jury of
Speaker 2: your peers found you not guilty, much to the judge's consternation.
Speaker 2: You lay low for a while, if you can call
Speaker 2: running a large podcast network laying low, and then kind
Speaker 2: of came back on the scene. During the war, well,
Speaker 2: we used to call it the war, but now we're
Speaker 2: in another one. I guess. So World War three twenty
Speaker 2: forty four was wild. I mean, like a solid ten
Speaker 2: percent of the Earth's population died. So there's that. But
Speaker 2: we were all underground the first half of the year,
Speaker 2: hiding out and broadcasting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can't stop the signal.
Speaker 2: I don't think most of our listeners are old enough
Speaker 2: to appreciate that reference.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the little don't call me AI robot in
Speaker 1: their ears can help them get a firefly reference. Last,
Speaker 1: of course, they're listening to this in one of the
Speaker 1: shielded territories on vinyl.
Speaker 2: Hey, ad, pivots are my job, Well, then go ahead.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes I look around this world and think
Speaker 2: to myself, the Industrial Revolution and its consequences might just
Speaker 2: have been a disaster for the human race. We used
Speaker 2: to be able to say at least it increased our
Speaker 2: life expectancy, but in this era of war, we can't
Speaker 2: even say that. It seems like the Industrial Revolution and
Speaker 2: its consequences have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have
Speaker 2: subjected human beings to indignities, have led to why spread
Speaker 2: psychological and physical suffering, and have inflicted severe damage on
Speaker 2: the natural world. It seems like the continued development of
Speaker 2: technology might just worsen the situation. When I'm thinking that way,
Speaker 2: I just book myself a vacation in Helsenborg, Sweden, the
Speaker 2: largest de electrified region in the world, with its Vishnu
Speaker 2: shield always activated. You know for certain no one can
Speaker 2: reach you because if you bring your phone into the city,
Speaker 2: it'll be completely destroyed. Come on down to Helsenborg, where
Speaker 2: the stars shine at night, Helsenborg, Come on over. Ironic
Speaker 2: paraphrasing and industrial society and its future is not intended
Speaker 2: to convey sympathy for the actions of Ted Kazinski. Do
Speaker 2: not consider visiting a Vishnu shielded area if you rely
Speaker 2: on a pacemaker or other electrical aids. All tourists, too
Speaker 2: and temporary guests of the Scandinavian Federation are required to
Speaker 2: spend at least six hours per week in a volunteer position.
Speaker 2: Not all volunteers are able to pick their form of service.
Speaker 2: Not all volunteer service is considered safe offline life within
Speaker 2: an otherwise industrial world, not proven to mitigate climate change,
Speaker 2: mental degradation, or human impact upon the ecosphere. There is
Speaker 2: no such thing as a climate haven, and natural disaster
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Speaker 2: take us back to World War three. It's the end
Speaker 2: of May and the first schematics for the Vishnu Shield
Speaker 2: are making the rounds. You and I are living with
Speaker 2: a bunch of dogs and podcasters and jns's bunker. But
Speaker 2: the Hunter Killer robots of the US counter Terrorism Force
Speaker 2: are getting closer to our undisclosed location in eastern Washington.
Speaker 2: Every week. You and me and Mia are binging old
Speaker 2: reality TV shows, the two of you trying to explain
Speaker 2: to me who Mecca Ariana Grande is and why she's
Speaker 2: a sports figure now, while and are talking about how
Speaker 2: they're going to start a machete cult once it's all over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't the best. Once we got the plans
Speaker 1: through Vish New Shield, we printed a few up on
Speaker 1: our three D printer. We couldn't test them in the bunker,
Speaker 1: of course, because we needed our electronics, so we started
Speaker 1: sneaking out at night and testing them out in the woods.
Speaker 1: Once we had them dialed in, we started telling everyone and.
Speaker 2: That's when you knew we couldn't stay underground anymore. Fuck
Speaker 2: no people needed to know. AWP's were killing literally millions
Speaker 2: of people. The only sides that mattered in that war
Speaker 2: was people versus drone. If you ask me, I guess
Speaker 2: all of this is in the history books. But we
Speaker 2: did that walk from Castle Rock to Portland with all
Speaker 2: the de factors. All these people have been quietly rebelling
Speaker 2: in the rinks with tactical EMPs. First day there were
Speaker 2: one hundred of us. A couple drones tried to take
Speaker 2: us out, but we shut them down. Second day or
Speaker 2: a thousand of us once people realized they wouldn't just
Speaker 2: get Hunter killed. When we walked into Portland in June,
Speaker 2: there were ten thousand people walking with us on bikes
Speaker 2: and horses. And then you blew up Portland.
Speaker 1: Not how uh, it's not how I put it, but yeah, look,
Speaker 1: don't cut yourself out of the story.
Speaker 2: Magpie, you were there too.
Speaker 1: We got together and talked it over with people from
Speaker 1: all over the city, work with hospital crews to get
Speaker 1: everyone who relied on electronics for life support to get
Speaker 1: them out of the blast radius. Everyone had plenty of time.
Speaker 1: It was all very coordinated, and yet twenty four hours
Speaker 1: later we took out the power in Portland. We weren't
Speaker 1: the only people doing it. It sounds so bad out
Speaker 1: of context, and don't vish new unconsenting populations.
Speaker 2: And that's how I became a folk hero.
Speaker 1: I ever said I ought to be a folk hero.
Speaker 1: I just think some of you all are so good
Speaker 1: at organizing. I mean like someone had to get it done.
Speaker 2: And so we were the first major metropolitan area on
Speaker 2: the west coast of the US to Vishnu. But we
Speaker 2: weren't even one of the first hundred places in the
Speaker 2: world to do it. And soon enough, another three thousand
Speaker 2: places threw up shields cities to villages, to military bases
Speaker 2: to actual battlefields. The war ground to a halt with
Speaker 2: no machines to fight it. And yeah, people started calling
Speaker 2: you the Prince of Portland. What was your like life?
Speaker 2: After that? Two times? The folk hero Oh, I.
Speaker 1: Tried to return to podcasting. I even still do it sometimes,
Speaker 1: nothing with my name or voice on it anymore, though,
Speaker 1: because people just don't know how to handle themselves. I
Speaker 1: kind of had a long, dark night of the soul
Speaker 1: after the end of the war. The way people talked
Speaker 1: about me, it was all too much. And after the war,
Speaker 1: everywhere in the world it was like either the big
Speaker 1: revolution kicked off right away or everything kind of went
Speaker 1: into a funk for a while. The US went into
Speaker 1: a funk after the armistice. We all thought this is it,
Speaker 1: this is the revolution, like it was Palestine in Western
Speaker 1: Africa and Scandinavia and China, but nope, not the US.
Speaker 1: Everyone just went back to work. It was surreal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was depressing.
Speaker 2: I was depressed.
Speaker 1: But then but then twenty forty eight happened. The Baltimore
Speaker 1: Commune got going, and the Cooperative movement found its teeth.
Speaker 1: The Maganese Stan's Appatitisa revolts stopped respecting national borders, and
Speaker 1: the whole Southwest was on fire, not just metaphorically at
Speaker 1: this point. It was one of those bad summers down
Speaker 1: there for wildfire. So when the California Cooperative really got going,
Speaker 1: I went back down to.
Speaker 2: Help, okay, And so that brings us up to right
Speaker 2: around the start of World War three point five two
Speaker 2: years ago. Now, you've been a major figure, both behind
Speaker 2: the scenes and on Mike ever since. What was the
Speaker 2: transition from folk Heiro to brigadier general?
Speaker 1: Like, look, I'm the first shurtment. I was kind of
Speaker 1: grandfather and in that's how I came out the gate
Speaker 1: high rank. I started going to meetings of what became
Speaker 1: the California Cooperative before we even picked the name, and
Speaker 1: I was on the ground organizing support for Ta Tumash revolt.
Speaker 1: So I was kind of like I said, grandfathered in.
Speaker 1: But the council didn't just say, okay, you're an organizer,
Speaker 1: you can be in charge of the military or anything.
Speaker 1: Most people don't know. But I actually spent most of
Speaker 1: twenty forty four to twenty forty eight studying military strategy
Speaker 1: with the Democratic Confederalist International Like formally, I got a
Speaker 1: master's in strategic studies. About half the classes were online
Speaker 1: and half in person all over the world, And when
Speaker 1: the California Cooperative got started, I started mentoring directly under
Speaker 1: some internationalist revolutionary leaders in Mianmar and elsewhere. And still look,
Speaker 1: I'm a general, that's true, but brigadier general is the
Speaker 1: lowest rank of general.
Speaker 2: I heard you turned down three different promotions.
Speaker 1: That's true. I don't need the stress. I want to
Speaker 1: spend more time with my dogs.
Speaker 2: I also heard you turned down a demotion.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The brass, well, the higher brass wasn't too happy
Speaker 1: when we all refused orders in the spring of twenty
Speaker 1: fifty one, the Fresno incident. They told me I was demoted.
Speaker 1: I told them they could tell that to the troops.
Speaker 1: They decided I wasn't demoted after all.
Speaker 2: Each shit, So his next question is from a listener
Speaker 2: Rocky Road Rebel asks, Hi, Sophie, big fan, been following
Speaker 2: you work since the Fight for the Future days, but
Speaker 2: then the Corvallis offensive really saved me and my family's
Speaker 2: asses in the fall of fifty two. I just wanted
Speaker 2: to ask, there were towns falling left and right to
Speaker 2: the Nine Angry Armies at the start of the war,
Speaker 2: why'd you start with us in Corvallis. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: glad you did.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the question. Honestly, the biggest part of it
Speaker 1: when Georgie Washington not its real name, but whatever set
Speaker 1: fire to the Research Library and OSU, it just well,
Speaker 1: it pissed a lot of people off the brick burning spectacle.
Speaker 1: You just don't burn books, you know. We didn't have
Speaker 1: the numbers up in Oregon yet for a major offensive,
Speaker 1: not without a lot of risk. But if some assholes
Speaker 1: get in a bunch of literal zombies to set a
Speaker 1: bunch of books on fire in a public square, then
Speaker 1: like we can recruit around that, we can coalition build.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of folks, centrists, even right wringers,
Speaker 1: who weren't going to take that lying down. And enough
Speaker 1: of those folks had farm dinos and rifles. You had
Speaker 1: old SCHOOLANTIFA members fighting side by side along the very
Speaker 1: activists who fought for Prop eight ninety nine, writing those
Speaker 1: uta rappers that were popular in the cities and farm
Speaker 1: tractor segosaurus is alike. The Nine Armies didn't stand a chance.
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Speaker 2: comfort food when you get back home after a campaign.
Speaker 1: Honestly, just like a big bowl of popcorn and a
Speaker 1: hard sider.
Speaker 2: Oh that makes sense. That's a good one. So this
Speaker 2: next one, I don't think you're going to answer it.
Speaker 2: Our lawyer has advised us that we shouldn't er any
Speaker 2: answer to it anyway, But if I don't ask it,
Speaker 2: people will never leave us alone. In the comments, six
Speaker 2: different listeners have asked some form of the question, what's
Speaker 2: going on with.
Speaker 1: That's my family? No comment? All right?
Speaker 2: And finally, look, this is the hardest question to ask.
Speaker 2: I am not a hardball reporter and you're one of
Speaker 2: my best friends. So I warned you I was going
Speaker 2: to ask you this before we hit record. But it's
Speaker 2: been three months without a comment from you, and people
Speaker 2: want to know. In September of this year, you were
Speaker 2: involved in the campaign in Poland. It didn't go well,
Speaker 2: not for anyone. A cavalry unit of six hundred and
Speaker 2: thirteen Pterosaur riders was dispatched to take out an entrenched
Speaker 2: force of the new Soviet Red Army, who we will
Speaker 2: continue to remind our listeners, is in fact a nationalist
Speaker 2: force that has recuperated Soviet imagery for nationalists socialist purposes.
Speaker 2: Four hundred and seventy three of those riders died to
Speaker 2: Russian guns, only eighty four made it back. The other
Speaker 2: survivors are currently held in pow camps if we're lucky,
Speaker 2: But Russian propaganda films have begun to leak across the
Speaker 2: web of riders being tortured and executed and then resurrected
Speaker 2: to fight in the Army of the Dead. A lot
Speaker 2: of people are comparing the whole thing to the Charge
Speaker 2: of the Light Brigade, when in eighteen fifty four a
Speaker 2: force of six hundred British cavalry received a miscommunicated order
Speaker 2: and attacked a heavily fortified position. Lord Tennyson wrote a
Speaker 2: poem called the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the
Speaker 2: event has been a cultural touchstone of the futility of
Speaker 2: war ever since. So what happened in Poland? I think
Speaker 2: you actually wrote down this answer ahead of time for us.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, And I've been silent on it because I'm
Speaker 1: not a media spokesperson. I'm a heartbroken old soldier I've
Speaker 1: had a lot to say about the charge of the
Speaker 1: Light Brigade. I'll take it as a name. It was
Speaker 1: a horrible mistake made by all of us, including soldiers themselves,
Speaker 1: who adjust as much information as the rest of us
Speaker 1: and agreed to the offensive. Think about a doctor. A
Speaker 1: doctor makes decisions every single day that saves live and
Speaker 1: they make decisions all the time that.
Speaker 2: Get people killed.
Speaker 1: Their job is life and death, and there is no
Speaker 1: perfect with a war. It's just the whole other level
Speaker 1: beyond that. I'm a brigadier general responsible on any given
Speaker 1: day for about five thousand people's lives. Yeah, we've got
Speaker 1: a lot more flattening of hierarchy and militaries than we
Speaker 1: used to. At the end of the day, when a
Speaker 1: quick call needs to be made by someone or a
Speaker 1: group of people, it gets people killed. On a good day,
Speaker 1: I get dozens or hundreds of people I care about killed.
Speaker 1: I accept that it's not easy, but I accept that.
Speaker 1: What I don't accept is any position that the war
Speaker 1: is futile. What is the futility of war? If I'm
Speaker 1: walking down the street with my friends and someone runs
Speaker 1: up and attacks one of us, is it futile? If
Speaker 1: I intervene, or if I'm attacked, if I fight back,
Speaker 1: because the other option here is just letting someone attack
Speaker 1: my friends or me. The majority of Poland is currently
Speaker 1: a free country. It's free because hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: people have fought to keep it that way, because tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of people have died, were suffered fates still
Speaker 1: worse to keep it that way. Their deaths have not
Speaker 1: been futile, even if sometimes an individual death might look
Speaker 1: futile if you zoom all the way in, you've got
Speaker 1: to zoom out. The life brigand attack was a fiasco,
Speaker 1: but there wasn't a miscommunication about orders. Accounts of Poland
Speaker 1: felt it was necessary to attack that position, which best
Speaker 1: available information suggested would only be moderately defended. Our terror team,
Speaker 1: as they called themselves, volunteered. They knew the risks, and
Speaker 1: they thought it would be hard and bloody fight and
Speaker 1: they'd come out on top. And the Polish Army, like
Speaker 1: many internationalist armies, every soldier at every level can refuse
Speaker 1: any mission until they've committed. Once they've committed, they are
Speaker 1: not free to say, for example, show fear in the
Speaker 1: face of enemy. As far as I'm concerned, every one
Speaker 1: of those riders is a hero, and fuck everyone who
Speaker 1: says otherwise. You know what, Fuck everyone who tries to
Speaker 1: take their agency away from them by blaming me and
Speaker 1: other generals too.
Speaker 2: That all makes sense to me. I mean, the point
Speaker 2: of Russia releasing those videos is to make us give
Speaker 2: up hope.
Speaker 1: Morale's a terrainer struggle. I know it. You know it.
Speaker 1: Cool Zone media knows it. The enemy, the nationalists, the fascists,
Speaker 1: the necromancers, they want us to give up. Why because
Speaker 1: they know that when we organize and we fight all together,
Speaker 1: not one off attacks here and there. When we fight,
Speaker 1: we win. We're winning all over the globe. There's never
Speaker 1: been a worldwide civil war because there's never been a
Speaker 1: worldwide revolution, and worldwide revolution has always been our best
Speaker 1: chance at building a better world. We're building that world
Speaker 1: right now. Are we building it out of bones?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We are.
Speaker 1: But one day all of the dead will just be
Speaker 1: composts in memories, two of the most valuable things in
Speaker 1: the world. That's all any of us will end up
Speaker 1: as composts and memories. That's what we use to build
Speaker 1: a better world. There are free territories everywhere now, and
Speaker 1: there are going to be more until everyone is free.
Speaker 2: Well, it'd be hard to follow that up with like
Speaker 2: some lighthearted question about your favorite color. So I want
Speaker 2: to thank you for your time and thank you for
Speaker 2: breaking the silence on that for sure. Anyway, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for coming on the show. Of course. Do
Speaker 2: you have anything you want to plug?
Speaker 1: Yeah, just don't follow for a nationalist from papaganda and
Speaker 1: put your dog or diner or whatever animal keeps you company.
Speaker 1: Also support your local mu Julia groups.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much. That has been general
Speaker 2: Sophie Lichterman.
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