there’s a reason i coalition build best with religious anarchists while myself being an agnostic.

Very hard to be an anarchist and then recoil at a neighbor with superficial differences in belief. If you need homogeneity of thought for anarchism to function, but you reject a hierarchy of institution to enforce canonical doctrine, how is that even supposed to work?

there’s actually a ton of radical political thought in theology if you can get away from a hierarchically programmed preacher long enough to study it yourself

Sort of the secret sauce of the modern major religious movements. They are all, at their core, populist messages intended to appeal to wide audiences of working class people. The insular cults and sectarian country clubs do a great job of raising tons of money from a few gullible rubes. But they can’t stand the test of time without reforming back into popular theology.

I would say that any serious student of religion or history really needs a teacher (ideally more than one). “Just do your own research” is fine on its face, but inevitably you run into contradictions and conundrums that the texts alone don’t illuminate. A great deal of the Old Testament is written as part of a rabbinical dialogue, with different books and chapters and even verses intentionally challenging one another in order to spur meditation and debate. And plenty of Leftist texts follow a similar trajectory.

You don’t have to read Marx and Engels as somehow oppositional to Kropotkin, Bakunin, and Stirner. You don’t have to read Descartes as oppositional to Kant. All these philosophers can operate in dialogue with one another. Perhaps even in some kind of dialectic with one another.

But it does help to hold a certain set of common beliefs.

there’s a song i love titled Owed to a Hypocrite about how the politician and the preacher walk down the road hand in hand oppressing all us regular people

My favorite line from Game of Thrones is the Sellsword Riddle. The answer you give to the riddle says a great deal about what you think of political power and who ultimately wields it. And the deeper you muse on it, the harder it is to unravel.

This time shall be different

High-masking ADHD people, please forward me your skin care routine.

Anarchists are the farthest Left you can go

Eh… That’s debatable

There is actually technically no such thing as an authoritarian leftist

AES would suggest otherwise

But then “authoritarian” is just code for “people in charge who I don’t like”. It’s how you get liberals who gleefully repost “Trump is a Nazi” but recoil at “Abolish ICE” or “Boycott Israel”.

Communists are authoritarian when they gain power because capitalists hate them. Capitalists are libertarians when they’re in charge because they pad each other’s wallets

Black, White, and Red All Over

Been saying that about a lot of these rich, reactionary fucks.

DARE promised me that five years of crack would put anyone in the ground. Meanwhile, Mike fucking Lindell is currently running for governor in Minnesota, fully coked out of his gourde. Dude’s been rolling deep in that powder since the 90s.

I feel extremely lied-to.

I don’t work at Amazon, but we have a similar system. I’ve gone all-in on a couple of subordinates saying they deserved a 4/5 for this or that work. And because they were new-hires, I eventually got the grades punched through after a bunch of hemming and hawing.

Also advocated for my own higher-than-average marks on a few occasions. And just arguing the case gave me the grade as often as not. If everyone in the department had been as stubborn and insistent, I don’t know that they’d have given the whole floor these grades. But the squeaky wheel…

I’ve got a few friends who work at Amazon, and while the story certainly sounds embellished and a bit too “just-so”, the corporate attitude of make-work to justify a promotion even when its a waste of time and resources rings true as a bell.

Did this guy actually oversee a fully transition to a new service and waste a bunch of internal time and money for a system that’s sub-optimal by any conceivable measure? Idk, maybe. If he’d just written “Twitter” instead of “Amazon”, I’d have taken it at face value no problem.

Did this guy author an overly-complex plan as part of his promotional material, get it vetted and reviewed and rubber stamped by a bunch of friendly higher-ups because they wanted to justify his promotion, and then stuck on a shelf marked “Maybe we’ll do this in 2029 if we’re not busy with something else”? Equally likely.

Does Amazon have a bunch of bread and butter break-fix work they could be dedicating staff to, rather than chasing the next digital White Whale so they can feel cutting edge? Yeah, no shit. Absolutely.

Yeah, that image must be photoshopped.

It’s this guy.

My Polymarket Bet isn’t printing. We’re still waiting to hear if Milo Yannapolis was right about him just being in hiding and saying racist things under a rock all day.

Except the Far-Right bends back along the Z-axis to Cis again, I… think that’s right.

Cis <–> Trans

Stalin is a… polarizing figure for a lot of reasons. Not the least of which being his comic inability to extend revolutionary Marxism into Europe when it was at its most popular and most necessary.

Like, the liberals kicking and screaming about his successors - largely a bunch of socialist softies who were happy with detente and primarily interested in economic growth - are absolutely reactionary shits more invested in reinventing the 1950s through third world extraction than any kind of global standard for civil rights or ecological preservation. But Stalin’s paranoia, his intractability, and the toxic consequences of the cult of personality that kept him in office long past his expiration date did horrible things to 1930s Soviet Era domestic policy.

There’s a reason numbskull Russian fascists venerate Stalin far more than Lenin or Khrushchev. Its the same reason Americans put Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

“tankie fucks deserve to get their heads bashed in.”

It’s so funny to see liberals whine about authoritarian communism and then come out with “my solution is to be even more authoritarian than the evil leftists that live in my head”.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the perfect idea of a liberal candidate is just this guy

“The farther you are away from my opinion (the neoliberal center), the closer you are to me labeling you authoritarian” is absolutely what western liberals believe.