It’s waxed and waned.
I remember when you had to log into everything, but there wasn’t much to visit. Then people started using the Internet en mas and selling ads was the market maker. So you didn’t need to log in, but you did get the most malicious JavaScript ever written trying to jam pop-ups under your cursor.
Now we’ve somehow managed to achieve the worst of both worlds
Oh no, that’s a trap
Naming my main character “Alexander” and every time I visit a city I tell the DM to refer to it as “Alexandria” going forward.
It was called “Earth” because we needed to distinguish it from Sky and Water, which were totally different things.
I hear he doesn’t poop but he’s also sunk a turd into a Par 6 in one swing.
She’s mid.
Better than 90% of politicians from Massachusetts, but its a low bar.
This is why I get all my computer supplies from goats.ex
the head of a country that s litteraly worse in any metric
Oh absolutely. Have you seen his insane tweets? The man is unhinged.
I can think of a few notable differences.
I think the best way to destroy authoritanism, is to help people become so independent of other’s resources, that they can just decide to opt out of work for good.
Would you posit that one can prosper once they have become self-reliant by achieving political, economic, and military independence?
They would still have small vulnerabilities, but it would be quite quite hard to force them and keep them in a toxic workplace, if they can just chill for months or even YEARS, without being forced to work.
I mean, in theory, sure. But in practice, you’d need a large labor surplus that was unassailable by settler-colonialist looters. How do you marshal these reserves and defend them adequately?
So are we closer to that revolution that 10 days ago ? 10 year ago ?
Some would say we’ve made progress by leaps and bounds.
“We should have One Big Revolution!”
“Noooo! We should have a bunch of itty bitty revolutions!”
“Okay, fine. Let’s do Trotskyism as a compromise.”
“Sure thing brow, just turn around real quick”
Enough complaining about how reactionaries talk about Castro.
This is now a Ubre Blanca appreciation thread. Post your support for our glorious comrade cow and her commitment to providing ice cream for the revolution.
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.
High-masking ADHD people, please forward me your skin care routine.
I’ve heard this argument before.
I’ve already heard the argument that national campaigns are how you gain national media publicity. So it’s the most cost effective way to raise the Green Party profile.
However you want to slice it, the current political system is very deliberately designed to keep people like Jill Stein quarantined and silenced. Insisting she’s the problem seems to miss the forest of disinformation and corporate propaganda for a very small pro-environmentalist tree.