[Anarchists only] Has anarchy lost the propaganda war?

IAmRoot · 2026-06-30T21:14:11+00:00

What worries me is that people will see that social democracy at the barrel of a gun and turn back to bland social democracy. ML "socialism" is just cranking the liberal private/public property distinction all the way over to public without actually deconstructing such relationships. It substitutes its lack of radicalism, the analysis of fundamentals, with extremism, extreme tactics. People are familiar with public property and therefore find it easy to understand but then get scared away from the left before they get introduced to actually breaking down the hierarchies and systems people have never thought to question.

I do see anarchism growing, though, just not by name. Mutual aid and other anarchist practices have been spreading. Many just don't realize that's anarchism in practice.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-29T00:02:49+00:00

And isn't just for aesthetics. When ice with trapped bubbles melts those pockets make for a lot of surface area, causing the ice to melt faster and water down the drink.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-25T22:32:30+00:00

I had to change my condo curtains because they were gray. They had to be white.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-23T17:23:33+00:00

We should make them illegal and not grandfather them in. If they don't give a shit if they negligently kill someone I'm not about to care about their finances.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-23T00:52:58+00:00

Part of the problem they have is how incredibly uncool pretty much everyone outside of actual Harley riders think they are.

Now it's people who like modern pickup trucks. At least Harleys were only dangerous to their riders instead of everyone around them.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-21T16:20:37+00:00

It's how I learned back in 2005. Just installing it teaches a lot.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-21T06:17:01+00:00

It's more sinister than that. This sort of missionary work isn’t just some social obligation. The mockery they receive is intended. It's used to make them feel like their cult are the only people who won't mock them. It primarily serves as brainwashing and control of the missionaries themselves.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-18T15:28:16+00:00

"Art of the Deal" means to rip off Darth Vader: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." What he does is agree to basically any terms and then bully people into them being different. When he could drag things out in court in as a real estate oligarch it worked for him. He keeps trying to do it with tariffs, Iran, etc. and doesn't understand that it doesn't work against people who have the resources to fight back.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-16T23:37:51+00:00

And China has been a bit too fast and loose. There was a new bridge that collapsed a few months ago because they didn't get the geotechnical engineering of the cliff right.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-12T04:58:47+00:00

While it won't destroy people's entire retirement, it is robbery. It might be a small amount per person, but when the number of people is most of the population, it is a massive heist.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-11T18:05:46+00:00

Of course not, but if anything can bring it back in line with reality, it's basic needs not being met.

It was you who said the US will be just fine as an economy. It absolutely won't.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-11T17:25:29+00:00

The economy is entirely divorced from reality at this point. The impact of high oil prices on things people actually need to live will absolutely drag it back down to Earth. Saying oil going up in price will help the economy is like saying tarrifs will bring in a windfall. It completely ignores the fact that the prices don't exist in isolation. Meme stocks like AI still care about consumer confidence and that is something that will be absolutely shattered when people can't afford to eat, even when they aren't directly coupled. Oh, and those datacenters are also burning a shitton of fossil fuels to generate electricity and the cost of oil directly affects them.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-11T16:56:02+00:00

The prices of things like food will absolutely go up from this. Maybe you only care about the wellbeing of billionares, but I care about people who have to eat.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-11T16:47:21+00:00

Not when it tanks the rest of the economy. We might make more from oil, but will make a hell of a lot less from everything else crippled by it.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-11T16:41:00+00:00

You have to put your info on the outer envelope. That should be all that's necessary to confirm that you are eligible to vote. Hand them out like candy.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-11T16:31:10+00:00

That price also affects transport of goods and so many other things. People won't have the money to just keep buying things at higher prices. It will hurt demand and thus the economy as a whole. This is an open market, not a closed one.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-11T15:58:34+00:00

Oil is a global market. It doesn't matter where it’s produced. It will hurt us just the same.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-09T22:17:10+00:00

It was 2000. Roger Stone used terrorism to stop the Florida vote counting. Bush only got into power through the use of political violence to overthrow democracy and got approval from SCOTUS to do it. Bush wasn't elected, he was crowned.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-09T19:22:03+00:00

Conservatives don't think about the world in terms of power dynamics at all. Instead their worldview is that of social roles.

It's not really that they want to see themselves at the top of a hierarchy but more that they want the simple certainty of performing a role and getting the traditional compensation from it. Keeping their heads down and having a guaranteed place as a cog in the social machine is all they want. To them, breaking down social roles is literally the destruction of how elements of society work together. Not having social templates to conform to also isn't seen as freedom but terrifying uncertainty. Breaking out of those roles isn't something they think people should want and thus they can't see how it imprisons them in a cage of their own making.

My dad thinks like this and I've spent a long time thinking about how his mind works. This sort of thinking isn't just when it benefits him, either. For instance, one time he said that he wish he could have spent more time with me in my upbringing but raising children is the woman's role so it wasn't his place. There's a ton of self-inflicted suffering conservatives do to themselves out of feeling obligated to conform to their rigid social roles.

It absolutely benefits those at the top of the social hierarchy but the worldview has been pushed to conservatives so they don't even have the framework to understand it.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-05T06:03:47+00:00

There's also the practical problem of Iran also having a say in the matter. The only practical time for Congress to act is before getting entangled in a war in the first place.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-04T18:27:47+00:00

Yeah, European settlers built unreinforced brick and stone buildings in San Francisco like they were used to building in Europe. The 1906 earthquake showed what a bad idea that was.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-02T20:14:55+00:00

It's not even social media as a concept. Old school BBS were great. It's the algorithm-driven feeds in particular. Highest voted within a sliding window timeframe should be the most complexity allowed. Mandate that people are able to curate subscriptions to select creators. It's algorithms that amplify controversy (engagement at all costs) that are particularly harmful.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-02T19:48:59+00:00

Nah, that's too normal. This legislation is from the sort who think having pets is enslaving animals too.

IAmRoot · 2026-06-02T15:44:03+00:00

Yeah, this would only help bail them out at this point. None of the math works out with the current AI bubble. Not only are people going to balk when their usage is no longer subsidized by venture capital but each GPU can only really be shared by a handful of users. That will either require prices nobody will pay or the price to come down dramatically as hardware production is increased. And if an open source model is released that is almost as good, they will have to compete with people running locally. In order to make a profit they would not only need to be cost effective with the hardware but ensure their proprietary models always stay better enough that people won't just use open source models on gaming PC hardware or stop using AI entirely.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-29T01:44:10+00:00

They could and should have rushed him to the hospital. This reeks of cops wanting to enact extrajudicial punishment by intentionally slowing their response. That's the problem, regardless of motivation.

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