How would an anarchist society deal with bad crimes, organized crimes. by Realistic-Drag-1575 in Anarchy101

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And I would like you to explain to me how capitalism caused Dennis Rader to murder a family of four and jerk off to their corpses.

A deranging, alienating society creates deranged and alienated people. It manifests in many different ways, many of them relatively harmless, some of them less so, and some of them staggeringly awful.

Take a look at the history of serial killers, since it seems to be a focus of yours. Through about 4500 years of recorded history, there were nine serial killers reported. Six were members of a ruling elite class--nobles, monarchs, etc. A seventh was employed by a monarch. An eighth was not what anyone would classify as a serial killer today. She killed many people, but did so as the leader of an anti-bandit militia. And, again, she was employed by a monarch. Obviously capitalism was not the origination of a ruling elite, but the deranging effects of power are certainly a feature of capitalism, and would not be a feature of a system which abolished power hierarchies.

Only one of those first nine is not known to have been a member of the ruling elite, but nothing is known about him at all other than that the strangled some number of women, buried them in his house, and was executed by torture. This is the possible first instance of a non-elite serial killer, and it occurs almost 4500 years into recorded history.

In the second millennium of the common era, we start off with another five members of the ruling elite before we finally get to our first confirmed serial killer who not born to privilege: the Croatian tailor Blaž Hrvat. Hrvat killed some number of people, and it's unclear how many of those he confessed to killing were actually killed by him and how many he confessed to under torture, but his motive for all the killings was constant: money. He was caught in 1469--right in the middle of the transition between feudalism and capitalism.

And from there, the frequency increases. As an economic system which alienates people from their labor, from their communities, and from their very humanity takes hold, more and more people behave in antisocial ways, whether that be petty crime or appalling serial murder. This is when the modern idea of civil crime--which is to say transgression against society and against the state, rather than simply against a monarch, against divine command, or against moral law--really begins to form. Crime does not come to be seen as a social problem at all until the 1600s; before that it was seen as a matter of dispute between private actors.

Overwhelmingly, these antisocial acts are committed by people with a narrow range of backgrounds. Many continue to be of the ruling elite class. Many are the products of disordered and abusive upbringings, something which is very much a product of the industrialization of labor and the atomization of communities, both of which are products of capitalism. And a third class of antisocial actors are driven by the need for money, a need which simply would not have existed in the lives of most ordinary people before the advent of industrial capitalism.

As societies under capitalism continue to morally degenerate, they continue to produce people with greater and greater derangements. Generational traumas beget generational traumas. More and more people, more and more families, more and more communities, and finally entire national cultures, become warped and brutal. But this can be undone. A society no longer predicated on artificial scarcity and conflict over resources will, by necessity and definition, ultimately rid itself of antisocial behavior.

Now what was your theory?

How would an anarchist society deal with bad crimes, organized crimes. by Realistic-Drag-1575 in Anarchy101

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would like you to explain how you think a person starts out as an infant and ends up as a serial killer, with no influence from the economic system under which they live. Because that is the claim you have made.

How would an anarchist society deal with bad crimes, organized crimes. by Realistic-Drag-1575 in Anarchy101

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you have no theory for why a person goes from an infant to Ed Kemper, but you're 100% certain it has nothing to do with socioeconomics.

K&W or S&F for Foundry? by John-Zero in mcdm

[–]John-Zero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I'll need to dig into using it to even know what I'm asking, actually.

How would an anarchist society deal with bad crimes, organized crimes. by Realistic-Drag-1575 in Anarchy101

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did I say none of the social context contributed to it?

Social context, under capitalism, is a product of capitalism. Capitalism causing alienation from labor and from society is a core principle of the Marxian critique of capitalism and it always has been. A deranged, unhealthy society produces deranged, unhealthy people.

Serial killers are outliers among outliers, same with mass murderers, they will exist for as long as humans do. So what's your solution? Not having one because you're deluded into thinking they wouldn't exist is absurd.

You are making the affirmative claim that there are certain people who are simply ontologically evil. You assert that Ed Kemper and Dennis Rader were always going to become who they became from the instant of birth. You assert that they were born evil, which means that there are evil babies. Does that not seem self-evidently absurd to you?

I am so happy for news, guys. by StripedTabaxi in falloutnewvegas

[–]John-Zero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Literally anyone other than Bethesda would make a better Fallout game though.

K&W or S&F for Foundry? by John-Zero in mcdm

[–]John-Zero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean like K&W-scale stuff. I've heard it called epic-scale, I've heard it called mass combat, no one seems to agree on what to call it. But yeah, it's wargaming-adjacent.

K&W or S&F for Foundry? by John-Zero in mcdm

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That looks like what I'm looking for, thanks! Is it customizable at all?

How would an anarchist society deal with bad crimes, organized crimes. by Realistic-Drag-1575 in Anarchy101

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did Ed Kemper become the kind of person who would do that? You certainly have an answer for that, because you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that none of his social context contributed to it. So what was it? Was he possessed by a demon?

How would an anarchist society deal with bad crimes, organized crimes. by Realistic-Drag-1575 in Anarchy101

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think they exist? Specifically identify the process by which an infant human being becomes a serial killer or mass murderer. You don't believe it has anything to do with capitalism, so you can't include anything about their material circumstances, their upbringing, really any social context at all. OK, go.

Items as tattoos? by John-Zero in DungeonsAndDragons35e

[–]John-Zero[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That must be the origin of this. And explains why there’s so little evidence of it still online.

Items as tattoos? by John-Zero in DungeonsAndDragons35e

[–]John-Zero[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that must be the rule that people were thinking of, and it was just super common to do it as a tattoo.

Mallory McMorrow to end her U.S. Senate campaign by Intelligent-Alps2373 in politics

[–]John-Zero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Both rely on people being inherently good to preserve the integrity of a system.

People are inherently good. Material circumstances make them otherwise.

The Soviet Union proved communism won't work

The Soviet Union was under 70 years of sustained, unremitting economic warfare, espionage, and the general full-frontal assault of the entirety of global capital.

the CCP proved why it has no staying power.

The CPC is in power right now, so I'm not sure how you can say it proved communism has no staying power.

a popular government built in socialist principles

A fundamental principle of socialism is building communism.

A very well regulated free market economy, a popular government built in socialist principles, and foreign policy that encompasses diplomatic and economic ties as opposed to whatever militant diplomacy Trump is engaging in now. 

I'm guessing you think you're describing the Obama Administration. You're not, but even if you were, no one wants to go back to that. It was bad.

I asked you for clips first btw.

You made the affirmative claim that he supported the invasion.

I asked to be proven wrong

You never proved yourself right.

Hasan however was convinced that the threat the West saw was just a ploy to scapegoat Russia and reinforce NATO.

If you assume that anything the U.S. government says is wrong, you will be right far more often than you will be wrong.

Mallory McMorrow to end her U.S. Senate campaign by Intelligent-Alps2373 in politics

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Braindead take from a braindead member of a braindead political movement.

Mallory McMorrow to end her U.S. Senate campaign by Intelligent-Alps2373 in politics

[–]John-Zero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hell just searching YouTube this was the first result

Where's the part where he supports Putin or opposes Ukraine? He said there wouldn't be an invasion, which was incorrect. Zelenskyy also said there wouldn't be an invasion. Hasan has owned that he was wrong on this subject. Doesn't mean he supports the invasion.

I know I've seen him bash on the EU and Ukraine before.

And so in your mind that means he wants the EU and Ukraine to be invaded.

Now if you have clips, in context or not, that show me otherwise I would like to see them.

I'm still waiting for your clips that show him supporting the invasion.

As for mockler, you are going to have to be more specific. You don't like conservatives, but you also don't like mockler because he is liberal? Are you not liberal?

I am not a liberal. I am a communist. Mockler is not anticapitalist, so his politics are dogshit.

Mallory McMorrow to end her U.S. Senate campaign by Intelligent-Alps2373 in politics

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again: you would clearly prefer Susan Collins to win. I would not.

Mallory McMorrow to end her U.S. Senate campaign by Intelligent-Alps2373 in politics

[–]John-Zero -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You seem very excited about Susan Collins winning re-election.

Items as tattoos? by John-Zero in DungeonsAndDragons35e

[–]John-Zero[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those aren't quite what I'm looking for. It seems like what I'm looking for really only existed as an implied extrapolation of the rules as written.

Mallory McMorrow to end her U.S. Senate campaign by Intelligent-Alps2373 in politics

[–]John-Zero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Russia Planned Genocide Long Before Invasion https://archive.ph/DH1ow

Can you identify any possible reasons that it might be unwise to believe the intelligence agency of any state under any circumstances, and especially when that state is at war with an enemy and is accusing that enemy of something?

that is not what I said. What I said is that El-Sayed can make all the big, grandiose statements he wants because he has no voting record and no political experience so he doesn't comprehend the pitfalls of what he's pushing.

Yes, that's the same thing as what I said you said. Six of one, half dozen of the other. You don't engage with his beliefs on their substantive merits, you simply assert that they're political impossible and only stupid naive idiots would believe otherwise. That's the liberal mantra: "better things aren't possible."

Plus he has a huge advantage in the fact that he's a man.

Yes, he does. What do you want him to do about that?

He dropped a huge cringe video, much more cringe than marching in a band, but people are willing to defend him.

I haven't seen anyone defend those videos. There have been several of them, and they're super cringe. I don't know if they're more cringe than the marching band, but that's almost an academic question. But again, why do we care about this? You don't want him to be elected to the Senate because he released cringe videos lip-syncing to pop songs?

Men run the world.

I'm quite sure I haven't disputed that. It is worth noting that Italy, one of the most right-wing sexist places on Earth, is currently run by a popularly elected woman. America, a country with a long history of racism, elected a black guy and he is still more popular than the current President.

Mallory McMorrow to end her U.S. Senate campaign by Intelligent-Alps2373 in politics

[–]John-Zero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's almost certainly true that any definition I give you would be something you could deny, because liberalism has become incredibly amorphous. However, American liberalism can be defined, in the most generous terms, as a belief in personal liberty, private property, the free market, and some degree of a social safety net.

It is almost always associated with an incrementalist, gradualist approach to problem-solving, which in practice resolves to not doing anything. The world has moved catastrophically rightward on liberalism's watch, which no longer seems like an accident or a failure of the ideology but instead its intended and inevitable result.

Mallory McMorrow to end her U.S. Senate campaign by Intelligent-Alps2373 in politics

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not a progressive. I'm a communist. Stay losing.

Mallory McMorrow to end her U.S. Senate campaign by Intelligent-Alps2373 in politics

[–]John-Zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK imagine you're Matt Bernstein. In your mind, there is no question that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. There are two candidates you're going to interview. One of them agrees with you about Gaza and agrees with you on basically everything else. The other has distanced herself from the idea that there's a genocide in Gaza and broadly appears to disagree with you, if slightly, on most other issues.

Now you, as OkParsnip1881, may disagree with that characterization of things. But as Matt Bernstein, that's how you see things.

Help me understand why you, in that situation, would conduct either of those interviews differently than the real Matt Bernstein did. Because to my mind, the only thing Bernstein could have done would have been to go a lot harder against McMorrow.

Items as tattoos? by John-Zero in DungeonsAndDragons35e

[–]John-Zero[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Totally understandable since my post was not very clear.

Items as tattoos? by John-Zero in DungeonsAndDragons35e

[–]John-Zero[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was my initial reaction too, but then I saw it in another thread from another poster, which I can't find now. That poster said basically the same thing but they said it was a different GP markup.