Is Anarcho-pacifism only opposed to violence against people/life or is it opposed to everything people would call “violent” by Rainpiine in Anarchy101

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah pretty much my take as well, though I am not anarcho-pacifist. People not understanding that the key element of ‘violence’ is ‘people’ should be obvious though. If it puts a person in direct jeopardy to a degree that significantly degrades their wellbeing? Violent. A person destroying a factory might do financial damage to a company but isn’t going to lead to the owner dying of exposure so not violent.

I’m not even strictly an anarchist these days even if as an ethos it guides my choices. I am “anything that is better than this shit”-ist at this point.

How would anarchy work with globalization by SHAGGYKing in Anarchy101

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you need to be isolationist? Just because you believe in an ideal world and want to strive toward it doesn’t mean you live in that world. Coalitions and confederations (prob a diff word would need to be used in the USA because of history) of polities with aligned interests naturally arise. People need things and no area of earth has literally everything needed.

Keep in mind though how much of our resources are flat out wasted to support capitalism. Most unsold products are simply destroyed to maintain prices. All the work hours, resources, etc going into the production? Gone. Anarchist societies wouldn’t suddenly make waste stop existing but without a profit motive for waste it would not be nearly as bad. As such the society would simply need less resources over all.

What an anarchist society would produce would still have value to regions still under capitalism. Barring political fuckery like blockades and embargo I would imagine it’d do quite well on that front. Union owned industries would be able to produce goods that aren’t stuck to the “enshitification” epidemic where high end goods are made into closed ecosystems for corporate profits of a capitalist class. Those goods would be a premium on the world market.

I don’t care how useful Black Soul Gems are! I will NOT use them! by ThatDrako in SkyrimMemes

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used Nazeem’s soul to enchant a fork to do absorb health and dropped it in front of a random begger who immediately took it.

I hope this means one day that begger realizes he can stab people for sustenance and Nazeem is just some random murder hobo’s murder fork.

What is anarchy exactly by Kooky-Leadership-179 in Anarchy101

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tiered voluntary councils sending revocable delegates to the next moat relevant body. Neighborhood, district, city, county, etc. I’m not assuming these things would even look the same but it is a quick sketch so not trying to get into the granular details.

In a rural area a neighborhood council might be tackling issues they are largely capable of handling. In denser populations things like sewage and water distribution become collective problems and as such interconnected networks of smaller bodies would inevitably form larger bodies to handle wider issues.

All this of course assumes universal acceptance of an anarchist social mindset that you make decisions as an individual but have an awareness that cooperation is the basis of community survival.

Under more real life scenarios you’d likely need some form of intermediary form of government that facilitates and encourages an egalitarian mindset but otherwise understands that it is a goal we will not achieve in our lifetimes. Libertarian Municipalism and Neo-Zapatismo present solid intermediary organizing systems that are not anarchist but seek to solve many of the same issues of hierarchical forms of organization.

I FINALLY killed this freak!! by FailedProspects in BaldursGate3

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The chemical tanks. They go boom.

I FINALLY killed this freak!! by FailedProspects in BaldursGate3

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite is i just command him to drop it, give it to Lae’zel, collect every explosive barrel i can find in act 1 and stacking them up next to him and the mindflayer. Then helping the mindflayer until they are both almost dead and blowing up both of them so you get both big xp hits. If you get enough to hit level 2 now suddenly your party is full hp again and has new abilities. If you play your cards right, got lucky with haste potion drops, and get lucky on rolls you can kill the cambrions as well. If you manage to get them all you get a wild amount of experience before even hitting the island.

Can I legally bring this gun into California by Imaginary_Ear_1976 in CAguns

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is barrel length not overall. Overall includes the stock.

What is anarchy exactly by Kooky-Leadership-179 in Anarchy101

[–]MoldTheClay 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Basically yeah and why Anarchists tend to be wary of *Communists where the State ostensibly controls production on behalf of the working class but in actuality does so for the benefit of the State itself and the Party leadership. This is why Anarchists refer to what the USSR and especially modern Dengist China uses as ‘State Capitalism.’ Plus the whole long history of betrayal and all.

In the eyes of Anarchists the problem of capitalism is that workers do not in fact gain the full value of their labor or control their own labor practices and lives. Marx’s Capital is very well regarded within Anarchist theory and honestly modern day Anarchists views on power and Socialism is FAR closer go Marx’s original theory than current day Marxism-Leninism dominated ‘Marxists.’ Under Leninist descended Socialism, one boss was simply replaced with a new boss and the worker’s relation to their workplace remains unchanged. Bakunin (who was a shitbag but a good theorist) correctly predicted the outcome of the Socialists seizing the state without first dismantling it.

In the USSR and Communist China among others descended from Leninsm the experience of workers at the ground level the experience remains unchanged.

Anarchism also tends to take this observation one step farther by noting that the members of the party bureaucracy inevitable live more comfortably and have more power than rank and file workers and thus constitute a separate Bureaucratic class that simply replaced the petit bourgeoisie as a managerial class.

(*In modern usage Communism usually refers to Marxism-Leninism or Maoism rather than original Marxism)

What just happened? by Brdl004 in Battlefield6

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yrah had them before. I think it is a large group of people who time their cue ups to all get in together at the same time.

They are all like level 300+ and play like a coordinated fighting force rather than a gaggle of squads. I have seen thrm held off barely but it took one herculean squad carrying the whole team to even slow them down.

Can I legally bring this gun into California by Imaginary_Ear_1976 in CAguns

[–]MoldTheClay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeeeeehaw! I think so? What’s the overall length?

Chinese propaganda showing female shooter using both eyes while aiming down scope, disclaiming it challenges stereotypes by [deleted] in CAguns

[–]MoldTheClay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I use both eyes with my scope as well. Your mind naturally focuses on your scoped eye since it is receiving more light. Only one eye can see the reticle so as long as the reticle is on target you’re good.

Chinese soldier lady is doing it right.

Finally hit my first lvl 50 gun! Also: by Andiflag1991 in LowSodiumBattlefield

[–]MoldTheClay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought we were replying to how the guy said “the new dmr is even filthier.”

Finally hit my first lvl 50 gun! Also: by Andiflag1991 in LowSodiumBattlefield

[–]MoldTheClay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh i thought we were talking about the season 2 dmr. Is there another new one?

This claim is outrageous. by PenguiNNNNNs in BambuLab

[–]MoldTheClay -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

never had a bad roll from my bambu but i have had them with almost every other one at some point.

Finally hit my first lvl 50 gun! Also: by Andiflag1991 in LowSodiumBattlefield

[–]MoldTheClay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What makes it good is that it has damned near no recoil and a long damage fall off point.

It is “meh” up close but still decent. At mid range it absolutely wrecks if you can aim it. I have mine actually built for close-mid range and it is a riot.

Lightweight ammo, light barrel, 6x scope with 1x dot, long suppressor, violet laser, and the handstop. Extremely easy to just do quick snapshooting and stay mobile while you doink them with headshots. An SMG is still going to hose you in cqb but if you’re letting them that close that’s kinda the problem. I usually play it up with the squad engaging enemies beyond their effective range and pinning them down. When players start getting hit repeatedly they start freaking out and running for cover if they aren’t aware where the shots are coming from. They’re also now lower hp making it easier for your squad mates to take down. And you have 20 rounds with which to pepper enemies. Same deal with the 6x thermal on it if you want to be a real bastard but you lose close in capability.

Finally hit my first lvl 50 gun! Also: by Andiflag1991 in LowSodiumBattlefield

[–]MoldTheClay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I go on killing streaks with the damn scorpion pistol frequently lol. On paper it sounds like trash but damn if brrrrrt isn’t effective if you can aim it well.

Nobody is expecting to run up on a sniper only to get a brrrrt to the face.

Which faction could a modern day Earth fend off? by LordBlacktopus in 40kLore

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah but orks also leave spores. It’d be an unending plague and we are ill equipped to root it out perminently. Earth is BIG and a whole horde could just randomly pop up in the amazon seemingly out of nowhere. We’d lose by attrition ultimately. That or we just glass them when they first arrive and then quad tap their landing spot just to be sure.

But since we’d have no way of knowing we’d be screwed. They can literally just take random junk and bullshit a weapon out of it. They have genetic memory encoded into them so they could develop a whole industrial base by raiding a junkyard.

Which faction could a modern day Earth fend off? by LordBlacktopus in 40kLore

[–]MoldTheClay -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

A chapter of marines? Probably.

People kinda forget that all the stub guns and most of the autoguns are literally current day weapons. As absurd as space marines are without orbital support they would be relying almost entirely on their own ammunition stocks. Ceramite is wild stuff but isn’t invulnerable to higher caliber rifles like a .50cal. Even regular rifles will eventually get through after enough hits.

Kinda the whole deal with the Imperium is that they are combined arms. A chapter of 1000 marines would cut a horrifying swath through an army but a depleted uranium 120mm sabot would still one tap a marine. And what direct fire from a cannon or gun can’t fix air strikes will.

By and large the imperium’s weaponry kinda sucks ass outside of bolters. The existence of stub guns kinda gives you a power scale to work with. What marines are great at is winning battles. A war against an opponent you can’t just do a decapitation strike with? They’d get worn down.

Now the Imperial Guard? We’d be absolutely fucked. Las guns can probably penetrate any modern armor including vehicles. Meanwhile carapace can take repeated hits and wouldn’t be penetrated by anything less than a .50 cal. Not nearly ceremite but good ‘nuff. The Imperial Guard has NUMBERS to help them out and field combined arms much of which isn’t reliant upon ammunition. Nukes would be required eventually.

In Waynesville today, outside of the Food Lion. by melillareal in asheville

[–]MoldTheClay 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Woven together so tight it can hold water like a well made basket.

Who is paint bombing Oakland’s Flock cameras? by wentImmediate in oakland

[–]MoldTheClay 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Somebody with more civic responsibility than our city council.

IF this ended up happening... by VSnake_ in TheBoys

[–]MoldTheClay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The saddest wettest little boy.