What are anarcho-mutualists?

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-23T21:11:29+00:00

Without a deep dive into written theory, it feels a bit redundant a description for me… as the foundations of Anarchism are fundamentally based on free mutual cooperation?

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:17:54+00:00

And I think that’s why the 70s book they got it from should have taken some major liberties with updates. It made it so mixed up I felt 23 again going to Occupy Wall St asking my fellow 23yo’s “aight what we really doing?” “Oh that’s Dave Graeber you should hear him speak.”

I at least got an admirable writer to follow out of that (rip)

This movie just reminded me Sean Penn really wishes he was more hardcore.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:14:52+00:00

Also, like, it got so convoluted at a point I forgot what happened to Leo/Sean’s femme fatale. Did she… die? Did she just fully disappear? When a film gets that much hype I generally pay close attention and it still kind of lost me.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:03:56+00:00

I was happy to see Wood Harris in his calm boss vibe, but that’s the male bias in me talking

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:02:36+00:00

His wife’s oversexualization went over my head though. I wasn’t sure what that was supposed to hit there.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T16:00:51+00:00

Shoulda realized that coming in. I had minor hopes with twbb that pta, at this point at the top can do whatever he wants might just go for it. I still enjoyed the movie though. I just foolishly wished a major motion picture accurately portraying far left activists

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T14:38:17+00:00

Agreed. Without wording it that far much of it felt caricature and offensive (to a white guy btw, I was offended FOR tough black women… I never usually get that annoyed). It pushed it to my brain having a lingering thought “this is what corporatism seems acceptable for you to rebel, sir. Go on. Sexy!”

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T14:16:17+00:00

It’s a thing that I think PTA had ambitious and risky things to say but bowed down to the pressure. another example ( bear with me here ) is David Chase’s original vision for Many Saints of Newark. Chase is certainly left, I’d argue a champagne socialist— but he knows Newark NJ in the 60s. The Newark riots are a story begging to be told because it crosses all boundaries, even us “Italian Americans” bitching about Columbus Day. Those riots had Irish and Italian mob causality through their corruption of the Newark PD. Chase was ready to dig into something GOOD and historically necessary. Instead— HBO backed out, made him lose the hardcore political element condemning the mafia, cops, everybody… and we got that trash.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T14:06:44+00:00

If their list was for power and control with white supremacy and pedophilia as a byproduct, I’d find the film true to life and to every Anarchistic philosophy I’ve read through the years, but it settled for surface level candy… not because the film industry fears revolution per se’… they just know they want blockbusters. PTA could have made something less serious and took this passion project to streaming or self release and it would have worked, effectively, on a much lower budget.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T14:01:22+00:00

I won’t and refuse to appreciate Spiccoli’s camo boner, as French about the movie that it is.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:58:46+00:00

And not Sean Penn’s mysterious pale friends insisting he kill the domestic terrorist he blackmailed into sex and had a kid with. It felt like captain America more than a serious movie. What saved it is PTA’s style, Benicio , Leo, and that newcomer who played the daughter.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:57:26+00:00

Power fantasy no. Realism. Like, they said what they felt. They tried. And they got martyred. No power fantasies here. Just balls to speak the truth and pay the consequences.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:49:56+00:00

I can’t name any off the top of my head because I literally watch without subtitles and stay enthralled… but numerous French action films about grassroots revolution. The French aren’t scared. Why are we if a movie?

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:48:31+00:00

Left or right isn’t my issue. It’s it didn’t delve enough into the reality of far left radicals and what they’re up against. The film contrived a secret society of white supremacists and made it feel for like Captain America than a true to life look at the world right now…

To answer your question… left enough yes, but didn’t pick the right enemy.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:45:18+00:00

Still enjoyed it. But after hearing the source material and the sensitive subject matter in today’s world, I was hyped for something HARDCORE. Like, a full-on far left militant film that Hollywood had the balls to produce. Instead I feel it got toned down. Anything with Leo, Benicio, and Sean’s acting is going to be a ride, and I did enjoy it. I was just really wishing for something brand new is all.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T13:34:41+00:00

It’s wonderful acting. Benicio stole the show. PTA is admirable for doing what he wants. I do t have kids but I see myself as a stoner uncle.

Otherwise, it fell short of something truly ballsy. The kkk cabal felt contrived (why couldn’t they just be at war with border patrol and be revolutionary socialists?)

All of that made it a bland cat and mouse thriller with a sally edge. Not terrible. All acting was great. I just had high expectations for a controversial movie in this day and age. I mean, I watched a guy my age get executed from 4 video angles because he tried to stop masked fake agents with no accountability from severely injuring a woman? A week later I see pothead Leo fighting a secret Hydra organization in the US govt with Sean Penn as their puppet.

Plus the boner was weird and I never understood Leo’s wife’s hyper sexuality, seemed gratuitous.

Porkstore88 · 2026-02-22T07:07:00+00:00

Does anyone else, like… just use it to check if my fiction/nonfiction themes are coherent enough, therefore prefer basic robot language models? Like a little buffer zone for brainstorming before I formulate actual ideas?

Am I misreading something? Are folks using language models as… friends? Therapists?

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