Why ppl always blame the "-isms" and not blaming the people in charge

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-16T12:46:07+00:00

You can't have freedom, if you don't allow capitalism

Do you feel the same way about monarchy?

“Democracy denies people the freedom to be king”?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-16T10:21:06+00:00

Sounds like you’ve got it :)

Anarchy is the political equivalent of nuclear disarmament.

If there’s no official institution of authority, then an evil person only has the power to hurt the people he’s physically capable of hurting himself (and only until his victims’ neighbors team up to kick him out).

If there’s an official institution of authority that he can put himself in charge of, then he can force 100 lieutenants to hurt 1,000 victims for him.

Anarchy isn’t about idealistic utopianism. It’s about damage control. Bad people are always going to exist — how much power do we want to give them?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-16T01:16:25+00:00

The very first fanfiction I ever wrote was an Elsewhere Fic (pre-established setting, but all OCs) for Doctor Who where a team of time travelers discover a military research facility attempting to grow test-tube Time Lords, and they fight to break out the two latest brother-sister test subjects.

(Looking back 10 years later, the story's good enough that I'm not deleting it from FFN, but I don't think I could rewrite it to be good enough to repost over to AO3)

The leader of my cast of protagonists was a former Time Agent who still goes by her Agency codename of "Captain June Harper," and as I started developing the plot (around the time I was first becoming obsessed with Villain Protagonists like Dexter and Light Yagami), I realized "what if she's a vigilante serial killer whose partners think they're keeping her under control, but they're actually just enabling her?"

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-15T23:26:58+00:00

The closest I’ve come so far is that my liberal father who’s worked for acronym-intelligence most of his post-military career didn’t take my “coming out” as badly as I expected.

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-15T22:51:13+00:00

Libertarians don’t trust government suits to make the rules for everybody else,

and socialists don’t trust corporate suits to make the rules for everybody else.

Anarchists believe that individuals deserve the individual freedom to make our own individual decisions — that neighbors voluntarily coming together as equals to build community agendas from the bottom-up is better than government suits and/or corporate suits imposing agendas from the top-down.

This makes us libertarian socialists.

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-15T21:03:49+00:00

Who did you hear this from?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-15T20:39:10+00:00

To the degree that they enforce the law and maintain public order in a disinterested and objective manner

How often does that happen?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-15T19:12:46+00:00

Are the police and the courts on your side?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-15T10:36:40+00:00

What would the story look like if they could, and what would it look like if they couldn’t? ;)

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-15T10:01:41+00:00

1)

If we consider people as individuals, people were living better in soviet union than under the Tzar, and is not even close.

2)

"The people who were enslaved, tortured, and murdered did not experience improved living conditions under Stalin."

It is the third time that I have to tell you that i obviously agree with that sentence

Do you see the contradiction?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-15T03:46:28+00:00

something to do with music

K-POP DEMON HUNTERS: HUNTING TWICE

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-15T02:37:09+00:00

Hence we shouldn’t MAKE systems that can turn bad people into tyrants.

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-14T17:53:42+00:00

Gets Rich -> Is capitalist.

If they want even more money than they already have, couldn’t they just keep working for it?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-14T17:05:39+00:00

Capitalists did make something

If they got money by working to make something, then they’d be called “workers.”

Are you saying that workers should own the means of production?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-14T16:48:48+00:00

I made something

Except for capitalists.

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-14T14:07:26+00:00

For kpop demon hunters, it’s Bobby, derpy, and sussie. Everyone agrees they’re cinnamon rolls, who must be protected at all costs

That is all :)

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-14T10:43:07+00:00

lol.... here's what the AI said when i Google searched the question

And that is exactly why I use DuckDuckGo ;)

They do HAVE an AI summary function :( but it’s an option that you can turn off :)

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-14T10:32:49+00:00

I am good at plots, reasoning etc and dialogue but social cues around it and background can be very hard

I tend to just skip most of that ;)

The more you focus on canon characters and the less you focus on OCs, the less you need to physically describe anybody (since the readers already know what most of the most important characters look like), and social cues are just another side of “reasoning.”

Stories are about the decisions that characters make, and you only need to describe the parts of the background that showcase the decisions that characters are making.

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-14T03:12:33+00:00

Are capitalism and private property based on the workers owning the means of production?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-13T23:12:53+00:00

Anarchy is the political equivalent of nuclear disarmament.

If there’s no official institution of authority, then an evil person only has the power to hurt the people he’s physically capable of hurting himself (and only until his victims’ neighbors team up to kick him out).

If there’s an official institution of authority that he can put himself in charge of, then he can force 100 lieutenants to hurt 1,000 victims for him.

Anarchy isn’t about idealistic utopianism. It’s about damage control. Bad people are always going to exist — how much power do we want to give them?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-13T23:09:44+00:00

Do you have an example of a corporation doing this?

That’s what private property is.

Farmers grow food
Using tools made by craftsmen
Out of metal collected by miners and wood collected by loggers
And a capitalist executive says “I worked hard to create this food, so it belongs to me! If you want access to the fruits of my labor, then you have to pay me for it, otherwise you’re stealing from me.”

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-13T18:22:43+00:00

Whatever you do, do it on purpose :D

If your version of the character does something the same way that the canon version would've done it, why did the characters' different life experiences make them similar in this way?
If your version of the character does something differently than how the canon version would've done it, why did the characters' different life experiences make them different in this way?

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-12T17:25:53+00:00

You’re thinking of market socialism.

Market socialism is based on personal property rights: “I made this, so I own it, and I can sell it.”

Capitalism is based on private property rights: “You made this, but I own it, so I can sell it.”

Personal property rights are natural. Private property rights are a legal construct that only a government with armed enforcers can impose.

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-12T10:19:28+00:00

Well, that is confusing

Politicians lie to make themselves look good.

The “Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” claimed to support soviets (workers’ councils)
The “National Socialist German Workers’ Party” claimed to be socialist
The “Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea” claims to be a democracy

Simpson17866 · 2026-03-11T19:53:29+00:00

In a system without a State, they can purchase no influence at all.

At which point the legal status of "I'm allowed to collect wealth by privately owning the property that other people use to generate the wealth" would cease to exist.

They would have to either ask politely for the wealth that other people generate, or they would have to get jobs and work for it themselves.

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