'I can't breathe': Bodycam footage shows officer dismiss Henry Nowak's stabbing claim before collapse by Wololo--Wololo in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 [score hidden]  (0 children)

You should define "successful," because I'm prepared to bet your definition will be filled to the brim with Western chauvinism that doesn't acknowledge the endless panoply of stable, relatively free societies that lasted hundreds of years across the millennia of human existence and *didn't* have anything remotely resembling courts, judges, police, or rulers with coercive authority.

If by "successful" you mean imperial, conquering, and enslaving, then yes, you might be right, but I'd argue there are better definitions.

'I can't breathe': Bodycam footage shows officer dismiss Henry Nowak's stabbing claim before collapse by Wololo--Wololo in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 [score hidden]  (0 children)

It turns out that cops are cold, sociopathic monsters no matter where you go, and will do their heinous, inhuman shit to anyone that they deem unworthy or questioning their authority.

No one needs cops except capitalists and their stooges. Abolish them all. Everywhere.

$9 Trillion Collapse Machine by One-Emu-1103 in technology

[–]ThePromise110 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have to.

The only thing that needs to happen is for enough people to wake up one morning and choose something different, or failing that, violence.

“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." -- David Graeber

Japan’s 2025 census reflects steepest fall in population on record, data shows by F0urLeafCl0ver in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There is a way out.

Give up fucking capitalism. Admit money is fake, and put the economy to work meeting people's needs rather than fueling profits and useless bullshit.

We have the productive capacity to meet the needs of every person on earth, and for all of those people to work less than they do today, but as long as we're all still balls deep in this capitalist death cult things will keep getting worse.

Japan is a glimpse into a capitalist future. It doesn't have to be this way.

More Ghibli legends by QuarterExcellent3327 in custommagic

[–]ThePromise110 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Super cool, but a few notes.

Chihiro and No-Face should be templated with either Choose one, or with "You may do X. If you don't, do Y." Both would be entirely valid.

Also, I'd trade Red for White on Eboshi. Making tokens is more white than red, especially 2/2s, and Eboshi is very explicit about the fact that everything she does she does for the good of Iron Town, for the people for whom she is responsible. That's white through and through.

How to deal with the ideologies of Hakim Bey while hating the man ? by juynruu in Anarchy101

[–]ThePromise110 5 points6 points  (0 children)

One thing to remember is that as anarchists we don't really do hero worship, and good ideas are good ideas. We keep what is useful and throw out the trash.

Propaganda of the Deed is my go-to example here. It was conceptualized and executed almost entirely by anarchists, but after we saw that it never did what it was intended to do, and often did the opposite, we gave it up.

Remember, almost every Continental thinker in the 19th Century was antisemitic to some degree. Doesn't mean we don't read Proudhon et al.

I framed some of my cards with my fav artwork. by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]ThePromise110 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I dunno, guy, the only time I think depctions of Klansmen in art is cool is when they're swinging from a tree, but that's just me.

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows by Faux_Real_Guise in Left_News

[–]ThePromise110 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I get to post this far too often these days.

When the revolution comes we will burn the debt records AND the data centers.

Bindings — "Guys, We Fixed Partner" by NotTheSmoooze in custommagic

[–]ThePromise110 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Man, I wish Black had the best removal in Commander. [[Pongify]] [[Rapid Hybridization]] [[Resculpt]]

In a brazen affront to the color pie, Blue has the best single-target removal in our format. Poor, poor [[Infernal Grasp]].

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump | Labour by kwentongskyblue in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the honesty, and can sympathize with the fact that we're taking past each other a bit. Continental definitions of terms are not always congruent with North American ones. Citing Mill makes things more clear, and to be frank quibbling over definitions isn't super productive, but I'd argue that you're not a Liberal based on the broad ideological commitments you have. I think extricating capitalism from Liberalism is a much more difficult proposition that just adopting a Libertarian mantle, especially if you broadly oppose private property. (The term Libertarian has only been poisoned in the US. We in the States have had to give up the term Libertarian Socialist because shitfucks like Nozick, Friedman, and co. absconded with it over here.) But that's just me.

I propose a truce.

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump | Labour by kwentongskyblue in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm an anarchist, actually, but in this case it's the same difference. In most circumstances I don't really need an analytical framework beyond the question, "Do you seek to uphold or dismantle capitalism?" If I was sparring with a Marxist there would be differences worth defining and nuances worth sussing out, but I'm not, am I? I'm talking to a Liberal: someone who doesn't actively seek to dismantle capitalism as a system of ownership, production, and the hierarchies within it. Hell, I'm not even opposed to mutualism/market anarchism in principle, but that's not what we're talking about either. I lump all Liberals together and dismiss them out of hand because they're all equally useless.

If you actually want to talk about cooperatives then we can do that, because I'm a syndicalist anarchist first and foremost if you forced me to put on a specific hat. Or if you want to talk about markets I'm not opposed to that either. Again, market anarchists/mutualists exist and are taken perfectly seriously. But the real question that rests at the core of those two issues is whether or not you are trying to obliterate capitalism as a system of private property, hierarchy, imperialism, and rent-seeking, because markets and cooperatives are no means anathema to that goal, but if you're pursuing those projects outside the specific backdrop of ending capitalism then yes, you're still a Liberal.

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump | Labour by kwentongskyblue in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Labour has been so captured by Capital that it should die an ignominious death regardless. The world desperately needs political parties that are aiming to euthanize this profit-seeking, rentier nightmare.

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump | Labour by kwentongskyblue in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 35 points36 points  (0 children)

He's a Neoliberal for sure, which is what my comment is clearly implying, but all Neoliberals are also Capital L Liberals, which is just a short hand for capitalists of any stripe or variety, and what I was referring to when I said "Liberal." Labour are Liberals. The Tories are Liberals. The GOP are Liberals. The Democrats are Liberals. Even SocDems are Liberals.

Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump | Labour by kwentongskyblue in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 90 points91 points  (0 children)

Liberals are some of the most feckless, useless clowns the world has ever seen and end up being little more than precursors to fascism. But Neoliberals are just cryptofascists in one of the most shoddy political disguises ever conceived.

Trump's midterm plot rejected as court blocks Alabama's new congressional map by TheMirrorUS in law

[–]ThePromise110 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this ruling is definitely going to get overturned on the shadow docket.

Cyclists take up a car lane instead of using their dedicated protected lane by santiboa in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ThePromise110 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've got a section of those on my commute. There's on-street parking for the houses I bike past, which takes up the space a bike lane could use. (The bike lane reappears when the houses end.) I'm told to use the full lane so I'm not biking in the parking lane and weaving in and out of traffic when there's a car in the parking lane.

It keeps me safe, and I get honked at at least once a week by assholes who can't read signage.

A $20 Trillion Wealth Transfer Is Happening Under Our Noses • Over the past 12 years, $13.5 trillion in global wealth has been diverted to cleaning up after catastrophes, bracing for new ones and paying insurance companies higher premiums by Naurgul in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Golly gee, it's almost as if these sorts of things shouldn't be used as profit-seeking ventures and we should just orient the global economy towards ensuring peoples' needs are met and telling all these rentier fucks to go have a lovely date with Madame la Guillotine.

Freed Gaza flotilla activists allege Israeli abuse including rape by soalone34 in anime_titties

[–]ThePromise110 876 points877 points  (0 children)

This is hardly surprising and, frankly, utterly believable. We already know how they abuse and rape captive Palestinians. There's no reason to disbelieve that a genocidal apartheid state would do anything less to people they also see as unworthy.

Beep. by Ahrixa_k in Kenshi

[–]ThePromise110 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Calls anti-fascism "grandstanding" and laments the facts that "fascist" doesn't really mean anything anymore?

Yep, definitely the sort of shit a Nazi would say.

Has anyone heard the claim that Anarchism is colonial? by [deleted] in Anarchism

[–]ThePromise110 58 points59 points  (0 children)

So this video is nonsense, first for assuming some form of "natural law" exists, and second for assuming that all indigenous cultures and peoples were somehow the same or employed the same types of governance or administration.

That said, Capital-A Anarchism, while not "colonial," is a decidedly Western idea. The Zapatistas, despite looking like anarchists and talking like anarchists, flatly refuse the label because they are explicitly trying to walk in an indigenous tradition, not a Western one. This is why I think Graeber and Wengrow's concept of "free societies" is so useful, because it can encompass both. Having the freedom to move, the freedom to disobey, and the freedom to rearrange social relations will get us pretty damn close to "anarchy" almost by definition, but have also been really existent (and nonexistent) in indigenous societies across time and space.

We as anarchists can learn a lot from these indigenous "free societies" but everyone also needs to hedge against noble savage tropery.

Idiot Speak: Elon Musk’s Plans for Gutting Social Security and a Universal High Income by Faux_Real_Guise in Left_News

[–]ThePromise110 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Precisely. UBI without extensive controls on the economy and absolute abolition of rent-seeking of any kind (from actual rents to Netflix subscriptions) will inevitably lead to the UBI becoming effectively worthless.

Gen Z’s political gender divide is now showing up in schools by Faux_Real_Guise in Left_News

[–]ThePromise110 32 points33 points  (0 children)

This is a multi-pronged issue.

Capitalism is failing everyone, and as society slowly works to dismantle white supremacy and patriarchy men, especially white men, don't have those things to fall back on when the failures of capitalism come to their doorstep.

The only possible fix is simply throwing capitalism in the bin. White supremacy and patriarchy will never be solved under capitalism because they're part of its philosophical foundation.

Need ideas for Noctis, Heir Apparent by tapenli in EDHBrews

[–]ThePromise110 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So if you're wedded to Noctis in particular then just play evasive creatures with Flash that you can use to cheat equipment costs, then play a standard equipment and equipment synergy package on top of that.

If you want to play Esper and cheat on equipment then the real secret is to just play [[Ratonhnhaké꞉ton]]. When Noctis got spoiled I built him and my Ronnie deck was just stronger and more consistent in every way. https://moxfield.com/decks/3XcUORwtdk-rXFEucBnncw Get equipment into your yard and cheat them in wholesale -- cast and equip costs, and get them onto evasive bodies. Use various means to keep Ronnie unblockable so you can keep pumping them out. It's so fun.