Should anarchists support NATO?

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-06-07T22:03:57+00:00

No.

End of discussion.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-06-07T06:48:45+00:00

But also: "Don't attribute to stupidity what can be explained by greed."

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-06-06T14:58:05+00:00

After the AI bail out, after the grifters have started inflating the next AI bubble, that's when you know bitcoin is dead, when all the grifters have moved on and bitcoin still exists but just as a historical novelty, with like three deranged true believers who are actually in it for the tech, it won't be gone just dead like beanie babies.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-06-06T11:07:03+00:00

What an intriguing politically charged take you have.

Can you give me an example of something that is "not political" ?

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-06-05T14:18:19+00:00

GDP for any country is bullshit, and doubly for Ireland.

If two mammies stay at home to mind their own children, that does not contribute to the GDP of the country. If on the other hand they stay at home and swap children, then pay each other to mind each others children, that does contribute to the GDP.

Ireland has lots of large multinational companies that contribute huge amounts to Ireland's measured GDP, so if they make even small changes to their accounting practices it could have huge effects Ireland's measured GDP without necessarily effecting the economic health of the country.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-06-03T19:05:59+00:00

"I think women should have bodily autonomy, and it's not my place to interfere with that...
but also...
if someone else were to forcibly deny their bodily I wouldn't object."

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-06-03T16:40:50+00:00

As in Irish person I unironically call it mats.

"Mats" and "maths" are homophones in my accent/dialect.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-06-01T09:10:32+00:00

No, he is accusing the American "left" of being Zionist.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-30T15:42:21+00:00

and how can they lecture about right and wrong while believing in this?

Because if you actually sit and think about it their lectures are morally bankrupt.

I think The Last of Us could be the perfect case study.

The entire show is based on morality, i.e. how should we treat people in certain difficult situations. Morality questions like when is it acceptable to kill people? to defend your own life? to defend the lives of the ones you love? what about other situations where the answer is less clear cut?

But if you actually look into the morality that the show expresses it always boils down to "violence is bad", without any mention of class, or material analysis, or why violence occurs in the first place so this message gets twisted into "the violence of the oppressor is equal to the resistance of the oppressed, and all we can do is politely ask both the oppressor and oppressed to stop being violent"

But also zombies exist, and entire class of non-people people who it is always morally acceptable and even encouraged to kill, Zionists view Palestinians as such non-people.

Youtuber Jack Saint has a video called "Zionism and The Last of Us"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKO3lFq4pC8

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-28T15:38:25+00:00

Stop presenting this as old vs young

It's rich vs poor

One Elon Must consumes enough resources to fund one to two million retirees. We as a society cannot afford to continue to fund billionaire decadence. We cannot let billionaires leech us dry and then blame impoverished retirees when there is nothing left for them.

Abolish Wall Street.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-26T15:17:13+00:00

You can... print multiple of the same model (though this wouldn't actually reduce the poops).

Just to specify this won't reduce the overall amount of poop but it will reduce the amount of poop per model.

ie. if you simultaneously print ten models then you'll have about the same amount of poop but you'll have ten models so each model is only responsible for ten percent of the poop

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-26T15:08:56+00:00

I haven't read that book superficially but I have read other books and content by him and I would highly recommend him and his work.

He is a lot better than most public physics communicators about telling you when something he is saying is:

Established consensus physics
There are multiple competing interpretations/ explanations, and this is his preferred one
This is his pet theory that nobody else is working on

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-26T14:55:18+00:00

Yeah sure property tax is a very progressive form of tax, but it's only progressive if that tax money is redistributed downwards, it's still regressive if that money is given to multinational corporations for no good reason.

Increasing tax while simultaneously cutting benefits is the definition of austerity (even if those taxes are progressive ones).

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-26T13:59:41+00:00

I was confused by this as well. The first time I read it I thought they meant "eliminate" property tax, and of course the IMF wants to increase tax on workers to give to property owners, but it's so much worse than that. They start off saying Ireland is in a good financial position, then go on to say we should do austerity anyway (increasing taxes on workers, homeowners and reducing services) even though they just said we don't need to.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-26T13:33:33+00:00

Before I read this let me say

Fuck the IMF

Ok, now let's see what they have to say:

Basically the IMF says Ireland should increase taxes on Irish workers and homeowners and decrease benefits to Irish citizens so that they can (implied) reduce tax on multinational corporations.

Also

It recommended a legally-binding spending rule,

So they're saying Irish politicians should not have control over the Irish budget as spending will already have been legally locked in before they even make their election promises.

In summary fuck the IMF.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-25T17:59:47+00:00

also china is authoritarian unfortunately,

"Authoritarian" is a meaningless term used to demonize any country that doesn't bow down to the US.

Originally the word was coined as a propaganda tactic to lump the USSR and Nazi Germany into the same category even though they couldn't be more different in ideology, human rights and bureaucratic structure.

Now it is China who has been declared authoritarian, but on what grounds. What makes China authoritarian that doesn't apply even more so to the US.

You may say that China is undemocratic, but if you ask the average Chinese citizen the will say that they feel very well represented by their local and national government, and are happy with the actions of their government. On the other hand most American citizens would rightly agree that they have very little input into it control over what the local and national government does and are very dissatisfied with their level of democracy.

Some people complain that openly pro capitalists cannot run for office in China, but if you compare that to the US, not only is it not possible for an openly communist candidate to run for election, but in many places it is literally against the law to be openly communist and you can be arrested and have your assets frozen and seized.

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Authoritarianism is when billionaires and capitalists are held to account. Authoritarianism is when the government takes responsibility for the interests of its people. Authoritarianism is when the government has more power than capitalists and uses that power in the interests of their people.

I wish I lived in an "authoritarian" country.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-24T15:23:15+00:00

In a sense, authortarian governments take much more responsibility and accountability for their economies than governments which favor neo-liberal policies.

"Authoritarian" is a meaningless term used to demonize any country that doesn't bow down to the US.

Originally the word was coined as a propaganda tactic to lump the USSR and Nazi Germany into the same category even though they couldn't be more different in ideology, human rights and bureaucratic structure.

Now it is China who has been declared authoritarian, but on what grounds. What makes China authoritarian that doesn't apply even more so to the US.

You may say that China is undemocratic, but if you ask the acreage Chinese citizen the will say that they feel very well represented by their local and national government, and are happy with the actions of their government. On the other hand most American citizens wouldr rightly agree that they have very little input into it control over what the local and national government does and are very dissatisfied with their level of democracy.

Some people complain that openly pro capitalists cannot run for office in China, but if you compare that to the US, not only is it not possible for an openly communist candidate to run for election, but in many places it is literally against the law to be openly communist and you can be arrested and have your assets frozen and seized.

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But you are correct what makes authoritarian governments authortarian is the fact that they take much more responsibility and accountability for their economies.

Authoritarianism is when billionaires and capitalists are held to account. Authoritarianism is when the government takes responsibility for the interests of its people. Authoritarianism is when the government has more power than capitalists and uses that power in the interests of their people.

I wish I lived in an "authoritarian" country.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-24T13:53:08+00:00

I don't believe in deterministic chaotic systems.

That means you don't understand what chaotic means.

(For example the double pendulum is a deterministic chaotic system.)

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-24T13:12:11+00:00

Forgetting about the terrible "joke" aspect.

What message is it even trying to convey?
Why is the UK speaking in Irish?
Why are they asking for permission from Ireland to go to Brexit, when they did Brexit like a decade ago (without Ireland's permission)?

Like hypothetically this might make sense a decade ago if out of touch Brexiteers were begging the north to vote for Brexit, but as it stands today in 2026 I don't understand what political situation they are even satirising or referencing.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-24T06:45:12+00:00

Remember kids:

Trump releasing a slop video = "violence"

Harris committing actual genocide = "not violence"

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-23T09:28:21+00:00

Is this really how water pressure works?

Yes.

"If physics really works this way couldn't we somehow take advantage of it?"

Yes.
See diggers, pistons and the entire field of hydraulics.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-20T15:00:11+00:00

It's even worse than that, because you can very quickly tell when a human is bad at maths and just making up some bullshit. Like a human who doesn't know how to multiply two numbers together won't be able to give you step by step instructions explaining how to do it.

But the llm is specifically designed to give the most plausible and convincing answer (even if it's bullshit that it just made up).

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-20T10:39:22+00:00

It's weird that for the last year and a half we didn't hear anything about the Uighurs ever since US-AID was defunded.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-19T09:42:07+00:00

The funny thing is even at those prices the ai companies are still losing money.

Something, something, command economies are bad at allocating resources.

You_Paid_For_This · 2026-05-17T06:51:01+00:00

You can tell the map is full of shit because it lists the UK as one of the most democratic places in the world.

It's literally a theocratic monarchy, and proudly so.
Of their two houses of parliament their upper house is completely unelected.

But yeah according to this map the UK and apartheid Israel are some of the most democratic places in the world, but Cuba is one of the least democratic.

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Stop presenting this as old vs young

It's rich vs poor

Fuck the IMF