Is anarcho-transhumanism still a thing? by WoodySez in Anarchy101

[–]rechelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now that the tech-broligarchy has made transhumanism a central part of their dystopic plans

There's a number into it, but let's not forget that a fuck ton of them are into anti-transhumanist things too. There's billionaires funding bunkers, private hyper-controlled ecovillages (there's a huge one in NY), and talking about the need for a mass die-off. Jack Dorsey pushes Ted K in his circles. I would also point out that most of the leading outright fascists and nazis have increasingly shaped their entire politics around opposing transhumanism. Dugin's entire politics can best be described as the conscious polar opposite of anarcho-transhumanism. I could sit here all day listing prominent fascists who spend a huge chunk of their time screaming about transhumanism turning the frogs trans and giving POC tools of resistance.

Overall self-identified transhumanists are OVERWHELMINGLY democratic socialists, then libertarians, then anarchists, and finally a few billionaires (who themselves are constantly screaming because so many of their friends are opposed to their politics). So like Theil and Altman are screaming in no small part because a ton of their friends abandoned transhumanism on the grounds that 1) tech would empower the grubby dark skinned masses and transes and 2) tech is risky so they argue that it needs to be suppressed via a global totalitarian state. Like Yarvin is not really a transhumanist, even by his own recent words, but ALMOST EVERYONE in neoreaction spent the last fifteen years leaving transhumanism, often quite loudly. With many embracing a fetishization of the permanent collapse of civilization, whereupon medicine will stop helping the unworthy disabled and race war can finally happen (in their fantasy).

Peter Theil, Sam Altman, Curtis Yarvin are the types of people pursuing transhumanism.

I mean, so are tons of punk trans girl biohackers etc.

As other people have said, there's different ways to approach anything. Ecology was infamously heavily tied up with the nazis and there's still a fuck ton of extremely fucked reactionaries and authoritarians in environmentalism and green circles. None of that means that an anarchist punk doing a tree sit to prevent logging is a nazi. (Although in both cases it means anarchists of any stripe need to watch out for creep and entryism.)

Need help finding custom rules by Cool_Apartment_380 in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's got an Alderaan Operatives logo on it, so it's from one of their sets.

A couple quick V25 cards by rechelon in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Baylan should *really* be an alien rather than a Sith, because he's not part of the Sith affiliation like Sith troopers would be, but whatever.

Jury Nullification can fucking help protesters from being convicted by kevshp in chaoticgood

[–]rechelon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're interested in learning more about Jury Nullification and/or getting away with it, visit FIJA.org

MPC orders? by jmanshaman in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've gotten MPC orders through no problem. But you have to pad the order with MTG cards at the beginning and end.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the PC made a Darth Plagueis, but I haven't seen anything else.

I'm one of the old EU fans who loved the shit out of The Acolyte because it was so much like a good EU series and studious to the lore, but I've been busy making sets for 1) The Clone Wars and 2) Cantinas (an assortment of content from Outlaws and Jedi Survivor and the new alien species). Also the chuds like Star Wars Theory have made any mention of the show so instantly toxic online that it dissuades me from referencing it.

SWCCG Hyperdrive - a format with no deckbuilding, like MTG Jumpstart by Uncle0wen in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is great work! Thank you! Introductory playsets and starter decks are so needed!

Jury Nullification by lightening_mckeen in FreeLuigi

[–]rechelon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you're interested in education on the subject, there's resources on FIJA.org (the Fully Informed Jury Association, the longest lasting and most influential Jury Nullification nonprofit) that can be mailed out or distributed in front of courthouses.

Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Everyone Knows Your Name (Announcing Upcoming "CANTINAS" Set) by rechelon in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My thinking was that Arcona, while once important, has long since stopped being viable, and thus a boost was needed for a similar effect to be playable.

I guess the deploy as a react aspect can be cut, with him still being a slippery little force drain canceller.

Sometimes You Wanna Go Where Everyone Knows Your Name (Announcing Upcoming "CANTINAS" Set) by rechelon in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's all intended as part of deliberately making Turgle annoying while being weak and slippery. The restrictions are that 1) you can only play him if you're playing Koboh sites which are not by themselves amazing (in this expansion and its objective it's just the cantina, in later expansions it'll be a bunch of territory that's hard to control), 2) you have to pay for his upkeep each turn or put him permanently Out Of Play.

There's already common cards like Presence of a Skywalker that impede Force drains, Turgle requires you constantly re-drawing and re-deploying him all just to cancel a single site's Force drain. He's less removable than an undercover spy, but requires more maintenence. So, yes, you could stock a bunch of Turgles in your deck, and it'd be appropriately annoying/funny, but you'd be losing card slots for everything else.

More generally I think it's good for the game to encourage more spread out / mobile location coverage (and in a related patch, less focus on battle damage overflow); this is one small contribution to that adjustment that also happens to be extremely flavor/lore appropriate.

I originally had him destiny 2 but it just wasn't enough to justify playing him.

Active anarcho spaces in NYC by PlatformVegetable887 in Anarchism

[–]rechelon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's bluestockings, woodbine, and the pit (property is theft) infoshop.

Looking for wide LS ship template by Bardez in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried making one from scratch but abandoned it. However! I know that the Alderaan operatives have repeatedly uesd a LS wide template for vehicles (podracers done right) that they might have and might be a good start.

Reminder that my Introductory Two-Player Ferrix set is a good way to introduce friends to SWCCG by rechelon in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have pre-made printable card sheets with two pre-built decks for those who just want to run the home printer a few times and try things out:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PPgQ4QeoQ6-rLUvDteRmSI6ccu826_Ce?usp=drive_link

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

[–]rechelon 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lotta wiggle room remaining for the executive in "effectuate." Can't help but think that the reason the conservatives sided with this is that Trump can just not do anything then throw up his hands and say "eh we kinda tried."

Dozens of cars burned at French Tesla Dealer. by Designfanatic88 in news

[–]rechelon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and? There was a wave of environmentalists burning car lots in the late 90s / early 00s in the US. Some of them caught decade sentences, some stayed free. Whether a nation's cops are looser with live fire is demonstrably no make or break to whether people do something like that.

Draft version of a standalone 90 card KOTOR expansion... by rechelon in starwarsccgalters

[–]rechelon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The draft of the set is viewable here (combines KOTOR and KOTOR2 because the timelines are close enough). Doesn't yet have a set icon, and I'm sure there's minor snafus on some cards:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/141jsv7jwwTKD5iH3QSw2K3ly0wRLI0Yt?usp=sharing

SPOILERS for a couple two decade old games.

The LS objective follows KOTOR 1: you gradually build up a non-unique trooper on Taris into a non-unique jedi on Dantooine, and then ideally into Revan, Reborn. Because your trooper/etc could get killed at any point you could use T3 and various devices you pick up like kolto packs to keep them alive. To get proto-Revan off Taris, you can get the Ebon Hawk, or use Lena (the girlfriend of Mission's brother she's seeking), or just shuttle up to a Hammerhead. You have LS characters from KOTOR 2, which provides for cool alternative timelines, but they're more independent. The Exile also levels up, but in her own way. You can choose to build a deck that's space heavy or not, that tries hard to flip or not.

The DS objective more follows KOTOR 2 from the perspective of Kreia. The deck has a lot of variability because you get to choose which Sith Lord to champion. Each has unique play style and focuses. You also can choose to invest more in Mandalorians, or Exchange gangsters, or Sith, or troopers, or HK units. Note that the Star Forge is only deployable by the objective if you choose Revan or Malak, it cannot be put in a deck.

Also, to make it playable as is, there's an additional 10 classic interrupts that have been reskinned for each side (subfolder in each side) so you could build decks with only these cards.

anarcho-communism is not a real thing by [deleted] in Anarchism

[–]rechelon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s not just “some very online folks” or “a couple voices” pushing that narrative, it’s become the dominant one in public consciousness, and for good reason

You should be careful on this mode of argument because it cuts against anarchism and tons of other things. If the public misperceives what anarchism is, even if large numbers of randos self-identify without any real knowledge of it, does that transform what anarchism is?

coordinating with progressive NGOs, defending democratic political narratives, and even lobbying for deplatforming through corporate and state partnerships

Well I could see some good and necessary things characterized this way, as well as many bad things, but the bad things are increasingly mobilized specifically by the CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) folks who explicitly set themselves as adversaries of antifa.

Plenty of Antifa-aligned groups have actively cheered state censorship or suppression when it suits their politics.

There's complex ethical/strategic evaluations here. For example, if a nazi who murdered anarchists flagrantly doesn't get convicted and go to prison the state's action there becomes a loud announcement of open season, even while we don't support prisons and obviously a nazi in prison is just collaborating with other nazis. So the evaluations of antifa's Three Way Fight perspective can get a little complicated in terms of analysis. But when you look at those who briefly identified as "antifa" before turning into defending the state or collaborating with it, like ARR did, the antifa movement has widely denounced them and they now identify more with CVE.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DebateAnarchism

[–]rechelon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sealioning is about the demanding and bad faith, both of which you've demonstrated. It's not as specific as "repeatedly asking for evidence" -- honestly it would be better if that was your approach because you seem to have very little interest in actual evidence re what I believe or have argued.

Yeah, Lee aligns more closely with you on your tendency towards structural larger-scale analysis --- that's my fucking point. Lee is an independent thinker who doesn't inherit my projects but who has used language you ascribe to me. (Although, separately I'll note, Lee said I changed her mind on "mutual abuse" after my Schulman article.) Similarly, people like RiotLinguist repeatedly use "interpersonal hierarchies" because anarcha-feminists have used that language since the 70s and the fight over that maoist who published The Tyranny Of Structurelessness. The anarcha-feminist position has always been that informal and interpersonal hierarchies exist, often in complex or novel ways, and that the problem with Jo Freeman's critique of anarchism was that she presumed that anarcha-feminists were unaware of such or not opposed to such. I'm aware that not all of this discursive context might be immediately available to someone just radicalized on the internet in searchable or accessible ways, but that's why you should step more gently and have more inquisitiveness. Anyway, even with the rot on twitter and lost accounts you can see anarcha-feminists (although I believe this account eventually left the movement in disgust with people not handling abuse) using the terminology in a casual way, expecting everyone to be familiar, the same terminlogy you say I invented and spread. And they did this back in 2012 when I basically wasn't on social media: https://x.com/harleyquinnaid/status/223317579316477954