The Black Panthers get a pass; they didn’t live long enough to become the villains, and there’s no guarantee that they would have. The BPP was far more prefigurative than vangaurdist, and it was the combination of these things that made them seem so threatening to the powers that be.
They’re in the wrong program then, that skill is more useful for business majors.
The person asking the McDonald’s AI how to reverse a linked list in Python is almost certainly an undergrad in a programming 101 course, so this was definitely quicker for them (although they didn’t learn anything).
dont know how web designer as a industry is doing now.
Bereft with AI slop following sweeping layoffs, so not well.
Modern states suspend the rights of individuals to lifer or liberty as a punishment for breaking a rule. Rules like “don’t rape people”.
They also do it for rules like “wrong skin color,” “wrong country of origin,” “wrong sexuality or gender identity,” “born into poverty and stole food,” “suffering from drug addiction,” or even “possessed a completely harmless drug like weed.” And the punishment is often the total depravation of rights and forced labor tantamount to slavery.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike from stealing loaves of bread.”
At least in theory, you can move to another nation or campaign for better treatment in essentially all modern states, exempting a small group of pariah states that still mostly don’t rape people as punishment.
This wasn’t a good argument in feudal society when peasants could leave and find another Lord or live on their own, and it’s not a good argument now. Choice is pointless when all your choices share the same constraints.
Not a single person I’ve seen has so much as suggested any mechanism whatsoever that would keep “self organizing collectives” from becoming fetit pools of bigotry and violence. We know that will happen because such groups arise in every nation already, but their impact is curbed specifically by the power of the state.
What mechanism prevents states from becoming fetid pools of bigotry and violence, and how has it been working so far? The power of the state does not curb this behavior, it curbs its rivals while engaging in that very behavior themselves by maintaining a monopoly on violence.
“Get rid of the government and we’ll all do the right thing” is libertarian bullshit to cover their glee at taking things away from others. If you aren’t a pro-rape libertarian, figure out how your proposed system would protect the vulnerable at least as well as modern states do.
Anarchy is not the lack of government, it’s horizontal governance. Hierarchy is not necessary for community policing or restorative justice. I’m not an American Libertarian which is an irrational ideology, as it wants capitalism without the state, which is impossible because capitalism is enforced by the state. Without the state protecting private property there can be no capitalism.
What stops a self-organizing collective from becoming racist, sexist, transohobic, and pro-rape?
What stops a state from becoming the same?
Modern states at least have the benefit of a basic theory that they cannot simply un-person people who live within their borders.
What are you talking about? Most modern states routinely strip people within and outside of their borders of rights, deport, murder, or enslave them.
Without the backing of the Israeli state they would not be so untouchable.
Anarchy is a great ideal, but there are some things governments do that we shouldn’t trust to self-organizing collectives.
What makes states more trustworthy than self-organizing collectives?
Nice, more instructions to send to revolutionaries in Myanmar.
Congrats on your soft, velvety pubes. Mine are coarse enough to use as a scrub brush.
The US killed Iran’s leadership and strengthened their resolve. Now a bunch of younger, more creative, and more passionate people have taken leadership positions. Iranian propaganda has proven more effective and internet savvy, and their military decision-making has likely improved due to destagnation. Trump literally threatening to wipe the entire civilization off the face of the earth likely pushes Iranians who are against the regime to reconsider (even if only temporarily while they deal with the bigger threat), and I couldn’t say I wouldn’t make the same judgment if I were in their position. What a colossal failure, but hey, at least the defense contractors are making money, right? I can’t wait for the blowback from this to inspire the next round of interventions, if we’re even still around by then.
The cute ones that look at you with intelligence in their eyes. I could never kill a jumping spider.
Maybe it’s friendly!
From what I’ve heard of afroman speaking he seems to feel that he has “hustled” his way into the American dream and that those who haven’t achieved the American dream just need to hustle more. He clearly understands that structural racism exists, but it’s easy enough for someone in his position to suppose that anyone can succeed despite any disadvantages, and take pride in the fact that he has done so. It’s a common mindset of people who have become moderately wealthy to believe that the system works (since it worked for them) and feel that that the government - rather than helping - should simply “get out of people’s way.” Libertarians see taxes on the rich and regulations as just making it harder for people to succeed, and don’t really have a good understanding of the power that wealth and privilege gives you over others. They see power as stemming only from the state.
It can also just be as simple as pure self-interest. “Why is the government taking all my hard-earned money!! I gotta do something about these taxes, this is theft!!!”
For context this is at the National Libertarian Convention during Afroman’s run for president in 2024. It doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a Trump supporter, but it’s certainly a bad look (and it does mean he’s a libertarian, which depending on what your own opinions are is also a pretty bad look).
Doing this by state kinda makes it useless given that the real distinction is urban-rural.
I agree with your broader point but the bit about supporting auth-left fighting Nazis is a risky bet. I don’t think we’re close to having a marxist-leninist vanguard party overthrow the regime here in the US, but historically when they have been empowered to enact violence against fascists they end up taking the state monopoly on violence for themselves and turning it on anarchists and other socialists with slight disagreements.
But Iike you said, they’re not the ones controlling the state at the moment. It’s just something to keep in mind for the future in case an ML vanguard party leading a revolution in the US actually ends up being on the table. Depending on how bad things get a lot of people might consider it worth the risk.
Late 20s, moved to lemmy during the Reddit API scandal like a lot of others, so it’s a deliberate anti-corporate choice. I’ve always been techy (I worked as a software developer at the time I made the switch) and I’ve always hated the corporate social media platforms. Reddit was the only social media that I ever used extensively and the API fiasco was the straw that broke the camel’s back. This may or may not be true for others who switched around the same time but it coincided with my political views becoming more radical; I used to consider myself a social democrat but by the time I fled Reddit I fully considered myself socialist and was on my way to becoming an anarchist.
I can’t help but be curious, what made you choose slrpnk.net - an instance for environmentalist anarchists - as a conservative? Did you misread conservationism or something?
I didn’t say they weren’t, I just said their prefigurative politics were more prominent. I’m of the opinion that what someone does is more important than what they say, and if they hadn’t been undermined by COINTELPRO who knows where their thinking and organizational structure would have gone. I just think there was something truly transformative about the BPP that could have grown into something beautiful if they’d had the opportunity.