That’s a thought I did not need in my head.

Nooooo!!! (Actually I’ve never tried Emacs)

Always happy to help people move away from MS

You could do this easily with Crystal and Kemal.

I think “owning the libs” is a desirable side-effect and not their main goal.

Their main goal is to keep the lower class voters ignorant and uneducated so that history can be denied and they can be more easily manipulated into voting for right wingers using appeals to emotion (e.g. hatred, racism, patriotism, way of life). This is of course to keep power where it is.

I think this is where “compartmentalization” comes in. Similar in concept to how you are forced to wall off sadness when a loved one dies so that you can continue to live your life, I think there are mentally competent right wingers, but they wall off the logic and reasoning so that it applies only to machines. They do this because if those ideas of logic and reason get beyond the wall/outside of the compartment, the meaning of their lives falls apart.

I’ll be in my office downloading some files.

fr, I’m living in a bubble for the rest of my life.

It’s just the radioactive waste we don’t know what to do with and becoming a military or terrorist target parts that are dangerous.

haha that’s a good one

I agree, while I’m full anarcho-communist I don’t think we can get there directly from here. I support unions and vote for Biden while I hold my nose.

If the state were to suddenly disappear, yes, I’d agree with you. Humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years, most of that without a state, and with many groups living in what were likely arguably something like anarcho-communist societies (check out The Dawn Of Everything from David Graeber). Warlords are a symptom of a power vacuum.

I would take significant cultural change, the kind of change capitalists will do their damnedest to prevent. People have to first believe a world not based on mutual exploitation is even possible.

I ate lunch and my cat pooped, anyone else want to mention two random events?

As another commenter mentioned, the government (the state) is not a person and cannot care.

Government and the state are tools. The thing about some tools is that they are really only useful towards certain ends. The state is fundamentally a tool of maintaining and expanding power. While it’s possible for those with power to do some good things, their overall effect is to allow the domination of most by the few.

Government requires a state to function, a state as in a subset of the population claiming exclusive acceptable use of force in a given area.

I love this quote

Everyone that argues against anarchist positions immediately goes to the parent/child relationship. For sake of argument, let’s ignore this one (out of millions) specific situation biologically imposed on us. Now does the statement seem to be more true?

Of course I don’t expect you to agree if your not anarchist, I didn’t post this (or event this rebuttal really) to change your mind, I posted it to plant seeds and make people wonder.

A blockchain with an appropriate consensus protocol is like implementing a globally shared spreadsheet where nobody can alter history.

The types of things a decentralized globally shared spreadsheet that can be trusted allow are amazing and it’s up to us how we use this potentially world changing tool. But like any tool, including the dollar, it’s also useful to those with malicious intention.

It’s still the early days for this technology.

What I find odd is that people expect a tool as powerful as blockchain to be somehow without crime and all the bad stuff that plagues everything else in life.

So, we can refuse people that seem right wing too right?