PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

First you define what “getting caught” means. Then, you just do only things that are not described as “getting caught”. So easy!

Oof. Hope this gets resolved in your/your instance’s favor, but I do still feel a little proud that we pissed off Rimu so fiercely that we’re getting shadowbanned.

we had been shadowbanned from the PieFed.Social Instance Chooser

Badge of fucking honor

If you have names, please let the Quokk.au admins know. Quokk is an Anarchist-Flotilla instance.

Not necessarily. E.g., teachers are often great people with the best of intentions, yet we put them in a position of hierarchial power over students. (No disrespect to the teachers in the building, exactly the opposite. Education is so important, and I want to be a professor. But I’m sure we can agree that education is too hierarchical in it’s current form.)

IMO, authority and hierarchy would not suddenly be good ways of organizing society if a good person was at the reigns.

Every once in a while, I find “leftists” or “anarchists” who discount ableism, i.e. the oppression experienced by disabled people specifically because they are disabled. A most common example is when leftists use ableist language (e.g. the R-word) to insult enemies (instead of insulting them for the thing that they are, e.g. reactionary, ignorant, unserious, monstrous, capitalist, etc.). Class reductionism is another common way that leftists discount ableism. Class amplifies ableist oppression for sure, but winning the class war would be insufficient (but necessary!) to abolish ableist oppression.

Usually anarchists and other leftists are pretty good on ableism, but not always.

You gotta be some deep turbo shitlib to take offense with this post.

Nah I was asking that specific person. There are definitely anarcho-curious people on .world, but the person I’m replying to…like I just have to ask them, why are they here? Why not go to a community they actually vibe with?

💯

I mean I am radical leftist tho 🏴

Thanks for clarifying 😆. And maybe don’t pay attention to the software my instance is currently running 😅

then y r u here

Okay I get that you’re dunking on Rimu yelling about a Zionist getting banished to the Shadow Realm with the help of a LLM, but what’s the significance of the Maori guy?

Collective action does not require, and in my view is not even helped by, the existence of the State. Defying the government is (insufficient and) unnecessary to push off the water crisis to the future, e.g. the government can physically import water from elsewhere (although I wouldn’t bet on it), but defying the government is necessary (but insufficient) to permanently (on human time scales) solve the water crisis there, precisely because the State is designed to prevent the people from solving their own problems when it conflicts with capitalists’ interests.

But they require a significant investment of capital, engineering skill, and long-term management.

We can and should do this without the tyranny of the State. I’m not a water treatment engineer, but I am an engineer, and I don’t need nor want a cop or similar authoritarian and hierarchical structure breathing down my neck to organize complex technological systems with the continuous consent of the community.

And nothing of value was lost

Way ahead of ya 😆

you never once showed any enterpreneurship spirit

Yeah because I’m not a fucking business ghoul 🏴🚩

Unsuccessful capitalists are still capitalists and still need to be smashed. 🏴

Countertop ice machine. I keep mine on a table right next to my bed for infinite cold drinks whenever I want without getting out of bed.