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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • I think whether we like it or not economic systems have forced their way into our political systems.

    And anyone with any existing power is strongly incentivized to kill any “new ideas” in the womb. As they would most likely represent a departure from the current system that they benefit from.

    Any dramatic restructuring is going to be a very “significant” event. We may currently be on the precipice of one such event in the United States, this remains to be seen. The existing power structures have been significantly destabilized and pre-existing norms and rules are being outright ignored.

    Power will shift, it remains to be seen how much and to where.

    In any case, we may have the opportunity for you to see some new interesting governmental concepts, or perhaps a return to some classics, or a mix of the two (a little overtly capitalist fuedalism perhaps?).

    We sure do live in interesting times.


  • One important thing for people to think about right now is “what happens when other countries don’t accept deportees?”

    They start to stack up. Housing, feeding, and guarding “dangerous undesirables” is expensive.

    Surely, it would be patriotic to save your country money…

    It might be too late. It might not, who’s to say. Videos from this weekend have a very familiar ring to them though.













  • I generally don’t engage this much with posts of these types, but you seem to be a person who is making statements in good faith. As such, I want to encourage you to look a bit more into those you might label the “alt-left” because I’m quite certain I fall into that category and there’s a lot more than “anyone can do anything they want at anytime” to what we (in the US) were taught in school about things like historical Anarchist movements.

    Namely: “Anarchy means no rules and no one is in charge! Burn everything!!!”

    If I were to sum things up as succinctly as possible I would say that the primary idea behind “anarchy” as a philosophy isn’t a “return to tribalism” but a flattening of hierarchies. (Not to be confused with anarcho-capitalism, which is in practice very different with regard to hierarchy)

    Boiled down to key concepts:

    • No one person is inherently better or more intrinsically valuable than another person.
    • Every person should be allowed their own agency, to associate with whom they please, and have access to the necessities of life.
    • Any decisions made should be made with the consent of everyone they affect.

    There’s a lot of actual theory and what not you can get into, it’s all available freely online, because that’s another thing anarchists are big on, free access to education. The first read that springs to mind is “The Conquest of Bread” which lays out how and why an anarchy based society would work in practice. (Tl;Dr: technology has made it so that we can produce far more than we actually need, so we are capable of supporting everyone without starvation, homelessness, and man-made oppression)