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  • Cool Project?

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  • @marcin_ose

  • Banking industry’s net zero alliance shuts down amid faltering climate commitments

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  • They lived their life relaxing in a hot-tub. Now that their greed has made it a boiling pot, they're tossing their children in to burn and gaslighting them that they have a legacy.

  • An Entire Generation of Americans Is Turning on Israel

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  • Fascists read mein kampf like christians read the bible -- not at all if they can help it. I don't think his words had the influence or significance you're honoring them with.

  • An Entire Generation of Americans Is Turning on Israel

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  • This seems to be the implicit message of all cults and religions, many of which pre-date Hitler by thousands of years. Where did he write this message?

  • An Entire Generation of Americans Is Turning on Israel

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  • The worst thing Hitler did, long term, the thing he did the most civilizational damage with, was a sentence in a book about how/why one should read books. It’s done more than 8m bodies of damage since.

    Help me out, I'm not getting this reference.

  • What are some good resources I could read to inform myself on the Anarchist/Anarcho-Communist definition of "Authority"?

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  • Ziq should be more famous for the history of toxic behavior they've displayed in every anarchist space they've participated in, including in their role as the ruler of Raddle․me. Their use of sockpuppets to manipulate and bully has discredited and disgraced Raddle․me and should be the primary reason for their notoriety. Any notoriety as a source of anarchist theory is due to their own tireless self-promotion rather than the strength of their ideas. Their writing is intentionally obtuse, relying on idiosyncratic re-definition of words to create clickbait titles. They make poorly supported claims that are either wrong or communicated more clearly by better people.

    When I encounter someone sincerely recommending their writing, I suspect more sockpuppetry.

  • What are some good resources I could read to inform myself on the Anarchist/Anarcho-Communist definition of "Authority"?

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    What are some good resources I could read to inform myself on the Anarchist/Anarcho-Communist definition of "Authority"?

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  • I appreciate you, @alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but I don't appreciate this energy. The 'bread' in Breadtube is related to Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread -- a seminal anarchist work. It doesn't deserve to be quoted when referring to actual anarchists. Calling people who dedicate a lot of energy to producing educational videos 'terminally online' is demeaning, and thowing stones from glass houses considering how active we both are on Lemmy.

    This is not a 'debate an anarchist' or Anarchy101 community, and I'm not eager to pivot in that direction either. I think those kind of communities have value tho, and I'm disappointed your !AnarchismVsMarxism community hasn't taken off.

    If you're coming from Marxism, your reference for anarchism's position is probably "On Authority" by Engels. A good response to that rhetoric is probably JudgeSabo's Read On Authority, I've posted it in your com.

    I'm going to lock this thread, but anyone who wants to meet Alsaaas where she is I suggest you post similar texts for discussion there too.

  • What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

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  • No, but I will acknowledge it is insane and idiotic for me to spend time educating people who use Billy Madison memes to accuse others of lowing the quality of discourse.

    How was the meaning of this word altered so dramatically in the United States? During the First World War, some of the leading Progressive writers began to use the word liberalism as a substitute for progressivism, which had become tarnished by its association with their fallen hero, Theodore Roosevelt, who had run and lost on a Progressive third party ticket. Traditional liberals were not happy to see their label transformed. In the 1920s, The New York Times criticized "the expropriation of the time-honored word 'liberal' " and argued that "the Radical-Red school of thought ... hand back the word 'liberal' to its original owners." During the early 1930s, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt duked it out as to who was the true liberal. Roosevelt won, adopting the term to ward off accusations of being left-wing. He could declare that liberalism was "plain English for a changed concept of the duty and responsibility of government toward economic life." And since the New Deal, liberalism in the United States has been identified with an expansion of government's role in the economy.

    -- Daniel Yergin, The Commanding Heights

  • What Liberals Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Antifa

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  • The use of the term 'liberals' by the Intercept is not meant to be synonymous with 'the left' -- its meaning in this context is the political mainstream of the Democratic Party and the left wing of the Republican Party. The term comes from the philosophy of 'economic liberalism' and adjacent to terms like 'neoliberal' and 'capitalist' but inclusive of people who engage in politics consistent with those ideologies without explicitly self-identifying as ideologues.

  • US bankrolls fascist Milei regime ahead of Argentine elections

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  • Milei is the guy who gave Elon Musk his novelty chainsaw. Fascism isn't an ideology in the traditional sense, and when a fascist-adjacent government actually becomes fascist is an exercise in individual discernment. Perhaps fascism is best described as a spectrum, and in that framing, Milei is pretty fascist. WSWS isn't wrong -- calling someone with significant fascist qualities who seeks out fascist allies a 'fascist' seems like a reasonable use of language.

  • Concerning the Violent Peace-Police [2012]

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  • Rest in Power David Graeber

  • I Took Bernie Into Deep Trump Country. Can He Win Them Over?

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  • Transcript is available via YouTube if you click on the "more..." button in the video text box and then click on the "Show Transcript" button.

  • One Of Our Own: On Wonderful Americans Like Charlie

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  • Respect.

  • One Of Our Own: On Wonderful Americans Like Charlie

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  • Composting

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  • A guide for how not to peat a dead horse.

  • Right?

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  • Nick Fuentes, groyper leader and homophobe, accidentally began streaming gay porn before turning off his live feed. 4chan is famous for both misogyny and transphobia, as well as both cis and trans pornography.

    Having a trans partner doesn't mean you're not a nazi, and considering how easily the feds got his chat logs, I don't think his 'partner' was all that into him. John Hinckley Jr didn't kill to further Jodie Foster's agenda. Do you think Tyler Robinson engraved groyper memes onto bullets before being 'brainwashed by the left,' and then decided to used them in the shooting anyway?

  • Despite his public call to “just kill” unhoused people, Brian Kilmeade continues to host “Fox & Friends.”

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  • The rate of people living on the streets is not a constant across even all capitalist societies, 'homeless' describes a state without implying a cause. 'Unhoused' properly implies that people could have shelter, but the society they live in has failed to make houses available to them.

  • Google misled users about their privacy and now owes them $425m, says court

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  • You could feed your whole family with that much soup!