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anarchiddy

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  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • The fun thing about intersectionality is that you could also look at her as the first latina candidate

    But looking at what her politics are is somehow never the consideration. In terms of platform, she could hardly be more distinct from either Clinton or Kamala. I like the odds of popular socialist policies much, much better than focus-group tested middling capitalist policies.

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • It's wild until you realize just how fucked american electoral politics are.

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • The greater risk isn't misogynist republicans IMO, it's misogynist liberals who will cynically use her gender and ethnic background as examples of her unelectability instead of addressing their opposition to her populist agenda.

    "I don't take issue wither her being a woman, but dumb rural americans will, so we can't nominate her"

    Every time a populist candidate gains momentum in the democratic party, democrats suddenly become greatly concerned about electability. See: Obama, Sanders, Mamdani, Fatah, ect.

    Maybe if democrats placed as much emphasis on a popular policy agenda as they do on identity, they wouldn't have as much of an electability problem.

  • Bernie Sanders floats AOC as potential 2028 presidential contender: ‘Very good politician’

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  • AFAIK he was born in Uganda and is actually ineligible

  • Trump posts AI video of himself flying KING TRUMP jet and bombing protestors with brown liquid

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  • Well im certainly im favor of more obstructive forms of protest but it's cope to say they have mo motion

  • Trump posts AI video of himself flying KING TRUMP jet and bombing protestors with brown liquid

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  • Trump posts AI video of himself flying KING TRUMP jet and bombing protestors with brown liquid

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  • California to become first state to sell cheap insulin through state-backed program

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  • I fucking loathe Newsome - but this is hard to complain about

  • Zohran: I wish the debate was more like Nascar

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  • Jesus, that man has an incredible amount of message discipline

  • Zohran Mamdani Speaks Directly To Donald Trump In Fox News Interview: “Ready To Speak At Any Time To Lower The Cost Of Living”

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  • He is such a disciplined campaigner.

    Along with an extremely strong platform, he is possibly the best ive seen at being relentless about staying on message.

    Fuck the democrats for hanging him out to dry, they should be running Mamdani's in every state.

  • What are some of the core ways that the marxist end goal is different than anarchism?

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  • Then I guess it bears repeating that marxism is also concerned with those outcomes.

  • What are some of the core ways that the marxist end goal is different than anarchism?

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  • I'm taller than you. I leave some important stuff up on a high shelf. You have to ask me for the stuff

    This is definitely not the type of hierarchy anarchism or marxism seek to dismantle. Natural formations of 'power' that come from biological differences arent the ones we're concerned with, but the larger structures built around them are. If you're taller than me and can reach things I cant, we can structure our organization so that either I can reach it wothout you (stairs) or so that I dont need whatever those things are (a job that doesnt require those things). What anarchism definitely isnt going to do is either make me taller or you shorter.

    And oh yes gerontocracy absolutely can and does assert itself without a state

    Same deal. Being older and less able is a natural 'hierarchy', but what concerns us isnt the handicaps that naturally arise but the structures we build around them. If we distribute food and resources according to ability but make no consideration for less-abled people, thats the problem we are solving for, not the eradication of handicaps entirely.

    Maybe you know this and it'll sound like I'm being patronizing, but ultimately both anarchism and marxism seek to arrive at the same place of 'to each according to need, from each according to ability', and that will require structures that replace the things states do with more involved community organizations.

  • What are some of the core ways that the marxist end goal is different than anarchism?

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  • I guess I would disagree with Marx on this then, as I think even the mere differences between individuals can lead to power hierarchies if left socially unchecked

    I think we'd need specific examples to come to an agreement, but frankly I can't think of a relationship like this that isn't voluntary. Maybe you mean something like patriarchal family relationships - but those types of structures can't really enforce themselves without class and state. Someone cant force their spouse to stay in their relationship if neither one can withhold the means of reproduction from the other

    enact cooperative legislation through upward synthesis rather than downward prescription

    This is what I mean: this is still a hierarchy, it's simply a consensual one. When one self-governed group then comes together with another to agree on collective organizing, that becomes a kind of hierarchy. Consent can be withdrawn at any time - and that's what makes it a more ethical structure than liberal democracy

  • What are some of the core ways that the marxist end goal is different than anarchism?

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  • I think this is a bit of a misconception.

    Marx would agree that state and class are not the only forms power and hierarchy take, but his stance is that unjustifiable hierarchy needs the state to enforce itself.

    Marx conceptualized the 'stateless, classless' society in much the same way anarchists do, but the traditions largely imagine the path to it very differently. Ultimately anarchists still see utility in civic structures and participation, which are still expressions of 'power 'and 'hierarchy', but are organized around "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" just as Marx imagined.

  • Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado

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  • Listening to her interview on NPR was kind of wild

    She had nothing but praise for Trump and defended the decision to bomb the boats in the Caribbean. Then she made a bunch of proclamations about accepting US intervention for enforcing regime change, and then advocated for doing the same in Cuba and Nicaragua

    Once Maduro goes and we liberate our country, the Cuban regime will follow, the Nicaraguan regime will follow.

    And for the first time in history, for the first time in history, we will have the Americas free of communism and narco dictatorships

    Ive heard a few people ask if she's a CIA asset, amd while I don't think it's appropriate to speculate, I can see why the question is asked. The American State Department has been trying to install western-backed regimes in central and south America since the cold war.

    Part of the reason we even have narco states in the south is because of the decades long proxy battle happening there.

    The Nobel prize has a weird amount of legitimacy for how often it backs western regime change

  • Twitter has figured out why Hasan Piker showed his dog's definitely-not-a-shock-collar so quickly, and held it so awkwardly when he did

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  • People can have room for more than one opinion at the same time

    Apparently not.

  • Twitter has figured out why Hasan Piker showed his dog's definitely-not-a-shock-collar so quickly, and held it so awkwardly when he did

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  • "Why are people eager to litigate this incident?"

    nobody stans [...] abusers

    Yes, that's the motivation i'm pointing to.

  • Twitter has figured out why Hasan Piker showed his dog's definitely-not-a-shock-collar so quickly, and held it so awkwardly when he did

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  • Oh, so a different thing from someone qualified coming in and trying to help Hasan understand

    How are you coming to the conclusion that they are "someone qualified"? Maybe there's more to that interaction that you clipped out of the video - i have no idea

    Noam Chomsky

    Interesting you list Chomsky as an example because he's made exactly the same arguments about the Ukraine war as Piker was in that video.

    I strongly dislike the reaction slop. This stuff is that, sure

    If this were true then you wouldn't be spending so much emotional energy weighing in on it.

  • Twitter has figured out why Hasan Piker showed his dog's definitely-not-a-shock-collar so quickly, and held it so awkwardly when he did

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  • I would actually really like for someone from Hasan’s followers to try to explain why this post is not factually solid

    To what end? Honestly - setting aside the forensic analysis you've compiled for a second - what's the point of spending so much time on litigating the details of this interaction?

    Anyone who watches this person regularly aren't going to judge his character on the one clip - that's probably why you feel so frustrated by their ambivalence. Let alone the spurious conclusions you're so eager to draw from it.