I’m half expecting Peter Thiel to say “maybe we should build a bunch of fallout shelters and then initiate a nuclear holocaust so we can outlast all our enemies, and also run some experiments while we’re at it” in an interview tomorrow, wearing a vault suit and giving a thumbs up.
There is no alternative to capitalism (which has only really been the dominant economic model for a few hundred years at most) and if you dare suggest alternatives I’ll just dismiss them out of hand using propaganda I have burned into my skull and act like it refutes every argument you could possibly make.
How’s capitalism working out for the US right now, btw? Guess it depends who you ask, and if you ask the billionaires it’s doing great. Yay!
“I’m not that kind of fascist, I’m this other kind of fascist!”
She’s not “trying to get her country back.” For one, it doesn’t belong to her but to all Venezuelans, the majority of which do not like her. In addition, she has spoken publicly at economic conferences about her plans to sell the rights to Venezuela’s oil and other natural resources to US oil companies. She’s playing a game here, but it’s at the expense of Venezuelans, not for their benefit.
It looks like they might have lost the domain? I know there was something there about a month ago.
They have this on their website.
They have this on their website.
I’m trying to argue that although the users posted above are wrong about Iran’s atrocities being outright lies, they are correct that the western media reporting about it is to serve as a pretext for military action.
Iran killed thousands of protestors, they’ve admitted at least that much, but they probably haven’t killed tens of thousands like western media has been alleging. These people are idiots for thinking Iran did nothing wrong, but that doesn’t mean you have to believe the massively inflated numbers coming out of western media. It’s logistically implausible and borders on the absurd.
And yes, the reporting on this is being done to manufacture consent for military action against Iran, not because the US government just cares so very much about the Iranian protestors’ cause or for human rights. There’s truth in the reporting, but it’s selective and exaggerated for a reason.
The live action was made for folks like you. It’s a great adaptation, loved by one piece fans and newcomers alike, and it has a much quicker pace.
The point was for people to form local “well-regulated militias” to act as a deterrent to federal overreach, but our culture of rugged individualism led to a different and very stupid interpretation of the 2nd amendment.
Here’s a good introductory video about alternatives.
They have a sister group simply called The Panther Party which is open to anyone.
Existing in proximity to ICE agents is impeding their operations only because the knuckle-dragging morons are incapable of leaving well enough alone. They could literally have just ignored her and it’d be as if she wasn’t even there.
Aside from being reductive, yes, I’m an anarchist. I’m not opposed to writing down some rules, but I am opposed to the coercive use of force to impose them on others. It is possible to organize a system of preventative and restorative justice without the use of a hierarchy.
This video is a good introduction to how justice can work in an anarchist society.
Did you miss the part of the extended video where she waves along several ICE vehicles that get past her without issue and without even having to turn? One ICE vehicle, after several have already passed, decides to stop and surround her vehicle. She was not impeding them at all.
Ice are not traffic cops moron.
And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with “lizard people are controlling the government”.
It’s not about the intent of each individual cog involved in the creation and application of the law, but the intent for which the system of laws and hierarchies were created. Plenty of reform-minded people or naive pro-establishment folks participate in the legal system with good intentions, and sometimes find success reducing the harm that it causes, but that doesn’t change that the system continues to uphold class society and was created for that purpose. The effect of our system of laws and hierarchical institutions is the preservation of a system of division between distinct classes, and since I have yet to see a legal system that does not do this in some form I have concluded that this is the fundamental nature of laws.
All of those laws are unequally enforced. Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.). The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended. The subjugated socioeconomic group rarely benefits from these laws, which is why thousands of rape kits sit in warehouses never being investigated, why children born into poverty are more often separated from their parents and institutionalized rather than receiving the help they need, and why human rights are routinely violated without consequence.
The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal, but such people fundamentally misunderstand the nature of laws, and it never quite pans out that way in practice.
Extending your metaphor, this is what your average American’s brain looks like. There is a lot of propaganda and social conditioning working against you here.