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  • This is an america vs Americans definition issue. Americans litigate when its useful or required usually. America litigates every chance it gets. The mish derstanding is easy as america is full of Americans, but really america is a collection of wealth holding entities known as corporations that give zero shits about Americans except for when it comes to extracting wealth.

    Of course there are a lot of Americans that participate in this cause those corporations pay to put food on the table. You too will dance when your corporate overlords snap.







  • Thats something I find fascinating. People hear anarchy and assume the end of commerce because it would inherently mean an end to capitalism, presuming we arent talking about some weird ancap philosophy that I can’t make sense.

    Commerce has happened for forever, and changing forms of government will not change that.

    Thats not the part I find fascinating though, its that people discussing anarchy tend to cede this argument without a fight.

    If you do so, an implied argument of anarchy gets lost: “there is no such thing as unskilled labor.”

    This isnt generally considered a point for anarchy, but it is. In an anarchist system, you have the agency to decide your role in your community. This means you WILL specialize, as we all do as humans; even the generalists of us aren’t generalists at everything. I for one would make a shitty translator, as i only speak English.

    There would need to be some means of getting labor done by someone who knew how to do it, this ought to feel natural to most of us anyway… I mean I assume you guys try to help your friends at stuff you are good at that they aren’t. I similarly assume you’re generally compensated for this behavior, even if it isnt with currency as we generally consider it.


  • I’m of the opinion that an anarchist society is probably the wrong way, but incorporating anarchist ideals into things, such as “no really you actually are responsible for everyTHING (not everyone) around you” and “you are the only person who is capable of being responsible for your own choices, opinions and decisions.” and “consider the consequences of your actions before doing what you are told” and “a just hierarchy is one you are free to join and leave as required, and without coersion”, we can actually improve even our current system.



  • It would. An anarchist system requires participation at all ends from just about everyone. If you forfeith your vote once, you’ll forfeight it again, not because of a conscious choice, but because you empowered others to make your choice for you in the first place.

    Anarchy is not about comfort. Its about freedom, as nebulous as that term is, and freedom, as has been said many many times, is not free.


  • Neither Notch nor Joan Roling (I am aware this is not her name, but if she decides others names for them I can decide hers for her) did it on their own. It is literally impossible to do so. Both of them 1) got insanely lucky, 2) got major investment behind them.

    That major investment is were the billions actually came from. Its important to recognize “i recieved billions of dollars from shit fucks who got their billions the old fashions way, murder and exploitation, in order to promote my creation and make those billionaires even more wealth” is not the same as “the singular work of art that I produced generated a billion dollars of value for me without accepting tremendous amounts of blood money from the ruling class.”

    It is not possible to become a billionaire without being guilty by association. You MUST participate in oppression because of the nature of capital.




  • Baaahb@feddit.nltoTransmasc@lemmy.blahaj.zone"Men don't say 'breast'"
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    Im not trans, so this isnt my space, but I do have a lot of experience being a guy in the US, and can say that women’s bodies or no-no zones for discussion in any meaningful way until you’re married to one. Nothing ever gets referred to in an anatomically correct way. I’m 38 and saying the word “vagina” literally feels bad, like I’ve done something wrong by using the word.

    I dont believe she is trying to invalidate you in any way, but maybe trying to give an earnest piece of advice for someone who missed that particular cultural touchstone.

    In very many ways what you experienced is par for the course as a man, although it is usually not something that would apply to me, and I’m sorry that you’re experiencing this.

    Of course my situation is not your situation, so your mileage may vary. Beat of luck to you.




  • My argument, which has ready been made twice, is computer decision making is not immoral. Thats ridiculous. Its incredibly useful in thousands of ways. All of this is AI.

    You ACTUALLY make no argument. “AI is bad. If you use ai, you’re evil.”

    That is not an argument, just an opinion, and has no support.

    I’m using spellcheck as an example because its relevant.

    If you continue to believe I’ve made no argument, well, I guess your reading compression isnt up to where it would need to be to understand basic human interaction.

    You are of course welcome to have and express your opinion, but when its just a shit take and its unsupported dont get pissed about getting called out.


  • Use of ai is not immoral in and of itself. That argument is made in my response. I supported that argument by explaining why AI isn’t immoral, in that its a useful tool.

    “I don’t use spell correction because I don’t need it, as I understand the language.”

    Run-on sentence. You are using a comma as a seperator between two fully separate thoughts. Thats the wrong punctuation to accomplish the task you want.you should either use a semi-colon or a conjunction, or just make them separate sentences.

    Your understanding of the language is clearly perfect and any tool that provides feedback when you make mistakes is clearly unnecessary.