I can only assume you haven’t tried LSD

This is why leftists and even liberals need to demand anti-zionist leaders. We do NOT want the far-right to be leading the fight against zionism.

This is hardly a new phenomenon at all. I used to be a teen hacker myself. Many security experts and ethical hackers start out as skript kiddies playing around with Kali Linux.

If anything, it’s just easier to make money, thanks to crypto. Used to mostly be for prestige and for that sense of testing yourself, though people still definitely got paid, perhaps not at the same scale.

I am one of the developers for Project Rubi-Ka, a server emulator/private server for the classic sci-fi MMORPG, Anarchy Online.

AO is now nearly 25 years old and no longer has any developers at the company that released it, but it is still running.

I have written over 2,000,000 lines of server emulator code for AO. I am now probably one of the world’s foremost experts in how the game works.

It means that the focus of our criticism should be against the right, rather than those on the left.

It is an encouragement for those on the left to put aside our disagreements about how we can reach the better future we are all fighting for, and instead fight those who want to silence and oppress us, and those who put the interests of the ruling class before the needs of the working class.

The thing is, billionaires are a symptom of a larger problem. Of course, to alleviate our suffering, the treatment of symptoms is necessary, but we also need to address the root cause of the problem: unjustified hierarchies, the centralization of power, and capitalism itself.

Our leaders are so completely compromised by the ruling class. We have got so much work to do to tackle this issue. The New Deal didn’t go far enough, someone more radical than FDR is needed. I have my doubts that electoralism will be sufficient.

Organize, protest and elect. Emphasis on organize and protest.

1. Get as involved as you can with activist efforts locally.
2. Organize, network, focus on building solidarity. Join or form a union. Join the IWW.
3. Vote at primaries and elections for the best candidate, even if you doubt they can win.
4. Don’t punch down.
5. Don’t punch left.
6. Educate yourself, politically.
7. Push for voting reform and for anything that breaks the two-party system

There’s definitely a point where you can’t. The analysis I’ve read was that if Orban won this election, it would have been the last election.

Now, there’s still hope for the USA, and of course we should hope for the best, but it would be irresponsible to not prepare for the worst.

I think it’s a reupload - You can’t stop the signal!

I appreciate your kind words. Violence always begets more violence. Sometimes, it’s unavoidable, and if we completely refuse to defend ourselves we will always be exploited, but violence always needs to be the option of last resort. Using violence to defeat those who believe in might-makes-right just proves that we are mightier, rather than dismantling the toxic ideology at the root of the problem. We need to find a way to peacefully break the cycle of violence.

They’d want our coconuts, I bet. They’re pretty cool, I bet aliens don’t have coconuts. They might have some cool alien fruit to trade for coconuts. Or weed.

oh, I deleted it because I figured it might be a little bit depressing for this community, which I only noticed was uplifting news after posting, but if you think it fits here, I’ll put it back!

Maybe they just don’t want to leave their planet because it’s dope af

Here’s my favourite one so far!

Here’s my favourite one so far!

genAI has predominantly been pushed by the US, particularly the super wealthy in the US, so that they can exploit the working class even more and pay them even less. As much as I hate genAI, seeing Iran, who was absolutely the wronged party in this completely illegal and unnecessary war of imperialist aggression on behalf of a genocidal ethnostate, turn the tool of the oppressors against them, and using it to agitate for class consciousness in the USA, is just fucking awesome, IMO.

Did you see the anti-Trump rap one? It actually goes so fucking hard.

Our leaders are so completely compromised by the ruling class. We have got so much work to do to tackle this issue. The New Deal didn’t go far enough, someone more radical than FDR is needed. I have my doubts that electoralism will be sufficient.

Organize, protest and elect. Emphasis on organize and protest.

1. Get as involved as you can with activist efforts locally.
2. Organize, network, focus on building solidarity. Join or form a union. Join the IWW.
3. Vote at primaries and elections for the best candidate, even if you doubt they can win.
4. Don’t punch down.
5. Don’t punch left.
6. Educate yourself, politically.
7. Push for voting reform and for anything that breaks the two-party system

He asked her what she thought about “men in womens sports” (which is obviously transphobic) and she was uncomfortable and said “I don’t have an opinion on that” and Trump hated it. I think she was just a somewhat random lady tbh, but it was probably somewhat staged

This grandma had to take a job doing Doordash to pay for her husband’s chemo treatment. didn’t even make enough money to pay taxes. She made like $22k in a year.

Trump wasn’t even going to tip her until a journalist asked about it and he was like “oh yeah” and handed her a $100 bill…

What a dysfunctional society we live in, all because we need to protect the freedom of billionaires and corporations to exploit us for profit.

So while dismissing themmis the easy way out, and it is okay to take the easy way sometimes, it still isn’t the best way.

It’s the best way for me. I’m guessing you don’t have experience with PTSD, but if I get into an argument with someone about a topic which is triggering, for the next day or so, I won’t be able to sleep, I’ll have hallucinations of terrifying things which aren’t there, panic attacks that come out of nowhere, cold sweats, flashbacks… I could go on. I don’t care if someone might possibly have one good idea amongst all of their bad ones if that is the cost.

But one of the ways it was accomplished in spain was that those who didn’t share those ideals could leave.

Yes, of course, that is absolutely a foundation stone of anarchism: voluntary association. Everyone must always be free to associate, or not, as they see fit.

But to do it for the whole of society would require getting rid of a significant amount of the capitalist.

True capitalists who actually own capital are vanishingly few compared to the working class. They’re a rounding error. We do not need to get them on side to succeed. They can go off and do their own thing if they want to, have a real Atlas Shrugged society in a mountain. In reality, they need us, so once there is a critical mass, they will either join our society, or learn to work for themselves, rather than by exploiting others.

If you’re talking about self-serving behavior, I understand what you mean, but anarchism is actually completely compatible with self-serving behavior. In fact, one of the major traditions of anarchism, egoist anarchism is entirely centered around that concept.

Finally, the “drive for power and influence” isn’t in our nature, but it is rather a response to environmental conditions. Do you see an elephant at the circus and assume that juggling balls must be in an elephant’s nature? If we change the system of incentives which govern our society, human behaviors will change and adapt to match.

Ifeally we find a way to elevate leaders who aren’t in it for the power and influence.

This can never, ever work. Even if you find people who aren’t in it for that, they will almost definitely always be corrupted. Power corrupts. That is one of the founding principles of anarchism.