Kafkas The Trial is less fictional every day

Yeah I use airvpn myself, its just worth throwing that info out for full transparency/disclosure

Worth noting that Italy (location of airvpn) hates vpns and is constantly fucking around with them, to the point air doesn’t even actually operate in Italy to preserve users privacy. Right now, theres no immediate risk, but it’ is worth keeping an eye on the political situation in Italy regarding VPN laws

I actually think it is incredibly important to understand these distinctions.

From a historical perspective, absolutely. My point is that it’s not worth attempting to “out message/propagandize” literal billionaires that own the platforms in which we would attempt to do so.

And same here. You and others are insisting that it was “co-opted”.

Rothbard quite literally claims this, this isn’t an opinion lmao.

But if you actually go back to the roots of the movements and even look at how the left uses it, it is one aspect.

Yes and? What is your point even supposed to be? That it’s not an umbrella term that comprehensively covers conceivable form of socialism? I don’t think anyone is arguing that.

We are simply pointing to the historical usage of the word, it’s origins.

But… just because they “won the branding” doesn’t mean that their pseudo-anarchists aren’t libertarians

In the modern, Americanized version of the word sure. But that doesn’t change the fact that historically, and originally, it meant something entirely different.

And I also very much argue it is worth making people look themselves in the mirror to actually understand what they are advocating for with “libertarianism” regardless of if it is “polite anarchy” or not.

Again, not sure who your arguing with here. The problem isn’t that it’s “polite” anarchism (whatever that even means), it’s that they stole and corrupted terms, ideas, etc, the very bastardization itself.

It was an intentional co-opt of a left wing term, as the right consistently does (steal our ideas/terms/strategies)

“One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy. ‘Libertarians’ had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over.”

-murray rothbard (“founder” of American libertarianism)

Realistically, from an anarchist perspective, the battle on the word is lost, we simply do not have the resources to combat that in the sphere of public consciousness.

Arguably, it’s a better use of our time demonstrating and connecting our ideas (namely, opposition to hierarchy) to the working class directly rather than fret over terminology but I digress

Ok but this isn’t what I voted for last November and I’m quickly running out of reasons to vote ever again until these dumb fucks actually do something to oppose him. Might as well let the fascists have all the seats, the Dems only apparent purpose right now is to further legitimize trumps unconstitutionality.

I gotchu these stats come from the 2012 & 2014 PIAAC, or Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (only done every 10 years so this is the latest data available but the next cycle/data set is coming soon)

18% are below level one, defined as;

The tasks at this level require the respondent to read brief texts on familiar topics to locate a single piece of specific information. There is seldom any competing information in the text, and the requested information is identical in form to information in the question or directive. The respondent may be required to locate information in short continuous texts; however, in this case, the information can be located as if the text were noncontinuous in format. Only basic vocabulary knowledge is required, and the reader is not required to understand the structure of sentences or paragraphs or make use of other text features. Tasks below Level 1 do not make use of any features specific to digital texts.

With 4% of those being actually entirely illiterate

Breakdown

Actual methodology and whatnot

Ethiopia

There’s enough questionable and suspect evidence that an investigation is warranted. If nothing else, it will put the question to rest. The American people deserve a through investigation.

As a Minnesotan, I’m worried this will alienate him from the state constituency and we’ll lose him (and then he’ll lose the presidential election cause Minnesota luck)

Fun fact: Power Causes Brain Damage

I just started that book like a week ago, Even just the first couple pages and it was like “oh… oh no”, even got the meta verse in there

Literally Snow Crash, each burb is a independent corpocity state

They tried a couple times but people just don’t really want to move to the middle of the ocean of a jungle compound in South America

This “plan” is literally the setting of Snow Crash

Scratch a liberal…

It also systematically intentionally forces the most vulnerable to be entirely dependent and aligned on capitalism

You can allocate your funds to international investments only

Moved mine to 100% international allocations on the 4th, up like 3% since then, highly recommend

Can’t wait to live in Snow Crash