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hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in It's been 84 years…

Also fellow emacs user, I see.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to 196 in went to my first protest today :33

Or be fascist, because they just escort armed fascists. Cops firing on fascists is just friendly fire.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to 196 in Serious rule

Becoming "native" isn't as simple as not having a culture. It's having a culture specific to the region. Settlers never develop this because they believe that not having ties to a region and exterminating those who do is sufficient.

Becoming native historically has generally meant adopting the language and customs that evolved in the region, or staying in a region long enough to evolve customs and culture. That takes several thousand years.

But there are also both nomadic and diasporic people. The existence of nomadic people is directly threatened by the existence of borders, making borders, in and of themselves, a tool of genocide. Diasporic people are not native but also not colonizers. Antisemitism is one example of persecution of diasporic people, while ant-black racism is another.

We have been migrating for thousands of years, which kind of invalidates the legitimacy of borders and by extension countries. If the existence of a county requires a border, by definition, and borders are genocidal, by definition, then countries are genocidal by definition. If we accept that genocide is a bad thing (perhaps the worst thing) then how could we accept the right of any nation to exist? At the very least we should demand the abolition of all nations that exist within the same space as nomadic people.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to 196 in Serious rule

They are :)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/abdullah-ocalan
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to 196 in Serious rule

Read Abdullah Öcalan and Murray Bookchin are definitely worth reading here. Öcalan points out that states are fundamentally genocidal because it's easier to control one identity than several. Rajava is a really interesting example of libertarian socialism that doesn't attempt to confront the state, but basically just ignores it unless it's a threat. Rojava isn't a country, it's just an autonomous zone within the state or Syria (that isn't governed by Syria).

I think that model offers a lot. It could even offer a path beyond Israel and the US. Öcalan's Democratic Confederalism is like 100 pages and worth the read IMHO.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to 196 in Serious rule

The US also doesn't have the right to exist.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in Linux not in meme... but still funny

Why is "the most incompetent fascist alive can't use Windows" a Linux meme?

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to linuxmemes in Linux not in meme... but still funny

Yeah, there are lots of people who've said this and are not also fascists. There's no reason to platform this scumbag.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to Memes in Come on Barbie lets go Party

Lemmygrad is tankies, which is exactly the point. You can't tell the difference between anarchists and the people who murdered them. The political compass exists to create that confusion, equating "libertarianism" (by which, they mean right wing "libertarianism") with the original definition of libertarian socialism.

Even the choice of "libertarianism" as a name was intentionally chosen to confuse things, to steal a word and destroy it's meaning. IIRC, Murray Newton Rothbar literally said that he was intentionally stealing the word "libertarian" for the right. The whole thing is about propaganda and confusion, and the political compass is part of that.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to Memes in Come on Barbie lets go Party

The political compass is literally a propaganda tool created by right wing "libertarians." It's complete bullshit.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to Memes in Come on Barbie lets go Party

Russia always was capitalist, that's kind of the point of Animal Farm. If you look at the company towns of the Kentucky Coal Miners historically, it's the same structure as the Soviet Union: the company (or the state) owns everything and enslaves the workers. One used debt, the other pretended to represent the proletariat, but the ruling class extracted labor from the workers and only supplied them the minimum necessary to survive. Lenin was a reactionary pretending to be a revolutionary.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to Memes in Come on Barbie lets go Party

graffiti saying "Capitalism is shit" and "CCP (Chinese communist party) is capitalist" next to Chinese characters.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to 196 in Let them eat cereal rule

Potatoes grow well in shade. Fava beans can grow in containers just fine, but may need a balcony. I would also get a short variety. A lot of things can grow in a window sill.

There's also guerilla gardening, where you plant on an abandoned plot. Potatoes are great for this because they'll basically grow on their own as long as they aren't overtaken by blackberries.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to 196 in Let them eat cereal rule

Potatoes are also really easy to grow. If you ever forget about your potatoes and they sprout or you leave them in the sun and they get green, you can put them in a pot and grow fresh potatoes.

Fava beans are also extremely easy to grow.

hex_m_hell , 4 months ago to 196 in Oglaf Rule

The subject is called "economics."