jorp

jorp , 1 day ago to solarpunk memes in "Suffering builds character". anarcho-primitivists, probably

why do I need to talk to the voters to see the policies that they support by voting Republican?

it seems like you're a Libertarian, voting Republican might make sense to you I guess, because Libertarians with critical thinking skills are Left-Anarchists

jorp , 2 days ago to Technology in Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI

oh yes I'm not excited about humans being replaced by bias amplifying machines with corporate morals

jorp , 2 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Suffering builds character". anarcho-primitivists, probably

Why would the comic be referring to technology that has been around for hundreds of years? To me it's clearly about the belief that we'll "technology" our way out of the overconsumption crisis of capitalism

jorp , 2 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Suffering builds character". anarcho-primitivists, probably

Kudos to you for finding a way to be so naive in today's world.

jorp , 2 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Suffering builds character". anarcho-primitivists, probably

you're talking about incentives. I'm talking about restrictions women's rights and education.

do you think that's out of the question? abortion bans are one part of this

jorp , 2 days ago (edited 12 hours ago) to solarpunk memes in "Suffering builds character". anarcho-primitivists, probably

abortion bans, contraception bans, sex education bans, sabotaging the education system, limitations on a woman's right to work

jorp , 2 days ago to Technology in Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI

I think it's unfair to call it poorly-developed, the rush to market it and apply it in every corner is driven entirely by capitalist speculation, the engineers and scientists working on developing these systems are not to blame

jorp , 2 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Suffering builds character". anarcho-primitivists, probably

Forced birth Republicans aren't far from that

jorp , 2 days ago to solarpunk memes in "Suffering builds character". anarcho-primitivists, probably

do you really think the population would be allowed to reduce? GDP growth would never be allowed to slow down (or heaven forbid GDP shrink) and right now countries with low birth rates use immigration to fill that gap.

look at Canada: small birth rate, but aiming for 100 million population by 2100.

capitalism demands unsustainable growth

jorp , 5 days ago to Comic Strips in Capitalism

We just have to let the capitalist experiment play out. When this world is destroyed whatever humans remain if any will start the next trial. Trust me, capitalism still has a fighting chance.

jorp , 5 days ago to Comic Strips in Capitalism

Unfortunately there is no double blind studied alternative to capitalism that demonstrates without a doubt that it's statistically significantly better than capitalism as a system so I'm sorry to tell you that your children deserve to die because you're too poor, hope that helps

jorp , 10 days ago to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

I feel like the effort to make such a repo and make it popular enough to be cloned and rehosted is a lot more effort than someone manually checking the results of an automated filter process.

The "effort economy" is hugely in favor of the mirroring side

jorp , 19 days ago to Technology in SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds

Only you know the truth!

jorp , 23 days ago to Memes in Elections

I think that's a fair take and perhaps indicates you'd lean anarchist-left. Direct action, mutual aid, and forming parallel power structures are the exact political and social activities that are core to that philosophy. Not exclusively so, but anarchists emphasize that kind of thing over activities like voting or, I guess, awaiting revolution.

I have mixed feelings myself, that kind of natural transformation won't just be left alone to evolve, it'll be actively resisted by powerful political and global forces, the United States and its allies would not allow it, for example. So in that sense a powerful political organization manifesting as a new revolutionary state does seem more likely to work to me, similar to how feudalism and monarchy resisted liberalism and had to be resisted through war.

Funny enough a big reason there's animosity between leftists, especially between anarchists and Marxist-Leninists, is because anarchist experiments were sabotaged and anarchists were fought by "Communists" during the Spanish civil war even as they together fought against Fascists. You'd think a "communist vanguard state" with the goal of establishing communism would be supportive of autonomous anarchist collectives, but those leftists weren't under the thumb of the Soviet Union. I think this pretty clearly demonstrated that the USSR wasn't interested in anything but Empire.

jorp , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to Memes in Elections

Those states, according to theory, are meant to be a transition TO communism, but of course many things can go wrong in that process, and we're kinda right back at the situation portrayed in the meme.

Despite my spat with the ML leftists in this thread, I see why the idea of a communist Vanguard state is appealing. I also see how a state which transforms into socialism or communism must be "authoritarian" in that it has to take away factories and land from those that keep it as capital, so that it can be shared. These states also had to contend with constant sabotage and aggression from the Liberal Democracies of the West who feared worker revolution coming to their own land.

Anarchists are a more idealistic bunch and generally strive to build parallel power structures and organizations of people and so try to construct a new order upwards. In practice it's hard to imagine that method being able to replace nation states, especially with similar external sabotage on top of the existing internal challenges of running an equal society. Dictatorships and blind supporters of authoritarian leaders are hard to best in terms of efficiency.

Both approaches seek to accomplish communism, anarchists want to have their dessert right away, Marxist-Leninists believe the wolf will take care of them just as soon as he's done eating his enemies.

There has never been a communist state, not as a cop-out, but because there is no state in communism by definition. These states claim that they're transitional towards communism.