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existential1 wrote

These sorts of expenses shouldn't be hidden in the first place. If they had to make a FOIA request, then it's too far behind bureaucracy. Transparency would keep a lot of these people from doing this in the first place.

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blog wrote

i thought it was anarchists' position that the state, and therefore these sorts of expenses, shouldn't exist in the first place?

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existential1 wrote

You thought correct. I'd call it another example of how bureaucracy (hierarchy) makes it easy to have a lack of transparency which makes it easy work with a lack of ethics.

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blog wrote

Well how come you didn't call for the immediate and total abolition of the state in your original comment? Isn't anything less not actually radical?

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existential1 wrote

Probably cuz I'm not a bot.

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blog wrote

Anarchists are quick to denounce anyone other than themselves for calling for anything less than the immediate and total abolition of the state. How is it anarchists get to have their cake and eat it too?

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ziq OP wrote

Quit your concern trolling.

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blog wrote

It's called criticism actually

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existential1 wrote

You're generalizing quite a bit....and that is the general idea...but it looks like you're fishing because what I said doesn't preclude that.

Transparency is also an issue with stateless communities when it isn't made a priority.

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ziq OP wrote (edited )

Apparently anarchists aren't allowed to point out the problems with states when a tankie is in the room.

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blog wrote

I'm just looking for consistency is all

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blog wrote

You weren't talking about stateless communities you were talking about how shameful it was to have to file a FOIA request to get access to this info.

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ziq OP wrote (edited )

you don't get to talk about the world until you live in an anarchist utopia that will never come

w/anarchy101

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blog wrote (edited )

that isn't what i said, anarchists complain that if anyone ever stops short of calling for the complete and immediate abolition of the state it's reformism but anarchists can call for an improvement of transparency rules under the presently existing state -- which is literally what i responded to -- and it's somehow not hypocritical

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conseil wrote

Dubious? It's literally a fascist propaganda source.

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ziq OP wrote

replaced with the original source

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