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Reply to comment by __0 in Who would win? by kin

By externalizing anxiety through war and conflict, states can exert a huge amount of control over the people within the states, when people are afraid of dying in a war or being colonized violently by another state, they stop being as concerned by the corruption and illegitimacy of the state they already live in.

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Reply to Who would win? by kin

In a way they all win, nationalism sustains peoples belief in nationalism by making people afraid and unable to exist outside of it. Each display of military might only entrenches the control the state has over its own citizens. There is no escape.

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Reply to comment by tuesday in Step one: get a printer by tuesday

Nice, the only reason I went with a newer printer was driver availability, it's a shared printer so I wanted something that was relatively cheap per page, but wasn't am ancient printer that needed legacy software or Linux tinkering to run, sounds like you scored on that one, I've seen a lot of really good printers sell for next to nothing on FB marketplace, think it's that they are hard to test, lots of inkjets that people are selling have been sitting with the ink drying for years and so are super clogged, I think this probably affects the whole printer market even though laser printers are way more dependable, people still feel hesitant on buying them second hand.

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Nice printer, I made the mistake of buying a expensive ink jet printer recently, turns out I probably would have been better off with a laser printer since the blacks have more depth and things often look crisper. The one you got looks solid.

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Wordle is such a simple game that it's impossible to stop people from playing it for free. There will always be clones. It's literally impossible to regulate people playing a game that can be done on pen and paper. It's as if the new york times payed close to a million dollars for a hangman variation, I would say wordle is only trivially different. Although I prefer wordle.

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I would say learn as much as you can about cooking through experimenting, try new ingredients don't worry about it being vegan or not, I find if I want to cook a vegan meal it's not intimidating like It used to be, because I have a much more solid foundation to my cooking skills than I used to, I find a lot of people focus more on if the food is vegan than if it is enjoyable. There is so much good vegan food. I found if you have roommates nor friends who are into food, taking turns cooking for/with eachother and actively talking about food or thinking about how to have enjoyable experiences with food in your day to day life is a good start. Having a healthy relationship with something is often imo the best way to start feeling confident and In control about it.

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Reply to comment by subrosa in by !deleted35896

The Monolithic responses of top down government type systems has been ineffective, inflexible, and tedious.

Agree the way things are framed are super flawed.

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Disclaimer writing on sleep deprivation:

I personally Kind of prefer wearing a mask at times, especially when it's really chilly and my nose gets cold, I like knowing that people if they visit my workplace have less of a risk of getting sick from colds flus etc since the masks work for things other than covid, and people notice my bad breath less I hope (joking haha)

I think things are kind of playing out how things could have been expected to, not a best case or worst case scenario, but I think if people are interested in being conscious of how they are affecting others that's good. I'm generally supportive of people wearing masks, and getting vaccinations, however I'm not fond of the use of systems of punishment being the states only response to any pushback, some of the things like vaccine passports have been kind of flawed not just in the way they are being applied but also in how they were used, obviously covid has put alot of different strains on the state itself, and a lot of strains of the infrastructure of hospitals, and communities.

Obviously there is a lot in the air (no pun intended) when people die and a lot of things that get affected in people's lives and in the capitalist machine.

I think overall if you want the state to be able to sustain itself some level of mandates probably make sense

I think some people involved in the anti-mandate protests especially right wingers don't really get the fact that being patriotic is loving a construct that honestly could be disrupted to the point of dissolution of there is nothing done about covid

I think people each have their own relationship to their community and that ideally each person would have the tools to act reasonably and see how their community effects them and vice versa, but it seems like there is mostly just fear and punishment fueling the discourse.

Although there is nothing fair about risking your life to a pandemic made so much worse by the apathetic death machine that is capitalism.

Obviously the state sees unvaccinated people as an expense and is acting accordingly. I hate to see people reduced to statistics, but that exactly what happens in a society that depends on so many interlocking systems and endless levels of quantification.

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I just see in economics with less need for a state sanctioned and controlled currency, certain things hold value or can gain culturally accepted value, or even slowly emerge as defacto currencies. Alternative economies such as gift or barter economies don't necessarily address the power imbalances that can exist in social structures,

I would say that both barter and gift economies although much more compatible with anarchist economics, aren't anarchist in of themselves especially if a gift or barter economies is only used to reinforce social structures, Often in a gift economy this could be seen as social Debt that is incurred by the recipient of the gift, if a gift that is obligated to be exchanged at a later date is of equal or greater value, than gift giving can become something that enforces bower structures as opposed bartering to ideally (but falsely) should be an equal exchange, or at least one where both people perceive that they are getting something of greater value (not taking into account any sort of duress)

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The only problem is that consensus of value for commodities would end up inflating the trade value of that commodity, often in bartering economies things like say a six pack of beer ends up having pretty standard value that ends up closely approximating cash, people end up asking for beer instead of something they are interested and then six packs become a sort of currency. Of course the six pack is valuable since so many people would drink It, but eventually people will find things that hold value or represent value, another issue is that people with capital will always have an advantage in a bartering economy since they can have enough surplus goods that they can exchange goods at points where the items are worth more or less, ie. Buying winter coats in the summer and selling them in winter, and people with significant capital regardless of that capital being currency would be able to have significant social leverage on people who have less, same as it is under capitalism.

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I'm kind of disillusioned with the illegalism forum tbh, i don't think it needs to be a museum to previous illegalist actions (like the bonnot gang etc) But that would probably be more relevant to this forum than the kind of paranoid entry level shoplifting post that fill this forum rn,

As is being said illegalism is a lot more than just shoplifting,

It could be said that more well known anarchists that were "illegalists" took actions that in one way or another approached a negation or disruption of states ability to reasonably deal with them,

What I see interesting personally about illegalism is this type of state and power negation. Many of the structures of a society depend on a lot of cooperation to function, facing these systems in pretty mundane ways and refusing to participate in them often results in imprisonment. A lot of crime is committed out of need, a lot of crime is committed due to social economic conditions, Illegalism is in my opinion a valid attempt to negate the feedback systems required to run a justice system. A system that depends on the states monopoly of violence,

Illegalism is in a sense a violent ideology, if you consider that it is economic violence against a much more economically violent system (the state), I think in a lot of ways it can be justified.

As with many more extreme political tendencies, a lot of acts of violence that aren't strongly related get lumped together,

Ie. Bonnot gang, guy Fawkes, ted Kaczynski, killdozer, the squamish five, Timothy McVeigh, Dorner, etc

In my opinion is that like anarchism, illegalism isn't specifically a leftist movement, however most of the people I listed above aren't seen as illegalists but as terrorists... However most of them are also undeniable folk heros, also probably notable is that they all undeniably have a very strong deathdrive, (and also are all men), I think that there is a very particular type of alienation that drives that type of action.

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In a way this is funny because if social darwinists and fascist eugenicists have to admit that in this way people who are autistic have a competitive advantage under capitalism, placing ableists who would like everyone to be neurotypical in the predicament of having to acknowledge how exploitative capitalism is. Hehe

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I knew someone who played a show with them and they were incredibly rude. Not very Punk ethos afaik. Kind of a perfect example of the commodification of subculture, I mean what isn't. Can anyone convince me otherwise? What's their background, I'm under the impression that they are upper middle class playing poor for the aesthetic.

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Well, I was supposed to get some sleep, but I just watched that video all the way through, really good summary of everything wrong with NFTs and autonomous digital systems. Really was a good reminder of how systems with these built in incentives become incredibly toxic, and how I never want anything important stored on a block chain...

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Reply to comment by Bezotcovschina in by !deleted31767

I mean if your goal is just to upset people why not wear a Hitler shirt... Doesn't seem like a very anarchist thing to do, just super edgelordey

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Reply to Tea Consent by moonlune

That's a good little video, I've definitely seen the problem where people say yes to tea when they don't really want it, and drink the tea. It's definitely a thing in sex too where people don't know how to say no and communicate things clearly. It's important to know that as much as people can try their best to check in on consent, and make sure that consent is enthusiastic, it's just important to communicate needs. Remember that your body is your body. Remember that people should be ok with hearing no as an answer. You can always get back to things later, but there is no point in agreeing to something that you don't want, and it is important to know that you are in no way obligated.

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If you had a third trusted party they could drop of the item somewhere inconspicuous, I'm just thinking of the times I've found peoples wallets and not wanted to bother meeting up, I've been able to claim that I lost the wallet outside a nearby business that I can trust to not strip the wallet of valuables, I found the person on social media based on the ID. And messaged them there to let them know where to go to pick up their wallet.

This works great if you're in the same city as someone, but if not a trusted third party works great.

Classic drop locations include lockers in public pools gyms etc Less common now train stations due to terroranoia. Large objects like bags can't be left out in public spaces for long due to suspicion OFC,

But it's easy to leave something like a film canister with some keys in it buried somewhere inconspicuous, or better yet have multiple keys cut and placed in Multiple public locations. Picking up keys that are found on the ground Isn't a very suspicious action, and it provides security due to the fact that not all locations can be surveilled at once.

I mean you can easily get creative with these kind of things.

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