Its moreso that “anti-authoritarianism is stupid because steam doesn’t care, and the machines of the factory I own must be operated during these hours because thats when the despotic steam engines are running”

Its a really silly argument, but I’m also taking the worst bits out of the essay because that point is stupid and funny.

To be more fair, Engels is trying to critique libertarian socialists and anarchists and he is doing a bad job about it because the language used by him, and the language used by anarchists did not line up. Engels expanded authority to be broad and impossible to escape, where the anarchists and other anti-authoritarians were talking about a specific type of authority, hierarchic authority.

His argument for most of the essay is essentially “collective activity means cooperation, and in order to cooperate you must, at some point submit to the will of the others.”

That argument is stupid because it lacks any nuance on authority. The authority of a police officer, able to violently impose their will on someone with a badge and a gun is different than the authority of a group of friends coming to an agreement on where to get lunch even when one doesn’t want to get food at that restaurant, which is different to the authority of a slave-master demanding that his slaves must work the loom in a particular fashion to maximize productivity.

The only time I need to do dishes after cooking is when I am cooking something that needs constant attention, too many things at once, orI’m just lazy

Usually I just have the skillet I cooked in and the plate/silverware I used

I wrote mine in LaTeX, highly recommend.

I mean, I spent years writing LaTeX for school so it was real simple and mindless. YMMV

Havig better speeds than broadband sure sounds utopian to me

Entry level pay from a state govt position is higher than that where I live.

For something that stressful, that’s not even enough pay to respond to an email, much less orchestrate policy or risk management or even manage a team.

This person would 1000% call MLK a left wing fascist, fuck this guy

No shot.

There’s currently a cybertruck recall for the accelerator gettjng stuck fully depressed…

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-3878-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2024-04-19/

On one hand I’m worried that this will get through because neither party has historically been strongly against expanding police powers, but on the other hand the house is an absolute mess

Use google translate as a proxy for browsing hexbear. Works for most other sites too.

As far as IT systems are concerned, you’re just translating shit

If you are a more technical person, spin up a cloud VM and install a proxy on it. Use a proxying browser plugin (I use foxyproxy) and have it proxy traffic based on dns resolution so your browsing for blocked sites goes through the proxy. If your device lets you use SSH, you can set up a SOCKS proxy using only ssh, and use the browser plugin can use the local proxy address. This will bypass any network security appliances off your machine (assuming it doesn’t block ssh outright, or the IPs of your server).

Just note that this is almost certainly a breach of the security policy where you work and it will result in getting punished if caught. This can result in a write up or even getting fired. If you work in a security focused environment, you’ll probably get caught if the security staff is good and not overworked, and I say this as someone who works in security. I just hope I’m not in the SOC which has to respond to these alerts :/

That thread broke my brain holy fuck

I’ve been sitting in bed doom scrolling due to a power outage preventing me from doing work, and back to back to back genocide denial threads hurts my head.

Some guy the OP said “NoooOoOoOo we can’t stop the genocide, that would make the fence sitters vote for trump!” 🫠🔫

As a male presenting person it’s infuriating constantly hearing people tell me to cut my hair now that it’s beyond the acceptable male hair length. I think it’s gonna get so much worse when I get earrings :/

That tracks. It turns out the oppressed are fans of revolutionary ideologies that oppose the systems oppressing them.

Almost half of the anarchists I know are queer, and almost all the queer folk I know are some form of socialist

Drunk me writes self modifying code that became critical to logging functionalities. Still works, but I won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole.

I don’t know how it works, but I know it does, and I know its macros all the way down.

Normally I need to toss out 1/2 of my code that was written while drinking even a single beer, but that night I somehow had good code after drinking half a bottle of pure rye whiskey. Guess my Ballmer peak is somewhere between “bro i miss them so much” and blackout.

Is this a pro life anarchist? An anarchist advocating placing restrictions on personal freedoms?????

Trying to logic into this position hurts my brain.

Like I get a theoretical argument (beyond the common pro-life positions) stating that allowing abortion is harms the future atonomy of an unborn baby, but that would only work under the misguided assumption that life begins at conception.

That position would also be coercive, restricting the autonomy of a woman on behalf of an unborn child, so there’s not exactly as strong of a leg to stand on.

I presume by bringing fascism into the equation they’re probably trying to point out that fascism uses abortion for eugenics, and therefore banning it would prevent fascists from doing eugenics. Well, abortion being illegal might stop eugenics via abortion, but that does nothing to stop eugenics via sterilization, and it also assumes fascists wouldn’t just perform abortions anyways.

Quick reminder that the FBI surveilled FNB on grounds that FNB could be ecoterrorists

Everyone knows the midwest is just every state that does not border the sea

I just realized I horribly misquoted the book with a forgotten word, I guess I should have pulled a copy from online to copy and paste from.

This book unironically exists, it’s called “American Marxism” by Mark R. Levin. If you replace Marxism (in the conservative pejorative sense) with Wokeism, the meaning does not change.

The counterrevolution to the American Revolution is in full force. [drivel cut out] Of course, the primary difference between the counterrevolution and the American Revolution is that the former seeks to destroy American society and impose autocratic rule, and the latter institute representative government. The counterrevolution or movement of which I speak is Marxism

That was the first page. As for what marxism is to him,

In America, many Marxists cloak themselves in phrases such as “progressives,” “Democratic Socialists,” “community activists,” etc. … They operate under myriad [sic] newly minted organizational or identifying nomenclatures, such as “Black Lives Matter” (BLM), “Antifa,” “The Squad,” etc. And they claim to promote “economic justice,” “environmental justice,” “racial equity,” “gender equity,” etc. They have invented new theories, like Critical Race Theory … they claim “the dominant culture” and capitalist system are unjust and inequitable, racist and sexist, colonial and imperialist, materialistic and destructive of the environment. Of course, the purpose is to tear down and tear apart the nation…

One other thing I want to point out is that most of his footnotes are ibid. so this book that might seem well researched but it is mostly the same few sources lmao.

This book is terrible.

I’m an anarchist, but not well versed on theory (yet), so take what I say with a grain of salt.

there appear to be various instances where there is bo common answer [on how things should function], even within anarchist circles

Anarchism is a large group of similar ideas, randing from individualists, to collectivists/communists, to egoists, to syndicalists, to nihilists, and more. Ancaps are not anarchists, however (you cannot oppose all unjust hierarchies while deep-throating a capitalist’s boot). Anarchist movements are based on core ideals about hierarchy, the state, power, and anti-capitalism, there is a large diversity of thought within it.

Anarchists in the circles I’m in usually in propose using federations based on consensus-based direct democracy, and creating bottom-up horizontal structures, and using delegation to organize on a larger scale, such as “state-wide” regional, “national” or global. Note that when I say “state-wide” or “national” there will be no nations or states under anarchism, but I’m moreso loosely talking about geographic and demographic scales.

Some past societies include: CNT/FAI, Ukrainian Free Territories, and KPA Manchuria. Some current ones include Rojava and the Zapatistas.

Graeber and Wengrow go into detail about some anarchist-like societes that existed in the americas before they were genocided by colonists in their book “The Dawn of Everything”, which is the only book I’ve (partially) read on the topic at the moment.

There are tiny regions/communes that practice anarchist ideas, at a small scale within capitalist states. Jackson Rising, community responses to Hurricane Katrina, Stop Cop City/forest defender encampments, and the paris commune had/have anarchist principles at their core.

How does healthcare look under anarchism, especially on an industrial scale?

I’ve not read theory on this, but I know Margaret Killjoy talks about this in her podcast "Live Like the World is Dying", though I haven't listened to the episode

Although I haven't read theory on it, I'd assume the general argument relies on the fact that there are plenty of people who understand how drugs are manufactured, and how those supply chains work, and plenty of others capable of designing new supply chains. Through delegation and federation, knowledgable delegates can work with other federations to organize the supply chains to manufacture and distribute the medication. If a component is lacking, people would need to organize within their federation, or with other communities to get it done, rather than having a state give the directive to do XYZ to fix the problem.

are there any reading materials on concrete ways on how anarchist societies could function in modern times?

Zoe Baker and Anark are both authors/youtubers who have videos on anarchist organization, and both have extensive reading lists with old and new books on organization among many other topics. A lot of those books can be found for free on the anarchist library in various formats :)

I wish I could give a better explanation and more examples, but my ADHD brainworms get mad at me when I read, watch video essays or listen to podcasts.

Sorry for not linking, I’m on my phone

bosch rexroth nutrunner

What a name for a wrench.

It’s also not much of a surprise that it has a vulnerability, many embedded networked devices are vulnerable to tons of exploits, and security research on this type of stuff is difficult because it often requires an extensive skillset