Jerkface (any/all)

When it’s bad, it’s life changing in a traumatic way.

It is much better for the working class to weild its authority than the Capitalist class.

Unfortunately, I don’t believe that. Humans don’t come in two flavours.

I think unfettered capitalism and the systems of power that you propose are both hostile, inhuman systems. I think that meaningful voluntary social systems have to be able exist within that context, and cannot replace it. I don’t believe that eight billion humans can form a single community; our capacity to be social breaks down, and we collectively become something else that we don’t really have a lot of power or comprehension over. I suspect that attempting to work on that superhuman scale can only bring greater conflict and chaos. I think that the enlightened human has to disengage from it, stop identifying with it, and instead find human-scale social constructs that we are capable of existing socially within, that are voluntary and free of coercion, and that seeks to address the social deficiencies of the ambient environment, whether that’s an empty wasteland, or a metropolis.

Jesus, it was your word. If you didn’t want to be pinned down to it, why apply it to yourself in the first place. Feel free to pick a better one, I’ll wait.

You know what the single most powerful force in human history is?

Organization.

This is a subjective statement.

Organization. Which is always hierarchal.

This is an untrue statement.

You know what the most common attribute of Anarchist revolutions is? They all failed. Every single one of them. That is what you want. Failure.

Save this one until you are crowing at me from the parapets of your Utopia. Oh wait, it has to be global, so I guess I’m the one inside the walls.

All states are authoritarian

It is not a binary distinction. It is also not something all ideologies seek to use as a tool. Rather, some seek to minimize it. I think you are telling me Marxism is an ideology that seeks to fully utilize authoritarianism, almost as though it WERE a binary distinction, and there is no point in going half way.

Overall I take your response in support of authoritarianism to mean you would have found that a less objectionable definition.

Would you have quibbled less if I had said “authoritarianism” instead of “violence”? I wasn’t trying to be slanted, that was genuinely my impression of what the term meant.

You cannot have Marxist views if you are not in favor of using violence to impose Marxist ideals?

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tankies (ie people who endorse violence as a valid path forward from right here) == marxists?? man, i don’t know jack

It’s not about the reality of defending yourself from tyranny with homicide. It’s about the psychological comfort that the warped fantasy brings.

How is this weird? Yes, it’s unfortunate, but it is a reflection on society, not on gamers. Individual gamers have completely random opinions on everything except gaming. Gamer’s opinion on dirty companies and genocide are no different than the general publics, which, what the fuck have THEY done about assault and murder?

Trade gamers for red-heads and make the final panel about sun block, it still works.

Look how hard you work to justify your exploitation and violence to yourself. You know you aren’t going to convince me, this is all about bulwarking your own views.

They’re not trying to get attention. They’re trying to express their natural instinctive behaviours, and are being prevented by your violence and cruelty.

A river floods every year. If someone builds a house next to it and the river takes it, is the river evil, or is the person suffering the consequences of their own ignorance? The consequences of capitalism are predictable and inevitable. The behaviour of a dollar is almost as predictable as that of an electron. Why do people pretend like we don’t know what is going to happen?

Someone lied to you.