"What is democratic anarchism? Democratic anarchism uses the materialist teachings of Momala Harris and extrapolates the fact that in order to organize anarchy, we mush work with the largest leftist org; the democratic party. All the great anarchists of before have lacked one crucial thing: the ability to appeal to independents and center right republicans We plan to remedy this. Through centrism and means tested neoliberal policy, we can work together to compromise with all sides of the political spectrum to get the votes needed to abolish the state and fend off the tnkes through maintaining a strong border and increased funding to border control. By spreading anarchism in the marketplace of ideas we can convince all dirty statists of anarchism with nonviolent structured debate. We can fight the state by sending a message with our inflatable chicken costumes and dildo races. No kings protests? how about "no leaders" protests. We will fight for anarchism with the support of our local heros (police officers and reformed ICE agents) and get permits for our valiant fights against the state. Policy: 1% supertax on the Epstein-Diddy class Public execution of Bernie Sanders and Elon musk (both extremes are equally bad) Ban on violent protest (we must follow the footsteps of MLK) Nancy Pelosi statues in every neighborhood Modarate transgender policy 25% income tax on the lowest tax bracket (compromise with the moderates) Workers of the world, vote!"

What a bunch of bullshit, although the "spreading anarchism in the marketplace of ideas" is actually something we should do. Focus on the fact that anarchism is mostly about leaving people alone to self-organise and that as long as you aren't hostile toward us we can actually coexist. (Although we will absolutely criticise any archic structures). Most anarchist organisation is focused on prefiguration anyway.

After all if anarchism isn't possible then the liberals have nothing to fear.

I do: Here's two that have more info and aren't managed by someone with a gmail account.

• https://www.radical-guide.com/
• https://radar.squat.net/en

Fluxer is open sourced under AGPL: https://github.com/fluxerapp/fluxer/blob/main/LICENSE

It is completely self-hostable: https://docs.fluxer.app/operator/get-started/

It is currently starting development on federation: https://fluxer.app/blog/mobile-clients-and-fluxer-v2#why-is-federation-taking-so-long

It is absolutely not just Discord 2. And while they do have a very aggressive monetization scheme (can't set a banner with the free account) that's just to cover the development and hosting costs and it should be easy to disable them as the app is open-source.

I think that there are two separate readings of the tricornkings statement.

[..] you effectively illustrated (how Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection became accepted by the wider public using a [...] MEME), here is [..]

[..] you effectively illustrated (how Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection became accepted by the wider public) using a [...] MEME, here is [..]

I imagine that the second statement was the original intention of the author as I do not think Darwin had access to Internet memes as means of spreading his theory.

This might seem obvious to some but it would be appreciated if people kept in mind how the language they use could be misinterpreted, especially in text.

After taking a walk and taking time for some reflection. Yeah. You're right. I don't really know what I'm talking about and am taking a "vibes-based" approach. However for me that's preferable to giving vanguardists any credit for anything.

That being said I did find this: https://socialismtoday.org/archive/38/spain38.html

Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War. By Gerald Howson, John Murray, 1998. Reviewed by Dave Murray

The biggest myth to bite the dust, is that the Soviet Union under Stalin materially aided the republican side. He has tracked down documentary proof that the vast bulk of military material supplied to the republicans by Stalin was of poor quality, that the republic was charged at or above market price and that by falsifying the currency exchange rates employed in these deals, the Soviet Union defrauded the republic of at least $51m (at 1936 prices). Helpfully, Stalin arranged for the Spanish government to ship its gold reserves (in 1936 the fifth largest in the world at $518m) to the Soviet Union and, guess what, by the end of the civil war most of it had been transferred to the Soviet government as payment for arms procurement or in return for credits at the Soviet Bank in Paris. That Stalin was one of the executioners of the Spanish revolution is no surprise to us Trots, but Howson has done us a favour in furnishing us with cold hard facts.

Now I can't find an actual open copy of the book (nor am I spending that much effort looking for it) so I can't really give you anything more.

That the Communists withheld arms from the Aragon front seems established beyond question

That is my source. It's good enough for me. The fact that Chomsky (a well respected academic*) published that is good enough for me.

*: There are ties to Epstein, but for me that doesn't invalidate his academic opinion.

Not as much as the relentless positivity around capitalism.

It's interesting you took that post because I thought it was a great example of how the language of memes changes with platforms. As the text at the top is just a classic Meme header but twitterified.

To give an example:

For me both of these images are equivalent. They are both memes. Are they not? Its just one is using an older "In your face" style.

And so people can see the alt text I had to compile for this: A meme based on the meme of the parent comment. That's based on a scene from King of the Hill. Peggy says "I told my readers to harness the cleaning power of amonia, with the whitening power of bleahch." Hank, horrified, says "Peggy that's the recipe for mustard gas" except the end of the text is changed to "that's the recepe for A meme from lemmy that refrences a scene from king of hill where Peggy says: "I t"

No need to apologise for both taking your time and your assumptions:

• I don't expect people to be online and answer immediately. I know I wouldn't be if I had any way to express my anarchism outside of this. and sometimes you need to take your time and think about what's been said.
• We all make assumptions when talking with people online. It's easy to make wrong ones, especially in text as you cannot have the other person immediately respond and correct you.

I appear to have run out of things to say as I don't really wish to delve into the situation in america. Just hope you stay safe.

It's been fun talking to you. May we meet again.

how exactly you define a state

I'm seeing that from these comments. I consider the state a top-down managed structure with some form of governance and control/management of "it's people" aka citizens. A state has clear ruling class who dictate the customs or laws of the population.

It's at this point the enforcement of those laws comes into play and things get tricky. Having a separate group privileged with enforcement allows that group to decide how to enforce laws. As we've seen that wont do. 1312. The anarchist solution is security culture, making the enforcement of customs ^1^ the responsibility of every person. However couldn't that work with a state? It does requires more involvement and confrontation which is why I think anarchists should try and help out with this whenever they can. As any good anarchist would be used to de-escalation and conflict resolution.

^1^: using laws in this context doesn't seem right as laws are too specific to be enforced by everyone. Which would require some form of justice system which has the same problems as the police. they ~~13~~12 too.

And objectively it isn't that much more difficult to maintain a state, but because it's those same "jobs" and "culture" that are going to keep a lot of people back and I think we need to account for them and try and coexist and cooperate with them instead of just yelling "statist" and excluding them.

I'm not saying we try and turn the state into something anarchic. I'm saying we try and work alongside people who need^2^ the state to make sure they consider us if they get in power. It's a lot easier to oppose a state that doesn't try to control you.

^2^: read "aren't willing to let go of"

I'm just trying to have faith in people and think that even when they aren't willing to live like me they can still accept me, I feel like the right thing to do is accept them in turn. I'm probably very naive but that's why I'm an anarchist in the first place.

I spent one day almost entierly in my pod watching youtube, just like I would at home. For me the pod is my private space. But I understand that most people probably find it too cramped, I imagine in an actual living arrangement there would need to be private common rooms.