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FinjaminPoach

@ FinjaminPoach @lemmy.world

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I like city building games and puzzles. I like other things as well, but that's not important right now.

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  • I mean for the most years, I certainly keep returning to these things that I played long ago as a kid:

    • The Sims Medieval
    • Various LEGO games, Notably the Harry Potter and Star Wars ones
    • The Settlers

    For the most hours, nowadays, well according to Steam it's:

    • Stardew Valley
    • Anno 1800 + 117
    • Balatro

    Which are up there in the hundreds.

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  • Big disagree. That's the mainstream/normie concept of anarchism, but that's not what anarchist theory actually suggests anarchism should be, when organising society along anarchist lines. I believe that commited anarchists generally put more thought into how they should re-arrange society than just "we'll live like animals." (The idea of "wilderness" suggests you're thinking of something like anarcho-primitivism. My own home or homestead isn't a wilderness, for instance, it's just a very small settlement.)

    First thing you have to understand is that anarchism is basically a precursor-idea to communism. They share the intention of giving common people en-masse autonomy over the running of their society. A few implications of this:

    A) If implemented, they would both require workers to seize means of production. Unless...

    • We turn away from industrial production (anarcho primitivism), or
    • Industrialists round up slave-labour ( anarcho capitalism)

    B) Our first difference arises - socialists seek to govern through various means, e.g trade unions and/or the most educated in society, whereas anarchists don't seek to govern at all since they have dismantled or collectively opted out of the elective framework. Which is a profoundly democratic thing to do.

    C) no "imperialism," or more simply put, war waging. Two ways of looking at this: if anarchism OR Communism was implemented worldwide, there would likely be no nation-state distinctions. Also, if everyone is behaving anarchically, there would be no state and army apparatus to serve under.

    Second thing to consider is all of those "plot holes" that the normie idea of anarchy - which I like to attribute to how they live in the walking dead or another post apocalyptic world - raises.

    A) how do people access, for example, medical services? Either they don't (APrimitiv again) or ALL the doctors and nurses need to stick to their jobs as they commit to this new anarchist world. They can achieve this as long as they themselves organise co-operation between, e.g, medicine producers, the ambulance drivers, surgical blade and clean fabrics factories.

    So the goal of anarchism is autonomy, but it usually isn't the case that anarchists want to do away with all things we live with in today's society. Hospitals provide an example of when anarchists might behave more... "Socialist," where the route to a doctor's autonomy would be the doctors seizing control of a hospital and running it as a council or a series of co-habiting but independent wards in the same building.

    That brings us to what's actually the biggest plot hole of anarchism, the question of efficiency in organisation. You can see that the former conclusion, that doctors form a hospital council, is going to be more efficient then ordering in supplies only for their own ward.

    B) the plot-hole of wanton Violence - how to prevent it?

    To preface: In our current, statist society, we often associate anarchy with criminals. Mainly because career criminals live the most detached from state structure of any humans, thus are seemingly the most successful at actually being anarchists.

    We see these people constantly utilising random acts of violence as they compete with state-subjects for access to resources and services which the state has a monopoly on. Commonly this is the State's currency.

    Career criminals are always unproductive people. People see their lack of access to resources or production-means and presume it will be the case for all anarchists - in which case, wanton violence would be common.

    So we've already addressed 2 solutions; first, people should access and utilise production means themselves. Secondly, they should co-operate, in order to maximise prosperity and hence avert acts of violence from resource competition.

    But how else? How do we deal with criminals who attack people for

    • you could "legalise crime," but then why should anyone partake in your particular rules of anarchy, and why shouldn't they just attack you?
    • you can "just kill em!" But that leaves you open to vengeance from their friends and family.
    • clearly the best way would be to prosecute them in some way - but we abolished the state, and with it, the punitive system, the legal system, the judicial system.
    • so, collaboratively, we have to work out punishments that nearby anarchists agree with... Oh wait! That sounds similar to socialism!

    1. How compatible is Anarchism with capitalism, really? If it doesn't play nice with capitalism, what does that make it?

    As an exercise to the reader I'll allow you to try and imagine anarcho capitalist society playing out. Picture yourself trying to build a corporate empire if you want. What happens at the end of this simulation?

    Well, either you get everything stolen from you because a state doesn't exist to protect your wealth, or you start implementing adequate protective measures.

    But at that point, you have become your own state - you have a monopoly on violence, to protect people working in your organisation and the value they have produced for you. To me that's the definition of a state - monopoly on violence and decision making power.

    The same is still true if you share your big industrial enterprise among your buddies, or even your workers! We know from modern states that they don't need to serve one person at the top.

    My point here is just that anarchism and capitalism are not compatible. Capitalism really does rely on the state's monopoly on violence, in order to keep Microsoft and Apple from firing nukes at each other.

    So if anarchism is decidedly not capitalist, for capitalism is decidedly not anarchist (not long-term, anyway, LOL), what does that make anarchism? It's either communist, socialist or economically-centrist. I'd argue it can be either of those.

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  • "Dopey tit" is hilarious

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  • So she got annoyed because she thought you were going to start insulting her too?

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  • That's fascinating, I'm gonna hunt for more stories on filipino-english miscommunication now. Like, do none of them get colloquialisms or was it just a "her" thing ? Lol.

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  • I've known people like this; can confirm it's 100% as you describe.

  • 'Losers': Far-right influencers dogpiled after seen chanting Heil Hitler on party bus

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  • Danish people and other European ex-allies 😁

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  • So true. They know, or at least feel, that they are controlling the movement, and will never be hurt by it.

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  • Another fellow on the bus, "Myron Gaines" (who i only learned about <24 hours ago), is black. Diverse crowd they have there, despite pledging allegiance to hitler

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • Best thing you can do is make your own communities for topics that we haven't already got one for.

    Also going on reddit and just going "join lemmy join lemmy join lemmy" over and over again probably helps, right?

  • What mistakes did your parents make while raising you that you will be careful to avoid in your own parenting?

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  • I was thinking that in the catholic sense they don't have kids. Almost like they knew what they were doing with that no sex rule

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  • The instant he started talking, he stopped screaming. The screaming was just what he did to communicate before he could talk.

    Oh man, I wonder if there's any way to fix that for them. Must be a problem other people have faced.

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  • Yep those are two of the big problems i had with my mom

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  • The oldest has caught on and has started saying off the wall stuff like “my head came off at school and the teacher kicked it into the trash” and things like that to see if her mother even notices. Usually she doesn’t.

    LMAO.

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  • None cuz I’m childfree

    I figured a lot of people would be and that's why i tried to phrase an alternative question in the body of the post :).

    The biggest was putting religion as #1 priority

    I guess that's actually the biggest problem people have with religious parents, isn't it? Like unless you're an actual monk or priest, you shouldn't prioritise religion - you should prioritise your family!

    I'm sorry that happened to you

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  • This really a refinement of item 1, supervise and monitor your kids life. People love to deride involved parents by calling them helicopter parents. If you are an adult, you did not get to spent time alone with my kid. The only adults allowed to do that were the teachers when at school. I did not trust any adult that wanted to spent time with other people’s kids.

    I totally agree. Being a "helicopter parent" is only bad at a certian age range (like, teenagers onwards) - I would have been very grateful for my parents to teach me how to play with other kids properly and stuff... Because I see other parents doing that for their kids all the time.

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  • Not teaching me a lot of basic shit, like how to shave, how credit/debit works, exploring food like sushi, teaching me about other countries.

    omg... this is so me. I try to justify it by telling myself they might be on the spectrum

    Sounds like you're doing a great job though

  • How would you bescribe yourself by a sentence?

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  • Tall dark and average looking 🥹

  • The UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management

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  • Good thing I finally got around to watching Minority Report, huh