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  • I said the state is not working class as a starting retort as well as a way to signal where I’m coming from, the rest is pointing out having a class in control of the workers and the media is a bad idea.

    I’ll be perfectly honest, i have only a slight idea why you gave that very simple comment such a bad reading, and it is only if you read (or listened to someone explaining) “on authority” and came out of it with a very bad and very prevalent (in leninist circles) idea of how anarchists think, and that is why you’re asking me to clarify this, and the reason i think this is because of the examples you gave as I’ve seen those same examples before, they are bad and go against your point, also it’s a waste of time going over them, so i won’t.

    This reads very baby “anarchist” to me…

    It was obviously simplified, and you still misread it, with the only reply asking me to explain something you don’t understand about anarchism, reads very “riddle me this, atheist!”, you can obviously read better than this.

    Look, the only reason I’m being sorta hostile here is because you came off as rude, and not looking for an honest answer, despite your (perhaps genuine) attempt at being polite, I’m willing to actually talk about all this, if you’re willing to try and understand instead of giving a common strawman for me to fight, i don’t wish to waste your time, and would like you to not waste mine.








  • I gave up on trying/watching the second entry after realizing the first one just wasn’t fun even in the “good” fights.

    It felt worse than the worse games in the original series, the fights we’re not as fun or satisfying, and the game pretty much helped spawn the “modern game” meme, felt gross after finishing it.



  • I admire the ideals of renaissance men trying to become proficient in every possible skill …

    Look, maybe given the situation you would try to become proficient “in every possible skill”, most people will just focus on a few key ones, and maybe have a few auxiliary ones.

    No one is telling you to put your life in the hand of a hobbyist, but if you had a big wooden table with a broken leg, would you rather buy a new table (seeing as actually finding someone who deals with woodwork in this economy is almost impossible), or go see a friend/neighbor/friend-of-friend who does woodwork as (mostly) a hobby, and trade favors with them in exchange for keeping your old table you are probably sentiment about for longer than expected?


  • Anarchism depends on free exchange of information, I’ll give a real life example from people without an anarchist ideology to make this more approachable:

    I’ve recently installed an arch-linux based operating system, knowing that there is ArchWiki to depend on if i need guidance on specific issues, that is solely because the arch community tries to be helpful and documents almost every issue or thing one might need help with.

    So now I, someone who’s new to linux (albeit with existing knowledge in software overall) and arch specifically, does not need to know anyone personally to fix my own issues.

    Do note about this example, that this approach is limited by my existing knowledge and also by how accessible the wiki is, BUT, in other, simpler situations I wouldn’t be as limited in my scope.

    TL;DR: as long as people can exchange information (ideas, recipes, etc) comfortably, we can expect they will, and we can depend on information sources (libraries, platforms, etc.) to hone our skills, fix whatever we need in the moment, or whatever else.

    PS. All anarchists advocate for bringing about a reality in which we all have more free time, so that we may reap the fruits of this and many other aspects of life we want to improve, read about other ideas for a more in-depth explanation.

    If you’re interested in more, read about Tool Libraries, I’d go into more details about all this but this comment is getting long enough :^).