Love it. Often I’ll frame “better” in terms of individualism. Licking a boot as an individual is better than bargaining as a group I guess 🤷

Imagine the libs actually taking up arms. I can’t.

This. Another Jan 6th is the best we can hope for at this point. If Trump wins, it will be much worse than the first time. If he loses, but wins the coupe, then we get a civil war. I don’t like how 2 of the 3 options are a national shit show as opposed to a failed insurrection (best scenario at this point).

Being pro-Open source is to be against the specialization of labor? That’s probably not what you mean, but I don’t get how having the option to participate negates specialized labor.

It does cover how larger industry would be coordinated, it is not advocating for communes. Feel like we’re reading two different things…

if you don’t believe that the ultimate power in any market is consumer choice

Because I believe in open source where I’m not a consumer, but a participant in it’s creation. The ultimate power in the market isn’t consumer choice, it’s the choice over what gets made and who gets paid.

I’m going through this one now, it’s framed as a thought experiment for a bottom up society: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/p-m-bolo-bolo

Honestly I cried when I heard. It encapsulates my own views on grief but is also prescient and speaks as a father would asking someone to comfort their son after they’re taken away. But his children will receive no comfort, they were killed as well. It is little solace that he was with his family at the end. It makes me angry beyond words so I will lean on this poem to communicate what I can’t. Which brings me back to this Refaat Alareer’s views on teaching and using English to liberate. I’m autistic, I struggle with language sometimes and it was strangely familiar to hear his view. I guess my own words to add would be (WIP):

Be open to grief. Be open to seeing others As they see themselves. Be open to seeing yourself In another person.

Invite in the sorrow of others. Know their burden Is much like your own. Know your needs Are shared by others.

Let yourself be changed.

Heard the poem on the radio. The man understood the transformative power of grief.

If you labor there’s only two ways you get paid your full worth: you own the means of your production or your boss is a chump. However much the job pays, you are going to have a larger impact than your salary (hopefully).

At first I didn’t believe. Now I just want to know where the new outhouse is going to be installed.

What’s wrong with us dunking on dumb takes like this one?

Those qualifiers got me 🤣

True and here’s hoping Biden is right to think the indiscriminate bombing has at least subsided: https://youtu.be/ECtBwO9hlTI?si=3QnNV2sopzF-lpbe

I thought it was obvious due to OP literally dropping names: Avi Dichter, Netanyahu, cabinet members. The three have a lot in common but most would zero in on the fact they run the Israeli government. If you want to insist their most notable trait in this context is that they’re Jewish… that’s a choice.

MTG to be sure: https://www.politico.com/video/2023/10/26/mtg-moves-to-censure-tlaib-over-israel-comments-1117328

You’re right of course, but I don’t see how that makes any of this better. If anything, it seems you’re saying we should expect the casualties to be even higher because a city is being bombed.

Analysis isn’t justification. For example, the book “Lord of the Flies” doesn’t try to justify the terrible nature of kids but serves as a warning when you have an incredibly young society without moral leadership. And that’s about where we’re at with this situation.

Who’s saying the Israeli government represents the average Jewish person?

Does Russia get points for telling Ukrainians to leave before they started shelling? Invaders more often than not, tell civilians to flee (least of the reasons is to inflict economic disruption to their adversary).

One side has the vast majority of resources, the other is a refugee in their own home.