the regulations on intensity never presumed we’d use such small arrays to produce that intesity. in the cabin, the lights projected onto the road don’t seem that different from 20 years ago. but from the other way it’s dazzling

my c posts in my 2020 car are so big that i frequently have no idea there’s a pedestrian right in front of me about to enter a crossing. it stresses me out

i don’t know what you mean. anarchism is an extremely leftist position and the poster in question wasn’t on hexbear. the post that made it onto hexbear was a marxist-leninist effectively ignoring what the anarchist was saying critical analysis means to anarchists.

their teachers told them in middle school to use times new roman. they never questioned why because they were raised to not do that ever under any circumstances

read Hannah Arendt. evil thrives when moral apathy is the norm. kegseth is implementing peter thiel and elon musk’s grand designs to kill en masse

Ukraine is fighting for self defense. russia is fighting for lebensraum

both saw each other as important to furthering their own goals

i’ve been actively avoiding hexbear but i had nothing to do but laugh looking at their slop community misrepresenting an anarchist saying that anarchists don’t just engage in critical class analysis but in other forms of hierarchical exploitation. like. the context was so completely obviously saying that anarchists engage in multiple forms of anti-authoritarianism, and class is one of them

i guess marxist can only be marxist? they can’t ever apply critical analysis to anything else?

most other fediverse softwares have blocks run two ways to reduce risk of harm via stalking, brigading, and dogpiling. there’s a difference between muting someone and blocking them on things like mastodon. on lemmy blocks are equivalent to mutes on mastodon

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/william-gillis-anarchy-and-transhumanism-2020

fundamentally anarcho-transhumanism is a social libertarian position that “my body, my choice” is true about a great many things. anarcho-transhumanists celebrate scientific advancements that allow a person to alter or modify their body as they see fit.

the national org did but the local groups are still active. probably look for things that say either “redneck revolt” or “john brown society”

a company has no moral guiding principals outside of monetary gain. its board of directors members may have their own individual viewpoints, but as a collective, a corporation is representative only of the shareholder’s shared interest in making some money. if they wanted anything else, they would collectivize into another form.

generally speaking the best, i mean the best, you can expect from a BoD member is liberalism and all that entails. from a liberal perspective, pacifism is a virtue to be signaled, not an overall approach to the world with a goal of bringing about a just and fair society. liberals preaching non-violence don’t really care if someone is preaching violence so long as they don’t practice violence and the results of the preaching of violence remain unseen.

that’s how you wind up with liberals saying that the founder of turning point usa did things the right way and denouncing someone doing exactly the things he said were good to do, but moreover, denouncing people who have trained in violence accessing that violence in self defense. in the fight between fascism and anything other than fascism, violence must be used to denounce fascism because it is the only language fascists speak. you can use non-violence to interact with other political positions. those are positions who do not practice solely violence. but fascism believes access to violence grants license to use that violence. you can only counter this belief by rendering it scared to show itself in public

there’s also difference between being correct and being effective. right wing propaganda machines program people to exist in binaries and young leftists, new initiates i mean, have to break out of that. they have to learn to listen to the problems people are experiencing and talk about how to address those problems rather than fixating on an us/them dichotomy

go open youtube in a private tab and see how long it takes for an innocuous video to get a recommended video from the manosphere, rightwingtube, or magaworld. youtube pushes nazi shit hard. if they’re not pushing it on you, it usually means their mathematical model for determining who right wing propaganda works best on indicates you’re not a good target, in which case they’ll mostly push meaningless drivel.

youtube and youtube culture have been dying a right wing nazi death for a decade now. all the best things people were doing are on patreon and nebula now

“all political violence is wrong”

detains community leaders in concentration camps

“we should talk things out in the marketplace of ideas”

censors all discussion of wealth redistribution, even the most tame acts like raising taxes on billionaires just a little bit

“violence has no place in our lives”

invades a nation in the global south under flimsy pretexts

real life leftists are fun as hell to be around. if anyone’s looking for some:

• IWW
• CWA
• Redneck Revolt

as rampant as the corruption is going back throughout the country’s history, i’d argue it’s baked directly into the social fabric of the nation

what? they’re both announcements that it’s prayer time. neither are themselves prayers

the precolonial societies that eliminated their hierarchies have a very consistent pattern of continuing to train military practices while also practicing pacificism. i’m not saying that’s the answer for a post colonial society, just that humanity has escaped from hierachy before and people living within the three empires probably need to do an uptick in listening, and that distributed access to violence amongst pacifists is likely part of it