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It is really freeing to realize that "All non states on earth have been taken over by a state" is itself propaganda. Every time Britain or France planted a flag and said "This is ours now" the people who agree with that are statist. States have brought unspeakable violence on the people they've conquered, but those people are only conquered in that the state says they are. It's the old argument at the playground:
"I beat you that means you have to do what I say."
"No it doesn't!"
Conquered anarchists haven't bought in to the claim that they are conquered, or that anyone can be conquered, and then it's just a matter of having enough power to resist.
"I beat you that means you have to do what I say."
"No it doesn't!"
Conquered anarchists haven't bought in to the claim that they are conquered, or that anyone can be conquered, and then it's just a matter of having enough power to resist.
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Like, e.g. now "talk about the weather" is generic bad smalltalk, put plausibly in the year 1900 a decent number of people would be filled with thoughts and details if you said something about the amount of rain lately. So, we carry on their conversation without thinking about why.
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> Brexit voting areas have seen faster growth in foreign workers since EU referendum
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/20/leave-voting-areas-foreign-workers-decade-since-brexit-referendum
> Less than 5% of payrolled employees were from outside the UK in June 2016. That had increased to just under 10% in December 2024
Yeah no shit. The whole far-right anti-immigrant rhetoric is not about not letting people in, it's about making sure they remain disenfranchised once in!
Cheap labour for the moneyed classes, *and* a leverage against local labour force. A double-whammy.
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Oh and did I mention we only have RNA vaccines because Katalin Kariko refused to bend to the capitalist system and continued her research almost unfunded because she knew that it was needed and would be successful because she was actually an expert with proper decision making capacity, instead of some CEO who only cared about what kind of marketing campaign would let them suck down profit from patents?
@HeavenlyPossum
> If you’re talking about the possibility of losing to a more powerful adversary, then you’re talking about a risk that is intrinsic to the human condition and not somehow limited to people living in anarchy.
It's kinda worse when you don't have laws and police to protect you from them though (not discounting that the police themselves can be bullies also).
Or is there a special anarchist way of dealing with that? Presents from family of perpetrator to victim or family thereof, like some Native American tribes did?
@jamie
Huh. kolektiva.social blocks qoto.org. typical
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One interesting aspect of https://web.archive.org/web/20260622222335/https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/securing-the-nation-against-advanced-cryptographic-attacks/ is the demand that federal contractors (starting mid-2027) label "the use of non-FIPS approved algorithms" as a "vulnerability". The 1990s version of this would be telling contractors to label RSA above 512 as a "vulnerability".
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Wait, math question: If they're both running the same spiral on, let's say, an infinitely wide plane, do they HAVE to eventually touch or can they forever be out of sync?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bfppgmqz6i2uwkm7ynoqigfw/post/3moxptvhg2s22
@whathappened
Is this about 'antifa'? Because they _have_ done more than simply oppose kraterocratic authoritarian nationalism ('fascism'), if indeed they've done much of that. I have seen it. They have attacked people who don't like abortion and feminists whose view of women's rights means keeping transwomen out of women's spaces. My view on the latter is neutral and on the former I am undecided, but there is no excuse for unprovoked ideological violence (except possibly in the case of clear, real, bona fide, goose-stepping, holocaust-denying-but-also-promoting Neo-Nazis).
@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
@condret
Fedilab translates that as "now a snowstorm would be really horny"
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Authority is an institution that conveys a power or right to command. Donald Trump possesses authority, but he does not personally threaten violence against anyone (not that he could). Instead, he issues commands to subordinates, who in turn execute his threats. Those subordinates know that if they do not obey his commands and execute his threats, that THEY risk being threatened and hurt by yet other subordinates, whose role is to enforce obedience among subordinates.
Authority is, in a sense, self-reinforcing, a kind of behavioral trap. Soldier A knows that they must follow orders or else be punished by Soldier B, who knows that they must follow orders or be punished by Soldier C, who knows that they must follow orders or be punished by Soldiers A and B.
Once you’re in that trap, it can be very difficult to escape, because part of the trap is knowing that you must cooperate in the enforcement of authority or be punished by other people who are similarly compelled to cooperate with the enforcement of authority. We are all drafted into (re)producing our own subordination.
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We know this empirically because the anthropological and archaeological records are full of countless examples of people who live or lived in egalitarian societies with few or no relations of command.
They were able to do this because they desired to live without authority, were aware of the threat of authority, and developed a suite of tools for preventing the imposition of authority.
Anthropologist Christopher Boehm’s work on reverse dominance hierarchies is an excellent place to start learning about these.
@collectifission
I know what IRC is but I have rarely used it.
@HeavenlyPossum
Archive.Today has apparently modified snapshots and directed DDoS attacks against critics: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
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Don't vote for #AndyBurnham
> In late 2008, Burnham announced government plans to tighten controls on internet content in order to "even up" what he described as an imbalance with TV regulations.[26][27][28] The announcement was followed by a speech to the music industry's lobbying group, UK Music, in which he announced "a time that calls for partnership between Government and the music business as a whole: one with rewards for both of us; one with rewards for society as a whole. (...) My job – Government's job – is to preserve the value in the system."[29]
> Our objections [to Hobbes and Rousseau] can be classified into three broad categories. As accounts of the general course of human history, they:
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> 1. simply aren’t true;
> 2. have dire political implications;
> 3. make the past needlessly dull.
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and Wengrow https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-the-dawn-of-everything
Why are they thinking about #2 and #3 at all?
They're supposed to be scholars, not activists or entertainers.
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#Via Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler
12:21 PM · May 28, 2026
"Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down."
https://www.404media.co/cities-are-covering-flock-cameras-with-trash-bags/
@strypey @light@noc.social @mike805 Hmm. Maybe I misinterpreted you. I thought you were arguing for government control over the food economy, which I think would limit innovation and diversity.
>What capitalists really fear is that the public provision model of food banks could spread up the value chain. Eg a not-for-profit wholesaler buying directly from growers - at fair prices, with no economic rents imposed - and supplying food banks.
How should we implement this in a decentralised way while still remaining non-profit?
Other account: https://noc.social/@light
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