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Absolutely. This regime has shown how fragile the relationship is, and how untrustworthy the USA is as a partner.

once the democrats are back in power

This little phrase reminded me: I find it interesting how this is just assumed by many people as an eventuality when we've already seen a failed coup attempt last time an election ousted the Republican regime. There is this underlying faith in the liberal democracy of the US, since despite its huge flaws, it hasn't failed in over a century. Similar with all the people who call for impeachment, police arresting ICE and other legal mechanisms.

It's silly to trust government institutions to save one from an openly, brazenly malicious government.

Agreed

Welcome to the magic of federation! This is how I'm seeing your posts: https://lemmy.ml/post/38812210/22162387

Basically, the Fediverse are lots of different sites that all use the same language (protocol), and some are able to talk to each other. So a Mastodon site (instance) like mastodon.world

• can talk to another Mastodon instance (like mastodon.art, or techhub.social)
• can talk to some other twitter-like platforms like Pleroma and Akkoma
• can talk to instances of some other platforms including Lemmy and Mbin (reddit-like), Pixelfed (Instagram-like), Friendica (Facebook-like) and more
• I'm not sure but I think you can like, comment and subscribe on PeerTube instances

I haven't kept up-to-date with what's possible and what isn't working yet, so I might have missed something.

I wouldn't even call it purity testing, they're just testing. I've seen obsession over purity taken to a counterproductive extent, and I maintain that it can be a problem when dealing with a complex unideal reality, but what BadEmpanada is talking about here is fine. That's a healthy level of testing, and important in preventing recuperation or sanewashing. Democrats are a bourgeois-controlled party and don't share our class interests.

To give an example of the kind that is counterproductive, I know of a (small) socialist organisation in my country which has been banned from worker strikes after counterprotesting one, insisting that since industrial unions are bureaucratic, the workers should all just boycott the strike and make their own union. This group claims all other socialist organisations are impure and pseudo-leftist whenever they compromise with material reality and present conditions.

And, obviously, that's a whole other world of purity testing to what you're talking about. The problems are when it reaches no-true-Scotsman levels.

My understanding of anarchism is the goal of eliminating government

The finer details will always change depending who you ask, but yes, it's generally either the elimination of government, or of all 'unjust hierarchies' (which includes state government).

As someone else mentioned, ideological anarchists tend to be socialists, and in this context 'anarchism' is assumed to be that socialist strain, but not everyone calling themselves an anarchist is also a socialist. It's a broad school of thought.

That won’t eliminate an economic system that originated organically.

Capitalism isn't organic. I can't think of a case where it has developed outside of a revolution (like the anti-monarchist revolutions) and/or imperial suppression. It requires the enclosure of the commons and development of private property security forces like a police, neither of those are an organic phenomenon.

If anything, I would assume anarchism is more organic, since it could be found in many hunter-gatherer gift economies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism#Example_societies

Now, I'm personally not convinced that this makes anarchism appropriate for our industrial/post-industrial societies, but it's not inorganic.

U.N. Resolutions: a brief summary

Linking my other reply

Since you mentioned them, I respect that some have been life sentenced and a couple put to death for serious crimes. There is a billionaire problem but at least they're more controlled by the government than the Western ones controlling their governments.

Hi, I've trained machine learning models. I've been creating and studying them for over six years.

ChatGPT is not capable of fact checking. It stylistically outputs data based on the input data it was trained on, and it's important to understand why that's different to fact checking even when it can sometimes state facts.

So I tried to find DJ Stryker voice clips and it turns out a couple of years ago plenty of people made AI-gen parodies. Some of them are a good laugh.

Apart from what was said, plenty of reasons

They also won the 1999 prize, and are famously the peace prize winner who were bombed by another peace prize winner in 2015 (Barack Obama).