When the rich send men with guns to break up your non-violent organizations and communities, you aren’t going to debate them into submission.

They’re the peasants that revolt against their local lord while still being loyal to the king, because surely the problem is just that the king has bad advisors and the local lord is corrupt!

Regulations don’t work when they don’t get implemented, which means your ideas are purely ideas and not materialistic solutions. There aren’t going to be any regulations, don’t you get it? That ship has so obviously sailed.

There isn’t a better solution that’s not radical and that’s why radical solutions all that’s left!

This is literally idealism.

You have an idea about a market solution to the problem, and then act like you’ve solved the problem.

The problem isn’t a lack of ideas! The problem is a lack of implementation! You have to get these ideas into the real world somehow, and revolution is the only way you can do that. There are billionaires aligned against implementing these ideas. You have to stop them.

Hopefully I can replace myself with an AI and then she can deal with this shit.

As a trans woman who spent a lot of her life as a violent man, I have some perspective on this.

The tendency to blow up and hit things? Those are panic attacks. Men don’t like to think of themselves as having sissy emotional problems and so they just try to stubbornly power through their panic by yelling and hitting things, but like, a good cry really fucking helps you know? Meds too! Take a break, get some fresh air, take some deep breaths, fix your makeup, it’s going to be okay. No need to break shit.

Fascism always goes hand-in-hand with vigilantism.

Ban lawns. Period.

Uh huh, and if a rubber stamp judge gives wiretapping permission every time the cops ask for it?

It keeps crashing and not loading stuff correctly and giving me lots of hang time.

A lot like Reddit around the time I left Digg

Covid is a great example of why this doesn’t work. It was clearly made in a bio-lab. It leaked.

lol im done

The government is a tool, not an entity. Rights protect us against people that would use the government against us. Like Elon Musk here!

As for disease and harm, think about healthcare - countries where the government provides healthcare have healthier citizens than America does. Objectively, it’s better to let the government handle disease. Even China has surpassed US life expectancy! How could you look at that and then conclude “There is no amount of tax revenue that will make that happen.”?

As for the dead, they are robbed of freedom by nature itself. Time, chemistry, physics, simple material forces are humanity’s greatest enemy. To defeat them, we have to work together.

Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn’t cyberpunk enough yet.

So-called “negative liberty” is only innate if you accept superstition. Without souls or other such magical concepts, we are slaves to our mortality. Freedom is something we must fight for every day of our lives, and the moment we stop living our freedom is gone too. How free are the sick? The starving? The children gunned down in schools?

We will only be free when we defeat death, and we can only do that by working together. Until then, we need a government to ensure our right to life isn’t taken from us by a cold or famine or jungle cats.

The dead are not free. This is where I reject the Founder’s ideology.

Our mortality literally does mean we don’t have inalienable rights - rights are things we fight to have and maintain, not something we’re just born with by virtue of being alive. All rights can be taken away if they aren’t protected, they aren’t sacred or magic or God-given.

The Founders considered these rights inalienable because they were superstitious and believed in immortal souls. In their minds, death didn’t really rob people of their rights because their spirit would always be free.

Without 1700s superstition to justify the concept it doesn’t really work.

And if they shoot you for resisting arrest you won’t be struggling much after that.

Nothing is inalienable.

Sure! But if you have to fight for a right it’s not really inalienable, is it?

Uh if a jungle cat wants you to shut the fuck up then your inalienable right to free speech won’t protect you lol

There are too many structural problems with the extractive economy for our current society to survive. As resources dwindle and climate change gets worse the smaller countries will start to collapse and entire regions will go to war over resources. Billions of humans will be forced to migrate out of uninhabitable zones around the globe and they’ll do anything to escape. The ones that can’t escape will eat each other (metaphorically and literally).

There won’t be a singularity. There probably won’t even be a global internet in 30 years.

But then what does /c/ mean?

If we’re lemmings, then these are /c/liffs