No war ever fought was fought for or benefited the working class. It was always to benefit someone else. Even when the socialists did it, they did it as a vanguard party, and that vanguard ultimately did it to benefit themselves. Sometimes they have the ancillary benefit of redeeming some horror in our past, like slavery, but people are naive if they think the north went to war with the south to eliminate slavery, or that the Americans won against the British without French help, who mostly had victory against the British on their mind, not American independence.

Instead, society changes when material conditions change. It rarely changes through ideologically motivated struggle. It changes overnight because someone invented the lightbulb, discovered a new continent, or a new farming technique, etc. Entire empires have fallen practically overnight because of the switch from peasantry to steam powered industry. Nothing can prevent it, and barely a drop of blood need be spilt, because it’s inevitable.

Trump CANT stop green energy development, because now it’s cheaper than coal. That’s a material condition change. That’s the best kind of resistance you can do.

Because an organized state will always overpower it. And history is a story of power.

I always say, show me the theory that allows anarchists to maintain a complex network of nuclear armament. You can’t “anarchically control” the nukes.

People just never really come to grips with the era we actually live in. We live in an era where a spaceship could throw an asteroid at the earth, or where a guy in a garage with an axe to grind could release an extinction level bioweapon, or where a computer program made by a skilled hacker could decimate power grids and kill millions. We are terraforming the earth. We are in a society that is much closer to godhood than to primitive man.

Exactly, like trump didn’t gain any significant increase in voters, democrats didn’t show up. And now we are here. And now they want to become terrorists. Like you literally just had to show up, why should I trust you’re gonna show up for “the revolution” now?

And fighting the US government is like fighting the weather. If they wanted to, they could literally drone strike you. We are fighting powers that are basically like gods these days. People let that sneek up on them. NOTHING like WW2, which still required the entire western sphere to militarily engage with germany, not some rag tag civilian groups.

Armed resistance, as it always has, can only actually come from the military. They are bound by oath to constitutional defense. So… maybe?

But IRL, if you look at history, civil unrest does not stop these things. They are stopped ultimately by wars with foreign militaries. All successful revolutions have monied and powerful interests backing them. You and I aren’t doing anything without joining a state sponsored militia. That’s just how the game of history is played. I opt out. I’d rather live in the woods than fight in a civil war.

TBH dude, data privacy only exists when you destroy your technology. If you are on a cellular network, or drive a car, you are tracked. Your home is registered with the state, the traffic cameras know where you go, your phone sends signals that can track you, and they can since 9/11 get your call data.

The trick here is to simply learn how to protest in a world where you are tracked. Your ideas are as good as mine to figure out how to do that. I genuinely don’t believe you can anymore.

Democracy was never a good idea. Trump won democratically. People are easily manipulated by populists.

Unfortunately republics and totalitarian states are also bad ideas.

And anarchism doesn’t work.

So just ride the wave of history. Let it take you. This is what it’s like to be alive, fighting one monster just to make something that will one day become a different monster. Infinitely recurring. Enjoy the fight, that’s what being alive is about.

Tech unions now

So they are mass murderers. Good thing they didn’t rob a convenience store or they’d be in jail for life.

This is literally just a tokenization artifact. If I asked you how many r’s are in /0x5273/0x7183 you’d be confused too.

So something I want to point out: plain text encryption exists. Cyphers and the like. You could have your instance use all the standard stuff but with a really hard cypher, and it would work everywhere. Then you just need a front end to read it… but then the cops could read it… oh public encryption makes no sense.

Secure Scuttlebutt is the way

You just ate garlic straight? Never heard of that.

When you get all 350 million people to riot I’ll be on your side. But laying low is a more likely to succeed option. This country has never been fair or politically good. I prepared for this, because I could see it coming.

I literally pay taxes, that’s paying the thugs not to rob you. It works well in Japan too, their thugs will defend your shop.

I have money and I’m not comfortable in prison. That’s why.

Exactly.

We will just put Trump porn on the whitehouse.gov site to show you how little control America has over its digital economy.

Who gave us that goal? You? Nations don’t have that goal. Their goal is “do better than my neighbor” “look out for my interests”. Most peoples goals are that way. People divide into companies, families, and nations specifically because they see themselves as different from the other. Our printer is different, our identity is different, etc, let’s cooperate. But cooperation IMPLIES someone you are competing with. If not, that competition will arise to “get there’s”. That’s the will to power.

You are talking about some kind of enlightened person.

We are literally by definition the same species as cavemen.

Education and really all “thought” is a “slow brain” process. Some people, genetically or environmentally, don’t do this well at all. Half of all people are below 100 IQ right?

All our fast and unthinking processes are caveman, and that will never change no matter how much you educate someone.

Anyway, truth is power so when you say “educate them” you actually mean “educate them your way” so that itself is actually a form of manipulation.

Most people are selfish imbeciles. Never attribute to malice what you could otherwise attribute to stupidity, but you have to ascend both to get to your standard of people. Thats a heavy ask.

I’m hoping your 14 and just haven’t grasped the world yet.

So many of the ways we manipulate people are illegal. As such we have actually said “don’t do it” in the strongest way possible. But usually people don’t advocate prison time for the ways the saying means when it says manipulate. Like I can manipulate you to buy me a better present than you usually do by saying “if you don’t do this for me then you don’t really love me”. Is your response in that situation “straight to jail”?

Do you like to think it, or do you believe it to be true?

Damn I switched to proton last year and am NOT migrating again.

I thought it was based in the EU. Why does he care about the US at all?