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They lived their life relaxing in a hot-tub. Now that their greed has made it a boiling pot, they're tossing their children in to burn and gaslighting them that they have a legacy.

Ziq should be more famous for the history of toxic behavior they've displayed in every anarchist space they've participated in, including in their role as the ruler of Raddle․me. Their use of sockpuppets to manipulate and bully has discredited and disgraced Raddle․me and should be the primary reason for their notoriety. Any notoriety as a source of anarchist theory is due to their own tireless self-promotion rather than the strength of their ideas. Their writing is intentionally obtuse, relying on idiosyncratic re-definition of words to create clickbait titles. They make poorly supported claims that are either wrong or communicated more clearly by better people.

When I encounter someone sincerely recommending their writing, I suspect more sockpuppetry.

JudgeSabo has decent receipts. Since Anarchism101 is unmoderated, I've posted it in AnarchismVsMarxism.

I appreciate you, @alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com, but I don't appreciate this energy. The 'bread' in Breadtube is related to Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread -- a seminal anarchist work. It doesn't deserve to be quoted when referring to actual anarchists. Calling people who dedicate a lot of energy to producing educational videos 'terminally online' is demeaning, and thowing stones from glass houses considering how active we both are on Lemmy.

This is not a 'debate an anarchist' or Anarchy101 community, and I'm not eager to pivot in that direction either. I think those kind of communities have value tho, and I'm disappointed your !AnarchismVsMarxism community hasn't taken off.

If you're coming from Marxism, your reference for anarchism's position is probably "On Authority" by Engels. A good response to that rhetoric is probably JudgeSabo's Read On Authority, I've posted it in your com.

I'm going to lock this thread, but anyone who wants to meet Alsaaas where she is I suggest you post similar texts for discussion there too.

When he flew into Saudi Arabia, Burr’s nervousness crept back, but he was struck by the amount of local Western influence. “You think everybody’s going to be screaming ‘death to America’ and they’re going to have like fucking machetes and want to like chop my head off, right?” Burr said. “Because this is what I’ve been fed about that part of the world. I thought this place was going to be really tense. And I’m thinking like: ‘Is that a Starbucks next to a Pizza Hut next to a Burger King next to McDonald’s …? They got a fucking Chili’s over here!”

Saudis already consume American comedy without the endorsement of the government, and that is subversive. Traveling to the middle east to learn that they also have American fast food chains is not 'cultural exchange.' Culture is only flowing in one direction. Bill Burr demonstrates that for some people the values that make good comedy possible have a price tag, and that is the opposite of subversive. Cultural flow does not require American comedians to collaborate with tyrants in an Entartete Kunst of comedy.

The joke is in the article, the punchline is in the comments.

No, but I will acknowledge it is insane and idiotic for me to spend time educating people who use Billy Madison memes to accuse others of lowing the quality of discourse.

How was the meaning of this word altered so dramatically in the United States? During the First World War, some of the leading Progressive writers began to use the word liberalism as a substitute for progressivism, which had become tarnished by its association with their fallen hero, Theodore Roosevelt, who had run and lost on a Progressive third party ticket. Traditional liberals were not happy to see their label transformed. In the 1920s, The New York Times criticized "the expropriation of the time-honored word 'liberal' " and argued that "the Radical-Red school of thought ... hand back the word 'liberal' to its original owners." During the early 1930s, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt duked it out as to who was the true liberal. Roosevelt won, adopting the term to ward off accusations of being left-wing. He could declare that liberalism was "plain English for a changed concept of the duty and responsibility of government toward economic life." And since the New Deal, liberalism in the United States has been identified with an expansion of government's role in the economy.

-- Daniel Yergin, The Commanding Heights

The use of the term 'liberals' by the Intercept is not meant to be synonymous with 'the left' -- its meaning in this context is the political mainstream of the Democratic Party and the left wing of the Republican Party. The term comes from the philosophy of 'economic liberalism' and adjacent to terms like 'neoliberal' and 'capitalist' but inclusive of people who engage in politics consistent with those ideologies without explicitly self-identifying as ideologues.

Milei is the guy who gave Elon Musk his novelty chainsaw. Fascism isn't an ideology in the traditional sense, and when a fascist-adjacent government actually becomes fascist is an exercise in individual discernment. Perhaps fascism is best described as a spectrum, and in that framing, Milei is pretty fascist. WSWS isn't wrong -- calling someone with significant fascist qualities who seeks out fascist allies a 'fascist' seems like a reasonable use of language.

Transcript is available via YouTube if you click on the "more..." button in the video text box and then click on the "Show Transcript" button.

Respect.

Pew research reports 128/day in 2024. That number includes suicides, which account for ~60% of gun-related fatalities.