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That’s a very definitive sounding comment. I’m going to single out some stuff I don’t necessarily care for.

Therefore, we should aim to efficiently allocate our resources to meet the most of our desires.

Reader intended to infer that state capitalism accomplishes this despite ongoing evidence of looting of lower classes

If in a population of 1000, there are 100 fiction writers

Stop. You’re dismissing reality—people can organize without coercion; people grew and foraged and hunted more than enough for millennia—via a terrible hypothetical.

From my PoV, dreaming about anarchism makes no sense.

That’s a fine opinion to hold.

There were no CEOs nor governments.

There were no decision makers and nobody performed any disinterested administrative work or otherwise aided the public good?

the people that lived in that world rapidly formed societies that had hierarchies

Stop spitballing prehistory to back up your opinion of anarchism. Study some anthropology. For instance many archaeological digs show defined differences in construction at different times that show evidence of the overthrow of hierarchical rule, and great disparity of housing, in favor of more egalitarian organization and more egalitarian construction of homes and places of gathering.

because that is the most efficient way.

Money is most efficient when it circulates, because its purpose is to effectuate economic transactions, yes? Yet the current hierarchical world order is squeezing the lowest classes and ensuring they have nothing left to spend in their withering communities while amassing both real and virtual capital. The most efficient way to do what?

The only way to keep a non-stable state is by force.

I would put forward constant action and striving. I can choose to keep mixing the oil and the water. The ideal democracy is a process, not an endpoint.

All that aside, your original comment that I replied to is still very funny.

You think the issue with non authoritarian collectivization is that people don’t like making things?…

Boil, rice in, lid on, low heat for 18 minutes, off for 8 minutes, lid off, fluff with fork. No watching. If you burn some, lower your “low”. If you’re getting crazy and making some basmati or rosematta you just look up how much time your new strain of rice needs. If you have an always-too-hot electric stove I’m sorry I lied; I’ve been there, and I would probably buy a rice cooker too.

I actually just bought a pair of porta pros three days ago—any chance you recall what pads you upgraded to? I’ve mostly seen recommendations for Yaxi

That is incorrect, like incorrectly referring to the agricultural practices only in the past tense, or incorrectly lumping all peoples who lived in the Americas prior to European colonization into one generic group. The fact that both viewpoints are not equally correct is what makes it a correction.

Changing the past tense to present tense (these people and practices are still very real, they are not just part of “the past”) is a correction.

I don’t think men on the internet say “Epstein didn’t kill himself” because they want justice for him. That meme was to drive home that he was likely killed to ensure his silence and protect guilty gov’t officials and multinational executives

And yet more than a hundred thousand Afghani people died. I’m glad your trip was uneventful.

I’d love to know what it is about help threads that attracts people who don’t believe in helping.

Something needs to change to stop the cycle of angry people who know they have no prospects falling for fascist propaganda about how they’re going to improve things. But the camps weren’t it. The movement to rid the government of all nazi affiliates in this way was slow and complicated. It disabled significant parts of the government which slowed down the economy, delayed important work like repairing infrastructure and thus made prospects even worse than they had to be for said disillusioned young men. Then the Soviets and the Brits and the U.S. all found some people too important to remove from their posts which left the Nazism in place and bred resentment about why some people were punished for their roles and others weren’t. The Soviets liked the camps the most, but because they believed in purifying the masses’ ideological beliefs. Which is papering over some of the practical policies therein.

What saved Germany from the masses of disillusioned men was actual opportunity and rising standards of living. What’s causing a ‘conservative’ resurgence there and in the U.S. and elsewhere is the backslide in those areas. The answer is improving people’s lives, or at least not worsening them. Admitting we need to change what is and isn’t considered ‘creating value’. Focus on caring for our young and elderly and caring less about how many physical hours you must waste standing or sitting or walking around somewhere because a middle manager likes owning your time. But if we want to leave oligarchs in place to toy with our health and happiness and then put ourselves in camps every so often that’s an option too I guess. I just feel as though that’s part of the cycle, not breaking the cycle.

The market for small phones that last a long time is quite sizable. Which doesn’t matter because they don’t want to buy a lot of phones. It’s like Google. Years before Gemini, they made their search engine worse on purpose because it makes more money. Search twice, get served twice the ads. Nobody outside of the company has ever wanted Search But Worse. There is zero desire for Worse. But as long as Google is free to make purely economic decisions, there is no reason for them to revert to Search But We Make Less Money.

Oh, sure, I didn’t mean you should focus on another country’s completely inaccessible leaders instead of your own marginally accessible representatives. Just that there is no long term viable global solution within the bounds of the UN and that the focus should be on fixing or ignoring or replacing it. Convincing all of Germany that Israel has no right to kill Palestinians doesn’t really change the reality of the situation when the US threatens unilateral economic and military action against anyone who opposes their little ethnostate experiment.

That’s obviously nothing more than my opinion about the best path forward. Perhaps I’m wrong and what’s needed first is a powerful EU actor to take a more visible stand, to make the chains of the security council more obvious when the people’s desires are rendered moot. But my experience is that liberal politicians quite like the stability of written bylaws, more so than actual democracy. Better for Palestine to be blown away than for there to be any uncertainty.