TheCleric

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[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 2 points 11 hours ago

You know Doctors Without Borders? Well, I was volunteering, and we were landing in Uganda when I thought I saw someone I knew…

“And the other one?”

Well, we got a bunch of fireworks…

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org -5 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I mean, his “stop being a pussy, stupid millennials” schtick is pretty annoying. We get it, you drank from a garden hose and came home when the streetlights turned on. You’re so cool

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

lol sorry for suggesting you read something that could benefit you and your community. But if you want an elevator pitch, sure:

Anarchism is all about mutual aid. The system (yes, it’s a system. It’s not “anarchy is chaos” like you seem to be implying—and like the centuries-long conditioning has made people believe) runs on community, and rejects not order, but hierarchy. You are living proof that anarchism is possible and works. You aren’t waiting for a system to tell you that you need to donate to feed the poor, you’re feeding the hungry yourself. Food Not Bombs is anarchism.

In short, anarchy isn’t the absence of order, it’s the absence of hierarchy. It’s the existence of mutual aid, and relying on community to exist and thrive. Capitalism runs on hierarchy and insists that’s natural. Nature runs on need. Just like we could.

Read Anarchism and other essays by Emma Goldman, it’s a good introduction.

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Well apparently you’ve never listened to Against Me! back in the day and in your early 20s having fun talking about anarchy you never read anything on the theory behind it.

You really should.

Because all of the things you described you and your wife doing are the cornerstones of anarchism. Literally the most basic building block. So you are seriously uninformed and you don’t realize how much you actually agree with anarchism.

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol yeah I gotta get my drugeyes functioning again

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Right? It felt like the drug gods were smiling upon me—and these all happened in my 20s, when I was doing tons of drugs. Since I pretty much stopped beside the occasional wild night out/show once a year, I haven’t found anything! The ground drug gods smiled upon me often and with love and primo scores

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 7 points 1 day ago

Haven’t seen him since Jan 21, 2009

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 12 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Then you lack imagination

There are testing kits for just this kind of situation. I’ve found maybe a dozen random bags of drugs on the ground in my life. I’m definitely not recommending people so drugs they find, I’m just telling you it’s very much not a death sentence.

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is a massive oversimplification and seemingly a blatant misunderstanding.

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes. That’s exactly what the article concluded.

[–] TheCleric@lemmy.org 3 points 3 days ago

Only if you’re not a fucking weirdo.

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