Robaque

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Absolutely! He simply has a very original take on "freedom", but we all know that's a tricky word to pin down, so don't think about it too much, and leave it to the big dogs to tell you when your freedom is being protected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What about dyslexic people?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They can use the state to do that for them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

and the company

Surely the company would never be just as authoritarian as the state!

~ [cue anti-consumer subscription models and user policies]

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Say what you want about marxist-leninists but they're not "very extreme right fascists". Do you have any evidence for your claim or are you just doing your part in decreasing political literacy?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You could share this sublemmy's pinned post, or the megathread it links to:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/10901

https://rentry.co/megathread

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

...and it was all a dream.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The deregulation march you're talking about is neoliberalism, and it hasn't just affected USA. And in a sense neoliberalism is capitalism's response to regulation.

It's not that regulation doesn't work per se, it's that the (political) hierarchy through which it functions is susceptible to being taken advantage of, and inevitably it will be (*has been) taken advantage of by the capitalist class to protect their economic hierarchy.

For democracy to truly represent the people it'd need to be federated from the ground up through free association. Large scale organisation and cooperation would be ephemeral, existing when/if the need arises and dissolving as soon as projects are concluded (or cancelled). But within the rigidity of the current system(s), where power is consolidated at the 'top' through processes we're lead to believe are necessary for 'order' (when their real purpose is of course control), horizontal forms of social organisation seem impossible (I like how Anark calls this - "hierarchical realism").

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We're in the age of the technofeudalists

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