Anarcho-syndicalism advocates for a society without hierarchical structures

No, it replaces what’s currently at the top with a trade union…

Something where people vote for their leaders. It would be the same as we have now almost immediately.

Are you even in a union? Do you have any idea how they work or how often corrupt assholes get leadership positions for the sole purpose of personally enriching themselves?

Like, I know I just said that I’m aware I underestimate others but…

C’mon man, you legitimately don’t understand how that would result in a system identical to any other party based political system?

You don’t understand how fast they’d throw their origins out the window?

Historically, there are other options…

Here’s how returning vets from WW2 handled political corruption and a sheriff stealing multiple elections but everyone in authority refused to do anything about it.

Bill White claimed he said “Boys, … I’m going to tell them to bring the ballot box out of there, and if they don’t we’re gonna open up on them.’ I hollered in there, I said, ‘You damn thieve grabbers, bring them damn ballot boxes out of there.’ That’s just what I said. He didn’t make a move down there and finally one of them said, ‘By God I heard a bolt click.’ Down there—one of them grabbers did, you know—they started scattering around. And I had a pistol in my belt with a shotgun. I had a shotgun and a rifle. And I pulled the pistol out and started firing down there at them. Well, when I did that, all that whole line up there started firing down there in there. A lot of them got in the jail, some of them didn’t, some of them got shot laying outside. And the battle started.”[4]: 21

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)

The whole story is worth a read, especially these days.

But it ended up with a bunch of dynamite, dead fascists, and a new sherrif…

Who made Bill White a deputy and he faced no charges.

Not even sure what that is, but anyone wanti g anarchism likely doesn’t know what that means.

Like, if there’s anarcho-luddittes out there who thinks we should completely destroy society and go back to living in the forest in tribes of ~150 people…

I wouldnt agree with them that it’s the best path, but I wouldn’t consider them hypocritical because at least they understand where anarchism would lead and are being honest about it

For everything else with “anarcho” tacked on the front, I feel it’s safe to say I’d disagree with them without looking into what they’re about.

I did go ahead and Google that before hitting reply, just to be safe since I honestly hadn’t heard that term before.

And that’s just putting trade unions in charge, which would end up the same as any other ruling class.

I’m saying there shouldn’t be a ruling class at all.

Nah. I’m an actual communist

My policy positions make Vladimir Lenin look like Hillary Clinton.

My problem with Marxist-Leninists, is the authoritarianism, which is the worst part about trump too.

Does it make sense now?

I think authoritarianism is bad, and even if an authoritarian agrees with me on every aspect of policy, I’ll never be on their side.

It’s a difference at a fundamental level.

Quick edit:

As simple as possible, they topped out at what people need to survive, a giant population of people getting just enough to live and work, to support a ruling class of politicians who were essentially oligarchs.

I think everyone should have enough to be comfortable because without that life is still miserable for 99.99% of the population, it’s switching out one ruling class for another.

That’s not a win, it’s not changing the game. It’s shuffling the cards and playing the same game we know isn’t good.

The two big things it references:

Save act:

The SAVE Act would require that individuals registering to vote show “documentary proof of United States citizenship,” including when they re-register after moving to a new state.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/02/will-save-act-prevent-married-women-from-registering-to-vote/

And an EO from 3/25 (that they didn’t provide the name of:

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul U.S. elections, including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day

https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-3-25-2025

They both do the same thing, and happened months ago…

But to be fair, I often overestimate how much a random person remembers. They’re not wrong with their opinion on what all this means.

It’s just the way they present it often feels too much like trump for the average person to listen.

Because of all the reasons I said in the last comment.

That was a very weird article…

To the point I googled the source and apparently it’s a 90 year old Maxist-Leninist newspaper. Which kind of explains the writing style and lack of sources.

They do have “left” lean, but it always feels off because those people also are super into authoritarianism. So it’s less about presenting enough for someone to understand and form an opinion, and more like telling their readers an opinion along with a few facts that were found after the fact to be used to defend it.

To be clear; Trump’s 1500% going to try and steal the election, but everyone already knows that. There is zero new information on the article and I’m pretty sure everyone that didn’t vote for trump has came to the same conclusion…

Marxist/Leninists writing just always gives me something like the uncanny valley feeling. I don’t care how it’s dressed up, or if the person speaking/writing agrees with my existing opinion, I can’t fucking stand them. I guess it’s “the ick”

Better sources have been covering all of this for months already.

I’m convinced all these new accounts making posts about AI is the same handful of trolls…

There’s been a constant stream of these lately, and it’s the logical result of all those troll communities who ban anyone for downvoting AI.

Everyone has blocked their main accounts and communities, so now comes the spam from new accounts into general communities

That’s our economic system not our healthcare…

And it’s a real thing, resource scarcity as a child changes the timeline you think on. You know how everyone laughed at the people doing the “chase glitch” which was just check/wire fraud and incredibly easy to prosecute?

They seemed stupid because obviously there was going to be consequences, but resource scarcity means tomorrow’s problems aren’t real problems yet.

If you don’t know if you’ll be alive in aweek, consequences in a month literally don’t factor into your thinking. That’s why Pay Day loans and credit cards are such big business.

It is completely normal, it’s how our brains are wired, and for 99.999999999% of human existence it was a solid strategy.

But the wealthy exploit it.

We all know that caffeine, consumed wisely, has a very favorable benefit/risk ratio

No, we don’t.

That is an opinion.

And with normal human variation, no one can tell you what’s right for you. They could just say an average safe level, but again, you’re asking for someone’s opinion on risk/reward.

There’s just no way anyone could actually answer your question.

There was a very very small window that America wasn’t a joke, and it ended like 80 years ago.

People need to understand shit didn’t break 5 seconds before they noticed or well never fix it.

trump just doesn’t have the manners and vocab to hide how bad it is.

If we don’t start thinking on a longer timeline, we’re fucked

He added, “We want the same prices Europe gets, we want the same prices other country gets.”

Europeans pay very little for healthcare because they use a system designed to provide affordable healthcare and not to enrich the wealthy…

The Nazis had a draft… With damn near 100% draft rate

Do you think that made it ok because under German law they had to?

Because during much of the war, if they objected they were just shot.

So surely, if jail is an excuse, your logic dictates that you also excuse every Nazi from what they did and you don’t judge any of them…

Unless there’s an inconsistency with your logic for some reason

Most people tho, think jail for a couple months is better than participating in a genocide. But everyone’s personal values are different.

Rice and beans is the staple pretty much everywhere else.

Don’t buy ultra processed Mac and cheese or frozen pizza. It’s nutritionally bad for you, and won’t keep you full for long.

Start with rice and beans and canned sauce. Cheap, easy, and good for you.

You can obviously add chicken/tofu/protein, or try to start making sauces yourself. But always keep the rice and beans as a base. Every meal you eat, rice and beans. They’re cheap as hell and close to what we evolved to eat.

Ok 88

until a specific individual proves otherwise.

You mean like supporting trump for a fucking decade?

What more signal is needed?

In an extraordinary move

The problem is it’s not ordinary…

We tell voters were fighting fascism and that’s all that matters when it’s time to vote, then they get in office and don’t do shit

Spend two years doing this type of stuff and it won’t be so hard to convince voters to fight when it’s their turn

It’s not enough for voters to turn out every two years. We need the politicians we elect to actually do shit like this. This gets more votes than 10 million from a billionaire.

I don’t know why everyone always assumes women are progressive.

If the value of a woman is solely determined by the “rank” of men that want them, a lot of beautiful young women go for that system.

It’s easy and they’d be at the current “top” and get what they want.

If somebody comes out and says “I fucked up” then we can work on forgiveness.

If they hide it or are proud of it, fuck em.

At any moment they can stop supporting trump for any number of reasons but they constantly keep choosing too.

I’d say it’s even worse to continue to support him quietly at this point, because it shows the person knows it’s wrong.

Holy shit …

You think a small amount of the wealthiest people control everything because they’re greedy and want more wealth!!!

How oh how did you ever manage to discover that in your “charting”?

You must share your knowledge with the world, no one else has ever had such a unique and insightful thought as:

The rich run shit, and they’re criminal assholes

1972:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm

But to be honest I only knew that because of RA the Rugged man:

Reagan was the Pres’, but I voted for Shirley Chisholm

Did you understand that lyric? You’re too young, of course you didn’t, c’mon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnBSmjDEVVQ