I consider Understanding Power an essential read, but really soured on Chomsky as a person when he defended his going to Epstein’s island meetings with Epstein. I still think people should read him but not glorify him.
Edit: there is no evidence, as far as I’m aware, Chomsky went to Epstein’s Island. I misremembered.
I’m having some issues with the cross posting from mastodon to lemmy. You can see some of the other photos here https://mastodon.world/@jwiggler/114076153723742305
I saw this and took pictures and a video today 2/27/2025
Drive? No one’s out here saying rural folks need to stop driving or else. The anti car stance is about reducing driving – recognizing our over reliance on cars is big problem, more cars is not a solution, and that electric cars placate people into thinking theyre doing something good for the environment ie greenwashing, like what you’re doing now.
They’re better. They’re not good.
Have you got any recs? I’ve got a 3080 in my machine atm
I dont really use LLMs so I didn’t even realize there were versions with different weights and stuff. I was using 7b, but found it pretty useless. Pretty sure I’m not going to be able run 32B on my rig. lmao.
guess ill continue being an LLMless pleb.
I’m moving to self host all my streaming stuff. Switching from local-only plex to self hosting all my media (spotify, google photos, LLMs) and tools behind a reverse proxy so i can access outside my home. It’s pretty sweet and a good learning experience using reverse proxies
Edit: Plus fuck these technofeudal lords who enclose access to markets, information, and culture.
I agree but also I think you’re getting at a broader issue of the cooption/reclaimation of words, and the problem of language being fluid.
Unfortunately for anarchism, its been an uphill battle. In Plato’s The Republic, Socrates refers to anarchy in the negative context we mostly see it used today, similar to just pure chaos.
The term was reclaimed by Proudhon in the 19th century as he developed anarchist philosophy, but I’m not sure the term ever really got divorced from the negative connotation it had. And so I think we still see people use anarchism to refer to any anti state belief, or chaos, in general. Are they wrong or right? Eh. Id like to say they’re wrong because I was really moved when I read Kropotkin and Graeber and whatever. But then again, I’m not gonna really get mad when someone uses “gentleman” for a polite man instead of a member of the landed gentry or whatever the term “gentleman” used to mean.
This is all me being an armchair linguist though and kinda talking outta my ass so take that for what you will
Edit: I just read your objection about the mischaracterization of anarchism as a movement because of all this – and yeah that is a problem for sure. It does make it difficult to describe to people, “I’m not talking about anarchism like you normally think, like pure chaos. I’m talking about anarchism as a political philosophy. See, in the 19th century there were these dudes…” Yeah, that gets pretty old. But idk my opinion is conflicted on this because my personal philosophy around language tends liberal due to their fluid nature
Yeah yeah, I gotchu. Overall, great meme
Agree 100% but wanna add that some right wing libertarians like to glob on to the A because they fashion themselves as chaotic or watched V for Vendetta one time and now have Batman complexes. Obviously they are completely ignorant of anarchist philosophy. I think the OP is similarly ignorant here (sorry OP, not meaning that as a slight against you – most people think anarchy just means no government or chaos or whatever)
Edit: oh yeah, as others have mentioned there are also ancaps, which are oxymoronic but I’m sure they don’t really care
Ending federal government != ending hierarchy or the state. As you said yourself, they’re radical libertarians, not anarchists.
“Right-wing anarchists” makes me wanna puke. I think libertarian freestaters is probably a more accurate name.
This might be the most important video on the Internet. Perfectly outlines what THEY THEMSELVES say they are going to do to the United States – destroy it, loot the remains, and, later on, appear like saviors to every-day people. The United States might already be done for…
Nah, you’re right, it definitely isn’t as simple as all due to the material conditions, although I do tend to think the majority of crime is due to them. At the same time, I’m not sure I’m using material conditions in the correct technical sense, and was thinking about including a , “someone feel free to correct my usage” note in my comment. I also wasnt really itching for a super in-depth conversation about it, even though your question
do you think Trump is lacking in material conditions?
is a really interesting one that I’d need to think and talk about a lot. I think if we had appropriate non coercive controls against accumulation of property, while also living in a society that met the physical, psychological, and social needs of its people, Trump perhaps would not be a criminal.
This comes from my tendency to think people are more inherently good than evil, and that much of the evil comes from the patriarchal culture of accumulation
lmaooo
tangentially I feel like Batman could never jive with leftist ideology anyhow. His whole thing is beating and scaring the crime out of people, which is in contrast to the leftist idea that crime happens because the needs of individuals (physical, psychological, and social) are not met by their material conditions.
I’m conflicted over whether I’m glad or disappointed at his respect for the feds.
On the one hand, I’m disappointed, because like many many others, I identify with his frustration with fat cat CEOs imposing systems of structural violence against us. I wish that had extended to lack of respect for the state, which also imposes and upholds the same systems, and others.
On the other hand, I’m glad because I still think what he allegedly did is wrong and don’t necessarily want further ideological alignment with that, even if billionaire CEOs have it coming, and even if I think he should go free.
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber is a cool book about this whole topic
I’m a linux admin with very little development experience (amateur at bash scripting, did some python in school, understand the concepts of object-oriented programming, but that’s pretty much it) doing rustlings in my spare time. I want to be able to contribute to open source projects and be able to understand more of the discussion in the FOSS space, but it’s pretty hard to see the big picture tbh and I don’t know if I’m wasting my time.
Happily – I hope you have a great day:)) thanks for engaging, I’ll see you when the great appropriation occurs
Look at how upset you are! lmao. bro we’re in political memes, take a chill pill.
No actually you are totally right and I’ve made a big mistake. I thought I remembered him going to the island, but he just met with him a couple times. His reaction was pretty poor, but I don’t think there’s evidence he went to his island. I’ll edit my comment. Thanks for pointing that out.