Isn’t “the state” just cultural mechanisms extended beyond familial or interpersonal ties?
This is “community”
“State” refers to a group of people that feel entitled to rule over others and use violence to do so. To help ensure their power they create laws that make their violence legal and give it names like “law enforcement” and make your violence, particularly violence to protect yourself against them, illegal. This typically goes along with enclosure leaving people nowhere to escape the state.
There’s a threshold where the group becomes too numerous for a member to form social ties with all other members.
This is true but does not on it’s own lead to the formation of state. Without dominator types successfully taking advantage of the situation, it could just as well lead to loosely connected communities. Also, the size of early non-state communities was limited to ecosystem provided resources (i.e. they were inherently sustainable), our populations are not because we found fossil energy.
Domination and “the state” are not equivalent, but it takes the former for the latter to come about. Domination without the state has always existed on some level, I think that pre-state societies had cultural mechanisms to prevent dominators from taking over.
You’re thinking of things wrong and it’s leading you to silly conclusions.
Voting for president is not about voting for the person that will solve of our problems.
Stop looking to the state to solve our problems, that is not it’s purpose, it does not have this ability.
Real problems are solved by people.
Voting for U.S. president is a strategic choice we’re allowed every four years, choose the option that makes your life and/or job easier. If you’re really concerned about genocide, choose the option for president that will make your job of anti-war activist easier and safer.
Understand that many of your anti-war allies are LGBTQ, and that if Trump wins, he is almost certainly going to make it much harder for your allies to survive, let alone be activists. Why would you throw your allies under the bus to make an ideological point like 16 people on Lemmy will see?
The point of voting is not to choose the candidate that will fix everything and give up if there isn’t one, it’s to choose the the option that will make your life easier, even if just a little. If you want the world to be a better place, one candidate will make your job risky and dangerous by putting left wingers in prison and supporting right wing violence, the other wont. Why make your life/job harder because you’re upset or frustrated? Why harm your LGBTQ comrades with your apathy?
Genocide Trump: Yes Biden: Yes
Make life hell for LGBTQ at home in the U.S. Trump: Yes Biden: No
I want them to see they cannot hold power without the left.
Ok, I get that, but if the Democrats don’t win, who does? Obviously the Republicans right? Is that an improvement? If Republicans destroy democracy (as they have been crystal clear about), what use is sending messages relevant to electoral politics?
This is heavily promoted by mainstream media and language
Anarchists are pacifist
Many people seem unable to comprehend how a community might defend itself without a standing military and so assume we must be unwilling to defend ourselves.
Nothing can be accomplished without coercion
Because most of us have grown up within strict hierarchies coerced to do things we don’t want, we have trouble imagining any other way.
I’ve heard the same, I also know he’s a liar and drugs were known to be all over the White House when he was president. I can believe he doesn’t drink, but his personality and behavior (e.g. working/tweeting hours) say cocaine to me.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mistake” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people....
Agree, feeling entitled to a whole other species to direct it’s evolution for our own purposes is wrong on it’s own*. To then let “less desirable” animals die in favor of “more desirable” for what amounts to a fashion choice for most people is sickening.
While we should not perpetuate the domination of other species, we should care for those animals that need our help.
I talk about how human population is a fundamental problem and get pushback from people saying we can make enough food, everyone needs to be vegan and we all live in cities with buses etc. But this ignores many problems, and this is a perfect example.
It’s impossible to feed 8 billion people without everyone going vegan (which simply isn’t going to happen) or industrial agriculture treating animals like objects.
While I believe I have the right as a living being that nature evolved into an omnivore to take the life of another conscious being for food, I don’t believe we as a society are entitled to abuse another species of conscious beings and waste their lives as will certainly end up being done here to cull the flock.
I think constantly bringing it up to people all the time is more of a disservice.
The trans community is tiny, I’m an almost 50 year old trans woman transitioned over 20 years ago. The reason we have the rights we do is because it’s “brought up all the time”. When I transitioned, it was rarely brought up, this was because most people were scared of the social and economic consequences of doing so. This is all changing because we talk about it rather than be quiet and let people keep us down. I’d imagine even you might have more negative views of trans people if the only exposure you had was from talk shows promoting us as freaks, this is how it was before.
Other than that, your attitude is fine, not everyone needs to be interested.
Sure Ok, now their part of the deal – the corporations making and selling this food agree to (they’d need to be forced to of course) stop propagandizing us, manipulating us, addicting us, and lying to us.
Everywhere I am there is a guy running a leaf blower. At my house, leaf blowers everywhere all day long. At work, of course, leaf blowers blowing dirt and allergens into the air. It’s such a special noise, it goes through walls and headphones so effectively. They are the most pervasive, annoying things on the planet. I hate...
Oh, what about when there’s like 3 or 4 going in the same yard, sounds like that Tibetan Monk chanting with their motor rev going up and down.
I hate them, but we use gravel a lot here to save water and can’t think of a way to keep gravel walkways clear without blowing debris. Brooms, rakes, etc don’t work in this case.
Windows 10 EoL is fast approaching, so I thought I’d give Linux a try on some equipment that won’t be able to upgrade to Windows 11. I wanted to see if I will be able to recommend an option to anyone that asks me what they should do with their old PC....
Why do Windows users feel entitled to the free labor of others.
I don’t think open source developers should feel obligated to chase after “normal users”, they should just make great software. Linux is arguably the most successful OS that has ever existed, if it’s not dominant in one specific shrinking sector is that the worst thing in the world?
Linux (+ everything needed for a desktop) has been a great desktop system for 20+ years, most difficulties aren’t the fault of Linux, they’re the fault of vendors failing to support and/or Microsoft throwing up barriers to competition.
Growth as an end (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators | Speaking to wealthy donors behind closed doors, he said that he supports Israel’s right to continue “its war on terror. (wapo.st)
Mother Gaia and Humans (geekxgirls.com)
Direct Link: www.geekxgirls.com/article.php?ID=12040...
Oh no, Anarchists! (slrpnk.net)
Trump Pressures Republicans to Pass a Law to Keep Him Out of Jail Forever (www.rollingstone.com)
Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while (newatlas.com)
Netanyahu says deadly Israeli strike in Rafah was the result of a 'tragic mistake' (apnews.com)
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mistake” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people....
X considers "cisgender" a slur, and moderates it over actual slurs (www.salon.com)
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MAGA’s Lies About a Deep State Conspiracy to Assassinate Trump Will Endure (www.thedailybeast.com)
Around 920,000 shelter animals are euthanized annually in the United States, with 390,000 of those being dogs (medium.com)
Almost everyone uses the upvote/downvote button correctly.
Just sayin’
The largest fresh egg producer in the U.S. has found bird flu in chickens at a Texas plant on Tuesday (www.nbcnews.com)
AI is the future (lemmy.world)
What do you just not give a single fuck about that so many people try to make you give a shit about?
Stocks, Investing, Gambling, Bitcoin .etc...
“Deny, denounce, delay”: The battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods (arstechnica.com)
Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the effects of industrially formulated substances....
Actually existing intersectionality: The place-based and embodied politics of animal and human rights activism (journals.sagepub.com)
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I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.
Everywhere I am there is a guy running a leaf blower. At my house, leaf blowers everywhere all day long. At work, of course, leaf blowers blowing dirt and allergens into the air. It’s such a special noise, it goes through walls and headphones so effectively. They are the most pervasive, annoying things on the planet. I hate...
Implications (mander.xyz)
Linux is still not ready to replace Windows
Windows 10 EoL is fast approaching, so I thought I’d give Linux a try on some equipment that won’t be able to upgrade to Windows 11. I wanted to see if I will be able to recommend an option to anyone that asks me what they should do with their old PC....
Google is losing it (lemmy.world)
Back in the 1970s when we switched to unleaded gas, what did the vehicles that ran on leaded gas do?
Did they have to track down leaded gas? Did they just use unleaded? Did they suffer engine knock?