You might be waiting a while, considering the life expectancy of any historical anarchist attempt is usually less long than it takes for someone to get through highschool.

I think the Dune part 2 is coming out this year. Does anyone know of other non-comic book related movies they’re excited about?

This has a 1950s retro-futurist vibe, probably betraying that deep down, they know the US and Europe failed to bring the george jetson future they promised, and now it’s China’s turn to try. With Fusion power and mars missions coming from China in the next few decades, we’re witnessing massive self-deluded coping from western supremacists. I’m pry overthinking it tho.

Probably some truth to it, at least on some platforms… especially ones obsessed with selling high user counts and “engagement” numbers to advertisers.

iirc a significant chunk of twitter accounts are bots, like over 20%. Probably similar amounts for youtube, reddit, and facebook.

I hate discord, but the fact that discord servers can do their own vetting and application process, and weed out the chatbots and AI noise, has probably contributed to many of them having a closer feeling of “community” than a lot of other platforms.

I def don’t think its a hidden conspiracy though. There are a ton of companies working in the AI space, trying things out, and the big tech firms don’t care about having actual people on them, they care about what they can sell to advertisers.

The best way is to torrent, and not use these privatized services that give you the priviledge of borrowing movies they’ve captured for a fee, and still make you watch ads.

Torrenting is sharing data with others for the good of all; using these centralized services is only benefitting the distribution companies.

Same, don’t read it, but it gives people on opportunity to flex their creative muscles, using characters they already like.

Peertube, torrents.

Youtube front end: Newpipe + sponsorblock.

Haven’t heard of that, but it looks like its crypto-spam with a shiny website.

Radicle looks interesting… a p2p network for publishing and sharing git repos. But it doesn’t look like it has issue tracking, or pull requests, which are the main things a federated system needs to beat github dominance.

Fingers crossed.

Federated code collaboration / issue tracking. IE a federated gitea.

Federated marketplace, ie a federated amazon or etsy.

Federated store / product / service reviews.

The best would be to just torrent music on-demand, then use any music player app you like.

If you want a large library, you could run a music server like navidrome, then get the app DSub to connect to it.

Not sure how xmpp works with message requests, but many IM systems like matrix, you have to Accept the message from the other person, IE the waiting room approach. Email (like real mail) doesn’t have that concept.

Depends… if you’re ideologically against proletarian organization (as is the case for most types of anarchism), then yes.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1869/letters/69_12_10-abs.htm

Marx was coming around to the idea that one of his assertions, that capitalism would break in its birthplaces, was incorrect. It took Engels and Lenin to put a greater focus on imperialism, and formulate a lot of the original ideas around labor aristocracy.

No problem comrade, it takes some time to learn about these topics. Some links on these:

• Is China imperialist?
• On Hong Kong
• On Xinjiang

They’re imperialist socdems.

• https://archive.is/pzWy6
• https://twitter.com/camilateleSUR/status/1193767195031068673
• https://twitter.com/DemSocialists/status/1194298720780791810
• https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1202641283023376384
• https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1253737158764044289?s=20
• https://struggle-sessions.com/2020/04/20/dsa-are-capitalist-pigs/

Jacobin (yuck), but this article is a good one on the new atheists and how they use selective anti-religionism to support US empire.

What prevents any other anarchist grouping from claiming the hierarchy you prefer isn’t justified?

however I sternly argue that that does not necessitate a state.

Lets make this simple: A bunch of oppressed people group together and use violence to defend their interests. What prevents any anarchist from calling that an “authoritarian redfash state”?

The “freedom” of the capitalist class is the freedom to extract surplus value from workers. Should that freedom not be challenged? When workers do exactly that, don’t capitalists and their defenders start whining about the sanctity of “freedom”?

You realize also that socialist Vietnam fought a war against Pol Pot right?