LOGIC MIRAGES COMPILATION ๐งต
Logic Mirages is a writing project I started with the idea of trying to take a sledgehammer to widely accepted truths about reality. This thread will compile each of the posts in the series along with a brief summary.
@shaun_vids
Granting them complimentary subscriptions isn't illegal, but saying they "verified their phone number" might be, since it's clearly a lie, with the intent to misrepresent the popularity of a product.
@A_Skoteinos
These ppl like "oh so you agree with whatever the corporations tell you" but then get mad when anarchists smash Starbucks windows and loot Walmarts lol
MLs who think On Authority refutes anarchism are the communist equivalent of those televangelists who say "if evolution is real how come monkeys still exist? checkmate atheists ๐"
The fuckers are well on their way to commodifying our entire consciousness. Keep the progress rolling, and soon we literally won't be able to imagine an end to capitalism even in our wildest dreams.
@g_abe0
This is wild especially bc the people who are actually closer to supporting CSA are the ones saying โI should be able to violate a childโs autonomy because I am an adultโ
@anarchoboognish
Just because something was coined in one context doesn't mean it can never be used in any other context
Demands to speak the name of a person murdered who the media & mainstream culture want to forget or erase are way older than that hashtag anyway
Amazing how many so called "anarchists" wring their hands at the phrase "taxation is theft" just because it happens to be popular among ancaps. The sort of knee-jerk partisan nonsense that's the legacy of the political compass.
Taxation could not be any more obviously theft.
I think Illegalism is one of, if not the, most crucial strand of anarchism because it it subverts and undermines the State's most important tool of control - the obedience brought about by their illusion of omnipotence, and the belief in the moral obligation to obey authority.
Look, I find most anti-theism rooted in dogmatic humanism intertwined with the "civilizing" projects of colonialism, but let's be absolutely clear, every Catholic Church would be better as a burned out husk & public bathroom
Calls to regulate or ban drugs, pornography, or anything else really based on the need for "a functioning society" cut to the essence of collectivism as I understand it: people's lives are not their own, but should be limited by their need to be "functional" parts of a machine.
@Braydon71104
I disagree that nostalgia is inherently reactionary, but I do think the weaponizing of nostalgia is a key element of fascism.
Basically not all nostalgia is reactionary, but all fascism is nostalgic.
@BitterTier
Average liberals tbh. But on the bright side, we don't have to worry about anti-gun liberals actually doing anything about it, because they're unarmed and their idea of "doing something" is voting harder.
@elmforkJBGC
I always find it funny how many ppl are surprised to find that fascists don't actually care about the 2nd amendment or consistency or law.
They literally just want to be the boot. They want to be the only ones w/ guns so they can exercise power.
These ones are just honest.
Hot take but unless you have a very good reason, homeschooling should be illegal. Too many parents use it to abuse their children, keeping them ignorant and easy to control.
@AFC202203
@PoliticsLs
Not even remotely, there's evidence showing that police are far more violent towards left wing protesters than right wing protesters.
@WUTangKids
There are many, many cases of modern warfare where state of the art armies, including the USA, have been defeated by guerilla insurgencies using improvised explosives & inferior equipment.
And the US Army wasn't even being told to bomb places where their families lived.
This is actually wholesome and forcing kids to interact with adults when they aren't comfortable with it sucks. Also associating introverts with mass murderers is messed up
@quiddie
In the comments:
"hey now Aabria, be sensitive to the literal monarchist who presided over a colonial empire and helped whitewash and sanitize a long history of genocide and massacres, and who actively maintained racist hiring practices and apologism for slavery."
@jnyboy
Normally I'd feel some ounce of pity for someone with that sad of an existence but honestly not even a tiny flicker of empathy for this guy. Snitches get what they deserve
There is really no faster way to out yourself as a useless liberal than to declare people like this as "mentally ill."
You're both absolving them of personal responsibility for their choices, and villifying some of the people most often subjected to State violence. Nice.
@PrinnyForever
@Sovereign_Beast
Anarchists don't necessarily believe in the total abilition of structure, but rather that it should not be implemented from the top down. Views on anarchist military organization are numerous.
@FelineVamps
I'm always amazed that even in supposedly anti-fascist spaces dorks will come out of the woodwork to defend PewDiePie, an unfunny streamer who has used racial slurs multiple times, dropped dogwhistles left and right, and oh yeah paid some guy to hold a sign saying "kill all Jews"
@moonlit_misfit
The belief that nationalism is actually good for colonized nations leads to a lot of apologism for state violence by the governments of those nations
In the eyes of the leftists who support this thinking, "self-determination" applies to states and not individuals.
@TheExiledDuck
I'm not anti-space exploration at all just anti-billionaire funded space colonization
Most of us are mostly reliant on state & corporate infrastructure here on Earth but there are workarounds.
Imagine every building, bite of food, and breath of oxygen being provided by SpaceX.
@g_abe0
heard this today:
Anarchy without government is chaos
Government without anarchy is tyranny
Anarchy and government in balance is utopia.
thoughts?
MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security โ a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country.
We need more resources to secure the border. Not less.
@PragMaticLeftis
"I can't understand why the left is mad about Destiny streaming with Nick Fuentes, he was attacking all his positions."
2 days later
"Look, he's a Christian White Nationalist, not a 'Nazi,' whatever that means."
Lol
@Contextual_Tap
@halomancer1
Rich people control the government and corporations, which control the world
If they are not the machine, who do you think is? Lmao
People always ask "if the State were overthrown, what would prevent new governments from arising?" and the answer is ultimately a fundamental shift in how people view authority. The belief in the morality of authority must be undermined. Illegalism is the perfect way to start.
The term "nanny state" doesn't come from nowhere. Liberals literally view the State as a parent. The police officer's gun & handcuffs and the prison guard's baton, even the military's bombs, are just the unfortunately needed hand of the loving disciplinarian.
Just want to say this analysis seems pretty clearly correct to me, and the dichotomy between Lee et al and folks like Peter Gelderloos attacking her seems to be: whether you think abuse and DV are all some accident, a malfunction, or a system of oppression working as intended.
Therapy can help with plenty of issues but what it does not do is change someoneโs values and ideology. You can give an abuser insights into their trauma, work on communication skills, etc. and what youโll have is a more insightful abuser with better communication skills.
@PoliticsLs
In addition to all the ones on the left who should be on the right, they're also missing Suharto (Indonesia, ~1,000,000 state murders), Jorge Videla (Argentina, 30,000 murders), Hugo Banzer (Bolivia), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), etc etc
@CarmineSabia
@OLAASM
"Robbed"? She held the place up and threatened the employees? You sure about that? You sure you're not just completely making that up to justify government enforcers shooting a pregnant woman?
@AltcoinGordon
@Cobratate
@mataneven
Very essential contribution to the conversation
Very glad your Twitter Blue subscription put this incredibly insightful comment at the top
@anarchoboognish
Orwell wrote one of my all time favorite novels but he was absolutely despicable as a person and there's no sense denying it
I truly don't understand why people have to simp for ppl on a personal level just because they like their writing
@Jedellion
@quiddie
"I'm not racist, I just care more about a wealthy white monarchist who upheld and represented a centuries long history of colonialism and genocide than the victims of those colonial practices who are still alive and suffering today." ๐คก
@MoeJurano
@ProudSocialist
That's not what happens, though. The state exists to protect the wealthy. The government has no interest in hunting down the rich, any more than police departments have any interest in positive reform to reduce brutality.
@PoliticsLs
The left-right spectrum is useless because everyone seems to have a different idea of how each side is defined. Some ppl think left vs right is individual vs collective, some think it's big vs small government, some think it's hierarchy vs equality