Thou shalt not create a machine to counterfeit a human mind.

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  • If people didn’t die, and didn’t need to eat, it sounds to me like they have all the resources they need to survive.

    That would be no different than an anarchist society where people did die and needed to eat, as the anarchist makes sure needs are met.

    So it’s one less burden on the society. Authorities would still be unnecessary. Everyone would only be entitled to what they can use, just like in a mortal society.

    One of my favorite ideas of anarchy is their view of ownership. Property is essentially meaningless. Instead you have possession. When you occupy a house, it is under your possession - for your needs. There is no weekend cabin, there is no beach front vacation home. There is no landlord.

    I don’t know that it would form anything particular, just because of immortality.



  • It will. Hyperinflation benefits Trump, and anyone with a lot of money in hard assets like real estate. He’s been frustrated as shit because the Fed won’t lower interest rates, tarrifs cause inflation, lawsuits can lead to consumer prices increasing, everything in the tax bill.

    His primary goal is to make life essentially unaffordable for everyone, except those that carry out his desires that Jim Crow supporters had wet dreams about.

    The regime has no foresight into what this brings about, You can’t execute 268m people (75% of the population) very easily. You can let disease, famine, political violence do that more you.

    As the population dwindles, he gives more incentives to join ICE or whatever disgusting bootlicking organization he approves of. The Heritage Foundation knows it will work, because the private Healthcare insurance experiment worked. Healthcare, food, housing, etc. will solely depend on loyalty to him and strict adherence to the Heritage Foundation’s acceptable lifestyle.

    That lifestyle will be complex but we already widely know:

    1. women will have as many children as they can and take care of the home. They will encourage this through centers for unwed women to be raped by party members (probably ICE) and give birth (Nazis did this).
    2. People with disabilities will be sterilized or institutionalized where they will meet untimely death.
    3. LGBTQ+ will be persecuted, imprisoned, women will be forced to #1 above.
    4. Non-white people will be forced into concentration camps to be deported, starved to death,
    5. The part that scares me the most is this last big one we know: Men will be taught that they have two purposes, racially and ideologically pure men will be expected to impregnate women (it doesn’t matter how) and then every man will be expected and taught that their purpose is to die in war, die enforcing the regime’s will, or devote any skills/education to furthering the power of the regime.

    Fascism demands an outside group that the law bonds, but does not protect and an in-group that the law protects and does not bind.

    Do not believe for a second that this is “Nazification.” Our southern slave-owning neighbors started this in the 1800s, and is much more complex than what Hitler dreamed of.








  • A large number of anarchists are armed, yes.

    Two things can be true like everything in life.

    Anarchists/radical leftists want a society where weapons are unnecessary. Many are armed until that is possible precisely because the existing establishments are prone to violence.

    Again, pre-soviet Ukraine is an excellent example of this.

    Some of us choose not to be. But that isn’t to say we won’t take up arms, or provide other means of defending ourselves.

    In an anarchist society we would rather work to end the conditions that encourage violence - usually that is inequality. Many people with disabilities can still participate, with no expectations on how they do. Some simply cannot, so we would provide support as possible. Something else to remember is that while people can certainly choose to specialize in a role within the community, polymaths are exceptionally valuable.

    We harbor no illusions that the society is easy to obtain. But that can’t be a surprise giving wars have been fought over taxes.