LACVNA @ossifrage@cybre.space

I got a switch! Been playing animal crossing and Untitled Goose Game. Any similar casual/goofy Switch games I should know about?

I always felt like liberals learned the wrong lessons from Prop 8.

The absurdity of prop 8 wasn’t that a “liberal” state voted against gay marriage or that it took a Supreme Court ruling to overturn it. The absurdity of it was that our government is set up such that a matter as personal as marriage was somehow a matter for the state, democratic or otherwise.

From the excellent essay “The incoherence and unsurvivability of non-anarchist transhumanism”

Liberal democracy is doomed to eat itself and we must disabuse ourselves of the idea that “let democracy sort it out” is a meaningful answer to problems of social and technological change.

Nothing perverts the soul of the human animal quite like patriotism, actually.

(From “The Iron First Behind The Invisible Hand”)

The mutualists have some good points, actually. (From “The Iron First Behind The Invisible Hand”)

Anyways. I've been reading anarchist theory recently. What the hell else am I supposed to do when I'm stuck inside.

The perverse thing is, he has a point. Everything under the sun, from ideas that we patent, to things we pull out of the ground, to things we manufacture, are traded by on a market for profit by entities that have legal ownership over those things. It's not hard to argue that water is basically the same.

Therein lies the problem. This is what the Vote Blue No Matter Who clowns need to understand. The problem isn't that the Nestle CEO is mean and greedy. The problem isn't that we don't tax him enough. The problem is that we have a legal and market system that is arranged in such a way that you can argue that water is a foodstuff to profit from, or that you can kick people out on the street because they're poor, and those arguments are fundamentally coherent.

Remember that whole "Nestle says water isn't a human right!" thing? The argument the CEO made was basically "well, we sell foodstuff on the market in order to turn a profit, water is a foodstuff, why the fuck is that somehow different?"

How many liberals will baulk at the idea of companies like Nestle privatizing the world's water supply, arguing that water is a human right essential to life? How many liberals argue that environmental regulations are vital because the air and the soil is a shared resource vital to all? How many of those same liberals shrug when someone is kicked out of their home because they can't afford rent? We're all entitled to clean water and clean air, but when it comes to making sure we have a roof over our heads it's more complicated? Pick a side.

I saw a bunch of liberals on the internet defend landords and calling rent strikes "rent theft" and now I'm very grumpy. Rant time.

Harper’s has a very good article about the Socialist Rifle Association and the importance of arming the left. Please read it. CW for discussion of transphobia. https://harpers.org/archive/2020/04/good-guys-with-guns-socialist-gun-club/

Seriously. Read it.