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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • Most indigenous American tribes. Numerous central and south american ones as well. Plenty of pre-written history societies show no signs of forced labor or enslavement. Tons of early written societies as well. Currently existing examples include the zapatistas and rojava. They’ve built societies that are t dependent on a capitalist framework to persist. You can throw a rock and hit one.

    Edit: sorry for the snark, I didn’t check the usernames before commenting and thought you were the guy who was being an ass. I’ll be happy to dig up some links for you in a new reply. If this is something you’d really like to dive into I can’t recommend David Graeber’s The Dawn of Everything enough. It’s a fantastic read



  • Ive read plenty and our modern concepts around economics don’t go back that far. There have been innumerable societies that were able to create generally equitable systems of resource distribution throughout human history that weren’t contingent on modern concepts around economics. If those before us were able to do it with significantly more limitations, there’s no reason we can’t do it (and even improve upon it) now. Try reading some books that don’t lick boot




  • I was a roofer for a few years. In Florida, a state with some of (if not the) the most strict roof codes in the country. It’s perfectly ok to layer shingles like that and was common practice for a good while. I’ve torn off houses with 4+ layers of shingles several times and had the decking be just fine underneath them. You have no idea what you’re talking about




  • Added context because it’s even weirder than that (also CW: gore, and general ickiness) . He cut it off with a fucking chainsaw he just had laying around in his minivan. A minivan that also contained his family at the time. After it was strapped to the roof of the van, his family had to cover themselves up with tarps or garbage bags (can’t remember which) because anytime he would hit the breaks “whale juice” would splash into the vehicle, soaking them in the whale’s decaying remains


  • I’m an anarchist, rules aren’t really my thing. There is no rule to perfectly encapsulate the problem, I’m aware of that. As a matter of fact, I’m so aware that my ideological framework for understanding the world around me is opposed to the very concept of writing such a rule. Human information analysis and synthesis, as well as their resulting actions are infinitely complex and unpredictable. You’re setting me up for an impossible task in an attempt to pull one over on me and make your point. I agree with your point. I disagree with how it should be handled.

    That woman exercised her autonomy to act in the best interest of her community. Her community should be the only ones judging her actions. Not some duckweed manager, and certainly not laws. If her community found her actions unacceptable, then they should be the ones to determine how her wrongs are righted. I very much doubt most people in town would take issue with what she did. We can argue back and forth about what her community would think all night but neither of us truly know. She did.a good thing and she shouldn’t be punished for it


  • I’ll bite. Treating fascist flyers and LGBTQ+ flyers as the same thing is bullshit. Acting like the only fair thing to do is treat someone refusing the LGBTQ+ flyers the same as this person refusing to spread fascist flyers is bullshit. Reasons matter and it’s bullshit that society has normalized stripping the context and nuance out of situations in the name of “fairness”. She shouldn’t have been punished. We don’t have to generalize, we’ve been conditioned to generalize because it reinforces the status quo. It’s ridiculous that people refuse to acknowledge the threat of fascism in actionable ways because it’s “”“”““unfair””“”“”

    Also, it’s not ok for people to refuse to deliver medication on ideological grounds for an entirely different reason than it is to refuse to disseminate fascist propaganda. Postal workers wouldn’t know they’re delivering abortion medication in the first place as it’s sealed in (at the very least) an envelope that does not provide a description of the contents in a way that would reveal abortion medications over any other medication.