TinyPizza

Many would say that stateless socialism is the premise of Anarchism. Stateless largely refers to organizing hierarchies horizontally over vertically, and this is due to the overarching critique that vertical hierarchies result in corruption and rank inequality. Check out Communalism and the works of Murray Bookchin if you’d like to know more. There’s also a fair amount of talk about “pure democracy/direct democracy” in these circles and personally I think that Digital Direct Democracy could be the cure for the cancer in all the worlds modern democracies, if it ever takes off somewhere.

The pizza as medicine makes it too real.

I recognize those dead, glazed over eyes! They look like mine. Oh…

I’m pretty sure the both sides take is being lifted directly from the US politics shit show and is probably an early fall back position to diffuse argument and lessen culpability in the aftermath of war crimes. I’m with you though, there’s a lot of crocks in relatively proximity.

Oh and on Ukraine. No? Well, maybe Alex Jones?

No, I’m a disused blender from a Margaritaville. They let me use the computer in the managers office.

New hot take in the rhetoric war: Both Sides

What a crock of shit.

from the article

And then there is the trauma. When the fighting stops, the cost to children and their communities will be borne out for generations to come. Before this latest escalation, more than 800,000 children in Gaza – three quarters of its entire child population – were identified as needing mental health and psychosocial support. That’s before this latest nightmare.

1,000,000 children are being denied a livable present and future. The clock is ticking. Please call your local representatives.

bobby fingers. You’re welcome :D

When life gives you especially cute doggos, you keep them good floofers. That dogs looking at you, asking with their eyes “you’re seeing this right? This is all the time for me. If I take a nap I will dies.”

So much stress in that poor adorable face.

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Here’s something I can tell you that’s not a hypothetical.

20 years ago I watched thousands burn, jump and get crushed to dust live on a classroom TV. Our leaders agreed that there would be retribution no matter the cost, and the ones who spoke out against it were called cowards. In retrospect, I think so much of the anger people felt was because with all our supposed power and might, in the back of their minds they couldn’t feel safe anymore. These people whose identities had become so entwined with boastful national pride were ready for their glory to be restored with the suffering and death of others. It didn’t matter who did the dying. We’d given ourselves to fear.

The world stood behind us and over years and then decades the body count climbed to a number nobody could know. We poisoned the land of the people we killed with depleted uranium in everything from tank shells to breaching charges and the rate of cancer deaths is still rising in those places. Do you know what America got back from its campaign of horrors?

Nothing.

What exists in the wake of these “just” crimes is a world no safer than it was before. The war on terror likely made far more terrorists than it stopped and the freedoms we gave up never came back. The terrorists won. Their goal was to undermine our society and its status in the world. And they did just that with a handful of people.

Israel has already exacted it’s blood cost. It’s already doubled their number of dead. The world doesn’t have the same sympathy for this thing anymore because so many know where it leads. If it doesn’t bring itself back from the brink then it can only lead to more years and decades of killing. I know this ain’t great to hear but when people are saying to level Gaza and it’s people once and for all does that not ring in your ears like someone saying their extermination is the “solution?”

Knowing what I know now, yeah, Israel should have done just slightly more than nothing. You should have showed the world your pain and your attackers your humanity. If you truly wish for peace than what better time than when perhaps you could have had sympathy from some across that fence. Wars don’t solve anything. They just get people killed. I know that advice or opinion seems impractical but there has to be a moment where some people demand an end to the violence. None of us know how big that group would have to be or what they could say to stop the killing but they could.

It only took a few hundred people 20 years ago to undermine the worlds remaining superpower. They couldn’t until they did and the same goes for those who would demand peace. I’m not sure where you’re from or what you’ve seen in life but I can tell you as I age this thought is only becoming clearer. We have a choice in these moments. I only wish that I could go back and put my voice with the cowards that knew these things back then.

The only offensive war worth fighting and the only war that can be won is for the hearts and minds of your enemies. Defensive wars are a different story but lets not mince words on the difference between an incursion, an invasion and an occupation.

This is the entirety of my perspective, so I’ve got really nothing to add. I truly have tried to give you a genuine answer here so take it or leave it but that’s where I get off this conversation.

Cool, more gross shit to read. Thanks pal. You get top marks in the how to be an unapologetic monster creative writing class.

It’s sad, you probably think you’re doing Israel a favor by excusing what they’re doing right now. Make sure to do your part and send a bunch of “stop hitting yourself” t shirts to the dead Palestinian woman and children so they can remember that they had it coming.

Zealotry has warped your mind. The validity of my message and analogy stand. I find it truly sad how little you value human life, to the point of mocking the murder of civilians. Hope that you come to terms with the utterly vile nature of what you’ve said some day.

it’s not 1/1, but it makes the point just fine. There’s never a justified excuse to commit reprisal attacks on civilian populations. There is no moral ambiguity there no matter how you frame it. What happened to Israel was wrong. It does not give them a license to commit the same senseless murder. A war crime is a war crime. A genocide is a genocide. End of story.

There were certainly people there before them just as there were people after. I find that viewing things on a larger scale than we live on helps us appreciate that the world does not belong or yield to us. It was there before we walked it and it will be here after were gone, so the flawed view that any one people has a right or claim is to me personally laughable. It was viewed similarly by those indigenous people you spoke of.

Countries don’t stop bad actors and they don’t protect the weak. They protect the interests of the ruling class and provide means of control. In this very situation it would appear that nothing is stopping the obliteration of Gaza. Boundaries, countries, walls and the like are just means to segregate and divide. It could be racially, economically, religiously. Whatever you like. As long as we keep propping up these institutions we will never get any closer to peace and unity on those human scales you’re so concerned with.

Governance doesn’t need to be tied to borders or countries just as hierarchies don’t need to be organized vertically.

Did no one live on that land before the Jews? How about we just get rid of countries, borders and religious claims to lands? How about as transient beings crossing through reality at a pace that barely even registers on the geologic timeline, we just give up this whole idea of possessing everything for that short blip of existence?

Or, you know, lets not and just keep wasting this precious little time we have playing land murder roulette.

So a Polish-Jewish student shoots a diplomat in Paris and as a response you expect us to not allow pogroms?? Really?

If we go hard revolution I feel like we end up getting fucked by who ends up on top, regardless of the views they support. We potentially end up with a new government and a new system of government, but that machinery also takes forever to get functioning correctly. I think it takes a lot more time in the long run than stacking victories for digital direct democracy and getting it incrementally implemented. The reasoning being that changing it from within still allows us to functionally address the evolving problems we’re currently facing and the cascading effects that are soon to come.

If digital direct democracy can prove itself highly adept and quickly adaptable at addressing these problems then maybe its widespread adoption becomes preferable even to those who stand to lose power. If it’s revolution in the streets then so be it. But what if instead we can inspire a choice in humanity to believe in each other and move on to the next era of civilization?

I fucking hate Milton Friedman, but he was known to say that in times of crisis and stagnation society will grasp for any ideas that are just laying around. Here in the states that grotesque piece of shit used that to ram neo-classical economics and neo-liberal policy into the heart of our society. And that was mostly on the back of stagflation and a made up gas crisis. People here have been ramping up to eat each others faces for 8 years and if we can simultaneously shock the status quo and make the narrative creators stumble then maybe it’ll be enough for people to see that exit ramp and opt to take it instead.

I’ve been knocking on doors talking to people from both sides of the spectrum and when it clicks in their mind that there’s a way to have no more politicians or political parties or people telling them how they’re going to live their life (civil rights and liberties excluded of course;) there’s a look on their face that makes me want to keep at it. Taxes as low locally as they can possibly be? Go right ahead and they can all see where dirt roads and no schools goes. Turn 1/3 of the local streets into no/low car areas? Pull up your municipalities budget and see if you think the data makes it a compelling community investment. We can democratize these devices and information systems at our fingertips to actually give us the ability to wield collective power with perspective and guidance based on unbiased data. If that can be harnessed by a single state, province, or region and run for long enough, I think it will begin to spread faster than we might think.

Humans are tool and culture based animals. It only takes one to see another doing something before the act of benefit is repeated. People who saw some of the first wood and cloth planes fly also saw motherfuckers landing on the moon. Maybe this can be like that but with a purpose. Imagining what happens if a unified humanity had unlimited support for arts, science and technology gives me goosebumps. More than anything I wish that’s where we could get to and I think DDD is the path that potentially leads there.

So, I’m not sure feddit can message backwards to the alt because it never came through. I’ve tried using a different fediverse platform now that I’m hoping will work? No worries, lets keep at figuring this out.

Sent a message on an alt, as my instance wasn’t cross compatible with yours. Let me know if you get it.