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HRT that actually just makes you into some sort of creature

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Quick Message from a friend of mine:

Hello. My name is Colt and I'm currently living with my grandmother to take care of her in her advanced age. I'm between jobs right now ad I'm 900 dollars short of rent. If I don't make this payment my landlord may kick us out, and while for me that is't the biggest deal since I could probably couch surf or something, for my aging grandmother it's a different story.

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"Anarchism is not a set of answers. It’s a set of tools with which to find answers. The answer to “how would anarchist society handle the following,” is “we will organize in such a way that those who are most capable of answering that question will be able to get together and answer it.” I don’t mean this as a vague platitude, I mean it concretely. When workers control a factory, for example, rather than the stockholders, efficiency is increased, pay is increased, working conditions improve, and hours are shorter. In an anarchist society, the people who know how to make and distribute medicine will be able to meet and discuss how to produce better medicine more efficiently, and there would not be the monetary barrier between a patient and her meds, nor the national barrier between a researcher and her peers.

When we say “we don’t know what an anarchist society would be like because we are not yet in one,” we are not being vague or evasive. We are saying that societies ought to be constructed by the people in them. Anarchism is a set of tools and principles with which to construct societies that value freedom and cooperation. We actually do have examples of what those societies can look like, but where we are at now, and where we will be in the future, is not revolutionary Catalonia, Ukraine during the Russian Civil War, or Korean Manchuria. We should not expect to reach the same answers as they did, even if we apply similar problem-solving methods to our problems.

We draw from history–not just from the history of self-styled anarchists like those examples above, but the lived experiences of people who are from cultures that are not traditionally state societies or capitalist. We draw from history to write our present, and to prepare to collectively write our future."

— Margaret Killjoy, "Anarchism and Its Misunderstanders".

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i love communism reblog if you love communism (and hate the state)

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You can tell who's an anarchist for the style points by their opinions on AI art (you're in it for style). The situationist internationale, the Anarchist artists, said 'destroy art as a commercial enterprise and intellectual property is theft' as loudly as possible fifty years ago. and here you are licking the boots of capitalists angry that someone developed a liberatory means of production that puts the power to create art and craft narratives into the hands of the working class

Yeah Intellectual Property is theft. Yeah art as a commercial enterprise should be destroyed. I'm still against AI Art because automation of creative industry would lead to job displacement of thousands of artists, and as artists are displaced their labor would still be exploited through training data, allowing companies to skip the hassle of paying wages altogether. Sounds like you're the bootlicker arguing for "art as a commercial enterprise" here buddy.

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lovb me or hatb me... i am a girlie...

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I'm so far left there's nothing left of me

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hi I'm Mell