PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Alt account of PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org. AmeriKKKan anarcho-communist.

Still not voting in your goddamn elections

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Cake day: January 9th, 2026
  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexustoFlippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Me when I have to explain that the state is not a self-regulating system for the 100th timeEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Is it not a self-regulating system though?

    nerd shit

    So in this comment, and anything in response to it, when I say “government”, I mean the entities I and other anarchists typically call “the State”. I reserve the word “state” in this comment for its definition in the theory of mathematical control systems.

    I study feedback control theory, and many aspects of the government can absolutely be analyzed as feedback systems. For example, the “pendulum” effect when the government gives “too many” or “too few” breadcrumbs to proletarians is an example of self-regulating behavior based on state feedback.

    My objections to the existence of governments are that:

    1. The objective governments use to calibrate their self-regulation is biased in favor of the capitalist class. Governments are basically not controllable at all from a working class perspective. Frankly…most governments have devised crappy political systems. From a dynamical systems perspective…most world governments work on crappy control algorithms, even to achieve capitalist goals.

    2. Even if the state of the government was controllable or partially controllable from a working class perspective, the government is categorically unable to achieve, and practically unable to approximate, liberatory outputs. I.e., the government structurally cannot force anarchism to happen, even if it wanted to.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexustoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Operation Orange ChickenEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Shame is a powerful motivator.

    It’s really not, quite the opposite actually.

    I think I’m more pro health than fat phobic but I haven’t done much research into the topic.

    Look, I am morbidly obese. Is my weight healthy for my body? Hell no. Not even close. But people shaming me for my obesity… it’s not gonna help me lose weight. It’s not gonna induce me to lose weight. It’s just gonna make my life harder for no reason. It’s not as if I don’t know I’m obese. That fact, in fact, dominates my entire existence. It’s more obvious to me than anyone else in the world. I do not need a reminder.

    But there’s a further dimension to fat shaming. Namely, that just because someone has a little tummy does not mean that they are at an unhealthy weight. Conversely, not having a tummy is not sufficient to determine that a person is at a healthy weight. I.e.: fat shaming is not just morally wrong, it’s not even healthy advice. This is really a special case of the fact that fatness is socially constructed, and its current construction reinforces various other bigotries, in particular white supremacy and sexism, because white women’s bodies are the ones for whom these definitions are calibrated.

    Anecdotally, there were a few years of my life where I was actually living a “healthy” weight. I looked far too skinny for my body, I looked like garbage, and I felt crappy. People in my life who begged me for years to lose weight were all of a sudden begging me to put some weight back on. I had to put back on about 20 more pounds. And the weight/BMI that was actually healthy for my body back then would be considered slightly overweight. Now, obviously I have gone way overboard, but if I manage to get back to a “healthy” weight before I die, I’ll probably have to stop at a slightly overweight size.

    So if you really want to help people achieve their weight goals, whatever they may be:

    • Do not fat-shame (or skinny-shame).
    • Do not pressure people into losing (or gaining) weight unless the person specifically asks you to do so (some people choose external reinforcement I guess? I’m not one of those people).
    • Do not ‘other’ fat (or skinny) people. We are all just people trying to live our lives. There is nothing shameful about your size.
    • Do not assume that solely because someone is fat (or skinny) in your judgement implies that they are in good or bad health.
    • Do not shame people for their health or lack thereof. If you want people to be healthy, shaming them is one of the best ways to guarantee they won’t be willing to work on it.

    And I really want to close this by tying it back to the OP. Personally, I am an anarchist meow-anarchist . My opposition to Donald Trump has everything to do with his work as the figurehead of the AmeriKKKan Empire, his pedophilia, his class interests, and his actions to achieve these class interests at the expense of the proletariat; and nothing to do with his weight. In particular, I literally would not care if someone looked exactly like Donald Trump but was otherwise a completely reasonable person.

    It should be incredibly easy, cathartic, and fun to make fun of Donald Trump for all the ways in which he actually is a monster. Typically, shitlibs can’t do that because they would have to confront the fact that their politicians want to do or have done 99% of the same things, so they immediately go for his weight. So if your worldview has any daylight between it and Donald Trump’s, there really should be more interesting things to mock than his size.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexustoMemes@lemmy.ml•New meme format just droppedEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Where it says Liberals it should say Capitalists.

    Nah, liberals are awful in many different ways. Fractally, even. For example, liberals regularly side with fascists against anti-fascists. Liberals diffuse righteous proletarian anger into milquetoast electoral politics. Liberals clutch their pearls at the slightest whiff of change. Liberals don’t fucking listen, and are smug to everyone else about their ignorance. Liberals are just as bigoted as conservatives but are too cowardly to be open about it (do not take this as a defense of open bigots like conservatives; it simply makes them an easier enemy to identify). Liberals are just as openly imperialist and settler-colonial as their conservative counterparts. Liberals are capitalist, and any deviations from laissez faire are attempts to save an inherently unstable capitalist system. Both times Trump won, it was because the liberals ran the most rank neoliberal shitheel they could possibly cram down the electorate’s throats, i.e. we are in Trump 2.0 because of the Democrats. And that almost fucking happened again with Biden, like Biden barely won relative to the monumental daily public fuckups by the Trump admin, including his ass-backwards response to COVID-19 (from which Biden did not materially depart!) (Not that Biden or Obama were any better on 99.9% of issues; e.g., the Gaza genocide started under Genocide Joe, and Obama is responsible for the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands of civilians during the War On Terror.) I could go on and on and on.

    Frankly, AmeriKKKan liberals are fucking monsters from my anarchist eyes. So are conservatives, I know I have to keep saying that because apparently the evilness of AmeriKKKa was always invented just now in the minds of liberals, but oh my God, liberals truly are a monstrous breed too.

    And I know we were all liberals at one point, it’s the monoculture in AmeriKKKa and other Western countries…all the more reason why socialists of all stripes need to be empathetic to liberals looking for change, but firm in opposition to liberalism.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexustoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•is something better than lemmy?English
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    6 days ago

    Liberal democracy is a vile anti-democratic institution (and I don’t necessarily even think that direct democracy is the best or only method of horizontal, anti-authoritarian decision making without extra information; i.e. upholding democracy as the be-all end-all of “all power to all the people” is itself a lack of imagination). Almost every imperialist power today is a liberal-democratic state. Liberal democracy is a resounding success at what it is designed to do, which is oppress the proletariat and entrench capitalist hegemony while giving the superficial appearance of proletarian representation to gullible liberals.

    And no actually, proletarians should not be paying a single goddamn fucking penny to capitalists or their demonic governments as long as they use our money to destroy us, doom our ecology, and just barely maintain the social services or infrastructure statists claim that these institutions are supposed to provide, which incidentally, half the bourgeoisie doesn’t even want their governments to even give the workers enough crumbs off the table to buy proletarians’ compliance!