Fair enough - it would seem we’re disagreeing over how we’re framing his argument. I’m looking it at in a way where he’s showing up for a meeting regarding the repeal of the corporate tax and speaking out against it; but I guess I can see where someone could interpret it as requesting government intervention in the…

If that’s how you want to believe it, that’s your call. I just think that saying because his political belief system doesn’t align with the system he lives within means he can’t speak out against government actions he disagrees with is kinda fucked up.

I don’t think you understand that anarchist philosophy goes deeper than the surface level knowledge you have of it from mass media, and that speaking out against a government giving another tax break to a corporation actually aligns with what most anarchists living within a capitalist society believe in. Then again,…

why are you quoting dictionary definitions of anarchism at me when I literally said he was an opponent of a centralized government, i.e., anarchy? i literally already gave you the broad-based philosophy of it in my original post while you were looking shit up on dictionary.com. and obviously since he’s a veteran, his…

Millions of slaves died in the name of capitalism.

so you’re basically saying that since he self-describes as an opponent of a centralized government, he shouldn’t have any say in how it works, am i right?

wow so amazing that you could be so stupendously wrong in the first six words of your post. so, by your definition, a societal grouping isn’t a “civilization” unless there’s a fully entrenched ruling class, eh?

Your Cliffs Notes version of anarchism apparently missed the fact that Marxism & anarchism came into prominence during the same era, and that the major split between Marxists and anarchists like Kroptkin and Bakunin was on how to run a society *after* capitalism was defeated, not on how to defeat it. That’s why an…

Ah, okay, so basically what you’re saying is that since his political beliefs are diametrically opposed to the political system of the country he lives in, his opinion on how things should be run shouldn’t be heard. good to know.

few things to unpack:

what, pray tell, makes him an idiot, other than your preconceived notions about how he identifies himself politically? i thought we were against purity tests, after all.

Gonna steal that “Hey, my ass is in the jackpot if I do this” line for any future declination of risky behaviors.

Customs and Border Protection agent Jeffrey A. Rambo

shout out to all the dips in here obsessing about how this dude self-identifies politically and using that to gloss over the substance of his message ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

way to make the whole thing about you and your feelings and minimize OP’s original point

where the fuck did all these “not ALL white people” crawl out of this morning?

he says, while posting on the 11th article with the “NHL” tag since Thursday.

isn’t there a story where members of Pantera dented it as well?

I started to make this exact point and couldn’t have worded it any better than you, and I wouldn’t have thought to put the pin on it in such a perfect way. Bravo.

I wouldn’t exactly label the trapper and asshole. The gator was running around a residential neighborhood. Maybe they don’t want it eating little kids?