artificialfish

Because an organized state will always overpower it. And history is a story of power.

I always say, show me the theory that allows anarchists to maintain a complex network of nuclear armament. You can't "anarchically control" the nukes.

People just never really come to grips with the era we actually live in. We live in an era where a spaceship could throw an asteroid at the earth, or where a guy in a garage with an axe to grind could release an extinction level bioweapon, or where a computer program made by a skilled hacker could decimate power grids and kill millions. We are terraforming the earth. We are in a society that is much closer to godhood than to primitive man.

Exactly, like trump didn't gain any significant increase in voters, democrats didn't show up. And now we are here. And now they want to become terrorists. Like you literally just had to show up, why should I trust you're gonna show up for "the revolution" now?

And fighting the US government is like fighting the weather. If they wanted to, they could literally drone strike you. We are fighting powers that are basically like gods these days. People let that sneek up on them. NOTHING like WW2, which still required the entire western sphere to militarily engage with germany, not some rag tag civilian groups.

Armed resistance, as it always has, can only actually come from the military. They are bound by oath to constitutional defense. So... maybe?

But IRL, if you look at history, civil unrest does not stop these things. They are stopped ultimately by wars with foreign militaries. All successful revolutions have monied and powerful interests backing them. You and I aren't doing anything without joining a state sponsored militia. That's just how the game of history is played. I opt out. I'd rather live in the woods than fight in a civil war.

TBH dude, data privacy only exists when you destroy your technology. If you are on a cellular network, or drive a car, you are tracked. Your home is registered with the state, the traffic cameras know where you go, your phone sends signals that can track you, and they can since 9/11 get your call data.

The trick here is to simply learn how to protest in a world where you are tracked. Your ideas are as good as mine to figure out how to do that. I genuinely don't believe you can anymore.

Democracy was never a good idea. Trump won democratically. People are easily manipulated by populists.

Unfortunately republics and totalitarian states are also bad ideas.

And anarchism doesn't work.

So just ride the wave of history. Let it take you. This is what it's like to be alive, fighting one monster just to make something that will one day become a different monster. Infinitely recurring. Enjoy the fight, that's what being alive is about.

Tech unions now

So they are mass murderers. Good thing they didn’t rob a convenience store or they’d be in jail for life.

This is literally just a tokenization artifact. If I asked you how many r’s are in /0x5273/0x7183 you’d be confused too.

How are they gonna block tor? Does tor even use dns? And people just make a new random name every month so they don’t get cut.

So something I want to point out: plain text encryption exists. Cyphers and the like. You could have your instance use all the standard stuff but with a really hard cypher, and it would work everywhere. Then you just need a front end to read it… but then the cops could read it… oh public encryption makes no sense.

Secure Scuttlebutt is the way

However, if they become regulars, I think they eventually find communities they’d rather identify with.