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[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Most of the time people are pretty cool, but when people aren't cool all the cool people need to be like "hey, that's not cool, so be cool or you need to leave" and thus the coolness is enforced.

[–] weeeeum 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Additionally because of game theory, a "rat" will always exploit everybody's chillness. It'd be great to not spend a cent on the military but Russia is a rat that uses this opportunity to invade its neighbors. Inevitably you will have to invest in some kind of law enforcement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anarchist movements have military as well, in need they can pick a commander to lead them whose power can be dissolved at any time even without finding an alternative commander. Commanders power is not enforced and anyone can not listen to them. These armies where most efficient in the past, but they were most of the time defeated because both right-wing and so call "left-wing" communist fight them. This is what happened during anarchist movement in Spain, which no one seems to talk about.

[–] weeeeum 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd be more concerned how to disarm the military. Giving someone power, and them willingly giving it back never works. There have been times when a country had no effective military and mere civilians banded together but these were very rarely effective combat forces.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Exactly, that is why no anarchist believes in giving someone power that they can't take back at any moment. That is exactly the anarchist point of view, you don't give other people power, no matter what they say they will use it for. Power of a commander can be purely on a voluntary basis, many native american tribes lived exactly this way. Most of the prehistoric humans lived this way. You can choose to follow someone more experienced, but that is purely your choice and at any moment you can just simply step-away if you disagree. No one is saying you can't look for inspiration for making decisions in others, but you should never agree to follow someone whatever choice they make. All armies are made of mere civilians, we are all just people. It is just that some are more experienced then others, for example, by having formal military training or being a veteran. In those situations, people naturally listen to those with more experience, as long as they seem reasonable. Furthermore, you can have formal combat training in societies without rulers as well. So having mere civilians banded together is not a trait of anarchist society.

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[–] Nfamwap 3 points 10 months ago

This guy cools

[–] WaxedWookie 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] rhacer 30 points 10 months ago

Absolutely works for me that's a very anarchistic take.

[–] ChemicalPilgrim 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You ever been in a room where one psychotic person seems to set the whole tone? That's the world without governments. Anarchy inevitably leads to misery, so let's come up with the best government we can.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I thought about this for some time. An anarchy would always collapse into governed state.

First, imagine the perfect scenario where there no authority and world is just a lot of tiny city-sized communities. It would take just a single bad actor to form a state, start invading neighboring communities and growing in power. In response - other communities would be forced to group into increasingly bigger states to have a chance to oppose influence from bigger/richer states.

This thought experiment also works if violent takeover is replaced by economic one. Think of cartels and monopolies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Until they hit another group that is either bigger or stronger and opposed to their way of doing shit. Really no different than how shit works now. Because you certainly wouldn't be free to murder and steal and rape and enslave or whatnot even in an anarchistic society; people who don't want you doing that shit would stop you or punish you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And some of those groups would form some ways to manage shit and conduct wars, leading us probably back to governments.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Citation needed. I think we'd be fine.

[–] ChemicalPilgrim 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

No where on earth has anarchy, the places that have it for a few days spontaneously develop order through gangs, warlords, or the intervention of more stable societies

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Being president should be like jury duty. Everyone has to do it eventually. And it sucks just as much so everyone tries to weasel out of it.

[–] evidences 8 points 10 months ago

I've done jury duty once, my group didn't even get called into the court room so the worst part was just listening to the conversations of 50 other people bitching about how they had better things to do, such children.

[–] RizzRustbolt 2 points 10 months ago

"I can't make it to D&D tonight."

"Why not? Are you afraid of the beholder fight?"

"No man, I gotta be the President."

"Aww man that sucks... Well, try not to nuke anybody, I guess."

[–] Maggoty 1 points 10 months ago

It's legitimately a fucked up job for most people. You're on call 24/7, the stress is so bad you can literally watch presidents prematurely age, you have to smile at people who make you want to puke, and you are legitimately trapped in the security circle.

Yeah there's a lot of perks but I'll keep my application to myself.

[–] HollowNaught 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I wish people would just agree to be nicer to each other ;-;

(I got yelled at by my boss the other day, can you tell?)

[–] nifty 15 points 10 months ago

Your boss sounds like a turd! I don’t understand people who do that. I understand being frustrated, but yelling is a grade school response.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Bill and Ted. Joni Mitchell. They knew.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

-Peter Kropotkin

[–] RizzRustbolt 14 points 10 months ago

In this thread: people that don't know how to be cool.

[–] taanegl 14 points 10 months ago (11 children)

...WHAT?! ... SAY AGAIN...?!

I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THIS POWER VACUUM!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah well that sounds great, but people tend to be pretty horrible and selfish assholes rather than "just being cool." I'm not sure the President is much more than just a figurehead most of the time, but I've seen people try to start "be cool" communities that always ended up failing.

For one thing, some people wanted to do things that disrupted the sleep of others, for another thing, some people wanted to go around naked while others didn't want to see them running around naked, and some people wanted to have pot parties, whiles others found it disgusting. Eventually it all ends up withg people at each other's throats.

I think it'd be a lot easier to just be cool if people could really just be cool and not hyper-upset and offended by everything all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That is what happens when a bunch of rich kids try to play equality, while actually growing up as spoiled brats. In true egalitarian societies, which were the norm for 95% of humanities history, people live extremely equal lives where they HAVE to be nice to each other. When you have no choice but to get along with others, you have to take care of other peoples feelings or you can get kicked out of your group and left to fend for yourselves, which in nature is a death sentence. Or since there is no police, just straight up murdered by someone else.

No one is naturally nice, but when you live together with other people, you are forced to be. Unless you have rich mom and dad where you can go back to, if others aren't letting you do what they did.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok. I’ll even share my snacks with you guys.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You bring chips, I bring soda

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I'll bring queso!

[–] AeonFelis 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm conflicted. I'm worried about sociopath taking advantage of the lack of government, but on the other hand I'm not sure it's worse than the current solution where said sociopaths are the government.

[–] Maggoty 4 points 10 months ago

In most systems where you can end up with no Prime Minister / President for a temporary period* the civil servants keep going. So it's not like there's no government.

* Usually it's because political parties are having trouble forming coalitions or a run off condition in countries with a history of electoral uhh ... Shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Don't worry, it is a lot harder for sociopath to have control over people in an already free society then in a society where you can use already existing structures of control to gain more control. Never forget, that in a system with no police, anyone can kill you if you try to hurt them. Where there is no state goverment, the people are government. And people make far more effective police to actually protect themselves then these selfish fucks.

[–] Duamerthrax 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Poland managed without an elected government for about a year. Heard it was nice.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At some point Belgium didnt even had a government so its completely possible

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

There's a guy who was really into bread who wrote a whole book about this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That is how you end up with someone like Dwight Schrute as a boss.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's how you get a Chairman.

Once they get comfy, they're quite hard to get rid of.

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