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Chinese would like a word

Neutral can’t disappear

I am fully comfortable with this style.

$1200 for 19 violations. No wonder people don’t care about the violations. Red light violation in my country is EUR 320 ($367)

Yes, 100 percent. The fact that he’s in exile in Russia is because he cannot get a fair trial in the US. He was never a Russian asset, he’s a whistleblower being unfairly persecuted

TIL

Onze this place gets enough users, it’s gonna be exactly the same.

Speed limiting devices aren’t bad, it’s the GPS tracking that bugs people. I’m waiting for the day Germany finally gets a speed limit and the EU starts asking for a limiter to 140kmh or something on every car

Exactly, how does one even speed there

Or they change the law so that it doesn’t matter who was driving. Unless it was stolen, the owner could still be held responsible. Stop the nonsense

N=1

Oil doesn’t come from wood, right?

Thank you, nice quote.

I do think the hierarchy is the problem, not only who is in charge or how they transfer power. There is always tension between “give the people in charge enough power to get things done” versus “now they have too much power and are corrupt”, but by that point you cannot do anything about it. Democracy allows dictatorships to form in the name of government efficiency or the democratic will of the in-group majority.

If you rotate leaders, you will sooner or later rotate in the dictator. Ruling over others should be unacceptable across the board. This is what anarchists fight for. You can fight for that even if the system you’re living in is predominantly hierarchical. You don’t need to dream about a revolution that never comes, it’s all about changing people’s mindset over time.

The point of anarchism is the rejection of hierarchy. If enough people reject hierarchy, they would all be on board with not filling the power vacuum. That’s why establishing anarchism is much more than getting rid of the current despot. It has to be get rid of all those with power over others, get rid of the concept of hierarchy, get rid of wealth accumulation as power concentration, get rid of anyone even trying to rule over others. They would have no support with anyone, because everyone knows power corrupts and we’re not taking any chances. Nobody should desire to rule over others, if (1) nobody listens to you, (2) people will fight you, and (3) you, like everybody else, knows it’s morally wrong

I’m not saying all of this is practical, but that’s the idea. Dismantling hierarchy is difficult, but still not sufficient to establish anarchist society. People would just build a new hierarchy if not convinced that hierarchies in themselves are the issue

I’m sorry, no, they’re definitely in a cult. Have you spoken to tankies here recently?

which then locks them into an authoritarian trap and detaches them from reality on the ground

You mean like a cult

True. Tankies are in a cult.

Nowhere near. I use it at work, but Brave still outshines it. Most people haven’t tried Brave because of the icky factor of the CEO, fair enough, but then they don’t know it just works without fuss and that’s why people use it. And Android, as I mentioned

Why don’t other browsers have ad blocking as good as Brave’s and also work on Android. It just works well out of the box.

Just wanted to say this is a fantastic question and the people who claim otherwise have bad reading comprehension

Too bad they taste bad