Hey now, I’ve never denied being suss!

There are some ensigns, but lieutenants are still suspiciously missing!

I… that… it… you see, I…

[ahem]

Excuse me for a moment.

THEY’RE ONTO ME

Sadly, while I used to be told I looked like Jesus when I wore my hair long, my hair is neither long at this time nor am I in current possession of a pug due to apartment limitations. 😔

Apologies for the Americentrism (and poor quality editing lmao), but "I don’t believe that user has ever been to a military academy" just didn’t hit the same for me.

I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall.

I feel like “It doesn’t start until everyone else starts” is a bit of a problem.

When does it start?

Luckily, there are a lot of bricks available, and any excess for one purpose can be easily converted to the other with a flick of the wrist. Use to your hearts content! 😊

Slam dunk, lmao

This is very much incorrect, on… multiple levels, but most notably the idea that the Japanese military is under US command. The fuck?

All identities are arbitrary though.

For that matter, nationalism was *anti-*reactionary in its strongest period, in the 19th century.

Nationalism is reactionary today because it is established, and anything already well-established is a target for reactionaries, who use concepts with pre-existing attachments to dupe useful idiots into thinking that the enemies of the reactionaries and the enemies of the establishment are one and the same. Nearly any period of significant political or cultural upheaval will show that simplistic narrative flies in the face of facts. But they aren’t targeting engaged, politically aware folk. They’re targeting people who are scared and don’t want to think about it too much.

Not that nationalism is all that great to begin with. But it’s not particularly different than any other conception of identity.

Yeah, buying rifles from Israel is less “Israeli technology now being used on Filipinos” and more “Additional support from the government of the Philippines to Israel.”

Hack the planet?

I mean, I agree, that’s just not the angle most people are attacking from when they say “Anarchism can never work”

Most people mean ‘worked’ as in ‘functioned on a basic level’ rather than ‘survived outside military pressure’, though. When they say “Anarchism doesn’t work”, they generally mean “Anarchism, as a socio-economic system, is inherently non-functional” rather than “Anarchism can be destroyed, or has never lasted against outside forces.”

[anti-anarchist purges ensue, resulting in the victory of the literal fucking fascists]

“Phew! At least we stopped those dangerous anarchists from functioning!” - People Who Use Terms Like ‘Anarkiddie’ Seriously, Probably

What if I don’t believe in the inherent worth of human beings?

What if I believe some people, like Nazis, are worth less than non-Nazi human beings?

Ableism is bad. I’m just not sure that ‘inherent worth of human beings’ is the reason to oppose it. Some human beings, like Nazis, have qualities that legitimately reduce their worth. Other human beings, like the disabled, do not inherently have qualities that reduce their worth.

The question is less about inherent worth of human beings, and more about what qualities are legitimate to judge a human being on.

Forgive me for bringing my favorite obsession into this, but I’m always reminded of Ancient Roman discourses on nature.

Romans sometimes noted that such behaviors as ‘speech’ and ‘wearing clothes’ were unnatural. Rather than a criticism of these behaviors, it was only a casual observation - that which is natural and that which humans find useful are not always one and the same.

Even if greed was human nature, to the exclusion of altruism, that would still not make it the best course of action to enable. Something many capitalist apologists seem to ‘forget’.

Adam Smith is a gateway drug to communism! 😭