I guess Trent got Closer afterall

You guys are the only ones being aggressive, methinks you are projecting.

wow only 7 Fs in the French flag in hex code? Disappointed

Originally it came from highlighting how people did things unprompted, like “nobody asked her to do this but J. K Rowling said that wizards used to shit their pants and magic it away”

But now it’s turned into nothing more than a signifier that this is meme, like using “pov:” when the accompanying picture is of the subject

“Liberty” under capitalism is freedom to exploit and hold private property

No, I mean liberty as in the freedom to live your own life, such as my previously mentioned LGBT-free zones

I am not speaking strictly in a ML capacity, by “state” I mean country or government, and the term is not meaningless because (unless you believe every state is equally oppressive) it can still be used to measure relative liberty

It’s not a contradiction and it’s not about the United States’ foreign policy, it’s about the differences in restricted expression between states. Would you not agree that a country that has LGBT-free zones are more oppressive than otherwise comparable countries?

You can think all states are authoritarian and acknowledge that some states allow more liberty than others, so bringing up that all states are authoritarian is a whataboutism (“You think that state is particularly authoritarian? But what about the inherent authority of all states?”)

well the OP image had a whataboutism energy, like “you criticize a state despite all states being bad” and like I said I don’t think that kind of attitude is helping anyone in the context of discussing more or less oppressive governments

I don’t justify all the actions of western governments, and I don’t identify as an anarchist, what I meant was that I agree with some principles of anarchism

Burden of proof? I never claimed anything except “different people have different interpretations,” do you need a source for that? You are extremely desperate for conflict, and I’m not interested.

It’s not an ad hominem, and it wasn’t a counter argument, you were being unnecessarily rude when you could have just said “that’s not anarchism”. My counter argument was “that’s not what I said at all”.

You can really do better

Ironic.

If you’d like to define anarchism instead of playing debate club, I could let you know if that’s a label I agree with.

you can’t just say “Anarchism is whatever my heart says it is”,

That’s unnecessarily aggressive, and not what I said at all.

That’s not how definitions works, especially for a political ideology.

Were it so easy.

Okay well that’s why I defined how I would identify as an anarchist

Well “anarchist” can mean a lot of different things depending on the person so I find it more useful to just say what I agree or disagree with.

In a “dismantle unjust hierarchies” sense, sure, but I think states are inevitable when people make a society.

I like some laws.

Pretending that there isn’t a spectrum, of governments restricting liberty or expression, isn’t helping anyone.

That’s a hooker