vapordays

Whether you think voting is any kind of solution or not, people who don't go to the voting booth are definitely not "the problem" -- saying that things are bad because of people who don't vote in a game of shitty choices is a real misunderstanding of the problem

In this episode of, "The population is sick, I wonder why"

It is to protect themselves by gradually removing people's ability to spread information and organize pseudoanonymously

Minimalist is not how I'd describe the endless amount of spectacle and triggering but useless "features" on everything

Republicans turn the ratchet to the right, Democrats block movement back the other way

"These are opposing forces"

Nothing they would actually do. Correct.

"Online options or other locations will maintain existing passport design"

and

they will be "releasing a limited number of specially designed U.S. Passports to commemorate this historic occasion"

from the article

heyyy no need to drag the Grinch like that...

Also can replace "Tucker Carlson" here with any Conservative talking head / "thought leader" "intellectual"

A lot of people say capitalism is necessary and that was what it sounded like, considering the image in OP.

I don't know if the sewage example disproves anarchism and it depends what you mean by anarchism anyways. If a hierarchy suddenly pops up for some very specific purpose or instance, is it suddenly "not anarchism" or "anarchism doesn't work" if so many other things are done effectively in an "anarchist" way?

I'm not personally a strict 100% dogmatic anarchist, anyways. It's a tool and body of knowledge and set of principles

While it's true there is no precedent for this amount of population and this complex of "sewage" requirements before or outside of capitalism, that doesn't mean capitalism is necessary to manage a complex sewage system for a large population. When people use examples like this as a rationalization to say "capitalism is necessary" it is lazy and tunnel visioned. A million other considerations aside, the fact that capitalism is destroying the planet and making and keeping most peoples' lives miserable, pointing to logistical challenges like "who will do this tough job" is not an excuse to maintain the coercion of capitalism's sort of "slavery," wage slavery. We will find a way to manage the "shit" especially since the infrastructure already exists, look, so much of it has been built and can just be managed in a different way. If we ever needed capitalism (debatable of course) we don't anymore.

To me "leftism" when used by leftists has generally come to mean "doing politically ineffectual social cliqueishness" - depsite whatever its true origins and history. Fairly useless and socially divisive, playing into the culture wars, may as well just be a form of virtue signaling at this point