it's almost like "woke" has always meant aware, and being anti it is being willfully unaware of how the world work
"guys, did we do this? was this one us? i'm kinda freaking out over here"
welcome to doublethink
as a Kentuckian
- unacceptable
- unsurprising for Louisville. always wanting the credit for virtue signaling when everyone else is doing something but doesn't want to put in the real work to make things happen
- a possible sign of what else is to come in western kentucky and southern indiana
even just a bus cuts down MASSIVELY on the harm done by our car society, even while being a car on a road. the real solution is communities designed around walking and running, bicycles, and high value mass transit like rail.
one of the most frustrating things has been the fact that the smuggest EV people have been wealthy suburban dwellers who have as a class resisted mass transit ever since the car lobby propagandized us to believe car is freedom
very. there's mass gatherings in Lviv and Kyiv even with the elevated risk of death by shahed. Ukrainians ars making it clear: they genuinely will fight to the death for their freedom. using one authoritarian to justify another authoritarian will not be allowed.
america's prison system is not designed around rehabilitation, it's designed around a failed doctrine of deterence. really, though, it's designed to manufacture consent from the unenslaved to enslave the most on the fringes people in our society.
anarchism is a flavor of libertarianism, yes, contrasted by anarchocapitalism by its belief that money is a form of theft and power. i believe in the dissolution of the state and the removal of capital power. in the places this has been attempted all at once it has failed miserably. the key is to take a wide view look at everything and to at all moments act in accordance with what would get us to the desired end target of a stateless, cashless, egalitarian society where everyone's needs are met not for economic incentives but instead for social benefit. the goal, effectively, is to learn the lessons of pre-colonial societies and then implement those lessons to create a post-colonial society.
that's the desired end target, yes, but we're realists. we view our role in the world to pull the levers of power we have access to to get to that end target. libraries are repositories of free knowledge, tools, and entertainment. you'll encounter a lot of anarchists arguing that we must immediately disband the police, but almost none arguing we must immediately disband the library.
so in our current place of existence public libraries are proof positive that the collective sharing things is a good and natural positive and that charging money to just exist isn't a positive. librarians are also as a whole very dedicated to helping people develop knowledge and skills that help them navigate the hellscape we're all forced to exist in.
you say no true anarchist would support a public library, i say no effective anarchist is that dedicated to purity.
libraries are both proof that anarchism could work under the right conditions AND a great place to meet anarchists
your own horrific actions
it's almost like people on the margins should be trusted more than state propaganda or something