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[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 17 points 2 months ago

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-governmen

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon#Private_property_and_the_state

Some good reading to start with.

One of the main things to take away is that there's a difference between personal property and private property.

Personal property are things like your clothes, your home, the items you use regularly.

Private property are things you own but don't personally use, don't take real responsibility for.

For example, if you have the money, you can purchase a factory. But a factory is too large an item for one person to ever claim they personally run the whole thing and take full responsibility for. There's many people involved in running a factory, from cleaners to accountants, do they not also take responsibility for their part?

If the factory could never run without all of these workers, can the owner really claim that the factory is theirs? It is everyone who works there's. Why then does the owner get to keep all the money the factory produces? Because they stumped up some cash a few years ago?

The owners are smart enough to pay you for your labour. Maybe even a bonus for a successful year. Some benefits maybe when people start unionising and demanding more. But at the end of the day, the owner still gets the vast vast majority of the profits despite not putting in the vast majority of the work. How is this fair?

I've run out of steam now, it's been a long day, but if you genuinely meant your comment in good faith have a read of the links above.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are they just going to proscribe every organisation they disagree with as a terrorist organisation now?

Direct action on military equipment isn't terrorism by any stretch of the imagination.

I keep repeating this, but this is a LABOUR government?!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you me?

I had a very similar experience, except it involved them running after me and trying to punch me in the face, after I'd walked 5 minutes down the street.

Then a few weeks later they messaged an "apology" saying we're both to blame that things got out of hand.

Fuck Trump, fuck Farage, fuck Republicans, fuck Reform, fuck racists, fuck hatred, fuck intolerance. I just want my dumb, funny, stoner friend back, but that's not possible now that he's a hate filled arsehole.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

These clauses added to the Bill yesterday grant powers for police to access any online account and the information within it, on approval of a senior officer, through a seized phone or device.

Any online account. So Instagram and TikTok, but also NHS accounts, banking apps, work accounts, they have carte blanche to just rifle through anything and everything that you've signed into? With no judicial warrant required.

America may be openly fascist now, but the UK isn't far behind.

And this is under a Labour government.

If you have any left wing leanings, vote Green in future, convince friends and family to vote Green.

Labour are authoritarian and the Lib-Dems will sell out any principles for a whiff of power. The Greens might have some shit candidates, but they at least support proportional representation and not starting a police state.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lmao, the internet has gone to shit. My search results brought up no mention of that at all. Thanks!

For any other dumbasses like me, here's the full thing: http://www.gphistorical.org/mlk/mlkspeech/

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I didn't think it was that hard at all, he's in the news every day!

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

The Other America appears to have been written by Michael Harrington, so why is this posted with a picture of Martin Luther King?

And it was published in 1962, not 1968.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago
[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Iran is authoritarian and brutal but this is the first I'm hearing of genocidal.

Got any examples I can look up?

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Replace psychopathy with autism and you have RFK Jr.

You're a fucking Nazi and you don't even realise.

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