Val

The point isn't arbitrary. It's the winter solstice. It just drifted a bit due to history and stuff.

I saw a post on hexbear about a zionist dbzer0 user. Even made a post in !bloc@anarchist.nexus about it. It's likely others saw this post too.

Definitely not in the case of the USSR. They force-fed socialism down everyone's throats so hard that as soon as they loosened their grip the people rebelled and went as liberal as possible, with russia speed-running the liberalism->autocracy pipeline. The USSR was an imperialist nation that forced its view of the world down its population, attempting to drown out peoples' culture by calling that culture capitalist or fascist, ensuring that people hated them and everything they stood for. (Sending entire families to siberia when they first arrived didn't help)

Even now. FOUR decades after the collapse. There is no socialist movement. No calls to get communism unbanned. All you can do is participate in the capitalist politics. The fallout even extended to anarchism. The people are so thrilled to finally "be free" (read: have people who speak our language rule over us) that any real attempt to challenge the state is seen as weird, not even dangerous. The only reason I'm the way I'm an anarchist is because of the internet and my mother, who is anarchist-adjacent (she handed me the book that turned me anarchist ("On anarchism" by chomsky (we all gotta start somewhere)).

You wanted a more experienced take. Here you go. A first hand account of someone living in a former USSR country, hating it with every inch of my being due to how much it fucked up all leftist politics here.

but yes, they did house a lot of people (including me right now (through inheritance)), and through that improved the standards of living, but that's just something a successful country in the 20th century did I wouldn't consider it specific to the ideology of the country.

The problem with citing dictionary is because they are based on current status quo. When I used it as a reference I got "Let's not let liberals define the words we use" and I agree with that. We need an anarchist dictionary that's wildly used to solve these problem. Every anarchist has their own path, and they have different words. We should try and consolidate as much as possible to a dictionary.

This was told to me by an anarchist who is in this com. They seem knowledgeable about anarchism so I don't think this is ignorance. Rather a genuine disagreement on what leadership is or its role in anarchism.

They also said this:

When anarchists talk about “leaderless” organisation, they don’t just contradict the real-world experience of the working class - they literally contradict the very historical reality of anarchist organisation throughout the ages… which has never, EVER been “leaderless.”

This contradiction is a very, very serious one - and pretending that it doesn’t exist hurts anarchist narratives.

Go full robot: "Estimated timescale for the completion of this task?". I doubt they'll get annoyed at that, might just find it funny, or weird. no, definitely wierd.

Yeah the sub-culture that had star trek as one of it's major contributors is surprisingly welcome to diversity. I wonder why that is? \j

I think it's simply the case of the media that nerd culture grew out of was very welcoming to diversity, setting the standard for the entire sub-culture. I mean DS9 had a same-sex kiss in the 90s, with Dax a gender-swapping alien. I doubt that's a coincidence.

I don't consider it possible for any anarchists to be heroes. They are just people who say message. This is the reason I like V. They even say who I am isn't important, just a person in a mask, not to hide their identity but to erase it.

This is the same reason I still like listening to anti-flag. The message behind the songs remains the same no matter how horrible the person singing them is, although I anyone wants to make a cover version I would probably like that more.

With media you could go even further and put a sarcastic twist on a message and make it mean the complete opposite of what the artist intended.

Yeah. It's incredible how stupid some comments can be when you're tired and not really paying attention to the words you say. Lesson learnt: Always re-read every word in your post.

Accidentally read Ancap as Ancom. Shouldn't post when Tired.

Decided to have a go myself:

Or a vertical one:

And a NB one:

Ok. I think I'm done.

My logic was simply: I need a buffer that is only initialised once no matter how many times the function is called. statics are initialised at program start so they seemed like a good fit. and since I wasn't planning for the function to me called multiple times simultaneously it seemed like the UB didn't matter. (which I think was correct)