GrandmasterFrank @ sergio @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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You claim this is steampunk, despite the fact that everything is powered by clockwork.

You clearly aren't reading my posts, and are just looking for a reason to be upset.

There are no degrees of being authoritarian

That's simply just not true, some states can restrict more liberties than others.

“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

This

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

What works would you recommend?

:3

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

idk, I guess some flavor of socialist? DemSoc? I've never really sought out the perfect label, I prefer to just be pro/anti specific concepts or ideas.

I have no idea what this means

Yeah that's true, I haven't done any anarchist reading, but I've had numerous alleged anarchists explain things differently, so I just said which aspects I agree with.

I'd be more willing to engage with criticism if you didn't use words that don't make sense in this context, leading me to believe you don't know what you're talking about.

It's not shitty or hateful, your anger is the intended outcome; this is a satirical edit of a Christian hate-meme to display how hateful it is when applied to Christians

I never claimed to be an anarchist

are just liberals who like to have an edgy/faux-radical flag and symbol (you),

cool ad hominem but I never claimed to be an anarchist

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

I don't really use the label "anarchist," as I said I like some laws and I think states are inevitable, the thing about hierarchies is how some (alleged?) anarchists described the principles to me

Thank you

And as I said it is ok that they are fighting for their interests

No, it's not. When their interests are destructive to free society, it is not okay for them to fight for their interests.