The very idea of Christian anarchists would almost be amusing if it wasn't so monumentally stupid. Oh, you reject all authority except for the giant sky toddler's authority? You fight all tyrants except for the one you've enshrined in your religion? You refuse to lick boots except for the boots of your imaginary genocidal fascist in the sky? Well ( Read more... )

This blog does not support the US military. Or any military at all.

Military service does not make you special, or a hero, or worthy of special treatment. It makes you a dupe, a tool of the imperialist agenda of racist violence for the sake of capitalism, and another victim of the shittiness of governments. If you made it through your term of ( Read more... )

It dismays and disappoints me that we've had Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Kim Jung Un and his son, Saddam Hussein, Trump, and a bunch of other nasties, and yet most people still think governments are a good idea.

Not to mention the fact that every US president since WWII would have been a war criminal if the UN weren't a bunch of spineless cowards ( Read more... )

Anarchism is just “if you want a job done right, do it yourself” taken to its logical extreme.

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As much as I want to think a revolution could help change our economic structure to communism, I think it's not going to work out that way. Feudalism didn't vanish until after the plague wiped out most of the labor, making feudalism ill adapted to the new realities of the world, so it got abandoned and replaced ( Read more... )

The thing about anarcho-capitalism that really gets me is that it's a contradiction of terms. If you remove the current government and replace it with a capitalist system where the corporations can do what they want, that isn't anarchism, that's corporatocracy, IE government by corporations. You'd just be replacing one kind of government with a ( Read more... )

I do support marriage equality, but my position on marriage in general is the same as it’s always been. Even as a kid, I never understood marriage, even though my parents had what I thought at the time was a happy marriage. The kind of thinking it takes to think you can and should try to dedicate your whole life to just one person… that takes a lot ( Read more... )

Okay, so this is a case of Fay and I giving each other ideas. Basically, something I was reading and telling her about made her think of how she does pacts with her deities, and then she got this thought about "divine money" that was pre-charged with attention (food of the gods), with their names on and such, to be redeemed later ( Read more... )

I was going to go to the library yesterday, and couldn't, because the library had been evacuated and an area of several blocks around it cordoned off by the police, because there was some nutter with a gun threatening people ( Read more... )

Cop on tv: "People like firemen better ( Read more... )