Lydy
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Lydy
@lydy.bsky.social
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That, too. But he's destroyed the Rose Garden and now he's actually demolishing the building and that really feels profound and wrong.
I don't quite know why this is so shocking, but it is shocking. I don't even like the White House, and it feels like a desecration. For the serious patriots and America fetishists, surely this must look even worse?
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
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History shows us what happens when corrupt Kings destroy palaces and temples to rebuild for their golden visions and it often ends in flames and looting and razing when they die, just speaking as an archaeologist here, nothing whatsoever to do with anything modern *clutches pearls*
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Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.
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Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS!

Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot.

Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!
I do not disagree. But how that “authority" is constructed and empowered need not be along the lines of coercive capitalism.
Again, you are assuming ownership, jobs, and resources being allocated based on a market. This is not anarchy.
But to describe anarchism as a system in which we are all subject to the whims of "owners" is to fundamentally misunderstand the entire point of anarchy.
Capitalism is a "sticky metaphor". It alters our ability to think about distribution of rights, goods, services, and luxuries on any basis other than ownership and ability to pay. We won't get out of that trap anytime soon, which is why I don't think we're ready for anarchism.
What you are describing is anarcho-capitalism, which is to say, Libertarianism.

Under anarchism, there would be a community understanding of who was valuable, and who would have access to necessities and luxuries, it wouldn't be down to individual "owners".
To say that something came about organically is not useful in understanding it. Both disease and health happen "organically". We are beings with agency, choice, and discernment. However, you can't ignore the way capitalism has built structures to defend itself.
I mean, medicine and germ warfare are both things that humans have done. Capitalism is a thing humans did, yes. Which they then imposed on other humans. Slavery was a thing imposed on people by people, and abolition was also imposed on people by people. We contain multitudes.
We aren't perfect on that, gods know. But our understanding of who is a person, who should have rights, who matters, has generally been expanding and not contracting. It is one of the things this fight is actually about. Are blacks people? Women? Gays? Trans? The Nazis want to roll it back.
But the thing is, we can strive to be better. What exists now is not identical to any point in the past. What we build will be different than what was. A thing which genuinely has improved over the course of human history is an expansion of who we accept as people.
History is a lot more complicated than that. There have been communities throughout history where power and wealth were more equally distributed. And others where it was much less equitably distributed than now. We tend to cherrypick our examples...I am no exception.
But we aren't going to get there quickly. In the mean time, one of the things government does is moderate the power of capital. (Granted, right now it's not doing a very good job.) We can't get rid of government if we don't have a plan to prevent capital from reinstituting chattel slavery.
To be sure, there is a range of human behavior. But capitalism is a system that privileges selfishness and power-mongering. You will still have greedy and cruel people in other systems, but a system that does not reward such behavior will diminish its power.
Capitalism is structured to put people in conflict, to create shortages, and to require force to protect itself. I believe that a better world is possible. I think that social pressure to be kind and helpful is powerful. Why do you assume that greed and excess are natural?
We are starting from very different assumptions about the Nature of Man. I think that people, on the whole, either like other people or at least prefer not to be alone. I think that cooperation is at least as natural as competition, if not more so.
Seriously, though, name seven jobs you think people won't do, and I'll describe an incentive structure that would make those jobs desirable.
I don't agree with you. I think that anarchy is possible; just that we haven't got the groundwork in place. The thing is, if your only incentive structure is "do this or starve" there are going to be tasks that are hard to get people to do. Which is to say, capitalism sucks.
Oh my sweet summer child.

As an anarchist I gotta say, no. We can't. Not right now. The ground is not ready for that. How do you plan to maintain all the infrastructure the gov't currently maintains?
Also, the video quality of VHS sucked, pan-and-scan ruined many good movies, TVs were too small for letterbox to work... If you actually cared about the art of cinema, it was grim.
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For those asking what this means: There's good reason to believe that Kash Patel is snooping into Jim Comey's attorney client privileged comms.

The investigations of Trump were delayed YEARS thanks to proper attorney privilege reviews.
This passage, from Jim Comey's response to the loaner AUSAs' bid to set up a filter review, seems to suggest they're asking for a filter review that they've already started, and they're doing it under warrants for 793 rather than this case.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
We all do what we can! Also, raising kids is a social good and I appreciate your work!