Hey it worked during WW 1 2 ...3?

Was there anyone operating under the illusion that it was bulletproof? Every constitution has loopholes in the same way that all code has bugs: they're written with implicit assumptions about the universe they'll operate in, the rules of interpretation and the people using them. I'd like to see one constitution that doesn't have an "emergency powers" escape hatch.

Expanding the scope of explicit prohibitions and protections only adds more points of failure and contradiction. You can't "solve" a human society any more than you can predict the future.

We've been baggaged with the enlightenment era's struggle for perfect rationality for hundreds of years now. Every political conversation has an implicit (and absurd) backdrop that ideals need to be indelible for all time and policy needs to constantly drive toward perfection. That's the least rational perspective when we now know for an empirical fact that we're ephemeral electrochemical meat sacks floating through a mostly lifeless universe of entropy.

The earth's magnetic poles will flip, super volcanos will decimate agriculture, the moon will drift away, the sun will explode and humanity doesn't have the resources or evolved inclination to escape to terraformed utopias for eternity. These are simple facts. No revolutionary or reactionary political action can change them and no constitutional commandments set down today will be useful to our Nth-great grandchildren in those scenarios.

I'm waiting for a politician to acknowledge that and let us grow past paternalistic feudalism and arrogant 19th century doctrine. Let's treat our future generations as capable equals instead of children; gift them what knowledge we have and preserve the resources they'll need instead of dictating instructions.

Tbf I would trust a lifeguard to murder the bad guys more than a cop

Pretty funny watching the tankie response to this as if it's a huge betrayal and proof that reformist socialism can't work and all candidates are liars and blah blah blah... No mayor in the world has the power to unilaterally arrest a foreign leader unless it's a sovereign city-state like Vatican City. I wonder how they'd react to, say, the mayor of Shanghai arresting Kim Jong Un.

The whole conversation is grandstanding and purity signaling when we should be talking about actual powers held by Mamdani (and other Mayors/Governors). From high level strategies for divesting from Israel to simple subterfuge and disruption of daily fascist operations.

"Sorry Netanyahu, looks like every road to your meeting is now under construction. You'll have to walk through the protesters"

"We have re-reviewed the campaign contributions of Taylor Farms and determined that it wasn't them"

Ah

Every family member works a job and the father has a disability. This is a prime example of how expensive being poor is. You may not have the time to do a deep bathroom clean or afford new paint to keep the mold from getting into the walls.

But yeah the space itself isn't that bad compared to some. They just clearly lack the time/money to organize with proper storage, do regular maintenance and clean

this is just a bad faith thing to do when you are not willing to make a similar effort

It takes very little energy to provide mountains of evidence but that doesn't make it bad faith. Just look around at geopolitics to see it at play.

• 130+ years of posturing for oil reserves
• The power of China's rare earth embargo on Japan
• South American power struggles for Lithium
• The Democratic Republic of Congo holding 70% of all Cobalt
• The majority of global staple foods produced in six sub-regions of the United States, Brazil, China, India, Ukraine and Russia
• The early positioning for Africa's untapped insolation potential
• Brazil, Russia, USA and Canada controlling huge chunks of the world's freshwater reserves while 1/5 of the global population is heading towards permanent drought

There are no "reasonable alternatives" for those resources; you have them or you don't. Not having them puts you at huge disadvantage against adversaries who use them against you.

What inter-community solidarity will stop endless waves of drones with guns from occupying your critical resources? How will your community plead with the subjugated drone makers on another continent when the subjugator controls all media access?

The plainest fact I can see: the people who control the biggest slices of those pies will have the power to extort and subjugate most people, anarchist or otherwise. And as a corollary, the anarchist society will be at an incredible disadvantage against a state bolstered with subjugated labor.

Anarchist are not forcing people to to anarchy when most of them do not want to do that

You're looking right past my question: what preserves a state of anarchy in a sea of state actors? How does a system of voluntary and conditional participation remain cohesive at a scale that can sustain itself in real world conditions, specifically while retaining core anarchist principles?

I'm not opposed to anarchism in general, it makes sense as a personal philosophy and day to day mindset. But I'm baffled by those who believe they can manifest a strong stateless society. I truly don't see how it could be sustained beyond fleeting and niche scenarios. "Go read theory" is a cop out answer for such a basic question.

And unless I missed a section in your reference, none of that touched on my question at all. It's hyper-focused on the internal stabilizing forces of anarchist societies. That's all well and good, but none of it details the specific mechanisms that grant any advantages to preserve anarchism from communists shooting you in the back or colonialists looting your resources.

I've never seen anyone square the circle of how anarchy would work with earth's sporadic and unfair resource distribution.

Imagine one community is built on nothing but arable land and a neighbor is starving with access to iron mines. What material force prevents the latter from subjugating the former with superior weapons?

The arable community "gifts" food? Sounds an awful lot like a Danegeld, and that historically doesn't end well. Some day the harvest will be too little or the ask will be too much.

The arable community defends itself through sheer numbers? Good job, you fended them off, but those people starving in the hills still have better weapons and are still desperate enough to raid; you'll need a group of people to hyperspecialize in violence for defense. So now you're optimizing your society around feeding and arming the defender class... Over time the domestic power imbalance accumulates and one day you look up and realize you've invented feudalism.

You can extend this thought experiment to any set of resources. If you want your anarchist utopia to have electronics, how do the copper mines of Chile not generate disproportionate power for whoever occupies them? What non-hierarchical power equilibrium enforces stability around fossil fuels, rare earth minerals, fishing rights, solar/wind power production, water access, etc... Don't just tell me, show me on a map how it will work.

And when you can't do that, we can proceed to hunter-gatherer anarcho-primitivism. Then you can tell me what power equilibrium prevents the occupation of arable land for agriculture and the reseeding of sedentary civilization and violent hierarchy.

I just want to step back and appreciate the absurdity that, regardless of the cause, voters have absolutely no way to even initiate a replacement process for a senator that has failed to even show up in public (let alone do his job) for a month.

Wow life comes at you fast. I was just talking with him yesterday for roughly 20 minutes about international politics and how healthy he was 😢

Sports have always been political. Look back at history to see states banning everything besides horse riding and archery for military reasons. Look at the Nika riots burning half of Constantinople. Look at the class politics of early professional teams.

"Sports shouldn't be political" is a modern political invention to insulate leisure-as-distraction from the burning and looting going on all around us.