• db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    1 day ago

    Sadly You’re not the real adult in the room. You’re just a smuglord who’s way too high on the smell of their own farts.

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      Sadly You’re not the real adult in the room. You’re just a smuglord who’s way too high on the smell of their own farts.

      Legit, I thought you took your instance more seriously than this. This is basic covering-your-ass shit.

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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        I am not inclined to seriously discuss our instance with people who act obnoxiously.

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          I am not inclined to seriously discuss our instance with people who act obnoxiously.

          Well, then I hope you find someone non-obnoxious to discuss it with. Because if you’re actually interested in dbzer0 as more than a hobbyist project that breaks when-it-breaks, being able to address and head off legal issues is core to the long-term survival of a site. Whereas acting like being wary of the laws of forces that absolutely can royally fuck your site is fundamentally unreasonable rather than a very real threat that must be addressed one way or another is a great way to get… well, royally fucked.

            • Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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              Exactly. Foucault argued that you can tell when a group has been subjugated, because they start to self-police according to the oppressor’s rules. From a liberal perspective, the state is desirable, so an individual internalizing and following the state’s laws is desirable.

              But from an anarchist perspective, the state is oppressive (and especially so for a fascist state) so internalizing and following the state’s laws is tantamount to self-subjugation. And following the laws of a fascist state is acting in support of the fascist state.

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                20 hours ago

                Exactly. Foucault argued that you can tell when a group has been subjugated, because they start to self-police according to the oppressor’s rules. From a liberal perspective, the state is desirable, so an individual internalizing and following the state’s laws is desirable.

                I didn’t realize anarchism meant never picking which battles to fight at a given time and arena.

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                    Running a public website of any sort is an incredibly vulnerable position. You can’t ‘run’ or even meaningfully ‘fight’, all of your information is ultimately traceable back to you, and your main asset is at the whims of the institutions of capitalist society. The more ‘battles’ you fight using the website as a means not just of organization, education, and agitation, but of a challenge to the law itself, the more your website’s effective lifespan will be shortened. In any area which one is going to challenge the law itself using the website, one should be prepared for that fight, not simply as a one-off “Fuck you pigs, I don’t answer to your laws” (which anyone who has attempted with a cop squad with a judge-signed warrant outside of their door can assure you is ineffective), but with meaningful arguments and preparations within the context of the society we are fighting these battles in.

                    Put another way - running a mutual aid nonprofit is generally not the time to give the middle finger to the government on tax filing status, helping immigrants evade ICE is not the time to be flagrantly breaking traffic laws, and a soup kitchen for those abandoned by capitalism is probably not a good arena for challenging sanitation regulations. IF you are going to pick any of those additional fights, you should be prepared, not simply dismissive on ideological grounds - it might warrant the dismissal on ideological grounds, but on practical grounds, you are headbutting a 20 meter-thick brick wall and saying “It’s me or you!”. The end result is not in question; only the timescale.

                    You don’t have to like the law to use the law against itself; you don’t have to be a supporter of the rules of the game to use them to protect yourself. But refusing to acknowledge their existence in a society where the law remains extremely powerful may sate your ideological urges, but it will sink all your ideological projects.

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                  There is a group of Lemmy users that use the “law” to justify their censorship behavior and demands.

                  It is getting tiring.

                  But sure if instance owner doesn’t wants young people posting on there, they can just block. This silly reasons are just silly though.

                  Just say you don’t want to deal with it and move on.

                  This appeal to authorita is disingenuous IMHO

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                  It depends on your opinion. Anarchy isn’t a prescriptive unitary ideology, and it’s got a lot of different things behind it and subgroups and whatever. You can have Stirner’s Egoist perspective on laws, being that you just follow whatever laws suit your own ego, or you can have the Illegalists’ perspective on laws, that they’re all worth breaking.

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              I don’t think he does, I think he’s just your classic bootlicker who fundamentally is against everything that dbzer0 stands for, maybe us leftists as a whole too. After looking through his history I have a hard time believing he isn’t an alt-right troll.