Never said Anarchists are against democracy as a whole, only that they’re against liberal democracies and I’d argue even more so than other anti-capitalists.

After all, it is a form of rule, it directly supports a system that has private ownership/state monopolized violence/social hierarchies, the majority vote can still lead to oppression of the minority (like we see with US, UK, right-wing regimes across the world, erosion of workers rights), etc.

It is critical of liberal democracy, yes, but not all democracy like for instance, democracy in labor unions.

Not really feeling like writing a wall of text, but essentially, liberal democracies are just a form of a class rule of the bourgeoisie (the class of factory/land/business owners) given how much disproportionate power they have over the proletariat (the working class) through their media control, the need for campaign financing, the level of entry needed to even get into politics and connections needed, etc.

Notice how even with liberal democracy that we’re told is the greatest thing since sliced bread or “rule by the people”, the working class is weaker than ever in the west and the world is drifting towards fascism. It’s not by accident, if there’s any actual meaningful change to be had, one needs to act outside the democratic system, action which is inherently undemocratic.

I simplified it, but this isn’t some radical looney tankie take - any Marxist or even some Anarchists might share the general sentiment.

I’m on Linux, using Bottles to run pirated games. It adds a little bit of sandboxing, compatdata is usually a weird environment for malware to effectively work in (unless the malware is written specifically for it), if the game is really sketchy then I’d just disable network access for bottles flatpak too just to make sure.

All in all, I do sometimes have a little bit of paranoia and look through processes to see if there’s anything running and periodically go through some folders to see if there’s anything weird or unusual there, I’d still consider my machine to be safe.

As for the last question, PDF’s are an attack vector and should be used with caution. As for other file types, it depends on the software you use to run them - if it’s something pretty barebones that just plays it then it’s usually fine, but if its something more complex and reads some custom data embeded into those files, then it can be a vulnerability. Not a security expert though, but it’s the gist I got from looking at some historical vulnerabilities.

Hey, I’ve seen this one before

We’re definitely not getting out of Capitalism, especially when:

• The loudest anti-capitalists don’t even know what capitalism is exactly (why read and study it when you can go for vibe based approach) or are outright pro-capitalist but instead pushing for a more “humane” version of it and sometimes fighting actual anti-capitalists.

• Most people are content with accepting the worldview they were born into (the liberal/Capitalist one) instead of actually attempting to examine reality for what it truly is, seek answers and do a double take on who they should be supporting, especially nowadays.

Interesting, verbatim searches work perfectly for me. Maybe it’s some search engine that doesn’t support them? I personally have bing/google/duckduckgo selected.

Searx is good enough if you set up plenty of engines - I do look up quite a lot of stuff and not once in the past 3 months did I go “yeah I need to use google for this”.

All I see here are two liberal parties

I think it’s actually quite a good thing to acknowledge that climate change isn’t going to be prevented, only mitigated in the far future if we decarbonized today and that we’ll have to live through hell regardless, unless some magical solution is found. This kind of rhetoric could actually be really useful and directed towards the minimization of damage like creation of essential goods for use rather than profit, focus on relief methods, start cutting back on emissions to shorten the amount of years future generations will have to suffer through - that kind of stuff.

But of course, the liberals and conservatives in power (likes the ones mentioned in the article) instead pivot towards nationalist brainrot-fuelled defeatism just so companies can continue making profit unimpeded and “bring wealth to the nation”. This is where I would say that it’s the perfect opportunity for people to realize who the true enemies are, that relying on “good” rich and powerful people to fix problems isn’t a solution and more of a facade, and to actually rise up and bring up actual internationalism/international change against an upcoming catastrophe, but seeing the resistances worldwide and how mild they are, there’s no shot this is going to happen unless we all somehow collectively escape the media machine and narratives we grew up with and actually examine the world around us for what it is, rather than thinking in “natural” abstractions we were/are being fed.

Sorry for the rant, but as someone who’s still pretty young, seeing the upcoming catastrophe and it not being taken with the seriousness it really deserves by the people who currently are in a position to change things is sickening.

Usually with Linux, once you start out you’re gonna get a ton of issues and you’ll have to troubleshoot them one by one. However, afterwards it should just be a smooth sailing.

Also as a word of warning from my personal experience, official support isn’t something you should be that concerned about. When it comes to software, when some corporation makes some official version for a specific distribution (like Ubuntu), it usually is made by some B-team and doesn’t work that great. If the program is good, it should be available on most major distros rather than just “an official version for just one” if that makes sense.

Also good call - if one distro is causing a fuck ton of issues, just give another one a try. The main difference for users between distros is what kind of software setup they are going with, and some setups are just prone to issues on some hardware or wasn’t tested properly. Still, I do hope Fedora treats you better.

Sounds like you’re mentally drained after work to be honest. Nothing you can really do about it except play on some days only when you have the energy for it, or on the weekends.

It’s not that the entire system needs to change for this to work, it’s that this working changes the entire system.

Would it really? Capitalism is fundamentally a system of economic social relations, workers sell their labour power to the capitalism and so on - that’s the fundamental of it and all the various institutions inside (e.g. the police, financial sector, etc) aren’t essential/fundamental to the system. They can be changed/tweaked or abolished when the need arises, but the economic social relation between the two main classes cannot be.

Creating some self-managing community that focuses on eliminating the need for police doesn’t fundamentally challenge the system (economic class relations), neither does it really challenge the police as an institution given how they’ll still exist outside that community and, as you point out, is able to crush this community anytime if it ever becomes a legitimate threat.

Community self-management would quickly result in the redistribution (and hopeful removal) of the inequalities

The community would still operate under capitalist system which reproduces inequality - after all, the community does need money for things like food, rent, utility, essentials, etc. This requires participation in wage labour/markets which means there’s still income inequality, inequality in time one has to participate in the community, some people possibly having extra leverage due to private property ownership or their income/education, therefore new hierarchies spawning as a result, etc.

A commune like that under a capitalist system would be good as a survival strategy where the least well off can be supported and be kept over the poverty line (therefore reducing the need for theft but not eliminating it), but it wouldn’t remove economic or social inequality - it will just seep back in from the outside.

The entire system would need to change for this to work though - there ain’t no way that in an unequal society such as ours where not everyone’s needs are met (and crime essentially staying as high as it is today) community self-management would be sustainable.

Often crime is committed out of frustration (like violence born of inequality) or necessity (theft), so imagine being in a community in some larger city and having to deal with this every other day - I’d argue most people would just grow apathetic.

I mean you say that, but…

1. Western world has been living in liberal democracies for 100+ years, yet labor unions are weaker than ever (both in numbers and power), especially when compared to the union zeitgeist 100 years ago.

2. Worker rights are no longer a hot button issue people rally behind, nowadays it’s pretty much all about immigration, LGBT rights, taxation to a certain extent and whatever else. It’s legitimately difficult to find a representative in most countries who cares about expanding worker rights and giving more power to unions - best you can hope for is someone who won’t suppress them.

3. Relying solely on voting to get expanded workers/union rights leads to passivity from the workers (as in them stopping to do anything outside electorialism to fight for themselves), and there’s no guarantee they won’t get rolled back later anyway as history shows, with infamous examples being Thatcher and Reagan administrations.

I could go on and make this unreadable, but essentially electorialism isn’t the way to go when it comes to workers rights or especially when it comes to abolishing capitalism entirely.

That being said, your comment isn’t entirely without merit as there’s not that many movements nowadays actually fighting out there for better working conditions outside electorial politics. There are some international efforts though, like International Communist Party or Class Struggle Action who have helped to organize, keep strikes alive or spread propaganda to help the workers in their fight - small scale action but action nonetheless.

That’s never gonna happen, especially in Germany where the historically largest parties (both socdems and conservatives) can be essentially boiled down to “nothing ever happens”. Hell, I even doubt that Die Linke would be able to do much if they were somehow magically the majority in the government.

If you want a better future, elect people who understand this properly and fight for workers rights.

Oh you sweet summer child…

It’s quite interesting how the way a person thinks isn’t necessarily universal - some people are more rigid in their beliefs which has some correlation with a different chemical balance within brains and vice versa.

However, I’m quite skeptical when it comes to the concept of “ideological thinking” or “being prone to ideology”, as that’s not really how ideology works. Everyone is an ideological thinker, its how we view the world, have it make sense, it encompasses our thoughts and opinions at our most honest, lowest level. If anyone says that they’re not “ideological”, it’s only because they don’t recognize/understand what ideology truly is - after all, the classical definition of ideology is “that which you do without realizing it”.

Having the ability to change ones opinions and be a more “open thinker” can be part of ideology itself - after all, that’s what most people are taught in schools, and is part of the liberal MO (but with lots of exceptions on what can be changed of course, like what is “moral”). Reactionary ideologies promote the opposite view: the perfect world was in the mythical past where all was well, we should turn back time and go back to exactly how things were in that past.

At least from my perspective, a better conclusion could be that those who aren’t as rigid in their thinking can actually change their ideology easier. That’s how someone can step from conservatism to liberalism and vice versa, from liberalism to marxism, from conservatism to ultra-nationalism, but I’d argue that it’s mostly up to our environments to make us disillusioned with our current ideologies/removal of the social reinforcement of them rather than there being something inherent to our brains.

To add to this, Capitalism directly benefits from “traditional family values” where everyone is straight, reproducing, no abortions, women stay at home raising children via their unpaid labor, etc. As grim as it sounds, children to the capitalist system are just future workers ready to be exploited, so any movement that even remotely threaten to make a dent in that (abortion rights, queer rights, women’s liberation) get demonized and are vehemently fought against.

There’s a reason why the current pro-natalist movement is getting quite strong nowadays, and if you look at who supports and promotes them, 99% of the time its business owners.

Funnily enough, the exact same argument can be applied to the progressives who often rally behind LGBT and minority rights to also distract from doing anything meaningful to fix the economic issues.

This essentially results in an endless back and forth between progressives and right-wingers, where the ball is the minorities.

While that might cause a crisis, it’s in the best interest of the state, central banks, the capitalist class who are the most influential to preserve the capitalist system and do everything in their power to do so. They’re not going to sit idly by - there will be restructuring responding to the crisis, maybe even austerity and bailouts like in 2008 (which, mind you, didn’t end capitalism) - things might get tough, there might be a shock but it by no means would magically bring something like socialism.

Capitalism is a system that’s entirely about social relations: who sells their labor, who owns production and how do these production owners use their accumulated value - this is what has to collapse for capitalism to be destroyed. Financial instruments like insurance exist within this framework, they’re not capitalism itself, they can develop and change and they do so regularly in response to crises.