yogthos

yogthos , 1 month ago to memes in for all the "anti-authoritarians" out there

The thing is that anarchism fundamentally doesn’t scale. There’s a reason we see central authority arise in every functioning society regardless of its political system. It’s the same reason complex animals evolve things like nervous systems and brains. Large organism need a way to coordinate actions towards a common purpose, and a human society is no different. This is why we see anarchist style societies at small scales, and then as they grow they develop central coordination mechanisms. The fact that anarchist can’t wrap their heads around this simple concept is frankly depressing.

yogthos , 1 month ago to memes in for all the "anti-authoritarians" out there

Just because you have trouble comprehending something doesn’t make it stupid.

yogthos , 1 month ago to memes in for all the "anti-authoritarians" out there

How exactly would Marx denounce Lenin? Or Mao?

You’d know if you read anarchist theory 😂

yogthos , 1 month ago to memes in for all the "anti-authoritarians" out there

The problem with anarchist theory is that it demonstrably doesn’t work. A theory that can’t be put into practice is not worth the paper its written on.

yogthos , 1 month ago to memes in for all the "anti-authoritarians" out there

To this day, nobody’s actually articulated any counterpoints to it, so yeah.

yogthos , 1 month ago to asklemmy in What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

I do that now, but it’s a bit clunky I find. Basically, I don’t really want a calendar, so much as just getting a reminder sometime in the future, and if I have time and I’m in a mood I’ll look at it, and if not then I snooze and it’ll pop up later sometime.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Putin pledges truce if Ukraine exits occupied areas and drops NATO bid, likely a nonstarter for Kyiv

lol that’s true, they will go on to make clowns of themselves regardless

yogthos , 1 month ago to asklemmy in What's an idea you have that should be an actual thing?

I’d like to see a reminder app that figures out how to space out your reminders, and if you nooze a reminder then it gets slotted at some random future date.

I find I end up making reminders for shows I want to watch, books I want to read, etc. These don’t have any specific day associated with them, but I do want o get to them at some point. So getting a reminder once a week or so to check out one of the items on a list would be really nice.

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to worldnews in US Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen

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yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Putin pledges truce if Ukraine exits occupied areas and drops NATO bid, likely a nonstarter for Kyiv

That’s the thing with propaganda, it can work for a while, but material reality always wins in the end. I find liberals in particular tend to be susceptible to this because their ideology is rooted in idealism. There’s this idea that you can just invent reality in your mind, and the material world will conform to it.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Putin pledges truce if Ukraine exits occupied areas and drops NATO bid, likely a nonstarter for Kyiv

I think it was a very calculated move actually. He did this right before the Switzerland circus, and it forced the west to say that they reject peace. This shows the rest of the world that it is indeed the west that wants the war to keep going which makes it impossible for western diplomats to go around claiming that Russia doesn’t want peace.

yogthos , 1 month ago to asklemmy in What do you all check instead of the news?

lol I’m definitely in the news checking to pass the time boat :)

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to technology in America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring

If by commit suicide you mean grow faster than any G7 economy making Russia 4th largest economy then sure.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Putin pledges truce if Ukraine exits occupied areas and drops NATO bid, likely a nonstarter for Kyiv

What’s amazing to me is that this stuff is now openly reported in western media, and we still have people running around talking about Russia collapsing any day now. I suspect that a lot of the people who got really invested in project Ukraine stopped paying attention a while back, and they’re just regurgitating the talking points they memorized two years ago.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Putin pledges truce if Ukraine exits occupied areas and drops NATO bid, likely a nonstarter for Kyiv

Sure, here’s a prime example of him being completely wrong about Russian economy and the effect of sanctions www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEpk_yGjn0E

Here’s him being completely wrong about Russian industrial capacity making an absolutely hilarious claim that the conflict could be over in months or weeks www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ptG1IxZ08

Here’s one where he claims that NATO is not going to run out of weapons for Ukraine, which is now happening www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CmXz8Qd9yw

Here’s him completely misunderstanding the Russian military capability www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKewF8_SiIs

These are just a few examples of him being proven completely and utterly wrong. The fact that you think his analysis is spot on shows that you’re living in an invented reality crafted by the propagandists whose content you consume uncritically.