Keep on disassociating from someone who is trying to make you think about the result of your actions, that’s exactly how grown up people act and that’s gonna make associating so much wider when you’ll find yourself alone in your fiery outrage. A perfect example of a pizza cutter kind of anarchist, all edge, no point.

You talk about agricultural projects which feed thousands in cities where MILLIONS of people live. You talk about cooperation but you don’t consider those who are unable to cooperate due to age, health conditions or any ithe reason. You talk about changing the system but you offer nonviable alternative other than “break it all down and hope for the best”. I’m sorry, I can’t be bothered with auch juvenile ideas of revolution, they would only bring death and suffering for too many people to be considered viable. I hope you’ll grow up sooner rather than later and realise that we can only hope to improve the situation when we will learn everything about the positives of the current system and how we can keep them while discarding everything else.

As for myself I’ll be living in this hellish capitalist system as you will until it won’t collapse on itself or until I’ll die, it rest to be seen what happens first. But I’ll be living in it with the clear objective of improving it without needing to kill hundreds of thousands of people during that process, thank you very much

anarchism is all about mutual association. so yes, anarchist communities would be made of people who agreed to be a community together. this is basic.

Being considered worthy of living in a space you so kindly have cut out of the external world is not association if you still haven’t realised that.

what a first-world mindset. many places in the world still operate like this, you’re just so comfortable in your way of life you don’t even think about them. I would encourage you to break out of that mindset, and show a little interest in the wide world around you.

And still I wouldn’t want to live like that. Our goal as a specie should be to elevate those living in hellish scenario like the one I described and that you so eagerly wish for all of us. Maybe this hasn’t crossed your mind since you must be very young and fairly able bodied, but not everyone is capable of living in conditions where safe drinking water is unavailable and the best health care is relying on the phase of the moon to ingest the medicine cooked up by a wannabe shaman. It’s not about being comfortable, it’s about making everything better for everybody, for Christ’ sake. You want to see millions of people die while you gloat about your helm and your ditch sorrounding it? Go for it, but at least don’t call it “solidarity”; call it for what it is: egoism and main character syndrome.

yes, crops do grow in the cities. many cities are turning to urban farming in order to feed people. singapore is a leader in this, because they have a very large population with very little area for anything, let alone farming food. with not only private citizen-grown farms, but also the worlds first commercial rooftop farming company. and it’s not just rooftops, farms are appearing indoors, sometimes taking up entire floors in some skyscrapers. in cities in china, such as chongqing and shenzhen, urban farms and gardens are very common, and shoved into whatever small areas they can be put into. i’ve seen them in alleys, dead space between buildings, on rooftops, hanging from the ceiling, and even on top of concrete walls in the form of potted crops.

but it’s not just asia, places like new york city are also mandating green spaces on top of some skyscrapers as well. those can take the form of parks, or farms, depending on the preferences of the building owners, as long as they are natural plants. furthermore, many residential apartment buildings in places like new york, chicago, and other american cities are seeing rooftop farms appear. in reality, almost everyone can grow some food for themselves, even if all you have is a single small window sill.

you seem to be very ignorant of the world. I would also encourage you to seek out information on green initiatives, and how people in cities are dealing with the problems they face in an urban landscape. there is no doubt that you are speaking on a topic you are woefully unprepared for.

Good luck feeding a city of millions with the fruits of planted pottery. You’re gonna need a lot of pottery. Jesus Christ, a proper lot of pottery.

if the best you can do to argue against me is bring up a fictional zombie apocalypse in which everyone was infected and died, then perhaps it is time to admit you already lost the argument. we’re talking about reality here and what is happening right now all across the world, not your fantasy horror worlds.

If the best you can do is responding to a snarky remark I left at the end of my comment thinking that it was the main point I was trying to make while imagining cities where millions of people live able to support themselves with only a couple of trees and tomato plants and completely misunderstanding the meaning of the anarchist mindset I’m afraid we’re not having an argument at all, we are displaying the level of delusion you are willing to let yourself live in. Just like those asking for a civil war do not absolutely understand what they’re asking for so do you with your call for an uncontrolled fall of the system.

You talk about,s solidarity afeter having decided that a life-changing sum of money would be used to benefit you and those you deem worthy of yourself. Please pick up a vocabulary and look at the definition of the words you use. Also look at what Bezos and Zuckerberg are doing with their money and how they’re building their compounds and you’ll find to be closer to them than to an anarchist.

Humanity already went through the conditions you described in your post: it was during the middle ages, when cities were tiny nation states at constant war with eachother to scrap the poor and few resources available, serfdom was pretty common and people were lucky to live past 40 years of age. Not exactly my first choice when it comes to decide how I would like to live my future life.

Lastly I despise the system we live in as much, if not more, than you. But, differently from you, I’m not used to throwing away the baby with the bath water and I prefer to safeguard those advancements wich are truly helpful to humanity such as vaccines, democracy and human rights to cite some of them.

I almost forgot, you still haven’t explained how should people living in cities and urban areas survive in this future of yours. Does your crop grow on asphalt and concrete or do you see the problem your “vision” would bring to a huge part of any population?

Keep on dreaming of a 38 years later were you’re the protagonist, I’m sure it will help you and everyone else ;)

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Yes of course, a utopia is waiting for those who are able to grow a crop using a field inside of an apartment.

Dude, you’re projecting a reality which could be applied to a very narrow set of people in modern society and in the western world. Imagining a better future is possible and good, but we need to keep it aligned with the actual realities present at this time. Being a bad crop away from death and surviving in a close anarchist encampment can work in a movie like 38 years later, not in real life

And prayvtell, where do you find your seedlings and your fertilizer? And the tools to be used to work the fields? That’s the problem of people like you, you can’t see how intertwined it is our life with the rest of the world and you don’t know how much it sucks to be living at a subsistence level. But go off with your fantasy, it does cost anything to dream.

Also, I forgot to ask how would you fare in a draught, a hailstorm or a long winter. But these are impossible conditions in your dreamworld I reckon

Well, if the societal structure falls there won’t be anything left to provide for your friends and family and you’ll be left to eat each other in your compound as will the billionaires using their fortunes to build survival bunkers. If that’s the way you wanna go, with the leg of your mother as dinner, be my guest. If you, on the other hand, want to have a positive impact on the whole process helping stop this social decline there are much better ways to use your hypothetical money. It’s up to you to decide, greed over cooperation or the other way around?

So basically you would turn yourself in a mini-me version of Zuckenberg, Musk and Bezos. Given this consideration I would reassess my life priorities if I were you

Sit down and enjoy the ride, my dude

I must admit I’m one of the few who can recognize both his parents in this description. Both with their flaws and icks but they are wonderful human beings who have grown me in the man I am today and still remain a reference point to go back to when things get dire or difficult.

I hope everyone or at least a vast majority of people will experience this is a near future; be the best versions of yourselves, if not for you do it for your children!!!

The Testament album “the new order”

The 5th point is the reason why you should be happy with yourself before embarking on a relationship with another person. Relationships are not the panacea people paint them to be, as all other human endeavours they require work, maintenance and commitment to be healthy and stable. And these can be provided once you can mainly focus on the relationship itself rather than on yourself.

Please note that this doesn’t mean that you’ll have to cancel all the work you do on yourself while being in a relationship, it just means that your self-work has become such a standard that you don’t even have to think about what you have to do to be happy by yourself, you know yourself so well that you do what is needed as if it was a second nature.

Also, avoid thinking about relationships as in your point 4 of the con-list: comparing instinctual behaviour acted by animals with reasoned choices performed by humans is belittling of our actions and an excuse to justify our worst behaviours. We are not (entirely) animals and we shouldn’t use them as a ruler to assess what is right and wrong in our day to day activities.

Best of luck for your future

Nice man, happy for this development. Do your best in your new role!!

I personally like the content posted by cm0002 and I’d like for him or her to go on with his or her work as he or she has been doing so far.

This makes us 1 to 1 on how he or she should go on with his presence on Lemmy.

Now, why your opinion should count more than mine?

Just block what you don’t want to see and move forward, you made your point clear and I think we explain to you we don’t give a flying fuck about your opinion, as I normally do with all opinions of strangers on the internet. Select the content you can access to and you’ll see your life improve ;)

Thanks, I like bananas

How are low and middle income households harmed in this scenario?

Once again, less revenues for the government, less resources to be shared among low and middle houseolds, even less public spending available for services mainly used by low and middle income houseolds. Proportionally those who save more money are the ones who have more money to be taxed. A 50$ difference in tax payments for a low income houseold does not hit like saving 1.000$ or 10.000$ for higher incomes if you also loose those services and benefits you received while you were paying those extra 50$ tax.

If the cfpa was serious about its job they would not have spent more in renovations than all the rest of federal government, or pass on any of the fines it imposed against lenders to the people they harmed. They are helping themselves not consumers.

We’ll see how you’ll like price gauging, cartels and lowe safety and quality standards on the goods produced in the USA without any agency enforcing the law against these practices. I mean, if you like lead in your cereals because metals are good for you, enjoy. We’ll see how you like corporations whose only goal is the returns for their shareholders and not consumers’ satisfaction.

There’s no ROI on usaid money so getting rid of it won’t hurt the US. ie giving you $1000 won’t make you conservative. To do that I’d need to teach you work ethic, accountability, self reliance, maybe a trade, and a whole bunch of self confidence, then maybe you would be more focused on things you can do to improve your life instead of what others should do for you.

The fact that those investments do not produce any goods does not mean that there is no ROI. It’s called “influence” and has a huge impact on your trades and relationships with the rest of the world, like it has in your personal life where personally knowing someone and having a good relation with that person can affect how they treat you in a business scenario. But once more you struggle to understand this concept, maybe it’s not me who’s the one having no human interactions in his life between the two of us?

As always for a conservative every accusation is a confession. Keep shooting your shit onto the wall, anytime something will stick to it

It’s a flat cut accross the board so this doesn’t apply. Everyone’s tax rate is lowered the same amount. Remember this tax isn’t a progressive tax cut, you still remember what a progressive tax cut is.

Even if this would be a flat cut across the board who do you think would benefit more from this cut, proportionally? A family with 100K income taxed at a flat rate of 35% or a family with 100,000K taxed at the same rate? Who would save more money from a tax cut in this scenario?

You do understand why tax rates should be progressive, right?

That’s a simpletons understanding of how funding works. If nothing is cut then the deficit increases, this is common.

You have seen that this administration is currently cutting agencies related to consumers protection and state management, right? Are you living in the same reality as all of us or are you living the MAGA dream?

If foreign aid is cut how does that harm the taxpayer? If defense spending is cut how does that harm the taxpayer?

My point is taxes go to so much more than infrastructure and social programs that the US spends taxpayer money on. There are a lot of things than can be cut and not harm low income families.

Once more you don’t understand the concept of soft power. If you think that cutting spending abroad will benefit the USA while China and Russia keep on spending on developing countries to entrench their politics in these parts of the world you are even stupider than what you sound like

Hopefully now you’ll see why your simple statement is just ignorant of what is really going on.

I really don’t have any hope you can uderstand what you are talking about

Coward as a real nazi I see. Oh well, keep thinking the world thinks a certain way while it does the complete opposite, it will surely help with your life.

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