I’m speechless!

This is ridiculous! Action is speechless, words are words

All presidents committed crimes

c/agedlikemilk

POV: It didn’t happen

SELL X TO WHO?

c/selfawarewolf

And I’m not even sure if he qualifies as a useful idiot…

Let that sink in

I will share that screenshot with all my ICQ contacts

WTF is this mess? Twitter, reddit and what even is the last one?

Violence against the ruling class has no place in politics

This feels like a mandelaeffect. I could swear it’s more than a decade already

He speaks German, he can’t be a bad person

You don’t hate Mondays, you hate capitalism

Am I good enough to have impostor syndrome?

What is a drag dealer?

There is a whole debate within anarchism whether to use the term democracy or not. People on both sides of this semantical debate will have identical utopias but call them differently. Zoe Baker has a video essay about that on YouTube.

I like the term Direct Democracy since it shows my disagreement with parliamentary democracy while still using a term that’s regarded as positive. “Our democracy isn’t direct enough” will resonate with more people than “Democracy bad, anarchy good”.

I didn’t intend to start the discussion here. You are on lemmy.world. maybe filter “local” and you will see.

Important for this discussion is that the moderators reacted to the criticism and acted upon it.

That’s a very good question. It’s as anarchist as modern social media gets.

The thing is the moderators. In an anarchist utopia, they would take turns, be recallable and have to justify their decisions.

The last point is true for some instances but not all (think of the vegan cat food debate on .world verses how .ml blocks voices critical of China and Russia).

The other two points – to my knowledge – barely happen. This isn’t a huge problem, as I said, it’s as anarchist as social media comes. But it contains the risk of a centralized power. Sure, you can always leave the instance (even easier than on mastodon where you lose your followers) but this resembles the Libertarian “freedom” to choose your oppressor. Internal equality is very important.

This isn’t to criticize Lemmy. It’s overall very good and as anarchist as realistically and practically possible. But to showcase the anarchist ideal of councils and to spotlight the minor flaws we should be aware of, even if there is no perfect solution.

That’s why it’s important to keep the rules non coercive