TreadOnMe [none/use name]

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Cake day: September 24th, 2020

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  • Kill la Kill is literally allegory and metaphor the whole way down. Every single episode can have extensive analysis done that points out inspirations, puns, metaphors, and other literary devices. It’s why it is one of my favorite anime despite the amount of ‘plot’ in it, because the ‘plot’ serves the allegory and plot in a non-obviously tacked on way.








  • What you are asking for is a vastly different thing than ‘I want the government to stay out of my business unless I am harming someone’. Every worker council constitutes an aspect of government, and if their judgements are legally binding, an element of the state. All of those determinations can and should be made by the workers directly involved in their production, however enforcement of those decisions and arbitration of those conflicts may require the use of the state apparatus.

    Mostly you just seem confused.


  • Not to dogpile further, but you are, like most liberals (of which a libertarian is just yet another flavor of), getting into the weeds of policy without even figuring out the basics of even simplistic political philosophy, because so much of it has been taken for granted in your life.

    Let’s take this seemly simple statement “I want the government to generally leave me alone as long as I am not doing anything to harm anybody.”

    This is impossible, the statement of an idealist constitutionalist, which has no bearing on reality whatsoever. Why is this? Well, because someone has to define what constitutes ‘harm’. If it is not you, then someone else will, which means that you can’t leave government to passively sit. Well then, who can dictate what constitutes ‘harm’? Of course the people who agree to the constitutional contract. Ok then, at what point do you get to decide your constitutional contract? What happens if two different constitutional agreements definitions of ‘harm’ are at odds with each other? Who is the arbiter then? How is that arbiter decided? What if there is a disagreement with the arbiter? How is that conflict settled? Even this seemingly simple statement is fraught with issues.

    These are things that can and have been argued and in some cases ‘solved’ by liberal bourgeoisie democracy for centuries to decades at this point. However libertarians, especially ‘leftist’ libertarians, get so caught up in policy that they have no structure for actually figuring out very real basic political and social science issues. I’m not saying ML theory has it ‘solved’ but it’s foundations, such as “The state apparatus exists to monopolize violence, all other aspects of it are secondary, the key is appropriate that violence for the betterment of the industrial working class, the only class that can hope to transition us out of the necessity of states as it is the only class that is likely to effectively replicate the means of production and bring about an ideology, culture and production basis for universal post-scarcity, which will dissolve the need for a state to monopolize violence” has a better understanding of what the state does, how it actually functions, and what is likely necessary in order to dissolve it as a human institution.

    There are tech libertarians that also believe their ideology and technology will bring about this post scarcity society as well, but they, as a bourgeoisie class, do not actually replicate the means of production, and have far more material incentive to engage in and profligate M-M market conditions which do not lead to lessening of global poverty, post scarcity and the withering of the state, which is why despite being nominally ‘progressive’ they are prone to strong ideological reactionary backlash.