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  • flying_sheepto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneA mile rule
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    4 days ago

    Capitalist anarchism doesn’t exist. Capitalism is a form of unjust hierarchy (or if you want to stick to the literal meaning of “anarchism”: capitalism is a way to create rulers)

    There are capitalist anti-statists, bit being against states isn’t sufficient to make you an anarchist for above reasons.






  • No, that’s the reactionary propaganda doing that.

    Everybody living in this world should be aware that words have context and don’t always literally mean what their parts mean. And even then “patriarchy” is one of the more literal ones: it comes from “pater”/father in the same vein as “paternalistic”, with the same connotation of overbearing-yet-out-of-touch.

    So just from word meaning that clearly doesn’t mean all men, and obviously it also doesn’t refer to literal fathers either.



  • flying_sheeptoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksFeelings? Nah
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    16 days ago

    “patriarchy” in this context means something other than you think, I.e. it means a system that upholds gender roles that benefit a (majority male) ruler class, e.g. by encouraging worker class men to go to war for their benefit, worker class women to be caretakers, and so on.

    The counterpart to this definition of “patriarchy” is a society with no stratified gender roles, not “matriarchy”.


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    12 days ago

    Im sorry that happened, but never again what?

    Like, “never again open up about a huge important part of my life to”

    a) anyone, or b) someone you don’t know too long

    Because only b) is healthy. I don’t think trying to mask your depression can work in a serious relationship.


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    16 days ago

    That’s not what that word means. “patriarchs” aren’t men in general, that’s why it’s possible (and in fast true) that the patriarchy harms people of all genders.

    As this post demonstrate, men don’t benefit from it, e.g. it makes us live shorter, it encourages suppressing our emotion, it encourages our aggression. Because some (mostly) men in power benefit if we don’t unionize, let ourselves be pressed into shit jobs or the military, and so on.

    Read the other messages here and you might understand.





  • The same reason every other minority advocacy group exists: to coordinate pooling resources to protect that minority’s members from persecution.

    Of course in the case of atheists, that persecution isn’t as bad as for other minority groups in the US, but it does exist: there is propaganda saying that atheists can’t be moral and other shit like this that can seriously affect your life.

    So optimally that’s what the organization would fight. I know nothing about them, so I don’t know where the “church-likeness” comes from that you mentioned. Care to substantiate that?