Comrade_Spood

I am so making this a sticker

I was never disagreeing with you out of ideological difference. I simply disagreed with the logic. Granted this discussion is over text and there are a lot of different ways for both of us to misunderstand the other. I did not go into this trying to win a fight, and never intended it to go in that direction. I feel it is best to end it with "agree to disagree" as I feel one or both of us is misunderstanding each other because of the communication barrier that comes with text.

Yeah it is generally higher population density means more progressive. Maine is just weird. Even historically. Historically very pro-abolition, also pretty pro-women's suffrage, also very pro-prohibition. However the state also didn't start voting democrat till around the 60s or 70s. Fairly early legalizers of marijuana and also fairly quick for gay marriage.

I'm not saying money is the source of evil, but it is a tool used by it. It heavily centralizes value making it easier to hoard. The other part of that being positions of power. Without money someone would have to hoard a valued resource like foods. What would allow someone to hoard enough food to affect others is authority. Anarchy tries to address both these issues. Some versions like Mutualism do keep money, and even anarcho-communists have used money through an anarchist market socialism to transition to a moneyless society. Anarchy does not mean no rules and no organization. It means consentual and horizontal organization. Rules that the community consent to, not forced upon them. And I think it is naive of you to think your position isn't idealogically influenced. We both want an ethical way to run an economy and there are ethical and unethical ways of doing that. The difference between us is what we view as an ethical and possible economic system. If you are interested in reaching an understanding of each others views I do not mind continuing this conversation. But if you are just trying to win a fight, I am not interested in continuing this.

It really isn't, Maine is rural af. We're called the South of the North for a reason. However we are weirdly progressive for how rural we are

Same feeling I had. Was a little off put by how stiff the animation could be, particularly the faces. However I am a Warhammer 40k fan so I am used to it lol. The story, MS fights, everything was awesome. Also I got Gouf Custom representation. Genuinely Gouf Custom is my favorite mobile suit hands down and loved how it looked in this show. 10/10 just for having Gouf Custom

If a natural disaster hits other communities can aid. We already have that, look at when Haiti was devastated by hurricanes and earth quakes, look at Florida. People send aid to help till they can help themselves. And in the cases where things aren't able to be produced enough for everyone like say cars. There are more economical solutions like the various means of public transportation. I am not suggesting everyone gets the finest things, but that their needs are met one way or another. Let the producers and consumers work together to solve problems, not letting an arbitrary market or corporate stouges decide what peoples needs are and how to meet them

I aint suggesting everyone gets a lamborghini, and $5000 computer, etc. That is just unimaginitive to think thats what I mean. People can problem solve. We don't have enough supplies to create a car for everyone? Then create a decent public transport system so not everyone needs a car. The simple solution is if you don't have enough for everyone, create an alternative everyone can share. And another thing is we over produce so much. How many cars sit on car lots because no one can afford them? How many homes are left empty cause no one can afford them? Look at how much food waste is produced every year. Its a simple fact that we over prpduce almost everything already, but money is what prevents people from ever getting it. And money incentivizes things like over production of cars and under funding of public transport, cause a car is more profitable. I ain't saying we just haphazardly produce everything. I'm saying let people manage things themselves. A community sit down and address transportation problems. How many cars can we produce without exhausting resources? Not enough? Then who really needs a car and who can settle on public transport? I hold the belief that when people's basic needs (food, water, shelter, healthcare, community) are met, and they are given equal agency with their peers, people will act rationally. The issue is our economic system, our government, and thus our society do not make for conditions that encourage rationality or care for your neighbor because it is hyper competitive, indovidualiatic, and authoritarian.

Trust me I know. I'm saying voting in the primaries wouldn't change anything. The only fix is to destroy the systems that let this happen in the first place. Capitalism and government

An issue though is governments will inevitably get corrupted, there is no way to ensure positions of power don't fall into the wrong hands. So to combat this, I feel the only decent solution is anarchist means of organization. The issue now is that because the economy is still controlled by money, there is inentive and thus risk of hoarding money which would create hierarchy and thus bring us back to systems of unconsentual government. And as I said, abolition of money would remove that. I ain't suggesting we just go ham with unregulated production and thus create scarcities, like you say. But the solution is to have people solve that themselves, not relying on money and government to regulate it. Kroptkin talks about much of this in Conquest of Bread. If you're interested, I would encourage a read, but I ain't gonna just say "read theory" and drop it cause I know that accomplishes nothing in reaching understandings. Its in the end, to me, an issue of money will always create inequality, and governments will always become corrupt. So what do you do?

That doesn't sound like a very democratic process to begin with cause all the power is in the delegates who can just choose whoever they want and not follow the desires of the voters. Which is how pretty much the whole system works to begin with, so its pretty rotten even at the very bottom

What is something that meets that criteria? I am not interested in debating hypotheticals unless they have some basis in reality. What is something that has a higher demand than there is supply and also can't be fixed by simply increasing production or developing an alternative that can be produced?