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A quick guide to all the insanity behind the Trump administration

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 hour ago

There's no such thing as right-wing anarchists. Just call them fascists.

[-] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Egoist is more fitting.

[-] forrcaho@lemmy.world 2 points 53 minutes ago

Was this created by someone who doesn't understand the concept of a Venn diagram? I thought it was supposed to be one (despite not being complete), but I can't see how the items in any given circle should be grouped with each other any more than any other label in the diagram.

[-] b161 8 points 8 hours ago

Right wing anarchists??? Please delete and remake this.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 hours ago

Calling them "right-wing anarchists" instead of anarcho-capitalists or neoliberals is giving them too much credit imo :P

[-] VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Neoliberal is something else.

[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 45 minutes ago

both want the state to withdraw from the economy except enforce contracts (to protect capital), no?

[-] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 68 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

"Right-wing anarchists" makes me wanna puke. I think libertarian freestaters is probably a more accurate name.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Anarcho-capitalists have been around for a long time. I think they usually call themselves libertarian.

I get the hypocrisy, but they don't.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Anarcho-capitalists have been around for a long time.

Not relative to anarchism. "Anarcho-capitalism" is a very recent recuperation/oxymoron of an ideology that has been anti-capitalist from inception. They'll try to recuperate people from the 1800s or whatever but that's just more nonsense.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 39 minutes ago

Hypocrisy, like I said. I know it's an oxymoron, you know it's an oxymoron, but that doesn't stop them from co-opting the term and confusing people.

[-] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Maybe "Societal Collapse Accelerationists" would have been more clear. But accelerationist is the key word here.

I wanted to make it clear I was not talking about Marxist Accelerationism (the OG)

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Fascist is the word that you're looking for.

[-] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 21 hours ago
[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Not just techno fascists. There's a lot of these people who watched way too much Mad Max and think that when society collapses, they'll get to be Immortan Joe. They fantasize about being warlords with their own little fiefdom.

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 38 points 23 hours ago

wtf is a right wing anarchist?

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

An oxymoron.

[-] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

The guy from Bioshock that built Rapture. You are free to do anything as long as you have the money to do so.

[-] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 30 points 20 hours ago

Basically this:

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

It didn’t seem like they did.

“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”

Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.

“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.

I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

“Because I was afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

The less-funny, more realistic counterpoint to this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/nlpd-non-libertarian-police-department/360224/

I was just finishing up my shift by having sex with a prostitute when I got a call about an opportunity for overtime. A no-knock raid was going down across town.
"You're trying to have your salary spike this year to game the pension system, right?" my buddy told me. "Well, we're raiding a house where an informant says there's marijuana, and it's going to be awesome—we've got a $283,000 military-grade armored SWAT truck and the kind of flash grenades that literally scared that one guy to death."

[-] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

"I shot the mailbox again" is so funny

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 11 points 19 hours ago

I love this copy pasta. Thanks for letting me read it again

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 27 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

They are anarcho-capitalists, ancaps, in the vein of the Mises Institute / Austrian Economics crowd.

A fundamental part of their ideology is praxeology, which basically is anti-empiricist, it doesn't actually respect or react to evidence, it is wholly based on complex thought expieriments and finangling over definitions of terms.

Basically, they believe that no government or state can be legitimate... that is shared or similar with many other actual anarchists...

But they believe it should be replaced with either giant megacorporations, or somehow, something would cause a 'free market' for competing over public goods and utilities, some even believe in competing theoretical private legal systems that would ... somehow interface and interperet 'the law', even though there is no 'the law'.

It is an internally inconsistent and often easily empirically proven false worldview... but they don't respect empirical evidence.

They only call it 'anarcho' because it wants to destroy the state.

They appropriated the term anarchism.

But other than that, it shares basically nothing else in common with any other notable thinker or group that has called themselves anarchist.

[-] Delta_V@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago

Fictitious. Hierarchy is THE defining feature of the right wing. The further right you go, the more concentrated the wealth and power becomes, until at the terminus there is a single person who has all of it.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

It’s not a thing, excepting people who don’t know the meaning of the word.

Anarchism is about deconstruction of social hierarchies. This is completely incompatible with all right-wing movements which are fundamentally about strengthening some or all of them.

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[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 8 points 20 hours ago

Do I want to know what a christian accelerationist is?

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Huckabee and other christian zios.

[-] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Tldr: they want to bring about the biblical Armageddon as soon as possible. Trying to make the world look like the prophecy described when it supposedly begins

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Fucking gross just like the rest of those groups. Yech!

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

If we treat the new testament as Jesus fan fiction, then a lot of their shit is fan fiction of the fan fiction. Stuff like the rapture is not in the bible.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 23 hours ago

Christian accelerationists I'm assuming are those that want to force the apocalypse so they can force Jesus to show up?

Their all-knowing, almighty Lord is too dumb to know they rigged the event?

"Jesus hates this one trick to bring the apocalypse! Bomb the middle east here to find out!"

[-] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

The anti-Christ is already in power, and just as predicted, they don’t see him for what he is.

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

They don't see it that way, they think as long as the laundry list is finished, then the prophecy is fulfilled. You know what's worse then them wanting Isreal to be a war with everyone, part of the list is environmental collapse, very limited drinkable water, and unmitigated plagues.

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago

Fuck, please tell me more, or point me to sources, thank you.

[-] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 7 points 23 hours ago

Russia fits in there somewhere.

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

This book was published in 1997

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