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now in my defense i spent year having suicidal thoughts daily. i had to adjust from that but i am getting to the point where if i am serious about being an intellectual, i need to be honest about where i stand with those around me

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i've hidden the full scope of my beliefs in person. people dont know im not just opposed to parts of eg marxism but fundamentally think core assumptions are wrong and hold back any serious anticapitalism and i dont want to rock the boat and call into question friendships

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a big part of this is that i was a nerdy kid who never dealt with conflict well growing up, who then spent their late teens and twenties dealing with an intense chronic health which made emotional regulation hard and i only started working on that properly in like 2022

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's funny that despite calling my website url "wedontagree" (in anticipation of me writing a book titled We Don't Agree on Capitalism which im still planning on eventually writing) only like 2 of people who've met me in australia actually know of my online writing i am conflict avoidant irl

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i know im late to talking about i saw the tv glow but the fact that they didnt use makeup to age justice smith at all at the end is inspired

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

at fnb and a bunch of teens come up and go "free food? like communism!" when we explain our deal an hour later and a guy who lived in a socialist state in eastern europe comes by and says "communism is when the government is corrupt! they never would have let people give away free food like this!"

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there's a long history of working class self help going all the way back to the eponymous book by samuel smiles. one of the benefits of being in a functioning activist space is that it encourages people to get their shit together. i dont think we should shy away from that

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100%. if you listen to people who are casual fans of jordan peterson or andrew tate, they frequently defend them on the grounds that they helped inspire them to take responsibility for themselves i think they are sincere!

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i think a better term is something like "grand strategy" – a combination of beliefs and values that can inform action in the face of uncertainty

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i dont know how you can say this after the whole charlie kirk saga but w/e

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credit to @quasisocial.bsky.social for feedback and @rechelon.bsky.social for inspiring the essay with a post about writing explainers for anarchism targeted at specific ideologies

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im aware of the dangers of encouraging shitty people to join anarchist spaces which is why i was VERY explicit about not giving an inch to ANY motivation other than frustration at widespread apathy, constantly signalling my broader social justice concerns and necessity for readers to change

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An Open Letter to Open-Minded Reactionaries

99.9% of what motivates reactionary politics is wrong however i can sympathise who turn to the right out of a Nietzscheian desire for greatness and heroism in an apathetic society i think they could potentially be persuaded to move toward a sincere radicalism this is an effort to do exactly that

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The ideological hegemony of liberalism that many of us were born into has been profoundly wounded by the ubiquity of the internet. Before the internet one had to encounter these ideas beyond liberalis...

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

graeber's example of how divergent the candidates elected prior to the spainish civil war and the paris commune from the content of those revolutions is a case in point

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I generally focus my attention on intra-anarchist theoretical disputes, but posting on Bluesky will send hordes of liberal sealions into your mentions. So I wrote a thing for them on the unique speech constraints anarchists face in political "debate": humaniterations.net/2026/09/19/a...

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Asymmetric Speech Constraints Around Anarchism

Any minority position faces an uphill battle at persuasion.

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"never doubt that a small group of committed posters can change the world. indeed it is the only thing that has" (definitely not including "thoughtful" in this misquote lel)

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

its the ideals that appealed to him, not the outcome slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/b...

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

meditations on moloch is a favorite for a reason, but its popularity is a consequence of people not doing good intros to game theory and scotts conclusion to the problem – build the ai god to solve all the coordinations problems – has obvious parallels to aspirations around central planning

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

look if you're all going to invoke the manhattan project scientists the least you could do is draw from their antifascism

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ok but scott alexander almost got convinced of central planning after reading red plenty, if marxism didn't get so thoroughly associated with the humanities and economic planning was a serious research program "abolish the value form" would be a camp within EA

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i currently have 130ish pages tracing out the history of effective altruism and adjacent utilitarian ideas and how they overlap with various currents in the left and ultimately should lead one to antipcapitalism with the intent of trying to persuade some of these nerds anyway lol, lmao

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i admit to having a material interest in this line of argument bc im training to become an electrician, but i think that cheap electrotech is part of any solution that isn't primitivism that means there's an implicit popular front between eco direct actionists and green capitalists

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"we can't have technocratic elites in power any longer because electrotech is getting so cheap that we can't tip the scales in favor of fossil fuels while still retaining the broader center-right coalition, so i'm going to support the clown fascists"

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in australia our center-right party lost hard trying to sell us on nuclear power in the last election and then mining billionaire gina rinehart switched from supporting them to the far-right certainly not the only factor - i believe individual psychology matters - but money definitely helps

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nda🔞 @ndasfw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

margret asserts that parts of the right aren't deniers and long for the crueler world that global warming will bring. there's certainly some truth there, but i also wonder how much of it is a consequence of fossil fuel interests finally having meaningful market competition in the form of renewables

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Watching this the second I get home from work.

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

i know some of the history, but tagging taylor's work as "not anarchist" is so petty and silly that i couldn't help myself

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

*excuse me* theanarchistlibrary dot org???

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i mean the answer to the final paragraph of what a serious future for liberalism that takes this seriously is an embrace of a moderate variant of socialism cf francis fukuyama jacobin.com/2026/09/fuku...

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

look im just saying a proper "scientific socialism" would be more fox-y data driven RCTs to measuring impact of people making conscious interventions instead of hedgehog-y grand theories of where society is going with the intent of getting ahead of where you think things are going

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 02/09/2026

Every day it seems we have some version of The Discourse About Bluesky Community Values, Norms, and Tone. And I agree that this place has too much weight towards communities that tend to bring toxic norms and tone. The solution is likely to be private data (soon) and private communities (also soon).

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

WHY DID THE CONSERVATIVE STUDENT FAIL THEIR CLASS ON SET THEORY? BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO LEARN ABOUT INTERSECTIONALITY!

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Fozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up Comedy

ALT: Fozzie Bear Performing Stand-Up Comedy

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

calling him the anti-christ is far too generous

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Mutual A @mutual-a.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

whelp the aus fashy party won a previously safe seat from our neolib technocrat party looks like we'll have to face whats happened in the rest of the world here sooner or later www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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One Nation secures historic victory in Secret Harbour by-election

One Nation scores a historic win in Western Australia, securing its first lower house seat in the state.

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the truth of the matter is that the reason marxists have to claim these norms have strategic value is horizontalist and anarchist efforts normalized them on the left and if you go against them you face sanction so it turns out a minority of moralists really can change the world

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you can argue that in the long run these fights are ultimately necessary for proletarian revolution, but its hard to draw a straightforward causal chain between the two after all, they weren't necessary for the prior revolutions that marxists appeal to!

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they lose out materially, they have to confront their complicity in a system of oppression and they face potential community backlash there's the inherent value in treating your partner as a end in themselves, rather than as a means, but thats a moralistic reason to do the work

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why should a unionized worker male give up the patriarchal position they enjoy within the household bc their wife faces restrictions on employment? (Forging Democracy, Geoff Eley)

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any honest look at history shows this to be false, the coalition of the broader working class is one of constant internal tension and contradiction (to name just one, just look at the history of the left on basic feminist issues)

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all this stems from collectivist assumptions – there really is something solid to the concept of the "working class" such that it could become a coherent collective subject that will, thanks to its interests, fight for them over other concerns

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