I do not for a second trust the state to wither away when a vanguard party is in power. I’d rather skip that phase entirely before it can corrupt politicians.

Sure, gradual withering would be nice, and ideal; but is there any socialist state that ever actually turned communist? in that there’s no significant bureaucracy, no surveillance, where there’s no democratic centralism*, and where workplace democracy is everywhere?

* western parties also do this, called party whips.

The priority for me is any authoritarianism. Authoritarianism by itself is extremist; wanting a world liberated of that is not.

Surveillance capitalism, religious fundamentalism, it’s all the same to me: they seek to control people and the flow of good life standards, away from the masses, towards their leaders.

Surveillance capitalism does so by selling your private data to the highest bidder, and these will use it to spy on you, bribing, harassing, and corrupting lawmakers into creating a surveillance state - a perfect recipe for authoritarianism to pop its head up. They direct attention away from the oligarchs so that we do not combat them.

Religious fundamentalism sells your personhood to the strongest converters, to those that strip you of autonomy; such groups thus also spy on you. They always look for the downtrodden, weakest and most vulnerable, to direct their hatred for their current situation away from the true source – oligarchs.

So for me, I’d say there is no difference and this question is meaningless: it’s asking for the difference between a golden apple/window and a golden cross. At the end of day, both cannot be eaten, but all buy it up blindly.

Indeed. The entire wage system should be replaced by a system centered around human needs, such as in a gift economy.

There being no gender norms would actually be even more liberating. It means we’re not pressured into only wearing femme clothing (when going the estrogen route) or masculine ones (when doing testosterone).

It’d open up a ton of possibilities for cis and queer people alike; wearing skirts on warm days for men also, or wearing pretty nail polish, or short hair for women…

That’s my stance as well, although I’d start puberty blockers a little before puberty starts. So around 6/8 yo, and HRT around 12/14. And also without parental consent needed, a lot of trans youth have strict parents which damages their prospects on that.

Obv, the blockers and hrt should occur with informed consent regardless, but yeah.

Yup. Before I came out, as a kid we often had shared showers and rooms. Pretty chill actually, we learnt to interact and talk with each other that way, instead of being segregated and correspondingly implicitly seeing the other side as something forbidden, mythical – when they’re just… people, really.

It is in fact, a matter of the government.

Steve Reed can do something about it.

Sharing it with everyone is, though. It helps! Chances are a European will hear about it.

Ew, spyware. This def violates GDPR

A true People’s Republic would have less surveillance noncence than this.

The UK is a literal 1984 in the works.

There are too many to list, but one that comes to mind:

• Pyotr Kropotkin. I’ve read his Conquest of Bread and although sometimes harder to read, it’s been highly enlightening for how an anarchocommunist society could self-organise.

What is Stripe?

Never attribute to incompetence that which can also be attributed to malice.

Hmm, I don’t know your situation, but if you’re living in Switzerland, Norway, the Faroe Islands, or Iceland, I honestly would just recommend staying there.

If it’s in Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, or Bosnia, then yeah, fair. But I thought none of those had good privacy laws?

Can’t imagine Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, or Turkey have good privacy laws. And certainly not any of the North African countries…

If Thiel’s mafia organisation (I refuse to call that scrap by desecrating sir Tolkien’s works’ names) has a deal with the NHS, then that should be ended ASAP. Fuck that, that’s some serious spying.

Capitalism is shit, and there are things where it especially NEVER, EVER should have any access, power or influence, directly or indirectly:

• Health services
• Parliaments, committees, assemblies
• Nature
• Housing
• Water and food
• National security

I wouldn’t take it up, honestly. Best to go for somewhere in the EU instead.

The UK is a US puppet state, and pretty much showing it.

It’s indeed ridiculous. At some point I had no internet access, no playboy, no drawing stuff. So, anyway, I just used my good ol’ imagination.

They always seek to control that which is natural: the urge to have a happy life, with pleasure.

They could better spend their time combatting the corruption within the Tories and Labour, and actually putting up a proportional representation system. Or yet better, workplace democracy for all. People can follow a leader if they want, but it’s nice if everyone else also can live as they want.

If they cared about kids, I think it’s better to educate them about how to navigate the internet safely. Prohibiting the internet for kids is one thing, but imo it’s a bandaid fix for bad parenting.

Better to tell them “never give away your real name, address, or age”, and “never ask for the same of someone else”. And that when they see something awful, it’s best to talk with their parents about it. Kids need to grow up safely, yes, but they should also be independent, not boxed in by helicopter parents.

When I was younger, I was often on the internet and mostly just visited the safe sites. Occassionally I saw the one off scary site but I knew to avoid it later then, or talked about it irl with friends and family.

So they prefer to spy on what their kids are doing? Bah, those ministers are nonce creeps.

The hats aren’t even of good quality. Most rip apart easily. Chinese-made hats are better than that.

Also overpriced. I saw them for $15… seriously? In my country I can get better quality ones for €5.

They’ve the same for banks now here. Very creepy.