🤷‍♂️ could be a specific thing they told me n I forgot. Maybe as simple as don’t post lemmy screenshots trying to be funny. Idrc I used to be really into that community and got back into theory about it. I had like 100k karma , maybe less maybe way more , basically every post I’d put on that sub that got really big got taken down over the last year or so. I can’t speak to why mine specifically, but so far as I can tell they straight up Went through with like their definitive rules for posts or whatever and applied it retroactively and purged basically the whole top posts page halfba dozen times over at least. Maybe I’m just last to the party but the vague rumblings about how the main sub remains borked are well founded.

I mean, they didn’t do anything wrong. I just don’t like the rule(s) that I’m violating.

If it makes you feel any better it’s like 70% just me. Don’t feel too good tho b/c I am here owing to police beatings and being held in solitary confinement. So. Yeah 👍

No, it’s the last place on the internet that is actively curated instead of passively curated. You only see who you pick to follow. Can’t even blame the algorithm because there isn’t one.

europor

Okay, so this is actually really interesting. It gets into how in the US, when we talk about slavery, we are specifically talking about chattel slavery as it was practiced in the Americas. And there’s actually a pretty strong argument that American chattel slavery is, if not unique in world history, it is more aberrant than other force labor systems throughout world history.

Absolutely mass incarceration, and the force labor system that goes along with it are incredibly distinct from American style chattel slavery, but this is because they’re arguably more in line with what slavery, distinct from chattel slavery, ‘usually’ meant. Basing a forced labor system off of race is more or less a modern phenomenon . There’s some nuance, but slave codes basically make up the core of available written records on the development of race as a cultural concept. [big ol’ FOR THE WEST label here]

Put me in coach

Damn , reading some of these comments is like fanfiction about myself and it’s kind of wild actually. I am everyone until you go and check D:

That was the fucking point of all this, right ? Like ‘how dare the poors slip through some material change in conditions through gov power’. ‘We’ll show them’ and then they did all of this

Yeah that’s an important thing I have to address. Why do people think that authoritarianism means someone being mean to them?

Edit: I shouldn’t be that sour about it. Definitions are super important part and I’ve seen this coming for months., But there does seem to be like a rather substantive difference between like political science definitions of authoritarianism versus like general use public definitions. Like the general public seems to be really about like on an individual level, and I just don’t think that’s super helpful when you’re talking about governmental structure. there’s a little bit of overlap, but that’s not what the focus of most of the academic writing on the subject is so what pops up on Google when you just google “authoritarian“ is not the definition I’m operating off of, no.

Edit2: But yeah, oh yeah yeah yeah, the US being both a democracy and massively a fan of authoritarian governance is exactly what the memes about and you know trying to talk to anybody about that really seems to be like half of people take it as such a given like your baby for not having gotten over that when you were a kid and the other half like consider it an assault against the soul of America

you are right and I invite you to say it louder.

What is the point of the private property system?

hell yea

man.,
maybe i just feel like it should be. edit: it was when i was a kid :(

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Cool, I will certainly keep that in mind. Very new to the platform.

I sure hope you are right about that.

aw thanks :)

thank

I’m happy to explain. I opened a new group in lemmy for the first time yesterday. Thats where the crosspost is from, and at time of writing it is still over there on the trending bar for the homepage. Book, isn’t done yet, and I haven’t felt the need to set up the infrastructure to start taking anyones money, because no one has offered(though when I do it will be a set-your-own-price ebook preorder)(maybe a crowdsourced hardback edition or something if we’re feeling fancy)(tho i was just counting on paying for a paperback one myself then doing the ebook thing). So this is a crosspost of the introductory post for the new !usauthoritarianism@lemmy.world community.

edit: personally, my mind is made up. I have a facial scar from the police. So for me, I’ll be going outside of the united states, and nervously anticipating the very real possibility that I will be in a position to advocate for americans fleeing the US. I also hope thats a hyperbolic fear.

Although I do think I did a fair job of keeping that particular view out of the post. I’m not trying to discourage anyone. I am trying to reassure the people that feel discouraged, that they are not insane. Their experiences are real, and toxic positivity from the democratic establishment will never change that.

i adore john green edit: thank you for the feedback. there is a method to this. 1 ofc ofc, its very simple. im not actually apologizing I am asking people not to yell at me. 2 100% 100% I hate the government. When I see visions of hell it is full of police. Personally, don’t really see the issue. Sure, you gotta double check with other people about some things just to make sure you’re not accidentally making stuff up, but in generally id really just say; yea. I know. people should believe in the arguments they make. 3 ooh wow thats interesting. I didn’t know that about the midwest. Though, I have been to Minneapolis and that city is awful. Im definitely interested in knowing what really happened. Its definitely not made up, that keeps coming up, always good to reaffirm, the US is definitely not totalitarian. I have found what this project is in the spaces around reframing the facts that we do know. So the real big one is: forced labor, and the threat of imprisonment and forced labor have been a virtually constant fact of life for black men, the entire time, to the modern day. <<Theres a lot of elements going on in that assertion but the basic one is the continuity of what that actually looks like to someone on the ground. moment to moment, when the systems were implemented. seriously, you put it on a timeline and its plain as day: the US runs on foundation set by forced labor. Slave codes => Jim Crow, vagrancy laws and prisoner sale => modern mass incarceration and more than a million workers rented for pennies to supplement every industry from agriculture and firefighting to manufacturing and fast food. Its how america works. I really just do not buy into the neoliberal talking point that technology or culture make any of this magically okay, and I fully do not care about the comparably sized but significantly weaker other countries around the world who are basically just grappling with their own versions of this dilemma. Yea, sure, theyll be the ones on the up if and when the US keeps fumbling its lead. That is not what, “being a threat”, means. Just because we changed the name on the tin from department of war to department of defense does not actually mean that the things that it does aren’t acts of war and provocation and instead magically acts of reasonable defense. That’s not how any of this works. It just means you have non native english speakers saying that they hate freedom. I feel like im losing my mind. you can see this in history. states do this all the time. you can’t change reality by changing language you just change the language.