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Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by wutbrodo »

duncan_bayne wrote: post #55
tray5 wrote: post #26

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All anarchists are left wing, the majority of which are communist (some are mutualist). Anarchism has always been an anti-capitalist movement (I guess it's fairer to say, it's an anti-unjust hierarchy movement), it's only been co-opted by propertarians ("anarcho"capitalist) in the past 50 years. And even then, that's largely localized to America, outside of America libertarians have always been anarchists (communist…

> Anarchism has always been an anti-capitalist movement That is completely untrue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

Dude his comment is like a paragraph and a half long. At least finish reading it before disagreeing with it. Like you, I think he's _wrong_ about Ancaps not being "true" anarchist (or Scotsmen...), but it's not like he didn't address them and isn't aware of the concept (he addresses them in literally the next sentence! Jesus). Smugly linking the Wikipedia article is entirely unhelpful for anything except revealing that you didn't bother reading for more than 6 seconds before rushing to reply.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by tray5 »

wutbrodo wrote: post #66
blowski wrote: post #60

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Which just goes to show that reducing politics to a simple "left-right" axis is part of the problem, and not particularly helpful.

Agreed, I have a comment down below expressing frustration at exactly that. I was just speaking on the terms that the parent comment was: liberals aren't very popular these days on the left _or_ the right, and as such aren't very well-represented in hard-left forums. That being said, I wouldn't really classify Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as all that leftist. In the two-axis model, they're sort of straight down-th…

The entire democratic party really isn't leftist, outside of the heavily skewed American ecosystem, they're centre right.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by tray5 »

wutbrodo wrote: post #54
kelukelugames wrote: post #47

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I'm not sure how left this is: "If there's actual conversation on there, it's probably just a bunch of people with Wonder Woman avatars assuring each other that America is Already Great™." https://raddit.me/f/ShitLiberalsSay/6024/verrit-a-hillary-cl...

What do you mean? This is _precisely_ what I'd expect. Hating on (neo)liberals like Hillary Clinton is damn near ubiquitous on left forums these days, as is dismissing what they perceive as shallow identity politics and conflating liberals with the right. Like, you literally couldn't have picked a better quote to sum up the left's views in 2017, and then you captioned it with "I'm not sure how left this is".

If I'm being honest it's because the American left really isn't leftist at all, and I think that Americans are becoming aware of it

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by tray5 »

kemiller wrote: post #44
tray5 wrote: post #41

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Your free market part is where you'll find the clash. Any anarchist would say that a free market is inherently oppressive. The only place a "free" market would work is in a mutualist economy, and even then, that requires worker ownership over the means of production.

But what, exactly, is the alternative to a free market?

Personally I'm a fan of a workers run syndicalist economy. There are other options, like a workers run market economy, or an outright collectivist gift economy.

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by Zpalmtree »

King-Aaron wrote: post #50
blairanderson wrote: post #21

Hey mods can we rename this to "an alternative to reddit" Given the link has nothing to do with hacking or how the site was created or a link to the source

> Given the link has nothing to do with hacking or how the site was created Let me draw your attention to: - Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper (scientificamerican.com) - Fish are eating lots of plastic (washingtonpost.com) - A ten-day camel trek through the Australian outback (themonthly.com.au) - A Japanese Pen Maker Anticipated the Fountain-Pen Renaissance (bloomberg.com) And thus discard…

I think his point was that the title indicates it's an open source reddit clone but the content is nothing about the open sourceness of it or how it was created, whereas the articles that you point out are I assume true to their titles.

He wasn't saying it shouldn't be on here because it's not hackery, just it should have it's title renamed

Re: Raddit: An open source alternative to Reddit

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Post by tray5 »

mixedCase wrote: post #67
eyko wrote: post #40

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The left/right dichotomy doesn't work with anarchism since it doesn't necessarily have to be on either side of that spectrum - generally based on ideas about economy and not social structures or hierarchies. It can display features usually attributed to left wing ideologies (fight for equality, emancipation, fair society, freedom of speech, freedom of (and from) religion, self organisation, bottom-up communities, etc…

> Anarchism is anti discrimination (pro egalitarianism) Anarchism is anti-state. That's it. Everything else is anarcho-something.

That's not true at all, anarchism is anti-hierarchy. The state is just one (and the second most prominent) hierarchy that anarchists oppose.
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