Dogmantra

Dogmantra wrote (edited )

Reply to april fool's day reminder by hollyhoppet

yknow I've only seen one "joke" so far today and it's been relatively benign... on the one hand I'm glad but on the other I'm on edge because I fuckin hate april fools day and I'm just waiting for the deluge of garbage "jokes"

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Dogmantra wrote

Reply to i actually don't know why socialism is a good idea by twovests

The thing about socialism is it's a group of ideas more than a single idea. Unfortunately this leads to a lot of infighting which, as we know, the left is very good at.

On the one hand you have people like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders who push for things like nationalised/free healthcare, public transport. On the other you have a plethora of shades of anarchists who want to dismantle the ideas of nationhood and government entirely. It can be hard to reconcile the fact that these two groups are on the same broad side.

I guess the best way to describe socialism in very broad terms would be the idea that society should be set up as systems that benefit everyone who is part of society, not that people should work to benefit and perpetuate the systems.

I don't have resources, but I would suggest looking into anarchism in Spain - there have been some successful anarchist communities built there that lasted quite some time before being deliberately destroyed.

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Dogmantra wrote

Reply to I did a draw that I'm really happy with by toasthaste

I'm glad you posted this because I first saw it on tumbles this morning on my phone and a) I was tired and b) it was small

both of these things contributed to me not appreciating it to the extent that it deserves. It's a great draw!!! (AS USUAL!!!!!!)

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