How are you defining authority? My understanding is it’s specifically referring to “power over”; via implicit/explicit coercion, threat, manipulation, and so on. I don’t see why opposition to such uses of power, and the desire to build alternative systems which don’t rely on such means, has to be a negative or “naive” or “unrealistic” thing.

Are there no anarchists on hexbear?

Is noone else gonna point out the absurdity that if the guy had been 1 year older, legally speaking there would’ve been nothing wrong?

The problem here is the grooming (which I think it’s worth noting that adults can be victims of as well), the abuse of power dynamics, and particularly in this case the exploitation of another’s inexperience for personal gratification.

But the article instead focuses on how the kid was “affected” by the teacher’s “criminal actions”, but then essentially just describes the kinds of consequences caused by the social stigma of student-teacher relationships. But this also happens in university, where it also carries negative social consequences, but not legal ones.

My point is simply that the legal system is a flimsy caricature of morality/ethics, and in articles like these it really shows.

Capitalist realism mindset

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Lol sorry I shoulda specified where it was

*isn’t :)

Capitalism, etc.

Eh, they’re better than most, but they’re not all that great either. People Make Game made a very interesting video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo

Piped: https://piped.video/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo

That’s a lot of turkey

Unfortunately for capitalists, the “free market” isn’t the defining (nor exclusive) feature of capitalism. Profit and private ownership is.

Regulation and reform isn’t anti-capitalist though.

“Real” anti-capitalism lies in the realisation that this system cannot be reformed, the status quo must be dismantled if we ever want to move past it and truly work towards values of freedom and equality.

Lemmy.world’s take on red scare propaganda

Why tf would I have anthing to do with that?

If you just go around calling every leftist a “dirty commie fuck” and throwing around baseless accusations it’s no wonder you pissed off someone at some point.

But if you’re that salty, Lemmy’s upvote system is public afaik, so those downvoting bots should be traceable. I imagine that if you reach out to them they’d be very much obliged to comply with your request.

What?

There’s no statutory min wage

I don’t have a problem with Hexbear, I’m a leftist, not a liberal, and marxist-leninists aren’t the only leftists out there…

tf does anarcho-bidenization mean?

Sounds like an investor’s problem.

I buy a car if I need a car, not because I want to opportunistically ride the market dips so that I’ve eked out a profit once the economy’s gone back to being unsustainable.

Besides, consumers get ripped off by bad deals all the time.

Perhaps some kind of “sub-federation” feature allowing communities to automatically share eachother’s posts or smthn could be a viable solution?