Thanks, I just got this out of my head

Uh, it’s pronounced “inn’it”

Uh, the word being censored is obviously “frank”. I’m all for using mid tier swears like "fuck’, but let’s not totally devolve into degeneracy.

It tastes like hazelnut cake frosting.

Wait until you hear about Soylent green

Sure, but it also can’t get big if people jump straight to lead prematurely, we’ll get picked off one by one. Lay low, organize, and then explore alternative overt actions besides voting and peaceful protest. That’s not the message OP is implying.

I have every intention to once there’s an “us” to join. I just don’t have respect for cowards who expect other people to do the dangerous work for them.

Give me an organized movement big enough to accomplish its goals and I’ll be there. Without a big organized movement, violence against the state is just impotent suicide.

Sure, you first.

Yeah sure, my point is that it’s hardly the “best square footage”.

Ignoring everything else, “our best square footage”? You mean the big room with concrete floors and no climate control?

Don’t get me wrong, I love my garage workshop, but let’s have some perspective here.

I don’t think he was an ancient Greek doctor

Just give him a bowler hat

Who is the true villain in this story?

Is that a question or the answer?

Networking only has value if you know it’s merely networking;

Says who? Plenty of things work without people understanding their true nature.

Like I said, there’s a fundamental limit on the supply of new people.

There’s zero evidence that we’re anywhere even remotely close to that limit. Every one of these had been bigger than the previous one.

there’s not enough results.

How about you start your own multi-million person resistance movement and start getting your own results, instead of griping about how No Kings isn’t doing things the way you’d personally do them.

You seem so confident in your assessment of how things should be happening, surely you can whip up a proper direct action movement real quick, and then the No Kings participants will see how superior your movement is.

Let me know when the first event will be.

I think of anarchy like a guiding ideal: flatten hierarchies.

You can’t eliminate hierarchies. If you eliminate “official” hierarchies, you lack measures to prevent individuals from exerting their will over other individuals by force, which is just another hierarchy. As long as one person can swing a club at another, you have a naturally emergent hierarchy. Once you’ve created a group of people to stop people from swinging clubs at other people, you’ve invented a hierarchy.

The anarchic ideal would be a system of organization to minimize the club-swinging. The proverbial sweet spot between preventing oppression without being oppressive. But it all ultimately comes down to club-swinging, you can’t have a purely anarchic system without enabling private power. The best you can do is aim for the flattest possible hierarchy.

1. Says who? Your interpretation of it as such is your own business. And even if it were “sold” as such, that does not diminish the real value of networking.

2. Says who? Each event is a new opportunity for new people to join, it’s a new opportunity for repeat attendees to meet even more of each other.

3. I personally know several people who have become more involved in various direct action groups as an immediate consequence of going to these rallies. Just because you personally aren’t seeing the result doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

Same as every other round: getting people who are vocally against the situation together in one place so they can connect. The protest isn’t the end goal, the protest is a networking opportunity.

Yeah actually, if we could get them to throw in behind libertarians and stuff that would be cool. Unfortunately, the right’s whole thing is toeing the line.

The problem is that “independent” isn’t a coherent political ideology, it’s just a “none of the above”. Some independents think both parties are too far right, some independents think both parties are too far left, some independents are just apathetic, some are just contrarian.

People voting “independent” wouldn’t result in an “independent” candidate winning, it would result in a bunch of different candidates getting single digit percentages, and whichever major party loses fewer independents would win, just with a lower overall percentage.