Not really at all. Look up anarchism on wikipedia. This is the first paragraph:

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or hierarchy, primarily targeting the state and capitalism.[1] Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. A historically left-wing movement, anarchism is usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

“Anarcho-Capitalism” is a rather recent name for a sort of ideology that most anarchists would instead call “stateless capitalism”

If it means anything, I started my journey on lemmy as an armchair socialist who in practice was more a welfare capitalism type person. Now I’m a full on anarchist (anti-capitalist). So a steady stream of influence, especially when people make good points and it helps make sense of my suffering, has shifted my political views strongly.

(But the basis for that shift was already kind of laid out, I’ve been fascinated by anarchist critiques for a while, and one of my favourite political authors was one. But the sort of being in a community of likeminded people [lemmy] and having significant suffering at the hands of the current system that made me more strongly shift towards those views).

On the other hand. Simply having a few conversations with my vaguely left wing partner about my views has led her to go from vaguely social democrat to anarchist.

I think the lesson is change is possible, it’s just a slow series of events that add up. Usually there isn’t one thing that straight up switches a person.

Yeah. Really questioning how they got labelled as one of the happiest bands here. But tbh you could never expect one person to make something like this accurately.

Yeah. China invading Taiwan would be a good time to capitalise on chaos.

And probably cause a world war in the process :(

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Taxis are immensely more efficient space wise than individual people owning cars.

The average car is parked 97% of the time. If we took taxis away from NYC and didn’t compensate with public transport , they’d probably have to replace central park with a massive parking lot. Not kidding.

I’ve barely ever used twitter but have like 4 accounts to my name over the past 15 years. I kept on forgetting I had already made an account.

Now imagine all the alts and bots and specific accounts people create for projects. Probably much less than 2.8 billion humans have created a twitter account. But 2.8 billion accounts have been created.

Hihi. I’m here for it

I mean what most of the world except america and australia call football.

Idk. I’ve never followed US sports. (I prefer the type of football where you kick a ball with your foot, not wear transformers suits and bang into each other)

Am I the only one who’se only ever used wooden pencils in my life? In my part of the word basically no one used those plastic ones.

Ja.

Apparently in the US they have some old teams used to have racist af names.

Also know as “Xitter” (pronounced “shitter”)

Yeah, still. 4% is ridiculously low.

Even switzerland which has referendums every couple months never dips below 30%.

I would be concerned at the lack of engagement in local politics.

But I remember people were accusing Hidalgo of underrinforming about these referendums and only making awareness campaigns towards those they thought would vote in her favour.

At school all the cool kids had these lol

or these

[I come from a very specific generation in French speaking switzerland, so this may not be relatable]

I used to live quite near to one of the bic factories in France. Ahhhh I’m obsessed with Bic pens.

you can tweak the weights though

While I celebrate this as a victory.

4% participation rate in this referendum? We should take a look at the state of politics. That’s a scary low number.

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