I am an anarchist, so yes, that’s what I mean. I just worded it in a more accessible way

Quoting a dictionary is the last refuge of the incorrect.

It’s not fair to blame an age group for this, it’s not their fault. It’s the fault of the fossil fuel industry, their lobbyist “think tanks”, the politicians that they bought, the medic conglomerates that they own.

The fault for a lack of response to climate change isn’t with working-class people. That’s what the people who are actually at fault want you to believe. Don’t take their bait.

Now now, let’s all just agree to shit on the USA collectively. ;)

Renewables scale with investment. Advocate for full divestment from fossil fuels and huge investment into solar and the problem would be solved. Nuclear wouldn’t solve anything, it’s too slow to build and it’s still basically its own kind of fossil fuel. Let’s move past the need for mining for fuel.

What an embarrassing comment. You’re arguing semantics as your starting point but then you’re just doing it badly. What does it matter about the abstract idea behind an ideology when the practical effects of that ideology have consistently been racism, sexism, homophobia and bigotry?

Do you realise that there are political options beyond voting for either Trump or Biden? Maybe the people who are antifascist but opposing Biden are advocates for one of those alternatives?

and I’m not (only) talking about voting for the Green Party either.

Even if you did, the random people would be corrupted by power.

The best thing to do would be to divide power as much as possible - instead of having a few very powerful people you have hundreds of times more people with much less power.

The difference is only in the actor behind it - in China, it’s an authoritarian government. In the US, the government is just a figurehead for the wealthy elite.

I’ve never thought or said that were asking people to be soulless or that you think people should become unfeeling machines or anything like that - a person doesn’t need to go that far. All we need to do is trick ourselves into believing that we’re making a decision based on logic and reason rather than emotions and passions, and that’s easy to do.

By the way, just to clear the air, I’m not really trying or intending to argue with you or anything, I’m just expanding on your ideas and sharing my own thoughts. I’m not the person downvoting your comments, either, for whatever that’s worth.

Thank you for the discussion, I appreciate your thoughts, you seem like a decent person.

Qobuz is the best for classical music, for sure - either that or piracy. I’d probably go with piracy

I think we more or less are on the same page - just to clarify though, my reactions have been specifically motivated by this line in your original message: “try to think separate from your feelings” - there is no such thing as thinking separated from feelings. We can’t do that. All we can do is try to consider other people’s perspectives as best we can, learn what our biases are and how they shape our thinking, and accept that we will never be fully objective or unbiased.

To believe that you’re capable of acting without bias is dangerous, but it’s just as bad to disregard the perspectives of others.

I’ve never said that people should ignore any attempt at logic and just focus on their passions, but the modern cult of rationality and stoicism is ironically hugely lacking in self-awareness and rationality.

I don’t think it’s truly possible to completely isolate your feelings to make a decision entirely based on logic. It’s one of those little tricks our brain pulls on us, we think we’re being objective, but our reasoning is driven by our emotions even if we think they’re not.

We’re very emotional creatures, and our brains are able to convince us of almost anything, including that we’re making decisions based on pure logic. But we can’t, we’re always in our feelings even when we try not to be. And the history of people who have put “logic” before emotion is extremely dark - eugenics, scientific racism, essentialism, and Ben Shapiro.

Just something to think about. I’m not telling you that you’re wrong or bad or anything like that, I’m sure you aren’t, you seem like a good person who has great intentions. But beware that your “logical” deductions may be very heavily influenced by your emotions even when you try your best to prevent it.

I’m not so sure I really agree that it’s useful to try and separate the emotion and passion from how we respond. Most people engage better with emotional appeals than appeals to logic. It’s also worth keeping in mind that Israel is responsible for the success of Hamas, if they had been willing to live peacefully alongside palestinians then none of this would have gone as far as it did. The majority of Palestinians wanted peace and reconciliation decades ago. It’s only after Likud’s continued fascist antics that palestinians lost hope in that peace process.