The first contribution I want to make to the lemmy backend is a word filter. It would kind of be like the slur filter, but it would let you turn it into any other word you want instead of removed . I feel like a lot of fun could be had with that.
Fark has been doing that for almost 25 years (e.g. every instance of the N-word becomes "attractive and successful African-American") and I'd be lying if I said nobody had a problem with it, but people who see fit to challenge it tend to give up very quickly.
I almost universally hear this word from right libertarians. Like they genuinely believe there's a category of people who love the concept of a state in abstract. And if you tell them to clean up their garbage because it will attract the bears, you're a statist.
I suppose it is used in Anarchist literature, but it seems like such an odd thing to accuse somebody of in a context like this.
In anarchist literature, statism generally means the ability to confer and legitimate violence. Now, generally speaking, they were talking about physical violence, in particular the killing of peasants revolts (one of the things that they criticized the Soviets, correctly, for doing, even though I don't know if an anarchic state of affairs would have been able to withstand the challenges of white army invasion, neither here nor there). However, the idea that a private land owner (a contradiction already within an anarchist society, but we'll continue for the sake of argument) has the right to exercise full control of their land without the consent (or even in defiance of) the general community, is not anarchist praxis.
Basically, you can throw all the trash you want, but you cannot tell people they can't come and pick it up.
The word "statist" belongs in the slur filter.
The first contribution I want to make to the lemmy backend is a word filter. It would kind of be like the slur filter, but it would let you turn it into any other word you want instead of removed . I feel like a lot of fun could be had with that.
Fark has been doing that for almost 25 years (e.g. every instance of the N-word becomes "attractive and successful African-American") and I'd be lying if I said nobody had a problem with it, but people who see fit to challenge it tend to give up very quickly.
It's truly a great bit and one that should be appropriated by a website that isn't reactionary.
4chan has this as well
And SomethingAwful
When this site launched it automatically converted "Israel" to "Palestine," but this caused a lot of confusion and it was scrapped in about a week.
Yeah, fuck Palestine! Wait what :cat-confused:
We need the leftypol one that filters "Discord" into "fbi.gov"
If anyone says that word then their opinions are immediately dismissed and thrown in the bin.
:meow-anarchist:
:left-unity-3: :left-unity-2: :left-unity-4:
:meow-hug:
:left-unity-4: There are legit reasons to discuss it, this just isn't one of them.
I almost universally hear this word from right libertarians. Like they genuinely believe there's a category of people who love the concept of a state in abstract. And if you tell them to clean up their garbage because it will attract the bears, you're a statist.
I suppose it is used in Anarchist literature, but it seems like such an odd thing to accuse somebody of in a context like this.
In anarchist literature, statism generally means the ability to confer and legitimate violence. Now, generally speaking, they were talking about physical violence, in particular the killing of peasants revolts (one of the things that they criticized the Soviets, correctly, for doing, even though I don't know if an anarchic state of affairs would have been able to withstand the challenges of white army invasion, neither here nor there). However, the idea that a private land owner (a contradiction already within an anarchist society, but we'll continue for the sake of argument) has the right to exercise full control of their land without the consent (or even in defiance of) the general community, is not anarchist praxis.
Basically, you can throw all the trash you want, but you cannot tell people they can't come and pick it up.