are fraternal organizations like this even considered a union, i.e. do they represent the workers in collective bargaining?

why, how does that solve the police problem?

I thought this was mostly a joke, but there really are men in the comments telling us to just buy men’s pants 🙄

sometimes people can be a great sexual partner, but poor relationship material, maybe it’s something like that?

why?

you can tell it’s not dudes she fucked because the scores are so high

probably the most directly helpful boycott is one that ensures money is denied to US companies so they are motivated to lobby and change things to protect their bottom line (as a last resort of course, and maybe not at all)

cultural boycott is more extreme and less directly important to bringing about immediate political change, but is nonetheless probably an important part of bringing about rejection of US hegemony and dominance, so it’s not a bad approach in addition to denying the US your money

sounds like depression™️

don’t forget that like >90% of people take stimulants like caffeine every day …

pretty sure redditors who 1. have disproportionately been banned from reddit for some reason or another and 2. feel some sense of victimization and seeks anti-reddit solidarity on Lemmy are going to have significant overlap with incels and misogynists. Lemmy has overwhelming millennial tech bro vibes ime.

wouldn’t Peter Kropotkin’s Conquest of Bread be a classic example?

I would imagine reading classic anarchist works by Bakunin, Kropotkin, Proudhon, etc. would probably illuminate many of the similarities and divergences with communism. Anarchism is a form of left-communism, so reading Lenin and Engels can also be illuminating to the way more right-wing forms of communism differ, in particular Lenin’s “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder and The State and Revolution, and Engels’ “On Authority”

I don’t personally know of any history book that systematically records examples of conflicts between anarchists and communists.

You might also be interested in Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, since it also covers the way the USSR suppressed the anarchist revolution in Catalonia.

Emma Goldman’s My Disillusionment in Russia might also be relevant, for an anarchist perspective on the USSR. Goldman also has some writing on Catalonia, for an American anarchist perspective on the revolution there.

Anarchism & communism are both broad movements, so what you are asking for is a very broad scope - I would suggest narrowing to a particular point of interest - in what context are you interested in differences between anarchists and communists? You may not care at all about critiques of 19th century American individualists like Josiah Warren on the labor theory of value, for example.

oh I’m not meaning to call into question the wisdom of your temp ban given what you seemed to know at the time and the way she responded to you

since she wasn’t willing to do the labor to explain herself I figured I would be willing to, esp. since as a woman I get where she’s coming from

my comment was really just a desire to explain the context as it made sense to me, more than anything else

they’re a woman and if I had to guess they are bitter about men (this could be for lots of reasons; least of which is because 1 in 3 women are victims of sexual or partner violence and 1 in 5 girls have been a victim of rape or attempted rape, the vast majority at the hands of men; if not for a reason as extreme as that, at the very least it’s not uncommon that men feel a right to talk over women, to be in their personal space, to ignore or dismiss their perspectives, and to demand women do supportive labor for them like making the coffee, scheduling the meetings, keeping notes, etc. for them).

She is saying as a woman it makes her feel men are worthwhile for being willing to be contacted like this, presumably because a man choosing to do so shows a sort of kindness or good will that is redeeming.

Then, the reporter is probably a man who read her comment and felt wronged for being described as part of the “terrible gender”, and what was reported her “sexism” for referring to men as a “terrible gender”.

Obbviously the racism and transphobia are irrelevant given the comment and context, as is the sexism since her bitterness is literally being tempered by a redeemable quality she is praising that men would be willing to do this …

so yeah, I dunno - removing the comment & banning her feels like punching down based on an unreasonable claim of sexism, though she doesn’t help things by responding to your confusion with hostility and unwillingness to explain what she probably feels should be blindingly obvious (particularly because it’s an issue of injustice)

oh that makes more sense, thank you!

I don’t get how spreading the claim that carrots help your eyes covers up having radar, it feels non sequitur …

this is legit my worst nightmare

oof, you caught me red-handed, USian here 😭 <greatest country on earth she says between sobs>

but it’s our money, not his … taxes?

yep, a guy with a history in law enforcement, had a job where he investigated claims of misconduct of employees, he seemed to use that to serially sexually prey on the people who he ended up investigating

can’t be more specific for legal reasons unfortunately

not sure he was inherently evil per se, but what he did I would consider evil

would love indexing and numbers on my handle

or just go full Japan and incorporate a thermostat