At least according to an anarchist like Graeber, the state is just a way to take power out of the hands of the people and put it into the hands of the few. It’s a way to ensure that only certain people have the right to speak, and that the state has the exclusive right to use violence. Calling the Athenian state the ‘origin’ of democracy is just a way to ignore the thousands of years humans spent successfully governing themselves without a specialized class of rulers.

Butt… I want to see.

This is good, but it would have been nice if the symbols were more consistent. Like Volt gets a lightning bolt on her thigh… Cool. Ohm, while the sexiest in my opinion, gets an Ω on her shirt. So the under boob is great, but it’s really that smile. Finally, Amp. What going on here? Those ruddy cheeks are awesome. The rope is pretty cool too even if it’s not my thing. But where’s her symbol? I don’t particularly want to imagine a scarlet letter A.

Honestly, the inconsistency was a bit turn off.

Well… If you made it this far and think I’m missing the point, I hope you now realize I’m just taking the piss.

Hunger strikes for womens rights
AIDS die-ins
Occupying government official’s offices
Creating semi-public spaces for them to gather, strategize, and comfort one another
Creating zines and their own publishing houses
Meetings, meetings, meetings where people would share their stories, understand the systemic nature of their oppression, and find ways to resist
Developing alliances with other oppressed groups
Infiltrating powerful social institutions and intimidating powerful members (removing homosexuality in the DSM)
Creating allies with sympathetic members of said institutions
Shifting cultural consensus through public displays of defiance (bra burnings and coming out)

Politics is the final stage of toil after years of people working in the dark only to emerge and piss of most but win over some. Change doesn’t start with lobbying politicians or crafting laws, but standing up and saying together, “We exist and we matter”. If your movement’s first move is the political, you don’t understand how politics works. Turbulent flows shift mountains.

Only person to get the reference. Nice adaptation.

Not all chicks dig a dude with money.

Edit: This and the previous comment are a reference to the movie Office Space. The scene is quoted verbatim below and one person did a nice riff on it.

Oh damn. I posted the wrong photo

Raise you a pair of great tits.

Here’s a bit of how it got started.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science

They may know matadon, but don’t know what a fediverse is and, frankly, disgusted by it. /s

Oh man… I can’t believe I missed that origin. Yeah… You’re absolutely right about that.

Fucktards be making fuck all the way to the parking lot.

Alikeard if you ask me.

It is way too common to confuse the abstractions we use to understand reality with reality itself. Like the scientists who work with this stuff are really consistent in keeping the two separated

I wish this was true. I remember seeing a physicist talking about how the laws of physics are mathematical in nature and that the laws of physics needed to exist before the universe do the universe is made of math. I don’t think the vast majority of physicists have a philosophical grounding for the types of ontological claims they make. Even less so since “shut up and calculate” became the professional axiom.

Yeah! I saw another commenter say that. That’s awesome. Had no clue. Thanks!

There are web based torrent downloaders like WebTorrent. But you’ll probably need to sign up for audiobookbay or hope that some public service like The Pirate Bay has what you’re looking for.

Chinese are more interested vagina. More to the point 也。