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  • That’s not what anarchism is.

    I like to call anarchism as neighborliness extended as a political ideology. Consider it libertarianism with a pinch of collectivism

    You do it all the time when you organize a group of friends to go to the movies. There is no elected leader.

    When Russia invaded Ukraine, they destroyed a lot of public and military comms infrastructure, so the military ended up teaming up with anarchists because they had a decentralized comms going.

    Anarchism is compatible with existing political ideologies, however in my opinion works best at small scales.







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    Well to be quite fair, it’s better to judge a country by it’s progress and current state of affairs than by its past actions. Because if we judged every country by their actions in the past, not many countries would have clean hands.

    From 2016-2021, I was ready to move away. I was quite disillusioned by everything. What changed? Soccer 💀. Soccer made me comically nationalist for our national teams.

    Honestly being in that environment of being able to be innocently prideful of my home without thinking about the past helped put things in perspective.

    I’m now prideful to be American, and proud that my home heavily invests in NATO. I’m an adult now, and I’ve been working to push for some more improvements in things like infrastructure. I don’t cringe at 4th of July celebrations anymore, and I feel great that I’m making an impact.

    You probably won’t see me putting a flag outside my home, but I have a lovely high quality flag.

    Our national park system is the best in the world, our ecosystem, nature, and geography are spectacular and diverse. And NASA is phenomenal.

    Don’t allow yourself to wallow in this cynical disillusionment. It’s not good for your mental health to focus on the terrible parts of America without having the ability to change those parts.