it’s a SECRET CONSPIRACY, and even moar dangerous!
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Sounds like the cops are inventing some preemptive justification to point at when one of them inevitably shoots an unarmed middleschooler dead.
“The city has decided that the shooting was justified, because officer feared for his safety. The NYPD was on high alert due to non-specific warnings of costumed terrorism, and the perp was dressed as a scary ghost. Any reasonable person would shoot first in that situation!”.
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To be fair, the deceased was wearing a cloak. They could have had a dagger in there!
/the audible vomiting is normal.
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Really? I heard they put razor blades in apples.
The head fits up the ass better when it’s pointy.
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I have been beaten. By people. People beat me.
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There’s also the idea of a unconditional basic income, which is a recurring idea on the political fringe in Europe. It has supporters on both sides of the spectrum of political opinions about economy (but is considered too utopian and risky by anyone closer to the center).
The idea is basically as follows:
- redistribution income on a scale that far surpasses current welfare states, in order to provide everyone with enough free money to live. Which makes them free.
- hoping that this added freedom will allow more people to be enterpreneurs (there is less personal risk involved) so that (1) can be sustained.
Which makes both social and free-market idealists happy.
Unfortunately, I have no idea whether such a scheme could actually work.
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Maybe not specifically for murdering but the arrest of masked ‘arrest resistors’ will experience a nice uptick along with some made up charges based on this made up rumor to help boost the ‘they were coming right at us!’ factor. Expect stories next week of guys being charged with criminal conspiracy for the act of walking down a busy city street in costumes on Halloween who now have to hire lawyers to fight the charges. Meanwhile the cops get to spend Halloween doing what they consider fun (busting anyone they want that crosses their line of site) at the taxpayer expense.
Any excuse will do I suppose. They can’t keep treating people like their property without some (usually manufactured) reason and this will do as well as any.
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I remember reading when I was a kid (in the context of some “Did you know?” trivia article) that masquerades are illegal in New York City. Apparently the law goes back to 1845.
They might not fit your political beliefs perfectly, but there are sites like libcom.org and infoshop.org who identify as Libertarian-Socialist.
Just be aware that you might end up on a watchlist by reading them a lot.
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Oh, unconditional basic income would work once all the factories are run by robots.
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In Finland a basic income experiment is planned - not sure if this pilot project was further developed between August and now.
Why? In 2006 the Adenauer-Stiftung (a political trust in Germany, connected to the conservative party CDU) published a model for a basic income of monthly €800 - they believe it’s financially feasible and don’t refuse the idea generally.
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I heard that if you flash your headlights at anarchists on Halloween, they put razor blades in your candy.
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Trending: #NotAllRacists
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it’s true and works like a Pavlovian reflex. Prepared anarchists wear shades to counter this weakness.
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Nope. I have known many racist Democrats. Though they tend to not be the “burn a cross on your yard” and more “clutch your pearls and wonder why they are at ‘your’ pool” types.
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I don’t agree with your statement as written, as in “when all the factories are automated, then it will work”, because I’m not optimistic enough, but I don’t agree with the possibly implied statement that “it won’t work until all the factories are automated”, either.
It certainly becomes more likely to work with increased automation, but I see no difference in principle.
My biggest fear is, how well does it work a local model in a globalized economy? We might be stuck in a Nash equilibrium here.
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I see the most people discussing this in the context of ever-increasing automation in manufacturing, software, etc. At a certain point quite soon, there aren’t going to be even CLOSE to enough jobs for everybody. At that point we’re essentially going to HAVE to guarantee a basic living for everyone, OR we are going to have a major conflict between the masses and capital. I’m hoping we get to the former before the latter, but that doesn’t seem to be how we like to do things…
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What I find an even more interesting possibility is: “when the factories are owned by robots”. People seem eager to offload many human toils to automation. But how about commerce and property themselves? If I can get robots to own property, then this might mean less people who expect me to own property.
Even a guaranteed wage is too top-down, I think. Making a living sounds like something for zombies! One system for all would be inherently unfair, no matter how just it may seem to most. The conflict between the masses and capital exists by design, but most people seem to be distracted from it. Making any matter of organization “a survival issue” guarantees a derail from deliberate consideration, as well as insisting upon a very primitive status quo for interactions. It’s really quite far from many possible notions of civilized society, even in post-modernism.
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