Was the first paragraph written by the Meta marketing department?

The state wants to keep its monopoly on violence.

Not really at all. Look up anarchism on wikipedia. This is the first paragraph:

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or hierarchy, primarily targeting the state and capitalism.[1] Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. A historically left-wing movement, anarchism is usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism

“Anarcho-Capitalism” is a rather recent name for a sort of ideology that most anarchists would instead call “stateless capitalism”

If it means anything, I started my journey on lemmy as an armchair socialist who in practice was more a welfare capitalism type person. Now I’m a full on anarchist (anti-capitalist). So a steady stream of influence, especially when people make good points and it helps make sense of my suffering, has shifted my political views strongly.

(But the basis for that shift was already kind of laid out, I’ve been fascinated by anarchist critiques for a while, and one of my favourite political authors was one. But the sort of being in a community of likeminded people [lemmy] and having significant suffering at the hands of the current system that made me more strongly shift towards those views).

On the other hand. Simply having a few conversations with my vaguely left wing partner about my views has led her to go from vaguely social democrat to anarchist.

I think the lesson is change is possible, it’s just a slow series of events that add up. Usually there isn’t one thing that straight up switches a person.

Yeah. Really questioning how they got labelled as one of the happiest bands here. But tbh you could never expect one person to make something like this accurately.

As someone who’se shared hundreds of articles on reddit then lemmy.

Good luck getting more than 1% to read the article. People want headlines, scrollable information bits that they can instinctively react on.

That’s why paragraphs under are useful. Makes people atleast read those before commenting a gut reaction to an oversimplified headline.

When Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon said “I’m a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028,” last week, it should have been a surprise, but wasn’t. “We’re working on it. … We’ll see what the definition of term limit is,”the dishevelled Bannon told NewsNation. It wasn’t the first time he had mentioned it either. The president’s adviser, who went to prison for refusing to testify before a congressional committee about the 6 January insurrection, suggested it in December. Then, he argued that Trump could circumvent the 22nd amendment, which codifies the two-term limit, because the word “consecutive” is not in the text of the document.

Trump has been making his feelings clear too. Shortly after his election victory last November, the president told congressional Republicans: “I suspect I won’t be running again unless you say, ‘He’s so good we’ve got to figure something else out’.”

Then, in January, during the annual House Republican retreat in Florida, he joked with speaker Mike Johnson: “Am I allowed to run again, Mike?” In February, he asked supporters at the White House: “Should I run again? You tell me.” Offhand musings about a third term in office sound less like bluster and more like a blueprint.

If we’re sharing articles can we make the effort to add a couple relevant paragraphs under the headline? Otherwise the discussion ends up being about the headline and often innaccurate.

If you have the money to leave. Buy a couple people on the street loaves of bread or a sleeping bag or something.

[This article reads like satire]

Am I the only one who’se only ever used wooden pencils in my life? In my part of the word basically no one used those plastic ones.

Ja.

At school all the cool kids had these lol

or these

[I come from a very specific generation in French speaking switzerland, so this may not be relatable]

I used to live quite near to one of the bic factories in France. Ahhhh I’m obsessed with Bic pens.

I mean, signal literally has the same UI as whatsapp. My 87 year old grandma somewhat manages to use whatsapp.

This is why I think if we’re going to excute people it should be by firing squad. Death is nearly instant for the person affected, but it shows quite well the barbarism and cruelty of the act to witnesses and executioners.

Yet he already did it weeks ago for actual humans.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naloxone

It isn’t with lemmy. The two main solutions is either to use Piefed. Which is a desktop only software that federates with lemmy and has this feature.

Or if on mobile, have a couple different accounts of different instances and use each as a “multireddit”.