I'm sure it still happens a bunch, I got a random orbital sander second hand for quite cheap. No one sniped me, but it's not like its a rare collectible.

Nah, eBay is mostly warehouse vendors now. I find it a little odd if I find an old school second hand item with bids. Also, at least in my country, most of the warehouse vendors offer free shipping. Aliexpress is generally cheaper per item tho

I have to ration disk space and internet here is typically not amazing

At this dark hour, the SPD turns to President von Hindeburg as a trusted ally

Which one was beehaw?

Download copyrighted books. It's a civil case, not a felony!

So, I'm not an anarchist any more, but just to throw in a few odds and ends:

In the socialist conception of things, the state is the network of social forces that separates classes. Things like cops, or parliament are big obvious parts of "the state", but things like CNN or Microsoft are too, despite being in private hands. In your hypothetical, the apparatus you use to accumulate wealth is "the state".

A part of this reading is that it requires active effort to maintain the state. To take an example, let's say your method of wealth accumulation was by becoming a landlord. You own the land and dwellings that people shelter in. Cool.

What makes this "yours" and not the tenants? Well, you paid for it, yes, but unless you spend all your time debating your tenants about the philosophy of ownership, you're going to need enforcers. Enforcers who take your claims of ownership seriously. And this gets more and more necessary as you get more land and more tenants. You're not going to fight ten tenants yourself to extract rent, let alone 10,000. After all, one would expect a slave to try to escape even if you rightfully paid for them, why not housing or food or anything else people need to live.

In most strains of anarchism, hoarding property so you can exploit your fellow man is violence, just as in liberalism walking across an empty bit of lawn that someone owns is violent.

But then, this isn't really my beliefs any more, so um... idk, I hope it helps

Come from a shitposting background, so fairly used to couching everything in ironic terms :P

I guess, though I have extensive critiques of both. I'm probably closest to Cuba, given my Carribean heritage and actually helping the local community outreach program.

Tankie, though if I take the 2-axis politics test I wind up being in the bottom left corner (you have to give some pretty unhinged answers to get top left).

I started out as a techno-libertarian and then lib left, then socdem, then anarchist. There's been life experiences that have changed my politics.

From the largest lemmy instance before reddit did the thing. Weird, huh.

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