I’m gonna share a golden case from italy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Brusca

This man who himself declared committed between 100 and 200 murders (he lost track) got released after 25 years and walks free.

I’m gonna go against the current here and say no. Videogames are not a good hobby and a poor investment of your time. If the alternative is deer hunting or anything shady then playing videogames is one of the less harmful things you can do on earth but among the thousand activities you can do and pick up as a hobby videogames are not free of issues.

First of all by specifically getting into video games you are looking at stare at a screen and sit for hours. Not a big deal if you can manage it but don’t limit yourself to just videogames, there are board games, social games, mind sports and many other games you can get into.

Videogames industry has become very rotten and has appropriated the whole community. Many of the titles being suggested here are “products” made by evil companies with mechanics built to mess up with people. Steam which many recommended you to download is a proprietary software launcher that belongs to a company that has no problem pushing loot boxes and abduct kids into gambling. That’s the sort of business you are getting your hands into.

Which services? isn’t it similar to matrix?

Isn’t it decentralized?

Nobody can do shit about it anyways so they are going to do it for whatever reason. Red and blue party just won elections and it’s going to win again in 4 years, government gonna do whatever they want.

I believe the lack of footage from gaza and the censorship of the press is doing a good job at keeping public opinion controlled. If pictures of dead kids would be on the news daily you will see a public outrage.

In the west, you should expect to find the border guard. They are capable of checking databases and patrolling in nature, but aren’t heavily armed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxo0gBM6GM

In this video you can see soldiers patrolling the borders with rifles and dogs and using drones to scan the area, what’s your definition of heavily armed? They look heavily armed enough to me.

And tens of thousands of guys have taken leave on their own, despite anything the border guard can do. If one doesn’t like the draft, one hikes out via the Carpathian mountains.

I hope that’s true, according to wikipedia half of the people trying to escape are getting caught

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilization_in_Ukraine

“Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, around 650,000 military-aged men have left the country. According to Ukrainian authorities, as of November 2023, around 20,000 people had been caught while trying to cross the border illegally since February 2022, and another 20,000 successful crossings were recorded between February 2022 and 31 August 2023 according to a BBC Eye Investigation.”

Malatesta wrote multiple times on the subject.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-anarchists-have-forgotten-their-principles

https://www.marxists.org/archive/malatesta/1916/pro-government-anarchists.html

Those are realistic military duties in war time. Every military practises them. Where do you find a fault?

Where do i find a fault in conducting vehicle inspections and riot control at peace time, from an organization with a shady past involving false flag operations, psychological warfare and assassinations aimed at delegitimize left-wing parties.

Dunno buddy let me keep thinking

An example from real life: the Ukrainian military has checkpoints on roads near the frontline. Moving with a vehicle, you’d expect to show papers, say a few words and maybe even show transported goods. The purpose? Finding reconnaisance / sabotage groups, which every competent enemy is expected to send. If an opponent doesn’t send recon or saboteurs, they are fools. If a military doesn’t learn how to deter those, they’re fools.

The ukrainian military also have checkpoints in the west border to make sure any male between 18 and 60 doesn’t leave the country so that they can be forced into war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilization_in_Ukraine

How does one learn? After dry reading in a classroom: one holds an excercise. There’s a home team and an opposing team. The home team checks, the opposing team infiltrates. Both teams report what they achieved, results get compared. If the blue team found the “saboteurs”, good. If the red team “blew up” all bridges and pipelines in the area, people think hard about what they did wrong. If they don’t practise, they don’t get to think hard.

To me this sound like military rhetoric coming from a military man. You self defined yourself as being a moderately honest anarchist, i suggest you to keep doing your anarchist readings and re-read the works of Emma Goldman and Errico Malatesta.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-preparedness-the-road-to-universal-slaughter

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-the-european-war-and-the-international-workers-organization

It is currently very busy doing a real job

Yes i’m sure they are doing a very busy job like they were in their tainted history (false flag operations to delegitimize left-wing parties in Western European countries)

If it oversteps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Response

“Several of the operations were along the coast in the borders between sea and land, and together with roads and populated areas. Surveillance, patrols, road control posts, vehicle inspection, control of air space, minesweeping, evacuation of civilians, and riot control were important part of the exercise.”

“According to several Western European researchers, the operation involved the use of assassination, psychological warfare, and false flag operations to delegitimize left-wing parties in Western European countries, and even went so far as to support anti-communist militias and right-wing terrorism as they tortured communists and assassinated them, such as Eduardo Mondlane in 1969”

Based on this conclude what you want about the NATO of today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadfast_Defender_2024

I said that NATO is a terrorist organization not that i want something

what about it?

These autocrats have always wanted to drop NATO.

NATO is a terrorist organization led by USA. If any USA rulers want to disband it would be only to com up with a bigger and more evil organization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

I’m not looking to insult anybody for their nationality, see this thread https://feddit.nl/post/22918080

Go for it

I’m not looking to insult anybody for their nationality. I’m just wondering if the double standard reserved for russian (insults against the rules) are now going to be applied for all americans too

Now that USA is ruled by a fascist are they going to expel from the linux kernel every maintainers who work for american companies?

If we had a better option we’d be on it. We don’t.

Plenty of options that you are not even considering because you are victim of propaganda. Bombs don’t tick watch the combat footage videos from ukraine or gaza.

Democrats want a ceasefire. Republicans want genocide. Despite attempts to conflate these two positions they could not be more different. Do not let anyone tell you we have two fascists parties. We have a neoliberal party and a fascist party. The neoliberal party is terrible on this issue, but they do not want the genocide to continue. The Palestinians, along with everyone else, will be harmed by a second Trump term. Voting for Kamala is harm reduction. If you care about anyone please vote for Harris and Walz because doing so is useful for ending the genocide.

Harris is not some random democrat party member she’s the vice president of the current Biden administration. She’s the second highest person in charge in the country, trying to pull her out from what the government is doing is a big stretch. You are claiming in the same post Biden to be complicit in a genocide and the democrats to want a ceasefire, stop being illogical.

Both parties are fine with the genocide going on and with israel fascist government finishing the job, this is not what i’m telling you it’s what is happening live right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Israel–Hamas_war

For an office like President, you don’t get your favorite choice. Period.

Don’t spread propaganda. You can vote for anyone you want who is in the ballots.

Sadly that’s the reality of the world we live in. Name a single first world nation in the world that isn’t ruled by corrupted politicians or that isn’t a police state ready to beat people at the first occasion.

While the policies of modern states may not be as violent and radical as that of fascist regimes from the past keep in mind that never in history nations had so much control and influence over people. Mass surveillance is something hitler or mussolini would have dream of.