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It's good to remind people that the term "libertarianism" ("Libertaire") was coined by French anarcho-communists in the 1850s when the French government outlawed speech advocating anarchism specifically by name, and that for a full century is was used by anarchists throughout the western world to refer specifically to non-hierarchical modes of socialism and communism, ideologies that are founded on concepts like mutual aid, social solidarity, worker's control, anti-authoritarianism, etc. It wasn't until the 1950s when the American Murray Rothbard colonized the term to advocate for the exact opposite in an attempt to obfuscate the inseparable relationship between capitalism and the state. His attempt worked.

Ideologically I'm a true believer in communalism, a sociopolticial practice that is not quite anarchist and therefore is best described as a "libertarian socialist" tendency. But thanks to that ancap rat bastard Rothbard that description does not aid in helping most people to understand me.

If an individual is convicted of a non-violent crime, and they are pregnant or the biological parent or legal guardian of a minor, they may be able to stay in their homes and communities through this supervision program rather than serve time in prison.

It's utterly insane to me that we're still putting anyone non-violent into prison at all. It's insane from a humanitarian perspective, it's insane from a justice perspective, it's insane from a tax cost perspective. There is no reason at all to force a non-violent person into confinement (And really, most violent offenders too) beyond functioning as a tacit threat to the law-abiding population or to fulfill the desires of sadists and those preoccupied with vengeance. And I don't want anything to do with a society that operates on either of those motivations.

Look at this long list of testimony on the bill so far. All supportive, except for:

• Jeremiah Stromberg, Department of Corrections Assistant Director
• Jeff Wood, Oregon Assn. of Community Corrections Directors
• Amanda Dalton, OR District Attorneys Association

JUST DAS AND PRISON GUARDS, literally those are the only people who don't support this. People who profit by locking other people up. If the vote on this renewal isn't unanimous take a look at who went Nay, there's your priority for outing in the next election.

Ugh! That conditioned, kneejerk, almost PTSD-style assumption that all questions are bad faith setups for a debate is one of the most toxic things about this format, leading to long chains of argument where both users are just talking past each other in reference to subtexts in the other's comments that they've completely imagined. I do still encounter that here on Lemmy, but at this point I think a lot of Lemmy users are specifically trying to escape that sort of environment so it can usually be diffused by just stating plainly that you're not setting up a gotcha. I do think this tendency is something we have to actively push back against by showing compassion and stating plainly up front what we want and why at the expense of maybe not feeling as cool as we would otherwise.

Government is my job when I vote for it based on their declared policies.

Nope, that's the fallacy again. Literally not the way that it actually works. You have to hold your reps feet to the coals. Interests that are opposite your own already understand this fact. You have to get involved at least at some minimal level, or you'll never get what you want out of politics and will forever stay frustrated.

Portlanders do struggle with this concept more than a lot of other urban Americans and I think it's largely due to the fact that until a few months ago we were the only major city that didn't have a city council. They look at me like I'm an alien, and ask things like what country am I from.

I moved across the country and lost my pristine 12-year old reddit account a few years back because at least one of the mods of the local city subreddit here is a psychopath who followed me across multiple subs harassing me, seemingly for being too vocal about homeless advocacy, eventually getting me permabanned from the site by literally making up a report where there was no mechanism for me to protest.

Since then I'd been making burner accounts to use the site, but they'd been surviving fewer and fewer weeks until a few months back they started getting immediately shadowbanned. So I said fuck it, why do I even want to be wallowing in a cesspit like that? It's way past fediverse time.

The notion of government being not your job, something you pay someone else to do, is a fallacy. And the notion that it can be that is fantasy. But even if that were the case, you'd be a chump to not at least demand in writing an undelivered service that you already paid for. We do have local council reps now.

How are those government people that you elected working out?

That's the church. I would take care to keep the institution distinct from the spirituality. Some of the most practicing and compassionate radical leftists I've ever met have been christian anarchists.

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Weird to say that now when it would have been a way more effective opener!

No worries, we're all so sarcasm-and-irony pilled given internet culture and current events that I should have been more explicit too.

De-arrests are a thing, they do and have worked against ICE kidnap attempts. But you need a critical mass of people to do it, if you go alone they'll just arrest you too or worse, shoot you.