i would pay to unsee this

All I can see is pizza and french fries, weird.

No they most certainly are not cohesive, if certain leftists insist on clinging to mis- and dis- information, especially when certain leftists know that Western media is consistently and constantly carrying water for the same system that oppresses us with:

1. Surveillance state
2. Media lies
3. Violent police action
4. Embracing fascism while criminalizing even right wing Democrats, let alone leftist thought, writing and discussion
5. Creating mental illness to justify incarceration
6. Creating more criminal categories to justify concentration camps (homelessness, peaceful protests, mutual aid, feeding the homeless in the park)
7. Debanking
8. Desnaturalization
9. Declaring natural born citizens non-citizens
10. Disappearing citizens and noncitizens

The same leftists, I might add, that DV comments that discuss Gell-Mann amneaia, whine while refusing to consider just maybe accusations lobbed in this very thread just may be more psyop lies, or at the very least, gross misrepresentation, like

1. Operation Condor
2. Operation Gladio
3. Palestinian Genocide
4. Data centers don't consume too much water, pollute water, increase global warming
5. Clean Carbon
6. CO² tax credits
7. Plastic Recycling
8. Asbestos safety

Edit to add: and while I admit I'm woefully inadequate in my knowledge of history, we deal with individuals like this, in 2h and 3D who prefer to feel clever with reactions line this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/27196446 rather than do the briefest cursory search to actually learn a fact it two, even casually.

True, but the lived experience of the well-off person is almost never the experience I've seen disregarded. It's usually trans people, especially trans people assigned female at birth and, more rarely, trans women/ people assigned male at birth who have lived as women for decades, people from former Soviet countries, and people living in abject poverty who're told their personal experiences are a psyop.

It's kind of also the biggest problem with anarchy. It still has a foundation of social contract, the idea that we're allowed to exist without authority. There really isn't anything that stops someone from building power and exerting it on others. No one wants to accept a despot over freedom but if someone rolls up to my farm in a tank and says they own it now, I'm not really in any position to say otherwise. In a hierarchy of need, living sits above liberty.

That edge cuts both ways though, the history of democracy dating back to its foundation is people who should never have been given power getting put in charge. How many early democracies become dictatorships? Even today, the US has been trying to shake off the parasitic powers that be for decades and they just keep getting stronger.

"up and down" is a very recent thing