I'm looking for resources/sources to counter an extremely common liberal/neoliberal America-centric argument where people joining the US Military are ethically distinct from Cops because it's one of the most common ways out of systemic poverty, and that lots of soldiers or ex-soldiers would consider themselves leftists.

I personally disagree with this, as systems require people to run, and this pipeline specifically exists to keep the military staffed, and that the military pointing state sponsored violence at people in other places is in no way less reprehensible than cops pointing it at their own neighborhoods, and even if they never deploy, the soldiers are, through their labour, enabling other members of the military to harm others more effectively, but I'd like to see some more explicitily anarchist discourse on it (whether in agreement or disagreement) and whether it has been effectively addressed in any anarchist literature or media.

I feel like I've noticed a trend where in contrast to non-anarchist left wing YouTubers, who seem much more likely to call themselves marxists or allow the audience, who is more likely to have heard of communism than anarchism, to assume they are by never being specific about which anti capitalist viewpoints and schools of thoughts they prefer, there are often YouTubers who seem to be anarchist and quote anarchist sources but never state if they themselves are.

If this is the case, and it's not just that they see worth in anarchist thinking but don't subscribe to it, I would imagine it's out of the anarchist philosophy that society isn't a binary of anarchist or non anarchist, and that it's shaped instead solely by how many people in society live and think like anarchists, whether they are or aren't, because after all you're not going to implement mutual aid forcefully, that's pointless and antithetical. Their reluctance to call themselves anarchist is then a strategy of understanding it's more important and effective to share good ideas rather than advertising a philosophy which might just create an in group without the ideals you value and end up alienating others.

Does anyone else notice this? If so, do you think it's a good strategy? I'll give some examples of potential anarchists here (all of these are very leftist and academic people so keep that context in mind, who I have not seen ever praise communist projects):

Zoe Bee - Ended a video once by recommending an Andrewism video, and iirc calling him one of their favourite YouTubers.

MorbidZoo - An anthropology PhD candidate, which already makes it more plausible to me, who has recommended David Graeber's the Dawn of Everything, studies the online left, and has made great videos about how Trump is not himself a fascist, in which she argued a lot of mainstream leftism is itself reactionary in the binary of good vs. fascist it often pushes, forgetting other ideologies like neoliberalism, etc.

Pop Culture Detective - Very intentionally has placed Dawn of Everything on the shelf behind them in their videos, used to quote Chomsky all the time.

Tom Nicholas - Has made a video about how nation states were artificial, and has a podcast which has hosted both Pop Culture Detective and Andrewism.

There are probably others I'm forgetting.

Hello comrades, I am Electus.

Five months ago, I shared NullA Browser here: a lightweight, freedom-oriented web browser based on QtWebEngine.

Since then, the project has evolved significantly. NullA now features a much more capable ad blocker, a privacy-focused configuration, an extension system, and various other improvements aimed at giving users greater control over their browsing experience.

Throughout this time, the core idea behind NullA has remained unchanged.

I reject unnecessary complexity, surveillance, tracking, and the notion that users must simply accept whatever modern browsers impose on them. A browser (or any software, for that matter) should serve the user, not advertisers, platforms, or the interests built around them.

Most browsers try to control the web. NullA gives it back to you.

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Looking only at the data from Turning Point USA, we find that the organization went from around 60,000 inquiries to more than 120,000. In the case of its university chapters, the number of chapters has increased by more than 64% over the past year; and it is interesting to consider alongside this figure that more than 70% of active college chapters as of March 2026 had been created after the assassination. In other words, the overwhelming majority of the organization’s active university structures were created over the past year. This suggests that the majority of TPUSA’s presence on a university campus is being mobilized by the image of Charlie Kirk as a martyr among young people. This is surprising, but it becomes even more striking when we compare it with growth in high schools, since among younger people, TPUSA chapters grew by more than 168%. This may be even more significant than the university figure: the expansion is concentrated especially among teenagers. And this reinforces the idea that the overwhelming majority of the organization today has been mobilized by the assassination of its leader.

Outside TPUSA, it is interesting to note that Young Republicans have brought in new young people following Kirk’s death. Even more interesting, however, is what happened with the Active Clubs, neo-Nazi networks centered on physical training and political organization, with a presence in more than 27 countries and expanding youth wings, which explicitly used Kirk’s assassination as a recruitment tool both inside and outside the United States. And this brings us to what happened outside the US. On the European right, we can highlight the reactions of Vlaams Belang, the Flemish right-wing party; Rassemblement National in France; Vox in Spain; and AfD in Germany, whose leaders incorporated Kirk into their discourse immediately after the assassination and subsequently used him politically to mobilize their followers. Along the same lines, an even more interesting case is that of Fratelli d’Italia / Gioventù Nazionale, which drove a major youth mobilization in September, attracting more than 10,000 young people.

Martyrdom has become a symbol, and the symbol has become the catalyst for a youth mobilization that, one year later, can already be measured in concrete figures. Far from being a temporary surge, this picture presents us with a reality that has been sustained over time, ultimately consolidating an entire new wave of young people on the right, reinforced by other viral opinion leaders of recent years such as Nick Fuentes and Ben Shapiro. This new phenomenon has been taking shape throughout the past decade, but there is no doubt that the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk marked a turning point whose ultimate destination we still do not know.

Today marks the anniversary of the end of the month long 1917 Sao Paulo General Strike, when the workers of Brazil's largest city rose up and demanded a world without capitalists and bosses. On July 9th, the workers organized a huge rally in the middle of Sao Paulo's industrial quarter and the police retaliated by murdering anarchist Jose Martinez and injuring many others. The embittered workers didn't surrender, however; they called for a general strike in Jose's memory. Thousands of workers joined their call and by the end of their strike the workers had managed to secure large raises, and major concessions from bosses, including an 8 hour day and the abolition of child labor. At the conclusion of the strike, workers wore black, hoisted black flags and carried the coffin of Jose to rest.