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Uncyclopedia, that's a website that I rarely encounter anymore.
I once used it often and then it broke? or I got banned for shitposting...
it was quite fun, and this article holds up to that standart
lol
“reall? how old…”.
ah, neat way to sneak in calling Anarcho-Communists children to this extremely old, dank meme
Well, you see, anarchists are childish because they want to do things a different way, just like children. Children don't like being told what time to go to bed, or to brush their teeth, and anarchists don't like being that they must forfeit countless hours of their lives to produce profits for evil, soul sucking corporate vampires with only the staving off of starvation as a reward, or being sent to kill and die for the profits of equally evil, equally soul sucking governmental vampires in the killing fields of a foreign land.
How do you not see the parallels? Childish anarchist, I stg
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i don’t wanna grow up, i’m an An‘Я’chist kid…
How do you change the direction of a letter?
This one is just a substitution with the russian character "ya": я Я
i just searched “backwards R” and then copied it from the google results….
there might be an invisible unicode character in there reversing in, but you can do all sorts of weird things with unicode….
see also, “upside down unicode text generator”.
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people usually downvote that stuff though
Thanks. I figured it was Unicode, but thought maybe there was some BBC mark-up that handled it.
Oh that's genius
well thanks… feel free to make a t-shirt
To the free market!
But in all seriousness, I absolutely would wear that. But I don't feel safe branding myself as a leftist anymore. :/
i feel you… i’m a “coastal elite” but i’ve still seen a few trump caravans lately… it feels exactly like a nazi parade….
they’re not there to change minds or something, they’re there to intimidate….
Yeah, I'm in Bumfuck, Tennessee, 0u812. It's rough out here for a gay anarchist. Lol. Grew up in Hampton roads, Virginia, though. I know it's probably bad there, too, but I like to pretend it's not gotten bad, and that I can return and be safe. Lol
well… at least it’s a testament to your character that you grew up in an oppressive area and still ended up free minded…
He's just like me fr fr
It's not the "different way of doing things" I have a problem with. It's the people who think it means there should be no authority and they should be able to just do whatever they want. Regardless of its impact on the people around them. The walking tragedy of the commons that are most college freshmen who've just found out that Anarchy is a thing. They've obviously never thought about how 8 billion humans are going to do whatever they want with no authority.
I have a massive amount of respect for people who actually think about how to dismantle the capitalist system while maintaining mass infrastructure and durable systems that don't just get knocked over the second someone wants to play warlord.
You have a problem with a misconception of anarchism. Anarchists believe in the importance of organisation.
You should really take a look at An Anarchist FAQ.
I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear but that's kind of my point. I'm tired of teenagers who read half of 2.4, none of 2.3, and just expect magic to happen. I know there are people trying to work on alternative structures that don't rely on exploitation but also are durable against aggressive groups that would take advantage of the lack of traditional authority. That's the hard work that needs to be done.
Ah, that's on me then, I read your comment as critical of anarchism as a whole, not of "anarchists" in aesthetic only 😅
Oh that's perfectly fine. I'm a professional hair splitter and my words don't always work as well as I would like.
Well then you can talk to people who have dedicated more time to think about anarchism. Instead of engaging with people you think are below your intellectual level and condescending on them.
Let the rest of the people have constructive conversations with them and move on.
Problem. They end up in an echo chamber and they go do something stupid. Then the corporate press uses it as evidence for why we aren't allowed to have a different system.
Well, the people that want to do whatever they want regardless of the impact on thers are not anarchocommunists. This is a misrepresentation of what anarchocommunists actually want, which involves organisation.
Good news, then! Your problem is not with anarchist. Not in the no true Scotsman way, either. I'll quote a good one at the end, but essentially, anarchists do not believe there should be no authority, anarchists believe that authority should justify itself. Just and unjust authority exists, regardless of how you want to organize society. Anarchists even have groups, parties, organizations. The question isn't whether or not we should have authority or whether we should just go buck wild and live every man for himself. What anarchists desire* is to maintain the infrastructure of our society, with resources being distributed in a more equitable way, and the decisions being made by way of the people who will actually be impacted by it, and by whose labor it was created.
*For the most part, anti and post civ not withstanding
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
That quote is generally referred to as the authority of the boot maker and most anarchists would suggest not only not referring to the boot maker when you need a tooth pulled, but also having the right, and often moral duty, of consulting more than one expert when possible
I think my point above, to use the Scots, is that I know there are true Scots. So it makes me mad when I find false Scots that can only talk about needing to tear stuff down. Often they mean to use violence. In my life I have been cursed to see the violence that occurs in a vacuum of power. I'm also acutely aware that power can be of the people or over the people. I saw both occur naturally. A time when people came together to aid each other and disburse food and heating propane logically and a time when the next town over decided it was going to expand, no matter what their neighbors thought about it.
So I do really want an alternative to capitalist and authoritarian systems figured out at scale.
Oh look Flamethrowers and Napalm are legal weapons again. How did that happen so fast?
Oh shit they aren’t one of us. They have spider heirarchies.