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Stepping down as an /r/Antiwork mod

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What a journey it has been. It all started with the Abolition of Work

An idea where we live in a society without being forced in your childhood to go to school 8 hours - half of your lifetime, to a place you don't like. For me it was 10 hours usually. Without being forced to work for 8-10 hours or even longer. Holy shit, America has it really bad. But it's not like social democracies are better either.

And well regarding the experience with r/antiwork... long story short: I had lots of fun with anarchists and other radicals, brilliant discussions the almost 2 years I was active there (before I was invited to be a mod) and I'm honestly not sad that the liberals, with their failed reformism, as history always shows, are mad at me.

What I am: I'm disappointed. At the people not even reading the sidebar - the introduction pieces and slowly co-opting antiwork in an idea it never was.

Let me make it clear as a post-leftist.

I don't fucking care about your democracy - the tyranny of the majority (well, supposedly, but the rich are ruling us right now - I care about my own well-being, about my willful self-creation. I care about to live. And if I see someone else sad, I'm sad too.

And it was making me sad how r/antiwork slowly was dying to liberals. The original userbase was full of radicals, a lot of anarchists and there were several discussions in subreddits where radicals frequented how it's just full of liberals now that want "nicer bosses" - even though the structure itself is just shit. I tried listening to community feedback and was actively trying to implement them in the 28 days I was modding - to the point of sleep deprivation today with 3 hours of sleep. Ironic, isn't it?

I actually thought about deleting Reddit the same day I got invited, as I was reading https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/return-fire-vol-4-supplement-caught-in-the-net - the dangers about companies, monopolies, capitalists, owning not only the physical space through private property, but also the internet itself. NFT were almost an evolution of property - making particular pieces in the internet itself being owned by someone. I guess it kind of failed?

Anyways, I'll deleting my Account soon and I'll be focusing on doing mutual aid in real life.

And for any Anti-Worker reading this, no, not the liberals, let me tell you this:

Our rights were fight for on the street, not begged in front of a capitalist that couldn't care less.

Let's not remember the bad moments, but the good memories we had with our pairs.

https://crimethinc.com/2015/05/05/feature-why-we-dont-make-demands

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime." - Max Stirner

  • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    How fitting that they should end the posting career of their made-up non-ideology with a quote from a someone that didn't exist

    • Horsepaste [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Don't over-estimate how much of a fetish westerners have for failure.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I think they're just young people with a different upbringing or environment than others. People shouldn't harp on them too much. Sometimes people aren't aware of how much pressure they'll be under in a given situation. Tons of people have dumb or weird beliefs, including us previously (or now). These people just had theirs exposed to thousands of people on the internet.

  • Woly [any]
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    3 years ago

    Whatever, good for them. Hopefully they stick to their guns and move from activity on Reddit to activity in real life. They didn't deserve a fraction of the shit flung their way for just being themselves and doing a shitty job of moderating a shitty subreddit on a shitty website.

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      staying awake for 21 hour stretches to... be a reddit mod

      big yikes. there is literally nothing a moderator of any internet forum could possibly be doing that would justify missing sleep.

  • sedated [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Stirnerists need a new thing to call themselves, because "post-left" has been co-opted by right wing grifters like Aimee Therese for a while now.

  • bananon [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Now they’ll step down and more conservative mods will take their place. The “movement,” at least what little there was of one, will be officially castrated.

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      and where does that lead the few actual leftists on the sub? Back to us.

    • pooh [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      Now they’ll step down and more conservative mods will take their place. The “movement,” at least what little there was of one, will be officially castrated.

      I was thinking the same thing. This seems like the internet version of a color revolution.

    • Zodiark [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      What I see wrong with it is that it is OK as a belief to have as an individual, but placing primacy of one's own personal salvation, virtue, or calling, is about creating a sense of meaning and catharsis that in turn undermines achieving revolutionary change. Kimezukae turned social change, reform, or revolution into a lofty ideal, a paradise to aspire to, rather than a real concrete and possible future.

      It is reflective of the attitude that some highly vocal leftists in western liberal democracies posses: that class struggle becomes a hobby, a lifestyle, a means for self-actualization and definition for one's identity rather than a theoretical framework to understand society and change it.

      Leftism is deformed into what Kime did: a way to understand society and cope within it.