Permanently Deleted
everyone who rationalized voting for this racist child-touching shithead, congratulations
First they came for the socialsits and I was like "Lol who cares, they're just socialists anyway vote biden."
He called himself an anarchist for a long time till somebody told him that his opinion didn't make any sense. Then he started calling himself a "libertarian socialist" because he refuses to read any theory to develop his opinions.
This was one of the dumber things Lee has latched onto. Biden is pretty obviously using Anarchist in the way it's understood by basically everyone who isn't a niche leftist: someone who doesn't care about laws and wants to just cause chaos for the fun of it. 99.9% of people don't know that Anarchism is an actual ideology beyond "smash shit hell yeah". Biden isn't going to arrest you for posting a laser-eyed Kropotkin meme on twitter dot com
Whenever normies say anarchist, in their mind they're thinking of villains in a Batman comic like a gang of leather-clad criminals with mohawks that steal from hardworking innocent people for a living.
Though would you really be that surprised if the police state latched on to this to justify cracking down on the left.
Biden is pretty obviously using Anarchist in the way it’s understood by basically everyone who isn’t a niche leftist: someone who doesn’t care about laws and wants to just cause chaos for the fun of it.
Still unacceptable.
Biden is pretty obviously using Anarchist in the way it’s understood by basically everyone who isn’t a niche leftist
Words have power. By using Anarchist as a shorthand phrase for someone who wants to cause chaos, he's naming those people. That makes it dangerous not only for people who actually call themselves Anarchists, but for anyone who supports them. If you are criminalizing a name, then you're criminalizing both online and meatspace leftist spaces. If being an "anarchist" is a reason to get arrested, it's also a reason for an ISP to block a website or a site to ban a user with a :anarchy: profile pic. Even if Biden is just blowing smoke, his idea could inspire plenty of problems.
Honestly, I think people are understandably waiting for the other shoe to drop and for Jakarta method style operation to commence, but I think that causes some to read into things a bit too much. Biden is basically just saying what any lib would say, lock up any "criminal" elements in protests, I don't think that one little comment he probably doesn't even remember means he's ready to start persecuting internet anarchists or raid the local co-operative book store/vegan cafe.
It’s still weird that your giving this neoliberal ghoul any fucking benefit of the doubt at all. It really does just come off as an expression of your antipathy towards anarchists.
I say this as an ML who thinks 95% of anarchists are fucking worthless dweebs.
Not worried about Biden. He isn't going to do anything. But, plenty of liberals already blame the left for how bad they suck. Do we really need to give them a reason/excuse/authorization to start being bigger assholes? Do we want the far-right to say "See?? Even Biden thinks we should get rid of the leftists!" as their justification to start being even bigger assholes? Nowadays, no one can predict what will go viral. Biden saying to arrest anarchists could easily morph into any number of unfortunate things if the wrong people run with it.
I believe stuff like this is going to inspire a huge, new wave of anti-government sentiment during Biden's presidency. You're 100% right, that words have power and him just saying this shit is going to invoke some backlash.
That backlash will be from the right wing and the conspiracy side who just cannot wait to start talking about the government again, martial law, and all that stuff. Biden and Harris are going to be the greatest gift to them in terms of propaganda. Obama gave them stuff like the NDAA (and they were the only ones talking about it when it first passed), but overall he had his celebrity image to fall back on. Biden don't have that. He's pretty open about being a piece of shit and will brag about pushing authoritarian measures, and then they chose Harris for his VP who is also very out in the open with authoritarianism. The conspiracy right are going to have a field day with this stuff for the next 4 years.
whenever normies say communist in their mind they're thinking of villains from their made up history books like a gang of sickle wielding madmen with hammers that steal from hardworking innocent people for a living.
your take is shitty
Come on now Bread, I don’t care for anarchists myself, but using the word “Anarchist” specifically is probably gonna set a standard that law enforcement can use to raid some fucking soup kitchen run by crust punks cuz they used the word “anarchism” on their webpage.
Feel how you may about said crust punks but I don’t really want troopers or the neoliberal establishment sicked on them.
I don't wear leather (im vegan btw), but all the rest of that checks out.
To be fair, I think he means anarchist in the bombthrower sense. But fuck Vaush, antivaushistische aktion all the way.
https://i.imgflip.com/4jto79.jpg
Sorta kinda related but not exactly, but if you ever apply for certain government jobs, mainly anything within the DoD they ask you very specific questions about identifying as an anarchist or a communist, right next to white supremacist groups. I pity the fools who mark yes on their job applications for any of those besides obviously the hate groups. That has to not only disqualify a person but shiiiit, have to imagine they'd also end up on a list or 10
I had to agree that I had never advocated for the violent overthrow of the US government in order to get paid to grade papers at my public uni lmfao
anarchists are libs and no threat at all to the established powers
anarchists are the first ones arrested for their ideology alone
Tankies BTFO.
ITT: Writing prompts, State and Revolution but written by Biden, go:
Harm reduction though......
I have been saying it on here for fucking weeks, Biden is going to accelerate shit FAR more than Trump could, cause the people around him are competent. A huge difference from the neo-cons around Trump who are more worried about enriching themselves.
Sorry guys decided to delete the post since I intended to make fun on vaush not struggle sesh sorry for being a coward. peace.
