Basically, go outside holy shit.
This is the theory everyone needs to read but won't
Anarchists outside of Reddit aren’t like this
This has always been my impression as well. The whole fixation on "tankies" and frothing anti-communism is unique to "anarchists" on reddit. Anarchists irl usually do not have that problem, usually also read theory (including lots of Marxist theory) and usually do actual praxis. Most of the squatters and activists i've met irl were anarchists, and they had nothing in common with these pathetic libs on reddit.
The whole fixation on “tankies” and frothing anti-communism is unique to “anarchists” on reddit.
That's because the so-called "tankies" are closer to them in ideology so they interact with them more. Just like how this website has more stuff shitting on democrats than shitting on republicans, because we interact less with chuds and republicans
I'm glad you mentioned that's it's only reddit 'anarchists' that are like that(not all tho)
Arrr slash DebateAnarchism seems the best out of the lot cause at least you'll get some interesting opinions and critiques from people who sometimes know what their talking about
What's the movie? This dude hates Asian people cause of nam right?
I like the movie but it does kinda feel like "conservative anti-racism". Meaning, racism is something that is strictly personal animus and if I like individual people of another race then I'm not racist (ignoring attitudes towards people of other races you don't know as well as societal / institutional racism).
Reminder that CA is full of petit-bourgeois posers and not actual anarchists
Yeah I just gave up on internet anarchists. There are some small communities that aren't complete garbage but overall online anarchism is liberalism with edgy aesthetics.
If that FBI report about anarchist twitter drama tells me anything, it's that the best anarchists don't have a digital footprint
anyone find it funny how anarchists or vaushites can be like yeah anarchism is good, yeah market socialism is good, yeah scandanavian social democracy is good. They can be very well aware of the grey... but china its black, ussr is black, etc...
Here's a fun lil factiod for folks: Some of the people illegally detained in Guantanamo Bay, without charges or trials, were Uighur separatists.
That fact "works" with libs (actually don't cuz they just ignores it) but can't work with someone saying "yeah, Death to America, but I'm talking about what China is doing, and it looks bad"
One of the most extremist, Al Qaeda aligned, groups in the Syrian Civil War is Uighur as well.
I never really browsed that sub, but I remember ML chapos saying it was really bad... after the OG sub got closed down I checked it out and was surprised how bad it was. They're absolutely obsessed with "tankies" and it seems to be getting worse.
/r/anarchy
Dude I went there and that place is either raided by weirdos or totally insane
Yeah its the only anarchist space I've encountered like that personally. There might be more, but its so bad if I weren't out of tinfoil I'd think it was an OP. I think its just edgy kids that googled anarchism and don't know what they're doing for the most part.
Something "yee yee ass haircut" something "Tanisha" something
As an anarchist, I have to be skeptical of anyone claiming another is doing a genocide while ignoring the one they’re responsible for, as well as all the other ones they did nothing to stop.
let me be clear: this is america making these accusations against its biggest geopolitical rival OF ALL TIME the ussr was a FLY compared to china.
just sayin
yeah just pointing enough icbms at the USSR to end humanity cuz they were a fukin fly definitely haven't accused every other US rival of genocide
Yeah, they built a glass ranch house, with a glass extension and a glass two-car garage, on a glass block in a very lovely glass neighborhood
Yeah, “full genocide” is likely a gross exaggeration of what’s actually happening, but I’m getting a bit tired of things like this being held up as stand-ins for any valid critique of the Chinese government on here. If there is any reasonable critique of the CCP happening on this site, I would love it if somebody could point me toward it, because everything I see these days gets immediately dismissed as “CIA shit.”
My impression is that you're allowed to criticize China here, you're just not allowed to circlejerk about how bad China is like we do with Amerikkka. The reason being, the Amerikkka circlejerk doesn't reinforce US propaganda because its diametrically opposed to American messaging and because people around here are more familiar with American politics. When we're talking about America's enemies, neither of those things are true, so we have to do more work to make sure we're not reinforcing CIA propaganda among one of the only factions of Western politics that is likely to give America's enemies a fair, material analysis.
When there's a full-scale, bad-faith anti-China campaign in the media, doing leftist critique in a public forum only serves to aid the campaign. It doesn't sound like "communism can be better than Chinese communism" but rather like "even communists hate China".
You're right that Chapo should be criticizing China - it's secluded enough to not add to the propaganda. But I'm betting people just aren't personally interested in China enough to get into it. You have to know a subject intimately if you want to comment intelligently, not just repeat rumors.
"How China's government treats LGBT people is bad"
Got banned from CA the other day for "liberalism". Obviously didn't defend capitalism in any way so I'm still not sure exactly what it was for.
Maybe they saw I use this website.
I've heard that a bit. Is there a place you can see where people are mods at?
Vakiadia is on both mod teams. You can check the modlist of each one in the side bar. I think the founder of CA was a Neolib mod, but they stepped down a while ago.
conservative "get off my lawn" granpa does not approve. feel bad yet?
r/COMPLETEANARCHY is full of anarcho-Bidenists. If you want
breaderbetter takes, go to r/anarchism. Much better.Anyone who's been online long enough for a post like that would also know that the vegan mental gymnastics format would be 100x better to make that kind of point. We don't like Clint Eastwood that much
