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- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 2 comments
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 1 week ago:
it was spending a lot of time name dropping and raising people up on a pedestal. They only real path forward is to stop idolizing individuals.
I can understand that an Anarchist FAQ’s writing style is aimed more at leftists than the general population and is kinda unapproachable, I totally get that. It’s meant to be a reference work with cited references, a bit like an Anarchist Wikipedia I guess, the quotations and so on are from a very broad range of writers, building on their work, not idolizing anyone in particular.
You can’t just change the instincts of all humans on the planet.
This isn’t something which is in our biology, this is a social issue. Human cultures very different from our own exist, we were raised in one culture and thus we have one set of cultural beliefs, but the existence of another culture doesn’t mean those people are genetically different from us. Societies can and do change. It’s not something we need mutations for, it’s something that can change in the time span of a human life.
I was born in an extremely conservative area to conservative parents. I used to support the military, heck at one point I was borderline neo-nazi. Now, I am an avowed anti-fascist and anarchist. For your claim to be correct, I would have needed to somehow evolve, to change my innate instincts, while still living. Sorry, but on the face, it’s an absurd claim. Obviously these are socially constructed beliefs and values which can change.
Overall, I support much of what anarchists support in general. But I don’t think tearing down the hierarchy is going to do anything but make room for a new hierarchy.
Again, you are fundamentally missing the point of a social revolution. The entire basis of it isn’t to “tear down the hierarchy”, it is to build a system from the ground up that makes hierarchies irrelevant, so that they just collapse under their own weight.
I feel like you might get more out of a more accessible format - there’s a pretty fun video series called Q&Anarchy by Thought Slime, maybe check that out instead.
- Comment on YSK: The US Government Assassinated MLK 1 week ago:
Just a heads up, Professor Jiang is an interesting character, I’d say he has pretty good analysis most of the time, but some of the predictions and some of the things he says are just absolutely insane. Take it all with a pinch of salt.
- Comment on pirate shit 1 week ago:
You have openly stated that you aren’t engaged in activist activities, whereas I am. I actually have real, recent experiences, you do not. This isn’t people with two experiences disagreeing, this is just you refusing to accept that your “vibes” are off, because you are emotionally invested in being right.
I’m done with you for now, nobody else is reading this shit. See you next time. Hope you get paid well for doing this.
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
I present you with my actual lived experiences and you are just like “Actually, no, despite the fact I am not involved in activist efforts, somehow I know all about them”. Brother, do you work for Mossad, or what?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes, but not always. Many people were radicalized by Gaza, others were radicalized by Trump threatening to invade Greenland, others still by local stories and events. Most of our new members actually weren’t personally affected, unless you count seeing TikToks of atrocities as being affected.
Look, I understand where you’re coming from, I’ve been in this fight since I was 17, and I know how it has felt like swimming against the tide for a long time, but I am categorically telling you that things are actually finally changing. You can be a part of it, or not, but please can you just stop trying to discourage others from doing something to help?
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
You have no idea what you’re talking about. In the last year or so there has been a huge surge of people getting involved after realizing that shit has to change. I have heard so many stories of how people are becoming radicalized.
People are waking up, they are doing what you say they should be, while you’re sitting around, doing nothing but bringing negativity, and justifying it to yourself.
Do nothing if you want, we don’t need you, but keep your defeatist attitude to yourself.
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the image’s URL has a space in it so it doesn’t show up properly
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
I am a union rep and organizer, I have a front row seat to the movement which is building and growing every day.
Everything you say is rationalization. If change is impossible, that lets you justify your own inaction.
The indifference, laziness and self-interest you perceive is just your own reflection staring back at you.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget Cuba, which is an actively ongoing event
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
Ah, back to spreading nihilism again, I see. I’ll share the same thing I said last time:
I understand how you feel, but we actually do have the power to change our world. We need to first recognize that something needs to be done, build a popular consensus, network and build connections with like-minded people, and start a real movement for change.
Electoralism has not solved our problems in the past, and it won’t do so in the future. At best, it is harm prevention, and at worst, it’s a distraction from more effective efforts. I encourage people to vote for the candidates they feel best, but to be aware that it’s not a real, long term solution. It’s always just the best of two terrible candidates, both of whom ultimately serve the ruling class.
The problems we have did not start and will not end with Trump, they are in the fundamental roots of our society, and the road to change our society is a long and difficult one, but it is a journey we have to undertake. We are going to have to act if we want to live in a better world. Simply giving in to nihlism is not an option.
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
It goes without saying that boycotts by themselves are an ineffective system of effecting change, and that everyone who wants to fight against fascism must take further action.
I encourage everyone to get involved in local activist efforts, join or form a union, join the IWW, read through an anarchist FAQ, get involved in protests, vote for the most progressive candidates possible including in primaries, and use every possible tool and avenue of resistance at your disposal, both legal and illegal.
Your link is broken btw
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you could pirate From Dusk Till Dawn next? :p
- Comment on The Art of the Deal 2 weeks ago:
Take the money and use it to fund renewables anyways. Trump loves breaching terms of contracts, I’m sure he’d be cool with it.
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
This is true, but the bigger threat I see is the mainstream news media and social media, as the Ellisom empire expands it continues to encompass more and more news channels, it already contains CBS and TikTok, with the upcoming merger it’ll also include CNN. Other Trump supporters include Jeff Bezos who owns the Washington Post and Elon Musk who owns Twitter.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, you’re right of course, this is why we should get rid of all rulers, now and forever, and ensure that they never return. We do not need a ruling class to order us around. We can build a new society where all are equal, and where decisions are made by consensus, rather than by diktat or decree.
- Comment on How? 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I don’t think it’s very fun to share free advertising for a horribly exploitative industry with Family Guy tier content (hay guise, remember that advert from TV back in the day???)
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough, I suppose from a certain perspective you could argue that it is - especially if you make a smiley face with breakfast food.
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
None of them are good, they’re all a bunch of exploitative bastards.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
Sounds good to me, good luck with all of that! Let me know if I can help or support you in your activist efforts.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it is subjective, but even if it is, I am asking you, what is your subjective opinion? Because to me, it feels like you are too cowardly to admit your true feelings, and instead you are hiding behind this semantic argument instead.
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
Note the period/full stop between the words “media” and “I’m”? That denotes the end of one sentence, and the beginning of another, which is a helpful clue that those two things I wrote are seperate thoughts.
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, are you expecting the government, which is owned and controlled by the ruling class, to make legal changes which would go against their own interests? Haven’t you been paying attention?
If you want change, there’s only one way for us to get it, and it’s through a social revolution.
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 weeks ago:
you heard the story a hundred thousand times by now. you’re sick of it, and don’t want to hear about it anymore.
Speak for yourself.
Look, you can disagree all you want, whatever. What would you propose instead, to try and fight against the Epstein class?
- Comment on pirate shit 2 weeks ago:
I feel the same about all media. I’m doing my part to hasten the collapse of capitalism by keeping my spending to an absolute minimum, pirating everything, buying second hand where possible, and eating as much at home as I can.
- Comment on How? 2 weeks ago:
Some may say “weird”, I say “astroturfed”. This post is illegal in the jurisdictions lemmy.world is hosted in. Online advertisement of tobacco products is illegal in many jurisdictions. I’ve already reported it, and I’d encourage others to do the same.
- Comment on Its all the phone and communists fault 2 weeks ago:
So you would prefer to live in a society without homelessness, but you wouldn’t say that it would be “good” to create a society without homelessness, is that right? Just trying to understand.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 94 comments
