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LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

I'm sorry you don't ride with better people. It's great to see!

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

What the fuck does this have to do with forcing bigots off the train? Clueless ass comment. Blocked.

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

Looks like the people who are hurt are the ones downvoting a perfectly good meme. Just because y'all let bigots use you as a doormat doesn't mean we're all pathetic cowards.

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

The people getting forced off the train are the ones being bigots. For example, people who make comments against gay people, women, trans people, or black people. People who act like that get forced off at the next stop. Not just bigots, but I've seen people taking creepshots of young women get pressured off the train/bus as well. No cops needed. Does this make sense?

It doesn't happen every time, but it happens enough in certain neighborhoods. I've seen it multiple times.

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

This sounds very classist to me. Level of education has nothing to do with being a good person. If you're educated, but you're too cowardly to stand up for what's right, then your education is a complete waste.

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

"Mobs" is a loaded word. This isn't vigilante justice. This is how social systems work.

Sorry, I thought this was "lefty memes," not "bootlicker memes." My mistake.

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

You shouldn't have to, but unfortunately the doors won't open otherwise 😁

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

Yes it's anarchist, which is leftist

You could Google that instead of asking someone you obviously just want to dunk on

Go away

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

You are literally the Joker

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

You monster!

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

196 meetup in Akron it is, then

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

196 world tour it is, then!

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

I'd even give them a Chicago Sunroof

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

You made me realize that I don't think I've seen this happen since coming to Lemmy last June. It was a real problem on reddit.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

I've noticed the same!

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

Robert Pattinson? It sure looks like him!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks of him as the "Twilight guy." That's all I could think about when I watched The Lighthouse.

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

Jowling Kowling Rowling

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

The Lighthouse was so wacky that I couldn't really take it seriously.

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

working at the Encrusted Shellfish

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

Thanks for the tip. I'll be sure not to post any!

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

https://i.ibb.co/31B7Lx9/f8d.jpg

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

True, but this is from the Onion and isn't meant to be serious commentary: https://www.theonion.com/things-to-never-say-to-someone-who-just-came-out-1849079422

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

Same! I've read it many times, and I still get tears

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

https://i.ibb.co/dWhF3Bh/proxy-image-8.gif

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

You made a lot of people in the audience cry

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

I miss Radio Shack, but also I feel like toward the end there the workers wouldn't even let me breathe.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

To me, the term "cultural appropriation" refers to things like schools having kids make chicken feather "headdresses" to "celebrate" Native American Day, or wearing a religious symbol in a disrespectful way. Even though people like the person in the post can be annoying, I think it's still progress that we're able to have these discussions, and I think it's too bad that for many people the takeaway seems to be "cultural appropriation is never problematic." I'd take the person from the post any day over someone who thinks they're immune from criticism when they unintentionally engage in behavior that truly is disrespectful.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

But cultural appreciation is not what is meant by "cultural appropriation." Cultural appropriation is when it's done in a disrespectful manner.

I grew up with some utterly racist experiences in school -- the feather "headdress" and cardboard tipis, the sombreros on Cinco de Mayo, etc.

I wish I'd had someone at the time to explain why that was wrong.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

No one person can represent an entire culture though. That's why it's on us to learn how to be respectful.

For example, someone from Mexico might be just fine with offensive Hispanic stereotypes, but that doesn't excuse such behavior. You can't just ask a random person for a pass, like what? Even asking for something like that would be utterly tasteless lmao

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Liberals be like "I'm gonna drive my pronouns to the Taylor Swift concert to buy more abortions" 😂😂

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Then I'm left with no choice but to depict myself as the gigachad

I was hoping to avoid such extreme measures

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Which do you not understand: anarchism or communism? Communism is a stateless, classless society. It does not require a state, and it is perfectly compatible with anarchism. In fact, within any form of anarchism you'd find communism.

Anarchism is no state and no hierarchies. In any form, it seeks horizontality and mutual aid. It is absolutely unhinged to think that's compatible in any way with capitalism.

Jfc the media has really succeeded in deluding people about what anarchism is, haven't they? The surprising thing is I'd expect that on, say, Facebook or 4chan or Stormfront, but I thought 196 was more ... leftist

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Good point. I always browse by new, so I forgot that that's a thing.

I guess that explains why posts seem to start with some productive discussion, but then tend to get derailed over time. It gets exhausting having to explain the very basics over and over again, but maybe I need more patience. I too grew up propagandized, and thankfully I've had some people help me learn.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

People grossly misunderstanding both anarchism and communism: nothing new under the sun lol

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

What is the 196 sub?

Shitposting community that is expressly LGBT+ affirming and trends leftist (see stickied posts, for example)

Why is the bad guy depicted as a Chad?

Good question lol. Maybe because the person who doesn't look like a male stereotype is the reasonable person in this post?

Do we get a poem?

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Communism does not require a state. What part of "a stateless, classless society" are you failing to grasp?

Even state authoritarian communist nations at least ostensibly seek a stateless, classless society. That's the whole fucking point.

And you don't need a state for those other things either. Do you think anarchists just throw shit at the wall and hope for the best? There are functioning anarchist communities which have no state. If they did, then they wouldn't be anarchist.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Whoever is making the decisions about distribution and factory management is effectively a state at that point

This is objectively false. You can do all these things and not have a state. See: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

You'll need a military to keep your neighboring countries from taking all your stuff/people/land, and you'll need some kind of police force to keep those few assholes you have internally from just kidnapping people or stealing everything that isn't nailed down whatever

As you have pointed out here, the state will always be the enemy of progress, will stand in the way of and disrupt every attempt at creating a more equitable society (which must exist apart from a state, since a state will always trend toward fascism, without exception).

For this reason, most anarchists start practicing our ideals immediately and do not await a revolution. We try to educate people and inform them. We work imperfectly within desperately broken and inequitable systems to introduce more equity and justice.

Want to see an example of this in action? Look up the Zapatistas.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Thank you!

I'm just a cheap knockoff

I refuse to accept this

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Well of course, there would be no nation ideally, so the concept of a national scale is a bit incompatible in a way, isn't it? As you pointed out in another comment, the existence of nations only threatens progress and equity! They can and do disrupt any such attempt. I mean, look what happened to the Spanish anarchists, and what the US has done every time a remotely leftist movement has taken hold in Latin America.

I don't agree with the Marxist-Leninists, but even for them the end goal is (at least in theory) to advance to statelessness and classlessness. We anarchists don't agree that such a thing can be achieved via a state. A state will never offload its power. Its whole shtick is coercion and control, and it will hold onto that at all costs.

utopia

Very few anarchists would use this term. The concept of a utopia is rather antithetical to anarchism, by most people's assessment. "Utopia" implies a perfect society with no room to progress. I doubt such a thing is possible, and I think it might be rather harmful to imagine we've arrived at perfection. It would stifle progress, now wouldn't it?

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Oh look, the "capitalism is human nature" folk have arrived!

Thoroughly debunked propaganda. Blocked.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Every great movement in history was started by optimists ;)

But hey, calling the anarchist an "optimist" is progress in itself! "Optimist" wasn't the word they used for people like Emma Goldman.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

"Now I am become chad, winner of arguments" -Facebones, father of the Terachad, after winning the first argument

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

That's your opinion, and that's all addressed by anarchist theory. It seems to me you're just shooting from the hip and parroting anti-anarchist propaganda you've been fed all of your life.

Edit: Blocked because "anarchism is incompatible with anarchism" is some of the most utterly baffling pseudo-intellectual horseshit it's been my displeasure to read. I need to wash my eyes after seeing those words on the screen.

LinkOpensChest_wav , 3 months ago

Unfortunately, it's just another in a long line of people who completely misunderstand anarchist theory and instead argue with a figment of their own imagination, based on years of propaganda.

On one hand, I should have more patience to educate people like that citing books and real-life examples. On the other hand, after a post's been up for nearly a day, I get fucking exhausted with explaining to yet another person why they are completely off base. I come online to escape the people like that who I'm surrounded by in my backwards-ass red state. If they're really interested in knowing why they're wrong, they can reference my other comments. But I don't have time for them.

LinkOpensChest_wav OP , 3 months ago

I searched https://lemmyverse.net but didn't find one.

There's !christianmemes, but the last post was months ago.

Create it! You can steal my meme for the first post!