I’m reluctant to make blanket judgement of all Germans, but the fact that they never properly denazified 70+ years ago has never been on clearer display

they committed the worst crime: having moderation practices on their server that upset liberals, that’s the primary motivation for the python spinoff

PTB, wild that they’re comfortable with .de accounts making broad associations between Jewish people and Israel but immediately ban if you’re from .ml for calling that out

Back in the first world war anarchists were divided on what side to take, with Kropotkin among others signing on to a manifesto advocating for anarchists to support the allied victory over the central powers. There were anarchists opposed to the war who published a counter manifesto that still seems applicable today:

The misfortune of the peoples, who were nevertheless all deeply committed to peace, is that they trusted in the State with its scheming diplomats, in democracy and in the political parties (even the opposition parties, like the parliamentary socialists) to avert war. That trust was deliberately abused and continues to be abused when those in government, with the help of their whole press, persuade their respective peoples that this war is a war of liberation.

we are not the same person lol

I barely have time to post on this account let alone an entirely separate one

Vibes based political orientation

Bookchin was a lot of things in his life, including a zionist, by the end he had renounced anarchism in favor of his own thing. Although he has had some decent critiques, that sort of behavior has made it hard to take him too seriously.

I would recommend David Graeber frankly if you’re looking for American context anarchism.

the whole libertarian/authoritarian axis doesn’t really describe things well because it’s a caricature. On the left Marxists and anarchists have similar end goals, the abolishing of class society, but a diversity of strategy as to how to get there. On the right, they are united in reaction and to the extent that any are “libertarian” it’s purely out of self interest.

I’m sure the timing is just a coincidence, I know it was because he didn’t pay his taxes on the revenue from youtube from the video he made about it @1:04

I mean while it is annoying getting called a red fascist out of pure tribal reaction, I’m also pretty stubborn when it comes to peer pressure

If you are focused on organization and outreach. Maybe it’s worth considering finding a new instance that would would help in fostering that.

I’m not trying to be glib, I don’t think any instances are good for that, I use other platforms with more reach for that sort of thing.

I come here because I can see what other anarchists and Marxists are saying about the news and shoot the shit with them. Plus I can access the largest trans instances from here, I don’t really have any ambitions beyond that.

(b) that Russia intentionally caused the Earthquake.

I missed that one, open xenophobia about Russians is a common theme on lemmy

They never said RL.

My original comment at the start of this thread was:

this is terminally online behavior. Marxists I’ve run into in actual organizing work are generally pretty chill

This is in a thread about getting murdered IRL by fascists while bickering. I think real life is relevant.

I then get the litany of online behaviors that people engage in, including a lot of stuff that has no basis in reality outside of trolls and crypto-fascists.

The shit I get from some people because of what instance I happen to use is literally the thing depicted in the comic though:

I can’t take anything you say in good faith if you willingly use that space.

At some point actually fighting fascism requires realizing that it’s a lot easier to work with communists and anarchists despite whatever disagreements you have, because as different ideologically as we may be, that distinction doesn’t matter to our enemies.

I’m trans and not a fan of what nutomic has said either, but have had no issues with any of the other admins. I certainly haven’t seen those comments reflect in how they moderate, I even got made a mod here because I was calling out and reporting transphobia.

If he says anything like that in a comm I control I’ll be banning him myself though.

You’re from .ml

I’m an anarchist, I have done anarchist organizing for years.

why be bringing mental capacity into this?

I’m definitely biased as someone living in US though. The country I’m living in is participating in a genocide so I’m going to be a lot more concerned about that.

China has plenty of issues without needing to go through a German fundamentalist on a “mission from god” against China.

I have literally never run into anyone in real life who says any of these as any form of communist, other than ‘communist’ parties full of pensioners or maga communists.

I have run into people saying things like this:

and I’ll push back on it, but it’s not a monolith, Marxists with decent enough social skills to not insult allies do exist

Animal farm is propaganda, by a social democrat with a clear agenda.

Believe it or not, these are almost never relevant to actual organizing work:

this is terminally online behavior. Marxists I’ve run into in actual organizing work are generally pretty chill and more interested in the work than trying to tell me I have the wrong opinion.

Anyone complaining about “tankies” when there’s actual Nazis around is doing their work for them.

Downvoted comments being auto-hidden seems like a pretty deliberate choice to censor dissident speech on the anti-communist lemmy spinoff.

Innuendo Studios

Weird how USAID funding got cut and suddenly this guy had to shut his channel down because it wasn’t making money.