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No that's not how it works. Anarchists are people who advocate for the abolition of all authorities and hierarchies, including but not limited to the State, capitalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, transphobia, etc. You don't have to currently live in an anarchist society to be an anarchist.
Well no I wouldn't survive because everyone dies 😆. But I wouldn't advocate for anarchism if I thought I was going to have a bad time.
But I want to gently push back against the "Mad Max" notion of "anarchy" that I think you're working with. Most forms of anarchism actually call for people to work together, to form groups to get stuff done but without the violence inherent in the State and the inequalities of capitalism that States inevitably reinforce.
For more information, see Section A.1 of the Anarchist FAQ.
I like the way you explain your Anarchist stances. I'm a Christian Anarchist myself, and see anarchism as a society in a similar light as personally trying to be like Jesus: It may be a state of perfection we, in our imperfections, cannot attain, but if everyone was trying their best towards a cooperative society free of authoritarian hierarchal peepee-swinging, maybe things would be much better overall.
Daring to believe in a better world and exert whatever influence we have to do so, takes a strong inner fire, and a lot of people miss the point when they think we just wanna tear it all down without a plan and start from scratch next week and it would all be unicorns and rainbows overnight.
Thank you. I try my best. God bless.
I know what Anarchists are, which is why I said one day you will grow out of it. As long as you abide by the laws and systems of the things you "advocate against" you are nothing more than a hypocrite like all other Anarchists.
You are advocating for something that wouldn't last, and would be a bad time for most involved. The idea of Anarchy may sound cool to you, but if you bring it to its logical conclusion it fails immediately. There is a reason why Anarchy didn't embed itself as the default after we started forming larger and larger groups.
Whatever idea of Anarchy that you are working with is misinformed. The state formed as a product of people grouping up and requiring structures and rules for everyone to coexist as peacefully as possible. If your idea of Anarchy is "Everyone works together to get stuff done without violence inherent in the state and the inequalities of capitalism" we have a name for that and it is called "Socialism".
No I won't lmao. Been going strong for ~15 years, and the older I get and the more I learn about the world and the more I experience life, the more I believe that anarchism is the best framework for analyzing and synthesizing a society that's good for everyone.
By that logic, I should start murdering and killing random civilians because it's in opposition to the law. Of course not! Not literally all laws are completely wrong. But I 1000% do not give a fuck about the letter of the law for the things I actually want to do.
Yes exactly, that's why some people use the term libertarian socialism to describe anarchism and its relatives! (Notice the little "l"; I obviously condemn the "Libertarian" Party and right-wing "Libertarians".) I will happily identify as a socialist, but "anarchist" is a bit more precise.
The rest of your talking points are directly answered in the Anarchist FAQ previously linked, and they did a much better job than I possibly could.
But let's get back to where we started. I am no fan of America even though I live here. As an anarchist, I am painfully aware of and vocal about how evil an entity America is. You don't need to be an anarchist to come to that conclusion, but I brought it up only because it's sufficient to come to the conclusion that America is evil (if not necessary). But more importantly: just because I live in America does not mean I have no right to vent.
And I would be a lot more quiet if you were from Palestine or Iran or one of the various countries America has bombed into the stone age, or even from the inner city or one of the reservations inside the US. I could absolutely sympathize with them being rude to me. I'd agree with them and take it. I'm an anarchist, and I'm accustomed to reading material written with a confrontational tone; half our modern anarchist literature is just people yelling at the reader 😆.
But you're from Canada. Canada is just as complicit as the United States in the vast majority of the suffering we inflict on the world. And y'all are just as shitty to your indigenous population as we are.
And I've been noticing a distinctly...pro-Canada stance in your recent comment history...
If Americans have nothing to be proud of ...WHICH WE DO NOT... AMERICANS HAVE NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF ...then Canadians have almost nothing to be proud of. Yeah your healthcare system and social services are slightly less shit for white people, but Canada is still a settler-colonialist, capitalist, racist project that needs to be abolished.
Like if I should feel bad for living in America, then by taking your logic to its logical conclusion YOU should be ashamed about living in Canada.
Which you shouldn't. You were born there or were brought there. It's not your fault.
And to be completely clear: I reject national pride overall. National pride is for people who have nothing real to be proud of.
By that logic, you aren't the only person in the world and a not so small amount of people are all about that life.
A racist Anarchist? Well I never!
Canada has much to be ashamed of, and much more to be proud of. We most certainly do not treat our Indigenous population like you do. We also do a lot of good around the world. There is a reason why we have so many allies.
I am not ashamed to be Canadian, and I am proud to be Canadian. I am also proud of being Greek. Regardless of the history of both.
We have much to be proud of in Canada. Feel free to explain how one "abolishes" a country full of people born and raised here from all over the world.
I choose to live here because I like my country. I am proud of that choice. Just like you choose to live in the US and play pretend freedom fighter.
To be completely clear: Obviously, "Anarchist". That is exactly what people say when they have nothing to be proud of in their country.
...you seriously think a lot of people are interested in murdering random people? That it's the existence of the State that keeps people from just being serial killers? Nah.
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid; A Factor of Evolution
I.e. sure you're going to get some serial killers and anarchist societies will have to account for them, but the vast majority of people are good enough.
What are you smoking and can I have some?!?
Acknowledging the very real reality that people from Iran and Palestine are more likely to be in a rough state of mind because they're currently being fucking bombed into oblivion is not fucking racism. Similarly, people living in the inner city or on reservations who are constantly being kicked in the teeth by the system at every step of their lives might are more likely to be in a rough state of mind than I am in my relatively privileged position.
Acknowledging my privilege relative to them is not fucking racist.
Yo my sister lived in Canada for several years. She has indigenous descent and she faced so much fucking racism for even looking First Nations.
Abolish the State through a diversity of tactics including peaceful protest, nonviolent and violent direct action, and mass mobilization. Convince people (like you) to also break their mental chains (like attachment to your nation). Establish alternative, prefigurative systems in opposition to hierarchy and domination with built-in safeguards to ensure consent of the community these systems serve.
Okay the only people who should be ashamed of their country are people who are currently proud of it. If you need to feel shame to break this chain then please do.
Really? Because... that's kinda important!
No Canada does not. Canada is in lockstep with America, providing material support for the War on Terror and complicity in the Gaza Genocide, just to name a few.
Because Canada is in lockstep with America and the Canadian government has competent diplomats. Also... America has a lot of allies! That's not a good measure of how beneficial a country is to the world.
Lol I absolutely do not pretend to be a freedom fighter because I'm too tired to fight. But I'd rather be a hypocrite than completely wrong.
And no, I absolutely do not choose to live here. If I left the United States for another country, I would blow through the couple hundred bucks in my bank account (which I don't even think I can access abroad? My bank will lock my card if I start using it across the country, let alone the world) because I wouldn't be allowed to get work, then get my ass deported back to the US. At least in the US I have people I can ask for money, and I can get work. Crucially... I'm not gonna dox myself, but I'm working to get the credentials to be able to get the fuck out of here and into almost any country in a way that is sustainable.
No lol. Americans are unfortunately super proud of their country. Patriotism gets more fashionable as things get worse.
But also: in my view, there's nothing to be proud of in any country. Pride in your community? Pride in your culture? Subculture? Heritage? Family? Friends? Your own achievements? Sure thing! But the "nation" is a falsehood organized around the State, run by your local warlords in service of capitalism.
Definitionally, I believe that no one should be proud of their nation. Definitionally, nationalism is bad. I literally don't care about what quality of life you lead in that nation, because without the violence of the State and the capitalists it serves, you and your neighbors would be better off without the State.
You are ignorant, bigoted, and not worth further time. Give your head a shake.
Yeah because being anti-nationalist is so bigoted /s
Like seriously I'd like to know so I don't repeat it: which part of any of my replies is bigoted?
2 comments 6 minutes apart on the same comment. Thirsty much?
Yeah I actually am thirsty to know what specifically made you think I'm bigoted. We can agree to disagree about everything else but being called a bigot is pretty serious 😳
Now that you know what the word means, try some self reflection.
Yeah and I haven't done any of those things. I made a pretty clear distinction between the subjects under a government and the government itself, i.e. people who live in Canada/America/wherever vs the Canadian/America/wherever government.
If hating the Canadian government is bigotry then bigotry is a toothless concept that needs to be dispensed with...but obviously, hating the Canadian government is not bigotry. It's an emotional continuation of a principled objection to all nations rooted in the anarchist tradition of anti-nationalist libertarian socialism. Hating the cultural institutions invented by the Canadian government isn't bigotry either. Again, it is an emotional continuation of a principled objection to nationalism, in particular the cultural assimilation
Actually, my argument is closer to "it is bigotry NOT to reject national governments and their cultural assimilation." Because these national governments assimilate whatever cultures they can distill into something acceptable for capitalism, and brutally destroy anyone who can't or won't be assimilated. THAT is bigotry.
Like there's this distinct sense that you came into this conversation to dunk on "dumb Americans" for being a "big dumb patriot in dumb USA why don't you just leave" and you didn't expect to be dealing to someone to your left because literally everyone in America is a conservative no exceptions allowed and literally no one is paying attention. Pay no mind to the LA anti-ICE protests and even the shitlib-controlled No Kings protests where about 1% of the population turned up (which is actually huge for protests!).
And since you're usually dunking on Americans, who often are actual bigots, as a Canadian in a marginally less shit society, your brain goes "Yeah this dude is American so he must be a bigot, call him a bigot, that'll show him."
You aren't debating me. You're dunking on this abstract idea of a generic American but writing it in prose with the length and cadence of a serious debate.
And to be clear: I love dunking on my fellow Americans. I really do. We need to be put in our fucking place from time to time...all the fucking time really.
What I don't appreciate is debating under false pretenses. It was really that first remark about racism where I knew what this conversation was: you were debating the generic American, not me, because it's obvious to anyone with a pulse that I had said nothing even remotely racist or controversial in the snippet you quoted.
Like you have every right to be mad at America and Americans but maybe don't dunk on Americans when they're trying to express their disdain for the things you claim to be against. Like I 1000% support an America boycott, not coming to America, not working with Americans, fuck us and fuck all our shit, but you gotta understand that 100% purely perfect boycotting of America is not possible for people who were born here. It's not even a remotely controversial position. To deny this is to deny material reality.
People accuse anarchists of black and white thinking but it's you who's thinking in black and white, specifically that it is easy for all Americans to leave America and that anymore who doesn't leave wants to be here and agrees with all or even any of the oppression that the US government has planned for the world.
And usually I don't keep hammering people like this but...come on...I know you're a debate lord. You're usually on the other side of this interaction...so it's a chance to understand how it feels to be on the other side. (And also maybe I have important shit to do that I'm too anxious to do right now 😆.)
And you started all this over an extremely tame joke which, while literally going against the literal text of your first comment, clearly does not show support for the American empire or even diminish the correct anti-American critique you started with. I even gave you an out in the second comment where you could have said nothing or been like "well maybe I was a bit harsh".
All of this say: even if you were right, you're kind of being a jerk in your comment history. Not just to me, but to basically everyone you've interacted with lately. Not saying you are a jerk because I don't know you, but you're being a jerk. And if I wasn't such an insufferable jerk myself, I would have probably just told you that directly and moved on with my life. Game recognizes game 😆.
Yeah I have lotsa bullshit to reflect on because I'm an extremely flawed human. Again, my post/comment history proves I have a lot of shit to work on, and I don't pretend otherwise. Now you know that you do too.
You are making broad assumptions about the entire country of people which happens to be full of "Canadians" from different cultures. You assume anyone who isn't from a country attacked by the US (Which Canada currently is) does not get a say in the matter, and include everyone who isn't Indigenous or "Living in the inner city". (Racist, as I know who you are referencing here. Note: Many people from different backgrounds live in the "inner city" with many different experiences regardless of cultural origin.)
You ignore the fact that I am also from a visible minority group and lump me in with a group you know nothing about knowing nothing about me.
How do you feel about Indigenous Government structures?
You also aren't "hating on the Government" alone. You act as though Canada and Canadians don't have a unique culture and should be shamed for being proud of it. Yet you seem to think that people under other Governments, with other cultures, get more of a say in any conversation and should be proud of their cultures.
My people conquered and were conquered. We now have our own country after gaining independence from the Ottoman empire. Should my ancestral homeland be abolished?
In Canada we celebrate cultural days from all over the world. We have diasporas from all over the world. Everyone of them is as Canadian as the next, and we celebrate our cultural differences here.
Stop projecting your countries behavior on mine.
Nope. I came into this thread specifically to share a warning about your country.
Considering you are too lazy to scroll up:
It also doesn't matter if you are left or right because "dumb Americans" make up about 75% of your countries population. (21% are clinically illiterate, while a staggering 54% read at or below a 6th grade level making them functionally illiterate)
This leads to a massive problem when both sides of your political spectrum are clinically or functionally illiterate and unable to understand their own points.
I call a bigot when I see a bigot. I too have bigoted views that I accept and work to operate against. When you are being bigoted you will be called out for it. This includes bigotry towards people of European decent.
I am not debating you, and it isn't because of an abstract generic idea. It is 100% because you don't have a real argument, and are being a bigot.
You keep saying "dunking on" when it really is just "stating objective facts based on observation and data".
If you feel "dunked on" that might be a sign for self reflection.
Nope. It was all based on what you said. If you don't see it, that is on you not me.
To deny the fact that people from countries with real safety issues for the vast majority of the population don't have a choice to "ride it out". They were born there, had far less resources than you, and still fled for safety.
You can leave, fix your shit, or shut up about it when people impacted by your country are speaking. As I have already said.
Not one word of this is true.
Maybe don't make jokes under a warning about peoples safety as a person who is partly responsible for aforementioned lack of safety. I also clearly stated why I proceeded the way I did. You didn't have to keep going but you did. I am responsible for my end, and you yours. It is on you just as much as me that we are here.
The delivery of information doesn't change whether it is correct or not. I have not been a jerk to basically everyone who I have interacted with, but I would love to see you waste your time by providing a chart that demonstrates me being an unwarranted jerk to the majority of people over 1.23k comments and 20 posts.
This shouldn't be too hard since you are already balls deep in my account. I expect it by the end of the week or your fired.
I never once claimed to be perfect, and I would be willing to bet big money on the fact that I am working harder on myself than the average person to be a better person daily.
Almost. I am making broad assumptions about people who positively identify with Canada because these are assumptions that, by identifying with and defending Canada's legacy, you self-associate yourself with. Obviously Canada is a diverse place. Canada even has anarchist federations! But when you choose to identify with the culture of the oppressor, I can freely use the assumptions, which that culture has spent so much time, money, and blood forcing to be the reality, about you.
Canada is not being attacked by the US. Yeah they're tariffing goods coming out of your country and they're harassing and detained Canadians at the border, but you aren't being militarily attacked.
No I'm not weighting whether or not you get a say at all, I'm weighting the amount of patience I give people for saying things that are incorrect, bigoted, or wrong in any way. And it's not strictly being bombed by the US that's the condition: it's the person's material circumstances, what kind of danger they're in, mental state.
It's not even remotely unreasonable to be more patient with people who are going through hard times or are in distress.
The wording I used was "even on the reservations or in the inner city" about people who I would have more patience with based on their location and material circumstances. Of course race is a huge part of that! And it's not racist to acknowledge that! But it's not the only part. For example, there are some black and brown people raised in suburban areas who are quite well off and adopt similar positions to the capitalist monoculture. For these people, I would have a lower patience compared to black and brown people living in the inner city or out in the country who are statistically more likely to be fighting harder than me against the system to survive. Similarly, there are a minority of white people raised in the inner city for whom I would have a higher patience than white people living in the suburbs, because even though white people have not faced a history of race-based discrimination, some white people continue to experience discrimination for their class, gender, sexuality, sometimes even their ethnicity (example: Irish, Italians, Jews).
Acknowledging the reality that people of different races are treated differently and thus are dealing with different circumstances is not racism! It's anti-racism! Get with the program!
Furthermore, inner cities in particular are marred by police violence and structural oppression. Some of that oppression is experienced invariantly with respect to race by anyone living in the inner city.
Like I was very clearly referring to people living in these locations, and I wanted to encode the subtlety that living in these locations can actually be to your detriment.
Canadians are not a minority in Canada. I actually don't know about if you are from any other minority groups. I didn't really get that far in your profile.
No one is free until we're all free. I am a settler and I'm not an expert on Indigenous governing structures, which is admittedly a blind spot. Otherwise, I defer to Indigenous voices about Indigenous issues. For an Indigenous anarchist perspective, see the "Indigenous Sovereignty" section of the following article for a much more subtle discussion about the topic than I could possibly give right now. Yes, even anarchists have problems with settler colonialism, myself included despite my best efforts.
https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/adcs/article/download/20169/8928/
Alternatively, if you have some reading material about Indigenous sovereignty I'd love to check it out. Anecdotally, I have noticed the rise of a very careful Indigenous Anarchist current since the resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline gained traction.
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Come on. I know a debate lord when I see one. Game recognizes game. The problem with being a debate lord is that there's always a bigger debate lord than you 😈.
Socialism is when no jokes /s
Oh my fucking God no I am not partly responsible for the lack of safety that the US government imposes on its citizens. The US GOVERNMENT is causally responsible, and the fault lies with the people who run the system and the capitalists who are responsible for it. The State imposes this reality on me and almost everyone else here. We NEVER had a democracy, even de jure! The United States is a "democratic" republic! And every step of the way, I have expressed my disgust for this evil country and its trajectory!
Please if you take home only one message, it is this: States IMPOSE their will upon the working class.
And again, what I said did not even go against your warning. It didn't even diminish the engagement your warning got. It probably got a few people more people to read it because there was an actual discussion below it.
And if you thought what I said was insensitive, you could have clearly stated so. But again... this is my reality too, that I'm fucking stuck in this sick fucking hellhole. I feel like I have a right to make jokes at my own expense.
Right, that's why I put it in a separate part of the comment separated by a line. But also... that's not how humans operate? If you want people to listen to you, in general you can't be a jerk about it. That's something you'll learn as you unlearn debate lord habits.
I mean "being a jerk" is an opinion, so it's not something you can really do reliable mathematics about, i.e. a chart would be equivalent to what I have already given you in text form. A chart actually would have been faster to make, i.e. it would be less of a waste of time.
More precisely: you've been being a jerk to people on Lemmy with the account I'm replying to. I don't think you're necessarily a jerk anywhere else. This isn't a personal attack. I'm commenting on your behavior.
Nah I'm not that deep in your profile lol, and I'm not even good at reading people. Just a week or two to get a sense of where you're coming from.
I agree to disagree.
Yup. I'm not a debate lord. I'm a debate monster 👹.
~~Hell yeah I'm riding this train wherever it goes 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃.~~ Edit: Actually I'm not gonna respond to any responses to the previous two responses because I've made my points and the rational side of me is realizing that this is getting a bit excessive. Not that I can't, but because I'm seeing myself get back into those debate lord behaviors I loathe so much.
So genuinely: beyond this point, I can agree to disagree with you, I apologize for not dropping it earlier, and have a nice rest of your week.
Honestly, the fact that you are trying to pretend I didn't tell you my background in an attempt to prove whatever point you are trying to make about me is humourous.
Enjoy the last word, and I highly recommend you educate yourself on my country before ever talking shit again.
You told me that you're Greek-Canadian, right? I genuinely forgot that you told me, sorry. Being Greek didn't register in my 💩 brain as a visible minority group, but it absolutely is. I was also leaving open the possiblity of belonging to any other minority identities you hadn't previously talked about without assuming cisheteronormative "defaults".
I wanted to move on with the discussion as if you could have been, but did not definitively tell me, that you were from a group which is a minority in Canada. Which you did and I acknowledge that now, and I simply forgot.
I stand by the rest of what I said. I'm gonna leave it here because this is already verging on unhealthy.