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[–] Sims@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Anachists and their Diaspora have been tremendously disappointing to me.

I were navigating Anarchism/communism before this Ukraine proxy war (and got banned both places for being a member of the other).

However, it rather quickly became obvious that anarchism was compromised by the liberal Narrative, and they went all in on the narrative constructed by their Oligarchic overlords 'enemy', Russia. I was shocked by the level of ignorance on propaganda/manipulation, stupidity/emotional reactions and a horrifying level of accepted propaganda in that group. I fled over to the "Tankies" here on lemmy.ml - I'm a refugee @ real Communists. Cool people.

I still don't know what Kropotkin and Engels had in common, but the level of geo-political awareness is over thew top, and comparably, Anarchists/anarchism is - currently - an intellectual joke. They will keep being the controlled angry arm of the Deep State, refuse to believe they are, and feel mighty smart about their small controlled ideology, but really.. They have been embarrassing so far..

Oc there are anarchists that sees through this ridiculous propaganda, knows how the system operates, sees how their own communities have been converted into insane proxies for the Empire - a primitive lynch-mob. ..but they are rare..

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe youre not talking to the right people.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

But they said "as an anarchist" so they must be

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I wonder though if it isn't different in the case where church and state are one. I don't live in Iran so I honestly don't know. The fact that the people who do are burning them down though... where in the west, if someone wanted to go after government, it's simply not going to enter their mind at all to burn down religious buildings ... ?

Just spitballing, I really don't know.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mosques are not part of the state in Iran. They have parliaments and municipalities etc.

There are plenty of buildings in the West which are part of a state though. For example Synagogues in NYC which are selling off freshly ethnically cleansed Palestinian land to colonists. But apparently just protesting in front of those is antisemitic.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Jewish Museum in DC where my boy Elias Rodriguez domed those two pieces of shit is another good example.

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Downvote for thinking out loud and asking questions has no class folks. We're trying to be better than the other place here.