Real life anarchists are all so based they don't have time to post. They're too busy doing real shit that matters to real people in the world.

From personal experiences:

Terminally online Internet anarchists

IRL anarchists

i know there's more of you here, but i have to say: @Nakoichi@hexbear.net goated

we love our anarchist comrades, don't we folks?

my partner calls themself an anarcho-tankie sometimes (they are an ancom).

they do this to disassociate themselves from the online anarcho-liberal NATO-oids.

also they said they'd be absolutely happy living under a socialist state of any flavor over any capitalist one, even one with a "small or minimal government".

they dream of a stateless, classless, moneyless future just like we all do.

in the end, whatever comes of whatever revolution occurs in the future, we will have to discard all orthdoxy and fuse together a wide variety of leftist ideologies into something that applies to the material conditions. if we're picking up the pieces in a post-collapse scenerio, i'd want anarchists to take the lead and they will.

we all have our roles to play and we'll see what comes out the other side.

I LOVE MY ANARCHO-COMRADES

Thanks buddy

Irl anarchists have a super wide range IME

I've seen multiple that just destroyed/vandalized random signs or aesthetic structures right in front of cops with 0 escape plans and immediately got chased down and arrested

Wasted all our time making sure they were alright, gave the cops an excuse to escalate with riot gear and reinforcements and dispersed the protest early. All to inflict like 2 thousand dollars of damages at best to a multi-billion dollar company

We have the best anarchists here, because Hexbear has a certain culture to it that makes our anarchists very acceptable to our marxist majority. Irl anarchists can be a mixed bag. Maybe because it's more common for unread radlibs to call themselves anarchists rather than communists?

you don't get to choose your comrades, but you do choose how you work with them. never met a better bunch of tankie authcoms.

They are usually hotter than any other tendency too.

uh mods...? mods??? please delete for sectarianism; I'm way hotter than any anarchist

In my experience there are two main types of anarchists - the ones who are out there getting shit done and the ones who spend their time online engaging in ideological pissing contests or in echo chambers.

They are wildly different in their disposition and their politics.

Active anarchists are generally easy to get along with and want to get shit done - whether it's making life materially better for people who are oppressed or whether it's wrecking shit up for reactionaries.

The other type of anarchist is mostly concerned with purity of ideology and praxis, and in finding ways to justify their support for NATO and shit like that. These are often the people who presume that because they personally do not engage in any practical application of their politics that therefore their ideological opponents do not either and they'll challenge you to describe what action you have been involved in recently (Bruh, I ain't gonna dox myself and I sure as hell ain't gonna dox myself in an attempt to impress some dork whose praxis starts and ends with sharing memes.)

I know I can be a vocal critic of anarchists sometimes but I sincerely appreciate the grass-toucher anarchists because they are a staunch lot. It's the terminally-online types that rub me up the wrong way though.

I have met a few irl anarcho-bidenists, but they were literally children and therefore forgiven

Hopefully, my gentle rejoiners pushed them in a better direction

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Oooo i’m tired of posting & reading memes, how does one meet (and even participate in activities with) our anarchist comrades 🤔🦧

I have some sympathy for the Anarcho-Bidenists because I was, at one time, a teenager who called himself an anarchist but who really had just read a few CrimethInc. books. I think the entryway into identifying as an anarchist is much more accessible to folks because it's so ideologically heterogenous and less societally stigmatized, which makes it easier to claim radical politics without the grounding in theory that allows you to purge yourself of reactionary views.

I reserve the right to clown on anarchists.

Like the time last summer when the [redacted] faction became really hostile to the [redacted] faction because [redacted], a prominent figure in the latter, called the former "our adversaries" in a private chat that got leaked. Y'know, stuff you'd have to be an anarchist to know about.