The keyboard commando anarchists who live on the computer, never actually meet anyone in person, never show up at protests or organize with peers, and simply regurgitate the same twelve anarchist memes dating back to the Spanish Civil War are the ones who won’t develop.
I hear this line on HexBear constantly but it’s been my experience that plenty of online weirdos do indeed show up at actual organizing events quite often, and usually bring their online weirdness with them. Idk how many Guy Fawkes mask clad dudes with cardboard signs referencing obscure lefty Reddit memes I’ve seen at marches.
I’ve seen dozens, and they show up at meetings too and start drama. There’s also often fiction between more ML inclined people trying to form a more centralized organized group and anarchist types who want to keep everything decentralized and horizontal. This shit happens for reasons it’s not just all online bullshit.
I hear this line on HexBear constantly but it’s been my experience that plenty of online weirdos do indeed show up at actual organizing events quite often, and usually bring their online weirdness with them. Idk how many Guy Fawkes mask clad dudes with cardboard signs referencing obscure lefty Reddit memes I’ve seen at marches.
There’s always one or two, but rarely more than that in a crowd of hundreds or thousands.
If this is all it takes to topple an organization, I’ve got to question what the organizers are doing
I’ve seen dozens, and they show up at meetings too and start drama. There’s also often fiction between more ML inclined people trying to form a more centralized organized group and anarchist types who want to keep everything decentralized and horizontal. This shit happens for reasons it’s not just all online bullshit.