In this case you should write a retort to Being and Nothingness. There’s no further point to this discussion, you’ve thoroughly defeated all the practical concerns of online moderation and all the “pseudo-philosophical” ones as well with a well rounded argument of “nuh uhhhh cuz I can ;)”.
Don’t remember the emoji guide so you’ll have to imagine it:
Posting Online - Drake No
Literally Posting IRL - Drake Yes
It is that, a shitposting site, but it is also more than that. There are many of us here who, for better or worse, spend a lot of time and energy on this site. We care about the community that makes it up and we care about the direction it’s headed.
This is your actual argument. This all boils down to a “No Exit” argument. You are mad that the mods are “the look” in the Camus sense. You want the mods to recognize the subjectivity in your person, rather than seeing you as an objective collection of posts. That is an unrealistic demand for an online site. Given the history of philosophy and general human history it’s a bit of an unrealistic demand on real-life people too.
Time is a limited resource, at the end of the day your only real option in any community is to care about the community in an egoless way otherwise you’ll only feel burned and be jaded.
Yeah eventually, and I really mean “eventually”.
One of the main things that turned me from an MLM to an ancomm is that we tend to read the inevitability of the JDPON in the same way that Darwinian Liberals read “survival of the fittest”. Inevitable doesn’t mean easy, pain free, nice, straightforward, optimal or enjoyable. Just like “survival of the fittest” doesn’t mean any of those things either. The niceties are superimposed by our minds because of the flowery language surrounding the idea. The technicals are where the brutal difficulty of the task (whether survival or enacting JDPON) tend to reside. Our inevitability in practice also caps at the point where life is no longer sustainable on this planet. There’s a lot to learn from ML/M but the context under which those revolutions were won and the contexts in which they’ve been betrayed in are all expired and are not our context. Ancomm as an ideology is a study in the general problem.
A lot of Americans substitute the “just vote” that the liberal class mollifies them with, with an emotional adoration of violence mainly based on the individual gratification and catharsis of “being right”. This isn’t the recipe for revolution (in any realistic leftist sense), it’s the recipe for revanchism. It’s quite literally, as Mr. 1984 says, the future of humanity is a boot stomping on a human face over and over again forever. The paragraph preceding that quote isn’t about evil scifi ultra totalitarianism, it’s about a simple recipe for never ending emotional revanchism.
Sorry. I’m old I don’t know what the kids are into.
See you’re saying entirely too much: it’s cool that a health insurance CEO got shot end of story.
It’s actually incredibly strange because this is quite literally the easiest country in the world to dome someone important in, our firearms laws are part of our neocolonialism scheme that we force on our neighbors (Mexico).
Americans have all the means to do this, they simply do not because the control scheme is too powerful. It ultimately doesn’t matter what leftist framework you take broadly whether it’s anarchism or ML. A successful strategy looks roughly the same and its ideological underpinnings are roughly the same.
At the end of the day the position is quite literally to wage a war the rest is just tactics.
It’s your take buddy not mine.
So your line is that typical American crypto-fash is ok, but aesthetic Nazis are bad? Maybe this line is aesthetic for you but it’s not for me
There’s another post outside this one that compares him to Willem van Spronsen, an actual anarchist, who as part of his attack laid out the clear anarchist principles that lead him to firebomb the ICE Detention center in Tacoma in 2019. Literal brainworms.
All hugboxes are “fake hugboxes” in that way. There’s no such thing as pure objectivity.
So if the next guy is a literal Nazi instead of an typical American crypto-fash you’re gonna be like damn that’s my national icon?
Sus.
I agree that the comms changes fiasco was lulzy in part because the mods don’t have an actual path to the kind of site they claimed want to build. Their desired site is practically in conflict with the other rules.
As far as this change, there is no way to do this without the drama. The vast majority of pro-Luigi posters on this site need a wake-up call in terms of their understanding of leftism and their personal priorities. The pro-Luigi posting is based 100% on vibes. You’re not going to get around that without having an emotional reaction. It’s purely an emotional attachment.
You misunderstand the point of the rules, this is not an appropriate forum for some difficult discussions because the prioritization is safety. It’s a hugbox sure, but that’s just a community choice that is no better or no worse than having the goal of “better conversations”.
Nobody who is doing critical support for Putin is saying “America should be ruled like Russia”.
The groups you mention in their political context do not have alternatives that exhibit the following traits:
Political context matters.
real libposting hours.
Counterpoint hexbear was never good.
What I meant by “fair read” is that the people who are “pro-Luigi” are posting a lot of positive meme in lieu of having actual topical conversations, and its fair to read into the statement that mods are “anti-Luigi” as a whole and would rather not see it. I think the mods are actually being incredibly generous with the leeway here. I’d ban anyone hot posting if it was up to me.
I think the evolution of social media forms like “reddit” has really lead to people putting on “airs” as to what being “part of the community” is.
You’re never going to have consistent amazing in depth theory discussions here or on the internet at large. Being part of the community on every site is the same you either are prolific at posting memes other people go haha at and give updoots to, or you’re doing jannie shit.
The idea that it’s anything more is an entirely individualistic social media marketing ideal sold to you by social media companies. The only way to get beyond the posting memes or doing jannie shit, is to have an extremely small curated site that’s only browsed by knowledgeable individuals, or by only having a site with your IRL friends on it. Hexbear is neither of those.
I’m an ancomm and “direct action” without proper tactics and direction is pointless. The illegalist and egoist tendencies have been widely denounced by almost every other large tendency historically. Kropotkin himself denounced illegalism and egoism. These tendencies are more or less dead from a theory perspective beyond the mid-century. It’s 4KidsEntertainment. America was literally the last gasp of these bullshit tendencies thanks to Benjamin Tucker.