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Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.

Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.

This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.

Don't take yourselves too seriously. Serious posts go to !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 2 days ago (17 children)

This instance has made me realize that I am an anarchist. What a strange world… No regrets, thank you guys.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just don't think we're meant to live in large numbers tbh.

You take the average opinion of 200 million people, apply it to everyone, and nobody will be happy with it.

Might be better if we gave people proper education and didnt encourage crab-bucketing so hard.

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Same here I beliving in Anarchy more as a fight to concentration of power which concecuences are in full display in any news outlet. I'm also starting to feel kinda inclined to solarpunk.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 34 points 2 days ago

Hell yeah welcome to the struggle.

Just remember you don’t need to agree with every mainstream anarchist take to call yourself an anarchist. That’s the best part and one of many things that set this movement a cut above other leftist movements.

I'd be an anarchist, but I think anarchism would only work if the world is far more connected than we are today. Anarchist communities developed organically because their environments are close to each other, facilitating cultural exchange and then evolving into a converging culture where people in the communities eventually "think alike". It is like with Fremens in Dune. The entire ethnic group inhabit the entire planet, but their lines of communications are pretty reliable and fast, so in that sense the world of Fremen is "small", allowing for an organic development of an anarchist culture by themselves.

[–] match@pawb.social 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the fediverse is inherently propaganda for the possibility of anarchism

[–] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Isn't one of the main lemmy devs a staunch communist?

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but that doesn't mean is the difect intention or that it has to be enforced we can find our own meaning.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Right-out tankie. But then broken clocks are right twice a day.

[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We are happy to have you! 🥰 There is an anarchist book i highly recommend. You can read all of it or just pick sections you find interesting.

People ask "how can anarchism work? Don't we need a boss?" Or "How would things be managed?". And this book explains it very well :)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago

We're glad to have you here 🫡

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Me posting this meme with the full knowledge that it might make it to “All” and generate a shitshow of a comment section

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This community is just popular enough to make it to /all, but not popular enough to drown out all the liberals/tankies that come here.

^I^ ^phrased^ ^this^ ^horribly^ ^sorry^

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Am I what?

Edit: Oh, you mean if I am sorry, well, I'm sorry I can't phrase it properly.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Turn off your notifications mate. And don't return to the scene of the crime

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

My Tribe is made up of people who refuse to have a Tribe.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don't even have to be an anarchist, just have to have at least partial hearing and/or vision.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Not even. I’m deaf and have terrible vision. In fact I was functionally blind for 8 months. And I can still see it!

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tankies: handing out "genocide denial" bans for calling Ukraine a genocide.

[–] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

You can simultaneously condemn the invasion of Ukraine and understand that false claims of genocide are harmful against people suffering genocide

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[–] cyberphunkisms@lemmy.org 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

we need to get more people off reddit and twitter and onto lemmy

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[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm once again asking liberals to join xiaohongshu and see the uighur culture being celebrated openly. Crossnational meetups with turkish people comparing turkish to ughric, large streetfestivals and so so many videos sharing the language, alphabet, cuisine, music, stories, attire all on a chinese app for chinese people. If nothing else learn about the culture that is supposedly being genocided from the uyghurs themselves.

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Admittedly I don't use 小红书, so I don't know for sure, but it is the commercialised and commodified kind of culture?

Because I remember back when I was in China and visited the Tarim Basin it was quite harrowing. Hami and to a lesser extent Kashgar felt pretty hostile to Uighurs.

I, as a non-Han person, had to go in the non-Han line at the railway station. But unlike the non-white foreigners in the line, I was given a seat in the shade out of the 40+°C heat, and could use the water machine while I waited, unlike the locals.

I also saw all the Uighur girls at school with their shaved heads. People were scared, and the word for school, 学校, was treated with horror.

Maybe just an apatheid society, but the fact that sites of religious, cultural, and historical significance have been knocked down or turned into a tourist trap (Grand Mosque in Umruqi, the Mosque in Central Kashgar whose name I forgot), does seem the culture is being worn down.

Also saw the police beating people in Kashgar market to make sure they closed their shops at 7pm Beijing time, not 7pm Xinjiang time... Because all of China must be one time zone.

You'll also see other ethnicities' costumes, and parades on social media. But they're not allowed to talk their languages at school and their festivals don't get to exist outside of being for tourists, and they don't get the leeway with laws than Han people do.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

nice but i think the liberals forgot about the uyghur genocide….

[–] ping@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago

The imperial core didn’t forget so much as it gave up trying to manufacture consent after the UN rejected its allegations.

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