Flippanarchy

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.

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.

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.

the fediverse is inherently propaganda for the possibility of anarchism

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

We're glad to have you here 🫡

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^

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

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

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

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.

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