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db0 also discourages voting in elections because "its a waste of time" lolol
Yea how is your anarchist community gonna decide things? Ask the community for agrees and disagrees with a proposal? Congrats, you just reinvented voting!
It's funny how every anarchist community ends up becoming liberal, democratic and western
I'm by no means an anarchist expert, but from my experience. Its downfall is that it can't scale, it will either implode or basically change into something else like you said.
Unruffled is the biggest reason I decided to block their instance. When I brought some issues up with db0 (the other admin) about it, he just ignored it and played dumb. One admin is actively a troll and the other, at best, doesn't know how to handle their shit.
... Ah shit
Genocide is a protected term. Only crimes against humanity in the Genoc region of Poland can be called that.
DB0 seems like a cool instance, but the tankie roach adjacency is a massive red flag.
That and being explicitly pro-ai
Indeed. All I wanna do is maths!
I mean this is the reason they give when removing comments
Well, that is a shitty comment.
Awhile back I reposted an anti-soviet meme to like 7 Tankie comms and also Flippanarchy on DB0.
Can you guess which one got the most hate and a ban?
IDK if the entirety of DB0 is just a Tankie charade but I do know if it were then it wouldn't operate any differently than it does currently.
They've gotten very strange in the past year or so. I've seen multiple dbzer0 users, including two admins, do complete 180s on tankie bullshit, and it's rather bizarre.
My best guess is that tankies offer them a sense of community, which is how many terminally online folk get drawn into it. People who have a deep desire for community will overlook moral issues if invited to be a part of that community, and even adopt, consciously or unconsciously, those positions in order to better 'fit in' with the community.
In a time when the real world is more recognizably hostile than ever, or at least for as long as most of us here have been alive (insofar as we are both aware of it and noting that it is backsliding rather than improving), online communities probably seem quite tempting to hew closer to.
I think it's your usual anarchist thinking they're stronger together with a tankie, little do they know that the tankies will eat them every single time
I like how they are gate keeping the term tankie
