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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’m a man.

    Me too. As are most people that you’ll currently encounter on lemmy.

    I don’t expect sympathy, and when I get it I suspect an ulterior motive on the part of the person offering it.

    I meant more in the sense of “sympathy strike” rather than “sympathetic ear”. It’s useful to be able to collaborate with others on shared goals, both in pursuit of the anarchist cause and of one’s personal interests. An attitude of “only class matters, shut up about feminism or queer liberation or whatever” is detrimental to said collaboration.


  • I’ve never been particularly enthused about voting, but I don’t think Obama-era arguments against it have aged well. At least in the US, the rise of Trump and the MAGA fascists makes “both parties are the same” sentiments look silly and out of touch. I read your follow-up too. While there is some truth to it, I don’t think the argument is very solid. You seem to place a bit too much faith in liberal institutions as a bulwark against the fascists.

    Overall, “voting isn’t very effective, so what else are you doing” is a much better approach on this topic than “voting is bad so you shouldn’t do it”.


  • Not just tankies. Try telling a social-justice type that the only identity you give a shit about is class identity. It’s hilarious.

    I might be a social-justice type, then. Class reductionism is appealing in its simplicity, but I don’t think it’s very productive. Like, it’s fine to focus on a particular thing that you care about, but being unsympathetic to the things that others struggle with isn’t going to garner sympathy in return. I see the parallel that you’re pointing out, but I don’t think it’s the same.


  • That’s what bootleg fansubbed anime is for. :)

    UwU

    For me that’s more of a social activity, though.

    And that’s fine for you. I just don’t have the patience to sit through a video or audio lecture. I can read faster than these people can talk, and it’s not like you can grep a video for keywords.

    Oh yeah, I’m not trying to sell you on watching this one, just pointing out why some people do like video. The TL;DW is that leftists have never been unified, and never will be. We all have our differing goals and preferred means. Rather than trying to browbeat everyone into falling in line under a single unified ideology/party/platform/etc, we should just collaborate selectively on a per-project basis, and otherwise not worry about it.

    Tankies are allergic to this notion, though.






  • The quality of their arguments doesn’t really matter though, nor does it matter whether they’re able to convince a majority of people. What matters is that they can reach the few people that will find their overall presentation intriguing enough to merit further investigation, and then pull those people down the rabbit hole. It’s the same strategy that fascists use, just red-flavored instead of brown.

    It also makes the space overall less appealing to your actual target audience, which is a cardinal sin of online community management.