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scrabcrab wrote

Let's all die of easily prevented diseases!

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thebigoof wrote

Why is the left trash?

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ziq wrote (edited )

I've been thinking a lot about why leftists that come through here are so prone to reaction when encountering post-left or anti-civ ideas and this is my theory:

They've been promised a leftist utopia, and told they need to work hard and read theory hard and organize hard to one day receive the utopia as a reward.

So anyone that suggests maybe they won't get that utopia in their lifetime (or that it isn't actually a utopia at all) is essentially bursting their bubble, and the only way the ego knows to deal with the idea of not receiving the reward they've pinned all their hopes and dreams to is to lash out in anger at the blasphemer.

What I still haven't figured out is why they then feel the need to spend years cursing the blasphemer's name on capitalist websites that are crawling with fascists. My working theory for that is that I'm just really, really, really unlikable.

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ziq wrote

You first.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

Makes me wish I finished the w/anticivFAQ. I'm not sure but you might have written something up that addresses this?

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ziq wrote (edited )

I don't remember.. the parts in there that are written look like my writing style tho.

Would people even read it? Whenever I link them to my wikis they complain about 'wall of text' and keep repeating their reactionary preconceived notions even tho my wiki debunks them all and I just end up repeating the stuff I said in the wiki because they refuse to read it.

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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

I'd want it to be short sharp sections, an we wouldn't have to link to it, just copy/paste the relevant section. It's nice to have well-articulated rebuttals handy.

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scrabcrab wrote

I mean I won't cause I'm not an anprim

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ziq wrote

I want anarchist communists to engage meaningfully with the critiques, and find ways to solve these problems without reflexively and foolishly falling in line with industrialist propaganda. Because, frankly, without this type of nuanced discourse, anarchist communism falls into the same ideological and emotional appeals that lead revolutionaries back to capitalism, fascistic politics, and total ecocide.

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