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sapovnela OP wrote (edited )

May the barbarians break loose. May they sharpen their swords, may they brandish their battleaxes, may they strike their enemies without pity. May hatred take the place of tolerance, may fury take the place of resignation, may outrage take the place of respect. May the barbarian hordes go to the assault, autonomously, in the way that they determine. And may no parliament, no credit institution, no supermarket, no barracks, no factory ever grow again after their passage. In the face of the concrete that rises to strike the sky and the pollution that fouls it, one can well say with Dejacque that “It is not the darkness that the Barbarians will bring to the world this time, it is the light.

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sapovnela OP wrote

"We are living in a world in which technology has certainly gone out of control. As catastrophe follows catastrophe, so-called “human” landscapes become increasingly controlled and mechanized, and human beings increasingly conformed to their roles as cogs in the social machine. Historically the thread that has gone through all that is best in the anarchist movement has not been a faith in civilization or technology or progress, but rather the desire for every individual to be free to create her or his life as he or she sees fit in free association others, in other words, the desire for the individual and collective reappropriation of life. And this desire is still what motivates anarchist struggle. At this point it is clear to me that the technological system is an integral part of the network of domination. It has been developed to serve the interests of the rulers of this world. One of the primary purposes of large-scale technological systems is the maintenance and expansion of social control, and this requires a technological system that is largely self-maintaining, needing only minimal human intervention. Thus, a juggernaut is created."

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sapovnela OP wrote

"...around 1919, Bruno Filippi wrote:

I envy the savages. And I will cry to them in a loud voice: “Save yourselves, civilization is coming.”

Of course: our dear civilization of which we are so proud. We have abandoned the free and happy life of the forest for this horrendous moral and material slavery. And we are maniacs, neurasthenics, suicides.

Why should I care that civilization has given humanity wings to fly so that it can bomb cities, why should I care if I know every star in the sky or every river on earth?

Today, the starry vault is a leaden veil that we vainly endeavor to pass through; today it is no longer unknown, it is distrusted.

I don’t give a damn for their progress; I want to live and enjoy.

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Fool wrote

Overall, enjoy the piece.

Instead it was decades of "semantics" and "I love that guy".

Well, it hasn't actually quite been a decade since the book, and with the company he's kept in the period since, I'd say it is a bit suspect.

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black_badger wrote

just one slight quibble. she didn't call the cops on the black bloc in Seattle, but asked rhetorically why the cops weren't arresting black bloc folks; implicit in her complaint is that she was angry that the cops were arresting her and her friends. i found her defense of Niketown far more objectionable as well as emblematic of where her values really lie .

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Dopeblivion wrote

Excellent AgitProp. I am inspired to go posting on right wing websites asking questions of the same nature: Would discipline collars be allowed if Trump wins the next election?

"I am a small business owner and I have a hard time retaining workers, even when I pay illegal immigrants a whopping 5$/hour they manage to leave the workplace saying 'it's not enough to pay the bills'. At some point, I decided I had enough of this snowflake bullshit and followed the advice of a certain Walmart store manager who would lock up his illegals in a store after business hours so they have all night to clean up the place, but I tried that once and those little cucks broke out of my store by smashing a window. I can't handle this bs anymore. No one wants to work in this fucking country. I had to cancel my vacations at least 4 times this year because of staff shortages and being a business owner is becoming impossible by the day. If they launch that system they were talking about at the World Economic Forum, I wouldn't have this problem anymore. Just a little motivationnal zap! and they get back to work. Maybe even a perimeter fence like they do with dogs sometimes. I sure hope Trump wins and makes this happen."

Make them look evil. Show that community of Scrooges what the ghost of christmasses yet to come really looks like.

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Dopeblivion wrote

It's a public relations black flag campaign designed to blame the unhoused for being present in certain neighbourhoods. Whether you look at Zerohedge or other right wing rags, they all make a big deal out of "poop is everywhere now since THEY moved in."

On one hand, cities know that leaving public toilets around is going to stop the problem, but they refuse to because the neighborhoodds that have a poop problem is the places they'll send cops with bulldozers and tear gas one day, and ultimately they are the neighborhoods that have gentrifying potential. For another thing, restaurants and businesses have gotten used to keeping the washrooms closed during the pandemic, and increased maintenance is not something they want to do since it's been declared over.

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Lettuce OP wrote

Oh yeah u have the archive. The actual reddit thread had a bunch of people being like I sure hope society would make it impossible r u to do that.

Considering someone even claimed masturbating in public is sexual assault to everyone who sees it. Definitely seemed like ppl were alluding to violence but couldn't feel like an anarchist if they said a vigilatee mob would stop u.

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asterism wrote (edited )

The right way to peacfully end this is by showing you nudes of your grandma. (unless you're into that)

I mean the way I read their position was anarchy means no laws so I wouldnt personally violently stop you but someone else probably will. But you seemed to say it outright and then they denied it so idk.

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