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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote
What don't you like about memes?
Blackbeard wrote
I don't think they've changed, but I've been given much more to think about. Raddle is, as far as anarchist/communist spaces tend to go, fairly open and friendly, so it's really served, for me, as more of a place where I feel free to actually include my thoughts and ideas. Quite a welcome change!
dele_ted wrote
I have without a doubt both changed and refined myself and my politics thanks to this community. It's also motivated me to start reading a lot more, which is nice. I just bought Direct Struggle Against Capital from my local anarchist book café, and Profit and Exploitation from AK Press, after discussing (and lurking on discussions about) similar topics on here.
LucyParsonsRocks wrote
I'm a much better monopoly player now that I have a better grasp of how capitalists operate.
GrimWillow wrote
My politics have been emboldened by the fact that this community exists and from many links I've read from here. The discussion often includes enough intersectional solidarity with oppressed groups and dedicates a larger platform for marginalized needs and voices. It makes me happy to see a "reddit clone" go in this direction, because I left reddit long before Raddle existed, and was not happy with voat.
For once I feel like I can be part of the conversation instead of simply lurking and raging in silence at massive amounts of ignorant posts on reddit (or any other social site, pretty much...)
An_Old_Big_Tree wrote
Please link to / post said critique for discussion :)
ziq OP wrote (edited )
You won't get silenced and banned for not being a nazi. For starters. Check out our wiki for 100 other reasons.
not_AFX_lol wrote (edited )
Leaning more in a post-civ/egoist direction than when I first showed up (ancom with transhumanist tendencies)
all you people saying 'read Desert' was a good idea
An_Old_Big_Tree wrote
That's pretty remarkable - so far as changes go it's quite substantial.
I'd love to hear more, if you have any thoughts about what elements of Desert or other reading specifically brought you to start moving your politics.
nibba wrote
So you will get silenced if you are a nazi in someone else's view?
ziq OP wrote
If you can't help but talk about gassing jews, you're not welcome here. It's not hard to refrain from being a racist piece of shit.
____deleted____ wrote
I was a more traditional syndicalist prior, but this forum and recent events in the Middle East have destroyed all trust I had in authority, and I've since become an ancom.
drh1138 wrote
I'm fine with that so long as the particular edgelords are either gone or not in power.
drh1138 wrote
Maybe, but I didn't advocate for the indiscriminate murder of anyone less pure than myself as "liberals", or fantasize about cannibalism like defasher/Eeplox did.
ziq OP wrote
Eat the rich.
drh1138 wrote
More like "PK and his family".
ziq OP wrote
I think someone wrote a hilarious poem that included a line about eating Prince_Kropotkin's liberal head or something.
An_Old_Big_Tree wrote
I don't think that my politics have changed here, but raddle has been a good space for me to work on articulating them as well as I can, and against different types of people.
I know at least one person who identifie(d/s) as Marxist who has come to fundamentally distrust authority after hanging out around here with anarchists as much as she did, though.