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ziq wrote (edited )

No one gets called a tankie for believing in states. That's just being a liberal. Tankies promote a very specific type of state (state capitalist dictatorships like China and N. Korea). I wrote this whole paper about it: /w/tankie - so it's not like these things haven't been explained in intricate detail.

Likewise with technofetishists, I link to articles about machines everyday; no one gets called a technofetishist for talking about technology. Technofetishists are people that hold tech up on a pedestal to the point where they see fusing themselves with tech as a revolutionary act. They willfully ignore the hierarchies, colonialism, environmental destruction and inequality their privileged lifestyles create. They're people that glorify awful capitalists like Elon Musk because they like his fancy cars and say things like "we need to get the fuck off this rock". I wrote another long ass paper related to this: /w/Indigenous_Anarchy - and raddlers have probably devoted more time to explaining the anticiv perspective over the past 2 years than anything else.

You say you wish things would be explained to you, but you also say you don't want to do any reading, so I'm not really sure how to help you. I feel like these concepts have already been explained hundreds of times on raddle in exhaustive detail.

I also don't care about reading antiquated political theory, but these are all incredibly basic concepts you're mentioning; stuff that has been explained to death in our discussions. All I can really do is direct you to /w/anarchy101 and if there's something that needs to be added to that wiki, tell me and I'll write it up.

And I can't stand when people write in academic code either. It's classist and probably ableist too; expecting people to decipher dense academic language that only exists to exclude 'laymen' from education.

I think the shoplifters are mostly left alone because they're useless middle class Western yuppies who have no interest in improving their politics, so it's a waste of energy engaging them. They don't post on any of the politics forums anyway.

This thread was downvoted to hell so nobody is gonna see your comment. Might want to make it a self post.

EDIT: Fixed the /w/tankie link.

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ziq wrote

It's kinda shitty that you deleted your comment after I spent so much time replying.

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