sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]

I don’t know that there’s a “vegan culture” but I’m vegan, and communist, and I don’t see why that would be at odds with adoption.

If you have made the transition from developer to manager, then please let me know your experiences in the comments below.

I thought about this, but changed my pronouns and started HRT instead and I’ve been much happier.

“those things” are individual works of art that can get assembled like hieroglyphics to express things which are difficult to put into words

People get mad because they see hexbear users having fun with emojis instead of writing a bunch of words to say nothing. I spoiler tag my emojis in other Lemmy’s as a result.

I don’t like filling my pores with aluminum so I just use deodorant. I don’t really sweat enough for it to be an issue, and if it is I shower.

I will say I do get annoyed at mls ranting about anarchists in a vacuum for the exact reason, and that’s honestly why I gravitated to hexbear. There’s plenty we agree on, and a lot that everyone should learn from history. Trying to make some sort of us vs them thing is wrecker behavior.

It’s that brazenness which makes me feel compelled to respond. If you live in the US, claim to be on the left and can’t even call for an end to your own government for its crimes I have no interest in your contributions.

I’m not going to wait to be surprised pikachu about it.

Thing is you cited the example of a existing ML org not being radical enough and refusing to really challenge power in there here and now as evidence that in the future (if successful) they’re gonna be exterminating dissent. That’s why you’re not really reaching me.

I don’t know if you are talking about family in Greece itself or not but it seems your lived experiences are US-centric.

Specifically Greek, I have almost no family in the US.

anarchists in 1917 were probably of the same opinion until things like the Konstadt started happening.

I’m a pretty paranoid person, but one of the things I have resigned myself to is that you can’t really change the world without exposing yourself to deception (and doing some deception yourself). Historical events are the product of their historical context, I prefer to work with comrades I can find here and now, and let them be the ones to disappoint me.

Not trying to sealion - l’m not even trying to debate you at this point.

Most of my family that were ‘tankies’ have passed and most of the younger ones are completely disengaged politically.

I will also say that my lived experience doing years of encampment support in the US, I run into way more MLs (formally or informally) who I have been able to consistently work with towards shared goals. That’s why I feel obligated to point out that most of the distinction made online (in particular about hypothetical revolutions) fade away in the real world.

That’s what I meant with fucking around with parliament- I don’t disagree that they’re too committed to the existing state. I have a lot of issues with the organization but it’s a product of more than just being ML - there’s a lot of historical reasons at play too and I can appreciate why they reluctant to challenge the state directly.

This is the same reason organizations I work in don’t cooperate with electorally-oriented groups either.

Dogmatism is a problem in every tendency. Same reason I push back on anarchists (or MLs) trying to start fights over political disagreements from like a hundred years ago. The problem is the capitalists with the boot on all our necks.

I prefer to keep it so other people can read, I don’t care to flex. And yeah, I would agree, they don’t cooperate, but its certainly not directly antagonistic either.

The worst I heard was anarchists at most regard them as ineffective nerds, in particular for fucking around with parliament instead of more direct action and supporting encampments/squats. For me that’s a long way from the ‘red fash’ depictions you get about ‘authority’. One of the more cutting complaints I heard was that a group would spend more time on if its banners read as ‘ML’ or ‘ΜΛ’ to be properly decolonial instead of just going out in the street.

I’m Greek too, as are a number of the anarchists I know- the KKE isn’t in power and none of the anarchists I talked to ever took time out of their day to shittalk it either.

Are you in any organizations?

Y’all have a very western/USA-centric pespective of anarchists and it shows.

Can you elaborate? Most anarchists (not all) I’ve run into have been in the US, but I was saying they would get called tankies by your standards. Most of the older ones in particular.

You seem to have a lot of faith in manifesting your imagination into reality. I suggest joining an organization and putting in some work, because that’s how literally anything in reality get changed.

I organize with anarchists and most of them would get called tankies by you online anarchists lmao

Your enemies are also violent authoritarians, how do you propose that a nonviolent nonauthoritarian revolution protect what gains it has and resist organized violence without some level of “authoritarianism” literally every example of revolutions (anarchists and otherwise) have this feature, or they fail.

I don’t consider needing to make a unified front nearly as authoritarian as the everyday violence under capitalism.

All revolutions are, are you going to manifest a wish into reality?

This is “theory” that I only ever see vaushites sharing going “hmmm interesting”

Do you want to actually change the existing order? What we have now is violent and authoritarian, replacing it will also be violent and authoritarian.

how I sleep after calling for violence against shithead transphobes

Shut the fuck up, you’re defending settlers- apartheid governments, genocidal ethnostates, and their defenders deserve scorn.