Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.
This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.
Don't take yourselves too seriously. Serious posts go to !anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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If you post images with text, endeavour to provide the alt-text
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Absolutely no right-wing jokes. This includes "Anarcho"-Capitalist concepts.
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Absolutely no redfash jokes. This includes anything that props up the capitalist ruling classes pretending to be communists.
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No bigotry whatsoever. See instance rules.
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This is an anarchist comm. You don't have to be an anarchist to post, but you should at least understand what anarchism actually is. We're not here to educate you.
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No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can't control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.
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Yeah, turns out starvation takes a little while. It's been roughly 3 months since Gaza has been able to receive food aid. Holodomor took ~1 year to kill off 20% of the affected population, which Israel seems hell bent on replicating. If there's not a grave difference in death statistics by this time next year, I'd be happy to reconsider my position that both sides are very much not the same.
Y'all are rightfully getting flamed for holding a position that harm reduction doesn't reduce harm when it absolutely does, and only takes you an hour every four years.
You're right that the current state of representation is abysmal, but boycotting voting does absolutely nothing to remedy the situation, and actively harms people domestically and abroad.
Edit: Just to add about the ideological differences between Biden and Trump, Binden was an ideological pro-Israelite, but he still gave some tiny semblance of a fuck about humanitarianism. Trump does not. He doesn't have a misguided moral compass, he has none. Whoever lays out the most beneficial deal to him (petty grievances aside) in the moment is what he will take.
If you can't see why the latter is infinitely more dangerous in a world run by corporate interests, then I'm not sure what more I can say.
harm reduction has a specific meaning, and voting is not harm reduction
Fine, replace it with "reducing harm". Y'all very well understand what I mean by the term in this context, and if you don't, I'd be happy to clarify.
If that's all that article has to say (which it doesn't) then it'd simply be clearing up some semantic confusion.
voting Harris didn't reduce any harm, but it did prevent real alternatives from gaining traction.
How does anti-electoralism prevent alternatives from gaining traction? Nobody in this thread has yet advocated for voting 3rd party, if that's what you're implying.
I didn't say it does. you are arguing with a strawman
It's a question, signifying I have no clue what your actual position is. If you don't care to elucidate, I've got no argument for a non-position.
I said what I meant: voting is not harm reduction, and voting for Harris didn't reduce any harm
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