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Wow. It's not like the state is quite good at repression. /s
Posting this on International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners is quite tonedeaf, too.
Don't you feel it's a bit counterintuitive to call someone tonedeaf for being unaware of "International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners", something that more than 99.9999% of people are likely unaware of?
Wouldn't you be better off, say, helping build awareness of such a day instead of simply berating someone for not knowing about it? At the moment, you're teaching people to treat it like a joke.
Right... like you didn't grow up watching the International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners special every year with the rest of us
something that more than 99.9999% of people are likely unaware of?
Western liberals aren't aware of it because they've segregated themselves off from the folks in their community most subject to political prisoners.
But then lots of Western Liberals clap and cheer when an anarchist group gets raided by the police and dragged off to prison.
Sounds like you're just blaming people for not being as smart and enlightened as you because you're so special you knew about an obscure day that almost nobody outside your usual bubble has heard of.
You could have actually brought awareness to that fact, but you decided to be a petulant clown instead. Bravo.
Which anarchist groups are you referring to, specifically?
The Black Panthers were notable, back in the 1970s, with their leaders either arrested on phony charges or killed in police raids.
Occupy Wall Street members were routinely subjected to arrest and detention in the wake of the '08 Recession.
Wikileaks was another big one in the early '10s, with its major contributors and journalists all arrested or forced into hiding.
The Black Lives Matter movement had many of its early leaders jailed or killed, before the various social media organizing tags were hijacked by online media personalities.
I don't think you understand what an anarchist is
The Black Panther Party was explicitly Marxist-Leninist. There were probably some Anarchist members, but the party line was ML.
So tired of people using the word liberal like it's an insult. It's clearly designed to divide the left.
Yeah Malcom X was clearly trying to divide the left.
Liberal is definitionally on the left. Every single encyclopedia article on it says so. So get out of your echo chamber and stop spreading misinformation.
Also, unrelated, but since you seem so intent on spreading misinformation: He is literally quoted as saying that was his goal, so I'm not sure what your point is.
It means that when white people are evenly divided, and black people have a bloc of votes of their own, it is left up to them to determine who's going to sit in the White House and who's going to be in the dog house.
Liberals aren't on the left, it only seems that way to you because you percieve yourself as left yet support the status quo.
Shut up with that divisive BS. I never said I was liberal, I'm a democratic socialist. You're clearly an authoritarian trying to divide us by starting arguments with your sockpuppet accounts. Nobody with half a brain is falling for it.
Holy moly, lmao. No, I am not a sockpuppet, nor am I an authoritarian. What in the world scratched you so much?
Also, all Socialism is democratic, do you mean you're a reformist, or support Scandinavian style Social Democracy?
Liberal is literally defined as being on the left. So excuse me for assuming you're a tankie spreading misinformation.
Also you're definitely a sockpuppet or are just very susceptible to misinformation. So either way, not worth my time.
Here's the Wikipedia page for liberalism, since you've clearly never seen it.
Liberal is defined as being a supporter of liberalism.
Liberalism is the dominant ideology in much of the world, which believes in Private Property Rights and thus supports the Capitalist Status Quo.
Liberalism was considered "left" during the French Revolution, against the Monarchy, but is now a right wing ideology as opposed to Socialism.
It doesn't take being a "tankie" to know what Liberalism is, lmao. Definitely not a sockpuppet and certainly not susceptible to misinformation, you just generally are ill-informed and violently upset.
It's not just a question of property rights though. There's a ton of other things liberals believe in, including democracy, equality, freedom of speech, etc, all of which are categorically left wing.
Just because you disagree with one part of their philosophy doesn't mean you should attack them. It's divisive and hurts our chance (people on the left) of ever having a majority.
You defined Liberalism as simply "being on the left." This is untrue, it's a Capitalist ideology and therefore at minimum on the right. Liberalism may claim to be in favor of free speech and equality, but the fact that wealthy people control speech and inherently create class society proves this hollow.
I do disagree with Capitalism, I am a Socialist. Liberalism should be attacked. Leftism will become the majority as Capitalism continues to decline worldwide and inequality continues to skyrocket, individuals being "nicer" about spreading theory will not speed this process up. That belief is Utopianism.
Just gonna piggyback on that malcom x comment and say “yeah, I’m real sure mlk was trying to divide the left.”
Yeah, maybe. That's not the main issue I have with the meme, though.
Then, construct your comment in a way that conveys such information without automatically ostracizing them from ever having sympathy for your cause. You're never going to build curiosity in those unaware of your cause if you begin by chasing them away.
You must be one of a few hundred people on the planet who know about it so I don't know why you're expecting people to care and not post memes that might be related to it.
Still a stupid meme. People are fighting for a better tomorrow. It's just that the state also cracks down on revolutionary movements (remember Tortuguita and the Stop Cop City protests? Or Lützerath? The fucking Black Panthers?)
Also, activism burnout is also a thing, framing it like people are just too complacent is simply disrespectful. Basically a leftist version of the "still you partake in society" meme.
It also reeks of the defeatist mentality/capitalist propaganda that lefties are fighting for a miserable future. Simply a stupid meme all around and to top it all off on an unfitting date.
You think governments didn't use to crackdown in revolutionaries? There's nothing new about that.
Didn't say that there's anything new about it. I said that the meme is stupid, because it ignores that fact.
Then what's the difference between now and back then?
The state's gotten better at propaganda
Or maybe things just aren't as bad for people in first world countries and that's why we still see revolutions happening in third world countries?
It's not as if governments don't get violently overthrown anymore, it just happens in places where most people really are suffering a lot more than most people in Europe or North America are. My life isn't perfect, but I look at the lives of people in Venezuela or Bangladesh and there's no comparison to be made and I'm sure even poor people feel the same way in most first world countries.
There is no way that’s actually a thing
Yeah, I made that one up 🙄 /s
No offense here because i like the sentiment, but just because a random bookstore declares it an "international day", doesnt make it so.
Those aren't the people who made it up, though. It was just the first search result.
Wow. You're like if clowns weren't funny.
So, just a clown I guess.
Where is that unearned hate for clowns coming from? :(
I’ll be damneded