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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.

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Ngl, leftists fight way too much 😭 (lemmy.world)

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Libs straight up create the conditions that enable fascism.

Which is what makes them preferable, in a two-party state, to the fulfilled fascists. Baby tigers grow into adult tigers, but if I have the chance to choose which one I'm locked in a cage with, it's gonna be the baby.

And this community has rules against disparaging anti-electorialism.

Stupid rules, if you ask me. It is always preferable to try to nudge things in your favor, if even slightly. I'm an anti-electoralist in the sense that it's obviously insufficient to enact actual change, and no one should be encouraged to rely solely on electoral reform; that would be equally stupid. But it is an available tool. Even if it only makes things slightly easier for all the other, more effective means of enacting change, that's still a valuable tool.

I'll quote Lenin

Whilst you lack the strength to do away with bourgeois parliaments and every other type of reactionary institution, you must work within them because it is there that you will still find workers who are duped by the priests and stultified by the conditions of rural life; otherwise you risk turning into nothing but windbags.

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Whilst you lack the strength to do away with bourgeois parliaments and every other type of reactionary institution, you must work within them because it is there that you will still find workers who are duped by the priests and stultified by the conditions of rural life; otherwise you risk turning into nothing but windbags.

He's advocating running a communist electoral party as a means to spread the communist message and gitate amongst the masses, not voting for Graham totenkopf Planter or Copmala Harris. Literally the opposite of the point your trying to make about "lesser evil voting".

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 minutes ago

He's advocating running what you can to reach the yokels. Sometimes that's someone who once was so ignorant they accidentally got a totenkopf tattoo. Platner and Harris are further left than most of the masses are willing to go as it is. We're fighting an uphill battle, and there are like a handful of proper options across the entire nation. Your work with what you've got, and we've got work ahead of us. That work isn't going to get any easier if we keep trying to fight the greater evil.