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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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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Rape.
It is rape, in every possible sense, in many different contexts or layers of complexity.
Coercive, forceful and subtle, manipulative and brash, extraction and destruction, that gaslights and lies and normalizes itself.
It never asks for consent, it either assumes it or demands it, and escaping it is often quite difficult and very risky to attempt.
But it rapes everything.
The land, the environment, people's bodies and minds and their time and their thoughts, language itself, etc.
The more technical details of how and why this metaphor is apt... the various aspects of complexities of different systems or aspects of subsystems... at the end of the day, the nature or character common to any specific instance of capitalism is that of a rapist.
When I used to call capitalism and colonialism rapacious I got a lot of finger-wagging and handwringing from people calling themselves leftists... so I guess this means progress?
Maybe in five years' time we could get leftists to actually start referring to capitalists as parasites.
Those kinds of 'leftists' largely turned out to be an idpol flavor of shitlib, in at least my personal experience.
They really just wanted rainbow capitalism with approximately 25% more welfare state.
Ask any of those people, back then, to attempt to formulate a political strategy that... you know, might actually achieve that?
They either got offended by the question, or their answer was somewhere between 'just keep raising awareness (via wholly corporately owned communication platforms)' and 'manifesting'.