What’s with all the conspiracy nutcases here? The fucking Uighur genocide… smh, are the space lizards making China do this or is it Sasquatch man?

Also, the officialdom gives license to hate. It’s a rubber stamp on bigotry, you can be a bigot all you like, but for Good™. Now you can dehumanise Russians, Chinese and any other targets of imperialism for free and remain a progressive liberal, shielded from any negative judgement.

And if on the rare occasion you are called out on it, you can just say that you hate the governments, not the people, ignoring all polling figures and support for these governments. After all, those support stats are fake anyway, you stupid tankie.

I love this line:

The bourgeois will become an anarchist again after the proletarian revolution: he will once again become aware of the existence of a State; of the existence of laws foreign to his will, hostile to his interests, to his habits, to his freedom. He will realize that “State” is synonymous with “compulsion” because the workers’ State will take away the bourgeoisie’s freedom to exploit the proletariat, because the workers’ State will be the bulwark of a new mode of production which, as it develops, will destroy every trace of capitalist ownership and any possibility of its revival.

This is exactly the crux of the failure of ideological “Freedom Now” maximalism. That maximalist freedom they want includes the freedom to exploit and take away the freedom of others. The paradox that needs to be accepted and synthesised is that Freedom necessarily must be imposed at this stage.

Specifically for US/NATO’s war in Ukraine I take a glance at moonofalabama.org every now and then.

I’m not sure if I’d specifically characterise it as “reactionary”. An absurd conceit would be more like it. The article opens with this bold poetic exaggeration with zero supporting argument. Then goes on using western imperialist slurs like “Totalitarianism”.

It’s not long before we move on to another American horror show in which the US is never mentioned.

The civil strife that prevails in Sudan and looms in Russia today may well break out elsewhere tomorrow if we do not succeed in shifting the course of our society on a global scale.

And what is the cause of this? It’s the “end result of militarization”. That’s the analysis. There it is.

Nothing about capitalism or imperialism or even a mention of the specific instance of western involvement. Just “militarization”. This is like something a hippie would come out with in the late 60’s. “It’s the guns maaan!”

Granted, I stopped at only the first paragraph of the first group

You made it past the second paragraph and didn’t cringe at this reactionary word salad?

This is a misuse of words. Fratricide has long been the rule under Putin. Torturing and assassinating dissidents was fratricide. Invading Ukraine was fratricide. Both the Wagner company and the Russian military have made fratricide their profession. Anarchy is the opposite of fratricide: it is the condition that prevails when people do not compete to rule each other. Totalitarianism always leads to bloody conflicts over power.

As are a host of ideologies.

A holocaust denial comic from a far right website called forxfordcomics. I thought I’d turn it around and use it for good.

Fair point, I didn’t put much thought into it, just reposted.

This is actually OC. (not the comic itself, just the VoCMF text…)

Lol no it wouldn’t. The only thing that will stop this is the moving on from capitalism. There is no world under capitalism where these people are thrown in jail, at least not for long.

Check out these clowns.

Cats are disgusting creatures that destroy ecosystems.

My experience with anarchists since the start of this war has completely destroyed any faith I had in it being any kind of honestly held or principled ideology. It’s simply a set of excuses for liberals to pretend they’re progressives and nothing much more. Jumping from one American imperialist propaganda point to the next seamlessly, from Libya to Xinjiang, Taiwan to Ukraine. It’s just a right wing Libertarian’s idea of what a leftist is.

I think there’s a parallel conversation going on here that’s happening only in your mind. We were talking about libs taking over lemmy.ml, remember?

Why do you think I “walk away”, or have a “thin skin”? What gave you that impression? It’s certainly not the case and nothing I’ve said should have given you this idea. You can look at my comment history yesterday on lemmy.ml to verify.

And me having thicker skin will make the outcome we were talking about not have happened somehow?

I think you lost the thread there.

I just went over to lemmy.ml and got called a Putler penis fellator or some such teenage insult.

As a means, it’s good. As an end, it’s bad.

It’s a nothing argument really. Some people are just making blog posts pretending that those who “support multipolarity” are going to claim Mission Accomplished once it’s there and never be active again.

Well they’ve taken over lemmy.ml?

Thanks, wasn’t aware.