Never forget - war is a racket

You sound like you’ve never had to care for yourself or a home a day in your life, and have no idea how the real world functions for anyone but the most privileged and entitled.

You’re in for a real eye opener once you venture out on your own (or not, if you have the kind of privilege that would generate this mindset, I have a feeling you’ll always have someone to go around after you cleaning up your messes and you may never get the slap in the face from reality you so desperately need).

Thank you for your reply, I genuinely appreciate it. Calling out ableist language is often met with resistance, defensiveness, and even ridicule, so it’s always really nice and encouraging to get a positive response.

That activity you did at the youth centre sounds incredible, and I wish that kind of thing was an essential part of every child (and adult)'s education, little things like inclusive language (E: and the improved attitudes and lesser stigma that come with it) are the foundation we build a better society on.

But as you say, we were all, disabled (in which case we have to grapple with internalised ableism as well as lateral) or otherwise, socialised in an ableist world, so that kind of language is the default, and it takes a conscious effort to avoid, and even when you do, we all slip up once in a while we’re only human, it’s about how we deal with the slip up that matters (getting defensive and doubling down vs learning and growing).

Thanks again. <3

In case anyone else wants to have a look:

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

The Bolshevik Myth

Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism

E: I was finding the pdf a little hard to read, so updated the links

https://affinitymagazine.us/2018/01/08/stop-using-intelligence-based-insults-if-you-care-about-disabled-people/

https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/no-joking-matter-words-and-disability

https://cultrface.co.uk/alternatives-to-ableist-terms/

https://genderbitch.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/words-offense/

Yup. If I actually want to read an article and it isn’t a site I already know isn’t too bad, I’ll right click copy the link and put it in the archive machine to get to a readable version of it. I really don’t think they can blame us at this point for not wanting to click every shitty clickbait headline, nor is it necessarily a bad thing that people aren’t (especially people who don’t use adblock and just accept cookies to make the shit go away. With the quality of reporting on most of these sites, they’re definitely not getting a good deal)

True, though you generally expect that going in. Definitely wasn’t expecting an increasing number of photos to just not be there.

Great scroll until you reach the 1930’s and start getting more and more “Image restricted due to copyright” and have to start clicking through to external sites. I will bookmark it though, for a day when I can be bothered to open each photo individually.

we’ll give you a pass.

I don’t need your pass, my point is perfectly clear, you’ve contributed nothing to the conversation

https://medium.com/no-prescription-needed/grammar-the-worlds-most-under-recognized-social-construct-a54e096ecc9c

How does one do community?

Depends on the community, I know nothing about who you are, where you’re from, what kind of area you live in (a city block, a small town neighbourhood, and a rural village all have their own different challenges), or what the people around you could use help with.

First of all try to figure out if you’re able to provide anything others could benefit from - time? Money? Equipment? The means to move people or property? Are you an educator? Am advocate? A tinkerer? A builder? A cook? A carer? A writer? An artist? Are you too poor/overworked/disabled and feel like there’s nothing you can currently help with? Whatever the case, there is value to your being part of the community and contributing from your lived experience.

Then try and form relationships with the people around you, and from there learn how you might be able to help. Depending on your community there might be an online group, a newsletter or zine, a community centre, a place of worship, a pub - all are likely to have some leads to people already active in the community who you can join, or at the very least learn from about what’s going on locally, and go from there.

The point is to build solidarity and class (and other injustice) consciousness, and to show people through actions that we are stronger together.

Maybe give some of these a read:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ronald-a-young-anarchist-agitation-community-building

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-editorial-collective-an-anarchist-faq-full

https://www.anarchy.no/horizon1.html

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

You’re just repeating the meme.

They are all bad, they are all part of the problems we face globally, and whatabouting “them” to avoid facing criticism of “us” only serves those in power by deflecting criticism of them.

Only if you don’t know what communism is : a stateless, classless, moneyless society.

Calling something that isn’t that communism doesn’t magically make it that, just like calling something (national) socialism doesn’t make it that.

So please, do explain how massive corporations as an extension of the state fit in to actual communism. (I won’t wait)

Yup, it’s mostly greenwashing to distract people from the need for any real action (abolishing capitalism, for starters).

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/world-cant-rely-on-tree-planting-to-limit-climate-change-says-report

Lebensraum.

It doesn’t need to be a real problem, for them to make it one.

The immigrant work force will still be there, they’ll just be put in camps and forced to work for nothing, while white working class people are sold the idea of “claiming back” “their” land, while the capitalists take it all over in their name (and never share any of the profits or benefits, of course, with a new scapegoat as for why as they need it).

He’s already won the election. He doesn’t have to keep posturing like this.

That was never his end goal, and you’re naive to think otherwise.

As for the rest, you’re missing a key step - to get them all “deported”, first they need to be rounded up, and put in camps (we already past this point a while back), and then since they’re already in camps, they might as well be put to work. For free (another point we’ve past). When they start dying off in big enough numbers for it to affect production, there will be another group marked for “deportation” and rounded up for their turn.

This isn’t fascism’s first fucking rodeo, and it isn’t only now getting started, it has been in motion for a good while now.

I knew there was a good laugh to be had whatever their reply, but thanks for amplifying it. Literally textbook. 🤣

I’m not sure from a mod or admin point of view (while I am a mod in one community as a backup, I’ve not done any moderating myself), but I know that if you block a person on your own account, the only indication they’d have is that you don’t reply.

From what I understand it’s actually quite a difficult issue to address on the fediverse, since content is mirrored on so many instances, deleting or blocking it on one would have very little to no impact on other instances, and obviously ban evasion is much harder to spot, since anyone can open as many accounts on as many instances as they like. I would imagine it makes it really hard to stay on top of shit that comes in, especially the worst things like abusive content containing children.

I hate to waste any more time on you, but also I could use a good laugh - please, enlighten us, who is it you are so empathetic towards in this post? 🤔

You got all that from three words

Lmfao, yeah pretty much… You’re not as complex or special as you like to think you are, just another generic clown… 😂