re campism:

Personally I arrive at opposing NATO because I’m opposed to all wars but the class war as it were. It’s not out of a sense of wanting to ‘shield’ Russia.

I live in the US and thus I oppose its use of military force around the world, if I was back in Russia I would still be opposed to the war on general principle, with all of the associated political risks.

I’m not sure I see what the ‘trap’ is in your line of thought, but if you’re insisting that lack of support for NATO as a citizen in a NATO country is somehow a position that people are tricked into, I think you may be misunderstanding the situation.

re hexbear:

but, well… we know it’s already way past critical support.

I’m not sure they’re as in the tank for Putin as you say, I’m subbed to most if not all of their comms and I will routinely come across things like this it’s pretty clearly shitting on the CPRF for going along with SMO, the emoji is imparting ‘lenin would have shot everyone in this room’, I have to imagine that includes Putin. One of their news mods is said ‘If you’re a communist party and Putin is praising you, you’re not a communist party.’

The ghost of that second international will still haunt us for a long time…

on the anarchist end it’s the manifesto of the sixteen vs the anti-war manifesto, the latter is a banger I recommend it:

The misfortune of the peoples, who were nevertheless all deeply committed to peace, is that they trusted in the State with its scheming diplomats, in democracy and in the political parties (even the opposition parties, like the parliamentary socialists) to avert war. That trust was deliberately abused and continues to be abused when those in government, with the help of their whole press, persuade their respective peoples that this war is a war of liberation.

I know you are a leftist, and at one point I thought I was too, but compared to the likes of hexbear and lemmygrad.ml and even lemmy.ml we are flaming right-wingers, I believe? if you [checks notes] “have a bank account”, then you aren’t leftist enough for them).

I promise you I have a bank account. I’m an anarchist and I prefer .ml because I don’t care about opposing “campism”. (not a real thing)

I’m more on the intersection of anarchism and Luxemburgism; I share a lot of her criticism of the USSR and I find Marxists often end up agreeing with me. At the end of the day I oppose inter-capitalist wars and support revolutionary organizing against the existing system. That alone is enough to put me on the bad side of most of lib Lemmy.

A divide like this happened among anarchists in the first world war too.

get over yourself tankies - neoliberalism won!

lmaoooo thank you for spelling it out, yes all of the people associated with hating on the ‘tankie troika’ are in fact clearly aligned with neoliberal zionists like op ideologically. no notes.

omg you’re the one who fell for the xinjiang pisspost too

they already hit the independent thought alarm years ago https://lemmy.nz/post/1227237

I’ve got this goober tagged as “tankie” in my app

lmao

the op meme is about the US space program publicly vaporizing a bunch of astronauts

I always see you calling people tankies and saying that they’re actually right wing

The irony of getting called a conservative based on your own behavior is sending me

NH Retail economy is sustained by all the burnt out healthcare workers from MA going there to buy liquor tax free

Butthurt tankies

Just to reiterate, I’m still an anarchist, and I’m not the only one that uses hexbear. Seems like this is just an epithet you’re using to call people you disagree with.

running away to their circlejerk

the reason they’re all in the other thread is because this thread is locked from the hexbear side, per the last exchange between carcosa and db0.

claiming they’re the smart ones

I make no claims on that front, I just claim that I go outside and actually work with other anarchists on a routine basis

I got the opinion piece is that some folks in the gay community worry that wanting to transition can also mean being attracted to the same sex and being confused about it at a young age.

My experience was that I was not attracted to men at all, but because I liked sailor moon and painting my nails people would just assume that I was. It just strikes me as a very paternalistic attitude to be worried about misguiding poor gay people who are simply “confused”.

Because transitioning is a decision, but who you are is not. And I believe that when you’re so young, it’s really hard to know who you are.

Being trans is very much a part of who you are. However while there has been a tremendous social pressure to repress over the years, trans people are not a recent development.

I’m a trans woman, I transitioned later in life, but I knew from a very young age that I was uncomfortable as a boy and I didn’t have the words to describe it until much later in life.

I grew up in the 90s’s/00’s and back then the gatekeeping and lack of information was pretty bad. Unless you were presenting with an acute mental health condition you really weren’t getting taken seriously. I was able to hold my shit long enough to go to a college and land a career because throwing myself into work (and drinking heavily) was my coping skill.

Meeting and working with another trans person after years of repressing that feeling was all it really took for me to put it together and transition myself after 10+ years of denial. That’s also what happens when trans people are erased from daily life.

I think it’s a good thing that kids actually get listened to when they say what they want. It’s not ‘ice cream for dinner’ but that orientation does speak volumes. None of these transition decisions get made flippantly, this is a process that takes years and plenty of oversight.

Nine people get on a bus, but it is decided that only votes cast from the 3 people sitting at the front of the bus will get to decide the direction.

Why shouldn’t people trapped at the back of the bus with no sway over the vote express their opposition to the system itself?

I really don’t understand the issue people have with individuals who are in safe red or blue states voting in protest

Homura Akemi 😌

I had to laugh at this ridiculous line from the opinion piece:

staff members had a dark joke that at the rate they were going, there would be “no gay people left.”

The whole idea that transition care is “getting rid” of gay people is ridiculous, I was into girls way before I transitioned. The other trans people I know are all extremely gay.

You are concerned about a child making a decision that they may regret… so you think the decision should be made for them?

What I have a major problem with is that voicing an opinion, or have any form of meaningful debate, is met with immense aggression, trolling, cancelling, intimidation

So, trans people, I support you to exist, be happy, live a meaningful life. But unfortunately there’s a group of loud people who are honestly behaving like psychopaths who are making it hard to stay sympathetic. Wake up.

“I get aggression and trolling”

“people being mean to me are psychopaths who make it hard for me to stay sympathetic to trans people”

but why is it so hard to not accept that other anarchists have different experiences than you?

It’s not, I’m used to it. I’m not a fan of getting told I’m something other than what I am simply because of people’s perception of me.

You think I’m “allying with” people because I don’t feel comfortable being around anticommunists and made fun of the situation here.

I’m fine with the disengage rule, Im glad you are less aggressive at censorship than the rest of them, but I still found the behavior of baiting then disenaging something to make light of. I’m not going to tell you how to run your space.

Again I take your reading of me listing my experience as superiority as too sensitive. I get exasperated when I express something unorthodox and I get called a red fascist. In response I state my personal experience in organizing as an anarchist, to point out that making declaration about who is and isn’t anarchist based on internet comments is silly.

I don’t think posting anticommunism in the middle of widespread actual fascism is a good use of time, but I’m not going to say the people doing it aren’t anarchists or are secretly fascists. The worst I might say for that is terminally online and misguided.

Other anarchists participating in anticommunist snark comms and towing the line on that front dissappoints and leaves me wary too, hence my mockery of this particular situation.

I pointed out that I’m actually active as an anarchist in the real world because people routinely claim that I am something else. If you read that as claiming superiority then I read your reading as projection.

isn’t that what you were just doing by claiming that I have “allegiances and actions” that leave much to be desired by “many other anarchists”

turnabout is fair play, and the extent of my ‘actions’ and ‘allegiances’ that you claim “anarchists” disapprove of is entirely limited to posts on the Internet and thoughts in my head.

even though you behaviour has been defacto in defense of “left unity” which many anarchists reject outright.

Just as “many” anarchists may hold your specific opinions, I know plenty from years or organizing who are not as dogmatic about being sectarian. As I said I prefer to work with people like that just as you seem to prefer spaces like the anticommunist snark comms

I brought it up because I’ve seen you engage in that in this very thread:

This just happened to be where I made my account 2 years ago, but clearly because of 'what .ml is" I can’t be trusted. I will grant that you left yourself wiggle room by saying ‘who knows’, but you did say it was a valid assumption based on server.

I’m OK to take Diva’s word for it that she’s an anarchist, but of course her allegiances and actions leave much to be desired by other anarchists like me, so it’s not like I would want to be in the same affinity group or anything.

The feeling is mutual, I prefer to organize with anarchists who are more interested in the work at hand than with policing each other’s opinions.

Follow up question: if that is bullying then what does that say about the people doing the ongoing red scare smear campaign based on what server people are on?