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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Al! posted:

sure when you have enough starving peasants holding sticks with pistols pointed at the back of their heads, you can achieve anything

Can't argue with results.

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Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

Al! posted:

to also be fair, some of those commies think anarchists and liberals are the same thing too

commies tend to think that anyone who doesn't rigidly follow their specific definition of commie is a filthy centerist

it doesn't help that they're constantly under siege by actual filthy centerists mind you

EmpyreanFlux
Mar 1, 2013

The AUDACITY! The IMPUDENCE! The unabated NERVE!

Al! posted:

to also be fair, some of those commies think anarchists and liberals are the same thing too

Anarchists and liberals manage to give a platform for regressive elements of society in different ways, regardless of dissimilarity. I like anarchists more though, they at least have a vision of utopia even if it's meant for a species other than humans.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Don't trust any anarchist under age 30

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

FaustianQ posted:

Anarchists and liberals manage to give a platform for regressive elements of society in different ways, regardless of dissimilarity. I like anarchists more though, they at least have a vision of utopia even if it's meant for a species other than humans.

are you talking about anarchist bookstores or.........???????

EmpyreanFlux
Mar 1, 2013

The AUDACITY! The IMPUDENCE! The unabated NERVE!

Al! posted:

are you talking about anarchist bookstores or.........???????

Are you taking issue with the idea that anarchists eventual end goal of a completely stateless society and rhetoric to match isn't easy to coop for some rightwing shithead?

Arcteryx Anarchist
Sep 15, 2007

Fun Shoe
yeah like lovely anarchists maybe

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
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yeah all the cool anarchists think the same magic that would make governments disappear would also make bad people and power go with it

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
most anarchists i know think its only possible after communism has been achieved

Mean Baby
May 28, 2005

Woops wrong thread... gently caress the alt right

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
wouldn't that make them communists, not anarchists

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977

rudatron posted:

wouldn't that make them communists, not anarchists

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
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nah, they view it as an an intermediary step like if you don't have some societal model that rebalances power and property before you switch to no government power it's just corporations or warlords

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
itd be impossible to implement anarcho-communism right now or even in this life time, because it's going to take longer than that to even begin to repair the damage colonialism and imperialism via capitalism has inflicted on the entirety of the world, theres a reason you see anarchists in socialist orgs, its the same reason any decent socialist group is multi-tendency

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
i can see a lot of diff paths for america to exit its current mode of capitalism, violent revolution, a populist political movement, mass disobedience/refusal to participate, but there's no way i can see anarcho-syndaclism/anarcho-communism being implemented in a meaningful way as a direct shift from capitalism

Ace of Baes
Jul 7, 1977
its nice to dream tho

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

So in this Nazi Discord channel I've been scanning, one person mentions they run a 30-person alt-right group between Austin and San Antonio.

I'm guessing these are the thugs who've been giving my left-wing friends in Austin some problems. Also the number came as a surprise to me that it's that big. I used to live in that area and am pretty familiar with it, and it surprised me as I'm in DFW (around six million people), which can be quite conservative, but where organized neo-Nazi activity seems pretty minimal.

I've got a theory though so I've made a map:



So the name for this region is the Hill Country, which is distinct because it's the traditional Texas-German region. It's also, as the name fits, very hilly starting west of the Balcones Fault. (The faultline actually runs just to the west of I-35, but it reads more clearly where I drew it on the map slightly more to the east. You get the picture, though.) The hills inhibit development, so the Hill Country west of the fault line remains very rural.

The region is also a white enclave and is whiter (mainly west of the fault, east is Hispanic) than many parts of rural Texas. At the same time, development is rushing in, pincer-like, from Austin and San Antonio. With comes development comes a more diverse population and a very-rapidly growing Hispanic population in particular.

I think the region's German heritage is another reason why. There aren't many German speakers left, but its German-ness is why it was a Unionist area during the Civil War. It's a right-wing arch-Republican bastion now, and you'll see neo-Confederate stuff in there, but I think the Confederate stuff is less prevalent than in East Texas, which is more generally Dixie-like and where you'll see more battle flags being flown from houses. That's just a guess though.

But adding it all up, the region has a white youth population which is more amenable to a Nazi ideology that promotes a siege-like mentality.

i lived near johnson city and never met any alt right types, only good ol boy cowboy redneck standard republican types/suburban dads fleeing Liberal Austin

guarantee almost all these pepes live in san marcos and go to texas state or live with parents in kyle or bee cave

Sheng-Ji Yang has issued a correction as of 09:43 on Jul 8, 2017

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

FaustianQ posted:

Are you taking issue with the idea that anarchists eventual end goal of a completely stateless society and rhetoric to match isn't easy to coop for some rightwing shithead?

maybe people who live in mass murder houses shouldn't throw stones

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
anarchism is a way for people to sound smart & radical without being too offensive, 'yeah man gently caress authority' resonates because everyone has had issues with authority figures at some point in their lives, but it poses absolutely no threat to the already established order, because they know that 99% of people will happily rush into their arms if their alternative is literal anarchy

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
when your opposition consists entirely of the kids of rich people cosplaying the 'rebel' archetype, you have absolutely nothing to fear, doubly so when they self-castrate their own rhetoric for the purposes of not appearing too dangerous, which is what 'well actually we oppose all authority' amounts to

the simple fact that anarchism isn't actually that intimidating to the powers-that-be is a large component of why it's survived to the point it has, while communists groups get wrecked by COINTELPRO and so on - the intelligence agencies know what the real threat is

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
thats the problem with commies, too many rudatrons

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012
ive been seeing certain goons around the forums complain about college degrees "losing their value" overtime due to large droves of people attending and obtaining them.

what the gently caress is wrong with you idiots? do you literally not see that that's a popular talking point amoung conservatives and Alt-Right adjacents?

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Race Realists posted:

ive been seeing certain goons around the forums complain about college degrees "losing their value" overtime due to large droves of people attending and obtaining them.

what the gently caress is wrong with you idiots? do you literally not see that that's a popular talking point amoung conservatives and Alt-Right adjacents?

"well, someone has to be my slave"

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
college degrees have value?

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

Al! posted:

maybe people who live in mass murder houses shouldn't throw stones

:ironicat:

coathat
May 21, 2007

Race Realists posted:

ive been seeing certain goons around the forums complain about college degrees "losing their value" overtime due to large droves of people attending and obtaining them.

what the gently caress is wrong with you idiots? do you literally not see that that's a popular talking point amoung conservatives and Alt-Right adjacents?

They're right

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
college educations are good, but part of the reason college degrees 'worked' was because they were a second-order signifier for class - as they become more ubiquitous, they lose that status, and so carry less of a benefit

all this to say: under capitalism, the value of your labor is determined by it's scarcity/how replaceable it is, not by it's productive utility, nor by how undesirable it is - your wage level is a measure of power & the leverage you can wield, not how hard you work.

so conservatives/reactionaries are right but for the wrong reason - they fetishize hierarchy/elitism and so reflexively defend any system that 'sorts' people (doubly so when the people at the bottom are not like you - racial minorities, women etc.), but the rationalization is based on this expressing a 'natural' order that's realized, when the truth is the reverse.

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Al! posted:

thats the problem with commies, too many rudatrons
theres only one of me, interpret that how you will

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

coathat posted:

They're right

they are so to defend MUH MERITOCRACY we have to keep the browns and the :females: out :downs:

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

rudatron posted:

college educations are good, but part of the reason college degrees 'worked' was because they were a second-order signifier for class - as they become more ubiquitous, they lose that status, and so carry less of a benefit


the problem is they're not free

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012

Jose posted:

the problem is they're not free

"there's no such thing as a free lunch!" I say, living in my mother's basement

HorseRenoir
Dec 25, 2011



Pillbug
notch is a nazifur now

https://twitter.com/jimpjorps/status/883724099637346304

BornAPoorBlkChild
Sep 24, 2012
I worked HARD (translation: constantly brought adderall from more successful students in classes) to get my unpaid internship at Racism Factory!!1!:freep:

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013


it rules that notch is so socially stunted that he sees some random furry using swear words and thinks this must be a cool guy I should follow on twitter

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

holy poo poo the furry comedian guy is still around? i remember hearing about him in the 00s.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012
furry goes on epic swearing rant!

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBiOTvxXcY

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


these are some epic farking swear words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ZiRT8Nwkk

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

*to the barber*

I want to look like Spider Jerusalem via Davis Aurini

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Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


this man is 2005 gbs personified

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