I just talked to some dumbass liberal who flashed me a sloppy anarchist tattoo and when I started talking to them about their favorite theory they brought up Rich Dad Poor Dad and something about gumball machines and passive income...
This is not a bit. I repeat, this is not a bit.
Average r/antiwork poster
Uncritical support for sloppy poke and stick anarchist tattoos though.
For real...I was flabbergasted. They were on like 1/4 oz of mushrooms so I didn't want to cause a scene by triggering them after they started quoting Huxley and didn't even know Proudhon.
Literally primitive feudal anarchist. Someone who's ideological backing would be closer to feudalism than anything real and modern.
Last time I did a quarter of shrooms I had a very interesting conversation with Stalin... and my cousin's puppies. That shit gets wild when you take a nap while tripping balls.
I had a brief but intense flirtation with some appliances and developed a unified philosophical theory of god. Which is embarrassing because I was and remain an atheist.
uuuugh
people who uncritically quote huxley as though he's some kind of seer when they trip are so frustrating; like the dude was completely untethered from reality post Heaven and Hell
Shitty poke and stick tattoos will keep the anarchist dream alive when we're all living in old sewer systems to avoid the killing midday heat and no one has seen an animal in fifty years.
Rich Dad Poor Dad sounds like a sitcom that aired on ABC's TGIF from 1994-1996
yeah, that was an American you met. you can tell because they don't make any fucking sense and they're dumb as hell.
It was a co-worker's party and talking to this absolute idiot made me feel like the "libertarians" in my office were actually class conscious.
Most of my co-workers have been receptive to me shoving theory down their throats and actually read the Parenti and Lenin I've given them. All of them are receptive to a union too.
Maybe it's a sign I need to log off but I'm just tired of "I saw this guy who just doesn't get it and it made me so mad" posts
Apparently in the book, you buy a gumball machine and eventually you gather enough passive income from it to buy a carwash and then you don't have to work because you can hire your own workers.
My parents actually tried this as a kid. I don’t think they even came close to making enough money in quarters to pay off the machines and we just had gumball machines in the garage for the rest of my teenage years
I guess Rich Dad Poor Dad doesn't have any advice about being first to market.
Capitalist ideology is so dumb Jesus fucking Christ I can't believe so many people buy into it.
It sounds like that could work pretty well - as a comedy.
I got Reincarnated into a World With Nothing but a Gumball Machine and No Quarters
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
I'm guessing the gumball machine is full of sentient horny anime figurines.
i remember this is how bezos got started out way back when but it's a big secret nowadays
Holy fuck I remember someone telling me about this. I used to work in banking and we had a client who owned like 20 vending machines. A couple of times a month they'd bring in like $7000 in one dollar bills.
Pretty sure they mentioned this book to me back then lmao.
Hearing these literally who's in the wild is horrific. I was watching a Melee video the other day and the mouthbreather brought up a book by Malcolm Gladwell. Buddy, you're a 30 year old gamer, what the fuck went wrong with you to have this guy occupy space in your brain?
Malcolm Gladwell
My mom got me his book about the power of thinking and she's a retired mental health counselor :agony:
Might read it to see if its that bad, or maybe he accidentally makes good points and i'll learn something :heartbreaking:
Could it be because his Rachel Dolezal ass has a show on npr or something?
Petty gumball machine tyrant is last in line for the guillotine though.
He got any super bounce balls in his pockets?
Now there's an idea that might actually get your in the ranks of the lumpen bourgeois
Nah, back in my rave days I used to do that. It did make everyone happy though.
Nov 3 I flew to Europe for a Eurotrip type tour. Not a guide or packaged deal, just going around by myself. I paid for half of the trip with the wages I earned over the last two years, my dad paid for the other half. I am 19, I guess that is normal starting college and all. (Before that I worked for my dad's company part time, so I guess you could say he paid for all of it, lol).
I did France and then Italy and then Greece next. I am an Ancap so I wanted to see anarchists in these places. Yes, I know they are different kinds of "anarchists" and not really full anarchists like us. I went to an anarchist book store in Italy and it had a lot of English books, but no Rothbard or Ancap. Like I said, I expected that, not a surprise.
I went to Greece, which everyone knows is famous for its revolutionary anarchism, its economic crisis and everything going on right now. Here I found directions for a local anarchist center. I went and didn't see anybody, but it was covered in graffiti, mostly in Greek so I couldn't read it. Whatever, I started taking pictures. Then some people came out and confronted me.
This should have been my first warning sign something was not right, because photography is not a crime. They were not violent, but they were not friendly, like asking who I was, what I wanted. They all spoke good English actually. Not uncommon in Greece. I said I was a tourist and an anarchist and I just wanted to take pictures. Then they got friendly and told me I should have asked first (but pictures are no NAP violation so I don't know why, but I didn't say anything) and they invited me inside.
We hung out for a while and smoked hash (there is no good dank in Europe as you might find out like in Cali, everyone smokes hash with tobacco which isn't as cool as it sounds). We started talking about politics and anarchism. I was trying to talk about the state, they were like yeah no doubt the state was bad. But they wanted to talk about capitalism, capitalism this and that. This is when we started to get into a debate.
I told them that what they called capitalism is different from the free market. They said capitalism is free markets. And I said I agreed. That is what I am saying. Real capitalism is free markets. And they said yes, that is what we are trying to get rid of. And I said no, but we don't even have that right now. We need more free markets. And everyone at the same time was like "nooo" we are anarchists, we are against capitalism. Anarchists oppose capitalism.
And I said but not anarcho-capitalists. Anarcho-capitalists are the anarchists who support capitalism. I had a fanny pack (yeah, lame I know) for my camera and in that I had this yellow and black bowtie (also super lame, it was a joke but I wasnt wearing it). And I said look, these are the Ancap colors, yellow and black, like versus the communist red and black. Well, these guys had a lot of red and black in the building already so I thought they would get it.
I think that is when it started to get a really bad vibe, really tense in the air. The free market thing was funny, we disagreed but I think they thought I was just confused. Everyone was uncomfortable now. Then someone said markets wont work with democracy. And I said exactly, that's it, democracy is against anarchism. And they kind of agreed, and said yes, we don't have real democracy, just governments, and we needed more democracy. I said no, we need less democracy, democracy is the enemy. And we need to end democracy to have anarchy. Then they were all like "noooo" again. You know that thing people do in groups when everyone all says "nooo" or expresses some disapproval at the same time.
And one of them said "but we do want to stop democracy" and then they kind of spoke back and forth in Greek. I didn't really understand it. And they asked me what I meant.
So I said okay, I had the floor, I was going to tell them about ancapism. And I tried to explain to them some Rothbard and Hoppe. I said the natural order in anarchy is that the best rise to the top, the market picks who is the best. They compete and are peaceful. They said what do we want instead of anarchy. I said we want private owners to own their own land and businesses, and to employ people. They said that is what we have now. I said no, it would be even better. One of the guys said it was like feudalism. And I said it is not feudalism.
Eventually one of the guys spoke up and I thought he was Greek, but he spoke English perfectly so he may have not been. He said he knew what anarcho-capitalism was and that we were basically fascists. He asked me if I thought everything should be private. And I said yes. And he asked me if I thought people were unequal. And I told him yes. And that not everyone would have equal rights. I said everyone has the right to own property and not be done aggression against. But that not everyone had to be treated equally by the owners. He said what about immigrants and racism. And I said that would not happen in a free market, but yes property owners could be racist if they wanted to. They had to respect property.
Then he called me a fascist again, and someone else said I was a fascist. And then they basically all started shouting fascist at me, and one of them grabbed me by the wrists. They pulled me out the door, it was up three floors, and basically drug me down the stairs on my back. It hurt really bad and I remember yelling "you're breaking the NAP" and things like that. "Stop initiating force against me." Then they kicked me around on the ground in the hallway, before they took my camera and threw me outside. I was crying and stuff, I just sat there. I was in shock because it was so sudden. Looking back there were warning signs though.
I think they felt bad for me and gave the camera back, but when I looked later they stole the memory card with all of my Greek photos.
So they initiated force and theft. They broke the NAP. I knew the left anarchists were not real anarchists, but I never knew they would do something that bad.
I wasnt seriously hurt, just kicked around a little, lots of bruises and little cuts. I am fine guys so don't worry. Just needed to share.
Anarchism is when you hate the poor, and the more you hate the poor the anarchister it is.
If the tattoo was the A with a circle then maybe they just think it’s “cool” or whatever. it sounds like they’re just a neoliberal.
Yeah, it was a sloppy A in a sloppy circle. They clearly didn't understand anarchy beyond the most basic stadium punk concept.
Remember that thread on what your most embarrassing/lib book on your bookshelf is? This one is mine. I got it as a gift when I was younger and I have not got around to throwing it in the garbage.
Yes, I did read it
I played Chumbawamba music over everything they said and continued smoking cigarettes and not responding until they left and I could explain to everyone else why they were such an idiot.
