The classic one is, of course, "ACAB," but I've already gotten into these arguments so I will spare you reading too much on it. Let it suffice to say all US cops are bastards (or, you know, they serve an especially malignant bastard function), all German cops, all UK cops, etc. But, to find a diplomatic way of getting this across, the security patrols deployed by the Panthers were also cops if that word has a non-moral meaning.

I think, and this is why I even bring ACAB up, that it gives people something to rally around and maybe even encouraged them to see things differently, and they get attached to it as essentially a dogma without seeing the analysis that produced it (or justified it, in any case). The slogan becomes the analysis. It becomes what exists in place of having reasons for what you believe, even when good reasons are out there!

I don't know how to do dividing lines

I think it's pretty funny when some asshole chud gets fired or injured or whatever and someone comments "another kkrakkka down, unlimited genocide on the first world". The humor comes from the absurdity, that there is no such genocide in the works and the subject in this case usually isn't even dead. It seems like a perfectly fine meme.

So then a huge hurricane hits Florida, we have hundreds of normal, mostly poor people dying and people are saying this and, when someone goes "Hey, that's not right" they double down. [I was busy when this was happening, this isn't me complaining about being dog piled or whatever]

The weird thing about it is that I thought it was 100% a joke, but some people got attached to the phrase in a way that reminds me of people going "ACAB means ACAB" as though it's anything other than an unhinged exclamation that is funny because it's unhinged. I don't know how this happened, but I am forced to conclude that the way the meme was treated up to this point was conditioning people in a detrimental way. Or maybe they were always bloodthirsty chauvinists, but that seems like the greater leap to me.

Of course there were a couple of pathetic, cowardly losers in the mix saying "Oh, don't take it so seriously, it's a shitposting site". Those people I direct to 4chan. Antisocial behavior is antisocial behavior, and calling it meaningless to escape that it does have a meaning and that meaning is quite negative is contemptible behavior that should be rejected by the policy of any space that claims to be leftist.

Anyway, I don't really have a call to action or anything, except perhaps: Oppose Slogan Worship.

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    1 day ago

    Starting a struggle session over a non-existent problem and then being surprised people start getting contrary. This is 15th type of liberalism. Also wrecker shit, frankly.

    You're not wrong on the rest, but also this IS a shitposting site. And that's not a defense, more of a surrender.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 day ago

      a non-existent problem

      I saw it, the poster who started the thread saw it, and at least a few people in the thread decided that the destruction of beleaguered proletarian families is a good thing, actually, while there was divided opinion on if calling for genocide is bad, actually.

      Clearly it's not something that you noticed, but sometimes we need to acknowledge that other people notice other things.

      And that's not a defense, more of a surrender.

      When an action is challenged and you respond to counter that challenge and support the challenged action being able to continue, it's a defense, don't give me this shit with playing word games. "Surrender" to being some discount 4chan sicko all you like, but don't drag the rest of us down with you if the website being "leftist" means anything at all.

      • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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        1 day ago

        When an action is challenged and you respond to counter that challenge and support the challenged action being able to continue, it's a defense, don't give me this shit with playing word games. "Surrender" to being some discount 4chan sicko all you like, but don't drag the rest of us down with you if the website being "leftist" means anything at all.

        lol. Fine, not a defense. A condemnation.