Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know that some comment that got 12 upvotes on a random anarchist forum that nobody here even likes was the official stance of all anarchists.
And all the top comments in your second link are complaining about it. Did you even read it?
Yeah, if you go around searching for bad opinions you're going to find them. The difference here is that anarchists aren't going around digging up random horrible takes by MLs in an attempt to discredit them, because we're not a bunch of infighting wreckers who want to seize power for exactly only our ideology.
"anarchists aren’t going around digging up random horrible takes by MLs " That is exactly my fucking problem with online anarchists, you make strawmen about "tankies" and use that as justification for repeating literal CIA propaganda verbatim. MLs push for left unity (or left solidarity) and anarchists can't even keep their criticism contained to left-only spaces, you go anywhere and "anarchists" dogpile anyone who expresses even a remotely ML opinion with the rest of the liberals. Thank god for real anarchists or I'd just write you all off as feds
There was a circlejerk thread here about how this site has more users than raddle.
That was my doing. I'll own that, and I apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings. It was more specifically a jab at Ziq, who had been trash talking this project and the people who spent the past year and a half working on it. For someone who personally invested weeks trying to get this thing off the ground, it was a milestone I enjoyed passing, even if it was incredibly petty.
No, if you see an "anarchist" in the wild (like reddit), they're too busy bashing MLs with libs and ancaps (at least they don't side with fasc scum, yet). Anyways, all I'm asking for is for them to stop agreeing with every little bit of CIA propaganda - but they don't realize they can both hate China and still be critical of the imperialist media machine and how it is never in the media's best interest to represent the truth about countries that pose a threat to western hegemony
idk i frequently visit r/anarchism and ML bashing posts are not at all as frequent as you try to make it out.
You can be critical of China and the imperialist media machine but whenever someone mentions anything bad about China or Lenin for example (see Nathan Robinson) they get mobbed because the communist meme man/meme state is saint and also Adrian Zenz is a cultist or whatever. And also what is the guarantee that Chinese media tells the truth? They're also fighting for hegemony, they're a global superpower, they're imperialist as well and a lot of leftists are (for a good reason) questioning if they're socialists at all because they're deeply embedded into the system of global capitalism.
No? You "anarchists" literally accuse anyone who states a remotely ML opinion of being wumaos who are busy shoveling Uighurs into ovens, and I'm fucking sick of this pity party after you guys start shit. No need to fall in line (we ain't libs) but DON'T. PUNCH. LEFT.
Holy fucking shit. You're telling me I'm strawmanning while you're saying anarchists are accusing MLs of shoveling Uighurs into ovens. You're telling me not to punch left while you call me a scare quotes anarchist and accusing anarchists of starting shit.
When I say "you" I mean it in the general sense, mainly the people you support. I have no idea what you do outside of my conversation with you or if I've ever encountered you in the original Chapo. But the people you support, online "anarchists" in places like r/anarchism or r/completeanarchy, certainly fit the bill. I will admit, both places have been getting better, or at least appear to be, but it's a consistent pattern where anarchists first agree with capitalist propaganda (like before the coup, where America was manufacturing consent for said coup) only to disagree with their original assessment, around the same time the media feels it's safe to admit that they indeed manufactured consent (like how now the media admits that nothing fucky was going on in Bolivia and that our intervention was completely unjustified - but any attempt to reverse our original actions, of course, would be in the wrong)
When people on this site criticize anarchists, I assume they're talking about anarchists on this site, not random subreddits on reddit that suck largely because all the cool anarchists left and went to Chapo.
So this didn't happen, huh?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/dumdyp/what_exactly_is_going_on_in_bolivia/f775yai/
Or this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/COMPLETEANARCHY/comments/ddqbsp/socialism_going_really_well_in_bolivia/
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know that some comment that got 12 upvotes on a random anarchist forum that nobody here even likes was the official stance of all anarchists.
And all the top comments in your second link are complaining about it. Did you even read it?
Yeah, if you go around searching for bad opinions you're going to find them. The difference here is that anarchists aren't going around digging up random horrible takes by MLs in an attempt to discredit them, because we're not a bunch of infighting wreckers who want to seize power for exactly only our ideology.
"anarchists aren’t going around digging up random horrible takes by MLs " That is exactly my fucking problem with online anarchists, you make strawmen about "tankies" and use that as justification for repeating literal CIA propaganda verbatim. MLs push for left unity (or left solidarity) and anarchists can't even keep their criticism contained to left-only spaces, you go anywhere and "anarchists" dogpile anyone who expresses even a remotely ML opinion with the rest of the liberals. Thank god for real anarchists or I'd just write you all off as feds
"MLs push for left unity (or left solidarity)"
Yes, hence the post.
"and anarchists can’t even keep their criticism contained to left-only spaces"
Like Chapo.chat or reddit's anarchism forum? There was a circlejerk thread here about how this site has more users than raddle.
That was my doing. I'll own that, and I apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings. It was more specifically a jab at Ziq, who had been trash talking this project and the people who spent the past year and a half working on it. For someone who personally invested weeks trying to get this thing off the ground, it was a milestone I enjoyed passing, even if it was incredibly petty.
I wasn't aware of that part of the story and it sure seems like petty internet drama.
No, if you see an "anarchist" in the wild (like reddit), they're too busy bashing MLs with libs and ancaps (at least they don't side with fasc scum, yet). Anyways, all I'm asking for is for them to stop agreeing with every little bit of CIA propaganda - but they don't realize they can both hate China and still be critical of the imperialist media machine and how it is never in the media's best interest to represent the truth about countries that pose a threat to western hegemony
idk i frequently visit r/anarchism and ML bashing posts are not at all as frequent as you try to make it out.
You can be critical of China and the imperialist media machine but whenever someone mentions anything bad about China or Lenin for example (see Nathan Robinson) they get mobbed because the communist meme man/meme state is saint and also Adrian Zenz is a cultist or whatever. And also what is the guarantee that Chinese media tells the truth? They're also fighting for hegemony, they're a global superpower, they're imperialist as well and a lot of leftists are (for a good reason) questioning if they're socialists at all because they're deeply embedded into the system of global capitalism.
Both of the following can be (and are, in fact) true:
China does bad things
Adrian Zenz is a literal cultist
We agree on both.
Wait did you just accuse yourself of being a strawman?
No? You "anarchists" literally accuse anyone who states a remotely ML opinion of being wumaos who are busy shoveling Uighurs into ovens, and I'm fucking sick of this pity party after you guys start shit. No need to fall in line (we ain't libs) but DON'T. PUNCH. LEFT.
Holy fucking shit. You're telling me I'm strawmanning while you're saying anarchists are accusing MLs of shoveling Uighurs into ovens. You're telling me not to punch left while you call me a scare quotes anarchist and accusing anarchists of starting shit.
Real anarchists don't start shit, except in left-only spaces. "anarchists" like you dogpile with the libs then cry about it on left-only spaces
Are you just assuming what I'm up to or what?
I'm sure the version of me that exists in your head is a bad person, but I have no psychic powers and the Owl that lives in your head is just you.
When I say "you" I mean it in the general sense, mainly the people you support. I have no idea what you do outside of my conversation with you or if I've ever encountered you in the original Chapo. But the people you support, online "anarchists" in places like r/anarchism or r/completeanarchy, certainly fit the bill. I will admit, both places have been getting better, or at least appear to be, but it's a consistent pattern where anarchists first agree with capitalist propaganda (like before the coup, where America was manufacturing consent for said coup) only to disagree with their original assessment, around the same time the media feels it's safe to admit that they indeed manufactured consent (like how now the media admits that nothing fucky was going on in Bolivia and that our intervention was completely unjustified - but any attempt to reverse our original actions, of course, would be in the wrong)
When people on this site criticize anarchists, I assume they're talking about anarchists on this site, not random subreddits on reddit that suck largely because all the cool anarchists left and went to Chapo.