Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
Post humorous takes on capitalism and the states which prop it up. Memes, shitposting, screenshots of humorous good takes, discussions making fun of some reactionary online, it all works.
This community is anarchist-flavored. Reactionary takes won't be tolerated.
Don't take yourselves too seriously. Serious posts go to [email protected]
Rules
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If you post images with text, endeavour to provide the alt-text
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If the image is a crosspost from an OP, Provide the source.
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Absolutely no right-wing jokes. This includes "Anarcho"-Capitalist concepts.
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Absolutely no redfash jokes. This includes anything that props up the capitalist ruling classes pretending to be communists.
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No bigotry whatsoever. See instance rules.
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This is an anarchist comm. You don't have to be an anarchist to post, but you should at least understand what anarchism actually is. We're not here to educate you.
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No shaming people for being anti-electoralism. This should be obvious from the above point but apparently we need to make it obvious to the turbolibs who can't control themselves. You have the rest of lemmy to moralize.
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It's not a non sequitur. It's a reference to Plato's definition of man being a featherless biped, which Diogenes replied to by presenting a plucked chicken and announcing "Behold, a man!". Likewise, you're using a deliberately vague and incomplete definition of "fascism" in order to try to justify your weak claim.
What fascist policies have Democrats been gleefully enacting? Not just bad ones, we can all agree that Democrats have problems. What fascist policies are they enacting?
conscription, mass surveillance, mass incarceration, bank bailouts, prison slavery, extraordinary rendition, collusion with the arms industry... I don't feel I need to go on, but we can also look at their foreign policy of wealth extraction.
if they're prioritizing the interests of the state over the interest of other institutions (the academy, churches, etc) and forcing those institutions to come into alignment with their interests (Pentagon backing research grants, selectively enforcing tax laws in return for compliance, etc), they're fucking fascists.
Those are not fascist policies. Corrupt, authoritarian, sure. But if you think that's fascist, you don't know what that word means.
if you don't think that's fascism, then you and I can't agree about what fascism is
Uh, if you keep insisting on using it incorrectly, then yeah obviously. Why would I want to agree with an incorrect definition?
the feeling is mutual
that's a lie.