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Oh, look… hasbara is now sulking because people weren’t tolerating their white supremacist propaganda.

Oh, look… hasbara just can't stop being butthurt because people weren’t tolerating their white supremacist propaganda.

Oh, look… hasbara is still butthurt because people weren’t tolerating their white supremacist propaganda.

Oh, look... hasbara is butthurt because people weren't tolerating their white supremacist propaganda.

Yawn.

Stop trying to waste our time, hasbara.

I don't see what I do as propaganda. I see what I do as counter-propaganda.

I have no need to "convice" people of anything at all... as the reaction to Israel's genocidal actions prove, the working class is fully capable of thinking for itself once all the lies have been stripped away. That's what the working class needs help with.

There's a damn good reason why we in the working class are gaslit and prodded into converting our romantic relationships into glorified labour arrangements (ie, marriage) as soon as possible - intimacy requires time and energy... time and energy that, under a capitalist system, must be spent labouring for the parasite class and nothing else.

It's also the reason why any children that results from such intimate relationships must be mass-corraled into glorified creches (ie, our so-called "education system") at the first opportune moment - we can't have the working class spend any undue amount of time actually doing any parenting, now can we?

You cannot fake being an anarchist.

You sure about that? Piggy manages it all the damn time. And if a pig - the worst of the working class - can do it, anyone can.

What is it if not culture?

Counter-culture does not win wars. It sure as hell doesn't win (or even start) revolutions, either - never mind building workable and sustainable societies afterward.

Seeing a Circled A on a street corner frequently makes me smile.

I see them, too - but it doesn't make me smile, because I know the teen who made it doesn't know what it even means.

The current norm in almost every country is to be a worker in an industry and vote in elections,

I live in a country with a 40% unemployment rate - perhaps you should reconsider your conception of "normalcy." There is a big difference between merely rebelling against "normality" and posing an existential threat to the status quo - the risk profile of the latter comes with real bullets, real torture and lots and lots of real death.

You cannot force a person to be anarchist.

Why would I want to?

Any anarchist society that exist must by necessity be populated by people that don’t follow the statist framework.

You mean... what people were doing for thousands of years before states were invented? None of those people thought of themselves as anarchists, you know.

Normal people who did not understand anarchism

Anarchists are not "abnormalities" - I'm going to assume you don't have a third arm growing out of the top of your head or anything like that.

And you are not understanding why I used that example - I used it because it was an extraordinary thing for the Makhnovists to do. And, just FYI, the KAD turned out to be pretty heavy-handed too - anarchists are not "abnormalities."

Anarchism is a way of looking at the world.

Anarchism consists of a critique of hierarchy... and not much else. It is not a way of "looking at the world," it is a way of understanding hierarchy - it has absolutely nothing worthwhile to say about that which isn't hierarchical. And it is absolutely not anything that can be called "cultural" - no matter how hard you squint.

a powerful enough propaganda machine to sway the general public.

The one follows the other... and a gigantic propaganda machine is no hypothetical. It already exists. And as you can see happening right now in Gaza, they don't actually even need that propaganda machine working very well to prosecute a war of extermination against you.

At this point it becomes a lot more difficult to paint them as violent terrorists

I hope you don't mind me saying this... but that's extremely naive. Being "involved" with the general populace didn't help the anarchists that was so deeply rooted in immigrant populations of the US during WW1. It didn't help the Black Panthers who were deeply rooted in US urban communities during the Civil Rights movement. The Ukrainians barely remember the Makhnovists - the memory of the Torch Brigade and the SECC has been completely wiped from South African's minds. All of them were deeply "involved" in the general populace.

Everyone in that society is by my definition anarchist.

That's no different than saying everyone in the USSR was a Marxist, or that everyone in the US is a liberal.

Consider this... when the Makhnovists decided to replace the civilian section of the Kontrrazvedska (the Makhnovist counter-intelligence network) with the KAD (Commission for Anti-Makhnovist Activity) because the civilian section of the Kontrrazvedska was found to be too heavy-handed, they had to go look far and wide for people that actually understood anarchist political theory well-enough to make it a properly anarchist organ - the vast majority of the people working and bleeding under the Makhnovist flag actually knew very little about anarchism apart from a few slogans.

If your anarchist society relies on the ideologically pure, your society is screwed - in fact, if you rely on the ideologically pure it will nnever come into existence in the first place.

When you give up your dependency on authority you become an anarchist.

I don't understand what this means... I don't go to the doctor to tell them how to be a doctor.

I’m ok with political reservations and not native ones.

Native reservations are political. They are designed to imprison and contain - and that is exactly what the capitalists are offering you in this hypothetical situation of yours.

In this scenario you already are isolated.

No, you are not. If you were isolated, they wouldn't be negotiating with you because they'd be too busy exterminating you and crushing your revolt. Isolation means inevitable destruction.

without acknowledging that words can have very different meanings to individuals

Yes, let's pretend everybody's understanding of words are equally valid. Let's pretend the capitalist's framing of the word "anarchism" is perfectly valid. Let's pretend the fascist's framing of the word "socialism" is perfectly valid. Let's pretend the liberal's framing of the word "democracy" is perfectly valid.

What could possibly go wrong, eh?

Don't be angry at me because you got caught doing a lot of talking about a concept that you assumed you understood but oh-so-obviously did not.

Its okay if you cant

It's okay if you cannot appreciate behaviours that are more fundamental to human society than even speech is... but do not blame anarchism for said inability.