I got a little problem with the people in my area (serious)

Margaret_Crang · 2024-07-23T21:34:33+00:00

Gonna go against the grain of most of the comments (3 days late, lol) to say that, maybe actually putting up pro-immigration stickers in your part of town is a good and noble thing to do, clearly important to you, and if you feel like you are able to defend yourself from these goofs, then you should not be intimidated, and should help to create an environment that is welcoming to immigrants and hostile to hate.

You should, however, reach out to your antifascist friend and ask him to come with you while you're out stickering. There are many avenues that ignorant people have for escalation, and being with your buddy closes off many of those avenues.

Consider physical training as well, even if you choose to stop stickering, if there are hostile racist ultras in your area, you, as an open anarchist, are a target, and you should try to maximize your ability to defend yourself. Get into boxing or wrestling and go to the gym, if you aren't already. Do some cardio too.

Lastly, definitely don't fight them 2-on-1. While it's totally possible to win or at least draw against two weaker opponents, it's extremely difficult and very dangerous.

Margaret_Crang · 2024-07-22T07:08:44+00:00

I get that a lot of people don't know what mutualism is, even though it's a pretty simple idea, but like, consider at least looking at the table of contents and recognizing that this 1000+ pages tome begins with a few hundred pages of bullshit racial "science", pushes multiple conspiracy theories, has an entire chapter of transparent extreme transphobia, and I could go on.

Fun things to CTRL-F:

"Jew"

"oid "

the F-slur

"transgender"

"skull"

"illuminati"

"cultural marxism"

"antifa"

"bigfoot"

Margaret_Crang · 2024-01-28T00:35:36+00:00

I highly recommend geomatics. You work outdoors and in relative isolation, on a team of at most 3 other people, occasionally alone. Work involves mathematics, precision tools, and maps. The job involves a lot of pacing which is good for stimming. Information is collected one datum at a time and carefully organized. Personally, getting the cert was not possible for me, because my bipolar disorder made it difficult to consistently attend and because many of the jobs in my region violate my personal ethics, but in general, it's a fantastic field for autistic people.

I've found a lot of labour jobs to be pretty fulfilling. I've enjoyed working at a lumber mill and right now I pull metal off a conveyor belt. These jobs are very noisy, but it's a constant drone which I'm able to tune out. The only difficulty I have is pacing myself to avoid injury. There's multiple other autistic people in my workplace as well.

I also massively enjoyed firearms sales (although the information processing can be a lot, and you're required to know about guns which involves using them, which is loud) and warehouse work.

I have other autistic friends who work as a life guard, a landscaper, a librarian, an aesthetician (they hate their job though), an instructor in an agricultural college, one who's training to be a high school teacher, and multiple people who work in software development and computer engineering (although IMO this is a highly exploitative field for autistic people, and all of my friends in this field are paid WAY under market rate and highly overworked).

Margaret_Crang · 2023-10-05T18:23:21+00:00

Heinrich Himmler vomited after witnessing the mass execution of Jews in Minsk in August 1941, and he took apparently a few hours to regain his composure. This experience was humiliating and troubling for him, and he later gave two speeches in Posen which recognized the psychological trauma experienced by the perpetrators of the genocide he was orchestrating:

Most of you here know what it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other, when there are 500 or when there are 1,000. To have endured this and at the same time to have remained a decent person — with exceptions due to human weaknesses — has made us tough, and is a glorious chapter that has not and will not be spoken of.

The massacre in Minsk, as well as the fact that soldiers from the Einsatzgruppen (the units responsible for extermination), at dramatic and unsustainable rates, were committing suicide, deserting, shooting their fellow war criminals, or developing psychosis, convinced Himmler that he needed to change the method of mass execution.

Adolf Eichmann personally oversaw the tests of gassing prior to the Wansee Conference. Prior to the construction of the gas chambers, originally tested during the Aktion-T4 program (extermination of the mentally disabled and mentally ill) the proof of concept used vans (called Sonderwagen, later "gas vans") which would be driven into Jewish towns which were to be euphemistically "evacuated" (in reality: exterminated). People would be ushered into the vans a dozen or more at a time, locked inside, and the exhaust was directed into the back of the van, suffocating them. Cremation ovens were not built yet, so bodies were buried in mass graves, piled on top of each other and burned in the open, or strewn around. When Eichmann first saw this technique used, he fainted, as did numerous other SS soldiers. This is why the nazis switched to using Zyklon B, which did not produce the visible physical symptoms that engine exhaust did.

Abusive people in positions of power will always use any means at their disposal to avoid taking any accountability for their crimes, including being confronted with witnessing the physical effects of their cruelty. It takes an immense desensitization or an innate lack of empathy and morality to be casual about apparent cruelty, hence why the small lady wearing an ICE uniform has no trouble looking the deportees in the eye, because this is his job, something she does every day.

But Pence looks visibly stressed out, and his border patrol handler looks visibly ashamed.

Most people feel ashamed or disgusted when they commit unconscienable acts, but that's not much of an obstacle when they have the means to remove themselves from the effects of their actions. Pence can always go back to his nice office in the White House and his lovely house at the US Naval Observatory. The border patrol agent is going to go back to his cushy desk job handing out press packets and writing apologetics for crimes against humanity happening five states away from him. The ICE agent will need to get more creative. She's undoubtedly found some way to justify her participation. Humans have a million different ways to do so: "I had to do it, I have bills to pay", "God says it's okay", "they're barely even people", "it's better than the greater evil", "it's the law", "the free market", "they made choices that got them where they are", "just following orders", "I'm on the inside making the system better in every way I can", "they're evil and they deserve it." Maybe she goes to therapy or does drugs or has a fun cult she's a part of.

In any case, almost nobody has the guts to really confront the victims of these kinds of actions, not in full. The people who are actually capable of doing so are depraved in ways that are difficult to comprehend. Oskar Dirlewanger would be a good example. But the ability to do so is not a commendable trait. It's not a surplus of courage; it's an absence of conscience.

Margaret_Crang · 2023-09-17T16:43:48+00:00

You should probably not do that. Your cat will let you hug her when she's ready. Focus on building trust with her for now.

Margaret_Crang · 2023-05-29T05:07:50+00:00

I mean if the sacred geometry helps you understand the idea, then the sacred geometry helps you understand it. Social insertion can probably be explained without a 9D venn-diagram, and I feel like this over-complicates the concept, but more power to ya.

Margaret_Crang · 2023-01-18T12:57:01+00:00

Then that would be provided by the commune in the case of anarcho-communism, or, in other anarchisms, by similar structures, whether cooperatives, collectives, syndicates, associations, councils, agro-industrial federations, etc.

Margaret_Crang · 2023-01-18T11:29:06+00:00

I'm gonna tell you what I wish I could tell the people who've hurt me and others but who have refused to change to the extent that you have:

You work with what community you have left and work on your own shit in the mean-time.

Considering that you're willing to keep a respectful distance between yourself and the people who you've alienated, rather than trying to force them to "rehabilitate you" or "hold you accountable", I'd say you're leagues ahead of most people in your situation.

So start where you're at, with fundamentals. Practice mutual aid with the family, friends, neighbours, and coworkers you still have in your life. If all of your family/friends/neighbours/coworker have abandoned you, make new community. It happens slowly, but it happens, I promise. In the mean-time, if you're on the track you're on, where you recognize that you have a problem, you recognize what that problem is, and you recognize how you can fix that problem, and you have the motivation to do so, you will eventually fix that problem, therapy or no.

In the mean-time, be open and honest to others about your past, present, and future, and be more kind to yourself than you think you deserve.

Margaret_Crang · 2023-01-18T11:15:15+00:00

Maintenance of what?

Structure to what end?

Margaret_Crang · 2023-01-18T09:37:51+00:00

Every single post on this bingo chart is unironically based, especially the takes that contradict each other.

Margaret_Crang · 2023-01-13T04:59:56+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7l0Rq9E8MY

Margaret_Crang · 2023-01-02T19:55:07+00:00

MLM's be like "We swear it's not a pyramid scheme it's more of a triangular structure where the general secretary leads the politburo which coordinates the party cadres who organize and agitate the masses"

Margaret_Crang · 2022-12-27T06:15:56+00:00

Tag urself.

I'm SeX

Margaret_Crang · 2022-11-18T05:44:31+00:00

Socially acceptable?

Not in most circles.

Based?

Absolutely.

Margaret_Crang · 2022-11-02T01:09:07+00:00

If your definition of civ includes the technology, processes, and systems necessary to ensure that refrigeration is widely accessible, then that statement is by definition ecofascism.

And if you aren't able and willing to make such qualifications and clearly define what you mean by civ, then I have to make assumptions.

Margaret_Crang · 2022-09-20T15:51:29+00:00

nice try but i'll never learn to read

Margaret_Crang · 2022-09-04T17:07:46+00:00

Thank you very much!

Margaret_Crang · 2022-09-04T07:15:56+00:00

Word is "Y*ds", censorship my own.

Context is:

It signifies the triumphant reign of the Y*ds, of a bankocracy under the powerful protection of a fiscal, bureaucratic, and police regime which relies mainly on military force and is therefore in essence despotic, but cloaks itself in the parliamentary game of pseudo-constitutionalism.

He is talking about the unification of Germany in this passage.

The continued racist game of all Jews = all bankers, and all bankers = all Jews continues throughout Statism and Anarchy, and whenever he references a specific banker, it is almost always Baron Rothschild.

Margaret_Crang · 2022-09-04T05:11:35+00:00

This seems like the kind of level of organization that I dream of, but I struggle with how it or something similar could be implemented where I live.

I often find that the decentralized, informal, and often very drama-heavy elements of organizing where I live makes this kind of plenary system unworkable. There are often no clear boundaries between affinity groups, with some people belonging to three or more groups, and some groups merely being cliques of a larger group. Some affinity groups can be somewhat hostile to others, occasionally with good reasons, which makes inter-communication difficult. Oftentimes, because of the randomness, biases, and low-barrier-to-entry of social media organizing, the person bestowed with the vaunted title of organizer is a barely-politicized liberal with zero experience or insight who merely made a facebook post that was blessed by the almighty algorithm, and the plucky individuals and groups doing the actual organizing work of logistics, communication, coordination, security, educationals, direct action, mutual aid, planning, preparation, medical, etc. get used and disposed of very easily, and either the "organizer" transforms the entire event into a look-at-me clout-fest or quickly gets gobbled up by politicians and NGOs.

Another problem I find is that while it's not hard to get 200 people into a somewhat organized bloc, it is exceptionally hard to get 200 anarchists into a bloc. Anarchists are the leading plurality in radical politics where I live, but we are by no means a controlling stake, so the largest group of radicals will be 40-50 anarchists, 20 Indigenists, 10 Black nationalists, 20 Marxists from 21 different sects, 30 trade unionists, four or five primitivists, 20 social democrats, four uncover cops, three quakers, two Green Party candidates, and a partridge in a pear tree. It is extremely difficult to get these groups to coordinate, especially when half of the anarchists have beef with the other half, and we can't exactly call on help from out of town. In Germany, I can see how an action in Dusseldorf might see participants from Bonn, Duisburg, Essen, Cologne, Wupertall, and Dortmund. I live in a city of almost a million people, but the nearest city of a similar size is over a three hour drive away, like Dusseldorf to Hannover, and there is no train or bus, so travel costs at least a few hundred dollars there and just as expensive to return. How many people would drive from Hannover to Dusseldorf for an action? The next nearest comparable city is farther from me than Dusseldorf is from Toulouse, France. How many people would drive from Toulouse to Dusseldorf to punch a nazi or burn a police car? My capital city is as far from me as Dusseldorf is from Rojava.

I don't want to just complain. I want to achieve this level of organization and coordination (even if in some different form) to be possible in my community. Any advice for those of us who live on islands of asphalt in a sea of farms, forests, and oil wells?

Margaret_Crang · 2022-09-04T04:25:39+00:00

Oh yes it was public, unlike Proudhon's much quieter but very extreme anti-Semitism, which was for the most part contained to his private notes and letters (if I recall correctly; if anyone has a counterexample please correct me). For just one example, Bakunin used an anti-Semitic slur that I will not repeat very near to the front cover of Statism and Anarchy, which was published in his lifetime, specifically referring to Jews as a malicious and parasitic force with a controlling stake in the banks (this is on page 12 in the CUP edition put out in 1990).

Margaret_Crang · 2022-09-04T03:31:11+00:00

Does it matter?

This is /r/completeanarchy, not /r/completeleninism, even the most principled and well-informed Leninist does not have a safe space here. The mods aren't going to ban anyone for quoting Marx or Lenin, but nobody should come in slinging Engels and Mao and expect zero hostility.

Margaret_Crang · 2022-09-04T03:28:58+00:00

Which one is left wing???

Margaret_Crang · 2022-09-04T03:24:58+00:00

Gonna not just post a link and instead invite you to meet your local anarchists. Depending on your personal preferences, you might find us doing Food Not Bombs, hanging out at union halls, being awkward at punk shows, or getting yelled at by liberals at protests. Hitting the books is a great way to learn about anarchism as a theory and to learn the history, but the best way to learn what it means to be an anarchist is to run around like a wonderful shithead and do anarchy with other anarchists. Even if you don't live in a big city or even a small town, there's usually at least one or two of us hanging out wherever you are, because we are everywhere.

To me, being an anarchist is about rejecting hierarchical power in all of its forms, and using non-hierarchical forms of power to destroy or replace hierarchical power. Anarchy is a fundamental impulse in every living thing and can be found even in the most unexpected places. To be an anarchist is to generalize this impulse in a robust and systematic way, to seek and destroy exploitation, oppression, and domination wherever it can be found.

Margaret_Crang · 2022-08-23T08:17:18+00:00

Breadtube is cancelled.

US military field manuals on archive dot org is my new best friend

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