The concept of Anarchist Gatekeeping is mind-blowingly ironic.
the president of antifa retweeted this
If not sure it’s best to buy an official Anarchy stamp at Your local Walmart.
Is this on the entrance exam for Antifa??
Yes. I failed my entrance exam.
You can still be an antifally
Thanks. Do I get a t-shirt?
Only one with the edgelord version of the logo.
Damnit.
Reminds me of how the peace symbol came from an N and D for nuclear disarmament, similar aestheticl
For those who also couldn’t figure it out in your head, it’s apparently semaphore.
Neat. TIL. Thanks.
I have a fridge magnet letter “A” perched in my butthole goaste style. Wonder what that means?
Anal without Rules
*rulers
No rulers = not straight?
Yes. So it’s anal with queer rules
On the one hand, I’ve long said that Skater kids who can’t define Anarchy scrawling the symbol on bus stops in sharpie never does us any favors, on the other hand the top comment isn’t wrong
Others’ defined boundaries do not limit your freedom; they merely delineate the point beyond which they will choose to no longer cooperate with you. Those who agree with the sentiment may simply choose of their own free will to refrain from association with you if you are nothing but a shallow and unserious edgelord shithead. If you do not like how people will respond to your behavior, you may wish to consider changing your behavior.
No gods. No kings. No mods. Only the emergent consensus of equal individuals en masse.
I have always thought of “anarchy” as “the people organize themselves and shape their own community”.
It means the absence of outside rulers. There can still be rules internally.
Absence of rulers not the absence of rules. Anarchy is the opposite of Hierarchy.
The rules are simply mutually agreed upon arrangements between independent entities, with no one singular entity being able to exert controlling authority over any other.
There is plenty of literature about what Anarchy is as a political system. There are even different subsets of organizational structures, such as syndicalism, but they are all based upon a horizontal structure of authority where power is derived from the bottom up rather than from the top down.
yeah you put it better than i did but the foundational principle is the same
…you’re trolling me, right?
when you draw a symbol for anarchy the make sure you follow these guidelines
back in the day our university had anarchist intellectual club. it consisted solely of tenured left-leaning professors who talked shit about their place of work while staying at work after hours to massage their egos and also first-year edgelords saying inspirational quotes from social media. it was funny as fuck to sit at their meet-ups and listen to their empty posturing. if you wanted to decompress and take it easy - that was the place.
It sounds like a nice place to be, honestly. I would have enjoyed hanging out there. I’m glad to hear it existed. If I’m lucky I’ll find someplace like that at some point in my life.
my description made it look better than it actually was - that whole scene was incredibly toxic and hypocrite. It wasn’t a serious discussion on how to self-organize and create a sustainable community or just spread knowledge - it was mostly about “ain’t Nestor Makhno was a cool guy, huh? I think Bakunin was gangsta bro” - that kind of depth - shit like this is kindergarten. that is why i called it funny. It was posturing.
none of the folks who studied political theory and economy ever showed up in that place. It barely had anything to do with actual anarchism as much as it had everything to do with bunch of people just supporting each other in being childish and naive in their perception of the world. Nothing wrong with that in itself but it is very counterproductive in actually understanding anarchism as practical theory you can use in your life.
Keeping that precise “A” exactly inside the “O” doesn’t seem very anarchic. Let’s bust those borders baby!
> “Order Without Rulers”
> drawn with a compass and rulerAh, but ask yourself this: is that ruler ruling over you, or are you ruling the ruler, effectively making that ruler a ruler in name only?
If the ruler is a tool that you use, this is good.
If the ruler is a tool that uses you, this is bad.
If you slant rhymed “ruler” and “tool”, I could see this in a spoken word piece
its not a ruler, it’s a collab with straight edge!
It’s bittersweet to think that this comment will never get the recognition it deserves for being genius, but at least I was here to see it.
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
I only go for ISO 9001 certified anarchy.
:2000, or :2015?
Going to stop scrolling now because this is it
