Anti-fascist BurritoI’m seeing a lot of people with takes like “why aren’t we rioting like the French?” Well there’s a bunch of reasons but let’s make something painfully clear. The internet is not real life. There aren’t that many of us willing to fight. Libs will not have our backs, and realistically will stand against us if we do anything
Also, I know it’s basically a meme at this point but so god damn many of these so-called leftists and anarchists are just fucking liberals. And they will absolutely stand in our way if we try anything
K4r3n@antifaburrito even if we did it’s too short a time between that and an ecological chaos that we can’t change in the short time we have. So we’d be setting up or still fighting when the refugees hit hard. It won’t hold either way.
K@antifaburrito most of those people are just there for the clout and the hot anarchists. I’ve had many a friend self identity as anarchist and then continue with their neoliberal ways; enforcing the social hierarchy any chance they get in order to gain power over others. It takes every once of strength I have to continue being a supportive friend, and not further social alienation and drift away from them.
The Great Llama 
@antifaburrito
The main reason I don't advocate for revolution at this point is that I think the odds are too high of coming out of it with something far worse.
If some unspecified hypothetical event destabilized everything tomorrow, here's how I see the breakdown. The righties would obviously try to go "full fash". The tankies would want something just as oppressive (and they don't actually matter, they're just a tiny minority of loud idiots). The libs would wind up supporting the fascists "just to get things under control" (like they always do). The true libertarians (as opposed to the majority of self proclaimed libertarians who are just fascists) would just try to hole up in their prepper bunkers. As for us, the nature of anti-authoritarians is that we don't tend toward being organized enough to beat superior numbers.
@TheGreatLlama no one serious should be advocating for revolution and anyone who is should be ignored. We are no where near capable of that and we should be far more focused on prefigurative ideas and solutions
@antifaburrito
That's it. We win by converting libs and the way we do that is by proving to them that they can't keep doing what they've always done and that we have a better way. The one bright side of the entire world coming apart at the seams is that it's a useful instructive tool. Mutual aid done right can truly shift people.
That's it. We win by converting libs and the way we do that is by proving to them that they can't keep doing what they've always done and that we have a better way. The one bright side of the entire world coming apart at the seams is that it's a useful instructive tool. Mutual aid done right can truly shift people.