rbbt
@cedar @anarchybookfair
I agree with pretty much everything said in @cedar's post, although I do also think @constellations could have toned down the "f-- you" a bit with their promo last year. That said, I think you know they're not gonna respond to your critique, because a collective like that would have to have approximately 4 meetings and a never-ending riseup pad to draft a response to such a thing and that's just not gonna happen in social media time. As annoying as that is I do think we have to just respect and accept that organizing process in the same way as we wish they would respect ours. Their post is totally unacceptable but I think it's important to get truly ok with the fact that people organize in different ways and to build each other up whenever we can, even if other people are behaving super badly.
Apr 11, 2025 at 3:20pmWeb
Show threadspongmonkeyApr 11, 2025

@rbbt @cedar @anarchybookfair

Honest question, how exactly did Constellation have a "fuck you" tone in their promo? Do you have examples?

Show threadrbbtApr 11, 2025
@spongmonkey @cedar @anarchybookfair I don't have access anymore to the non-masto socials but wasn't there a "the anarchist bookfair is dead!" post, which I assume is the one the collective is referencing in their post that they think was giving them the finger? Like honestly, I loved the constellation event and thought it went great but I would personally take their post last year about how they can't do a bookfair because the world is too bad and there is a war as like "the previous collective is unable to organize the bookfair so we are stepping up" and say nothing else about them or their (it turns out untrue) post where they cancelled their event. The official callout even appeared to be arguing with them a bit, like "a bad war and the world are precisely the reasons there should be a bookfair!" Like yeah, that is true, but also "I'm too sad, can't do the bookfair this year" (if true) would be a legit thing to say. If it were a true statement you'd think you'd then be happy when someone else took it on though, which clearly @anarchybookfair was not and just wanted the thing to not happen without them, which is ridiculous.