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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

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  1. Mod of !anarchism@slrpnk.net posts a great Greta Thunberg quote, but then tries to use it to justify not voting in the upcoming US election
  2. Multiple people point out that’s very clearly not what she meant
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Using your mod powers to decide who is allowed and not allowed to speak is not very anarchist of you, @mambabasa@slrpnk.net

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[–] AnarchistsForKamala@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think you know what anarchism is

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wikipedia says it is “a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy.”

[–] AnarchistsForKamala@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

so you can see by pushing back on advocacy for the ruling hegemony, they are being anarchists

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No they aren’t. Anarchists would be spending most of their time talking about direct action on behalf of Palestine, promoting individual freedoms and climate policies… you know, anarchist stuff.

Focusing all of your attention and energy on the 2024 US presidential election, but then saying that the most important thing to talk about is that election, and in particular not voting in it, is a suspicious thing for an anarchist to do. It sounds like this person is not an anarchist, and doesn’t especially care about the Palestinians who are almost guaranteed to suffer an increased calamity even above their present holocaust if Trump gets his hand on power. It sounds like this person’s “anarchism” begins and ends with how important it is not to vote for Kamala Harris.

That sounds pretty electoral to me. It doesn’t sound anarchist. Greta Thunberg’s actual statement sounded great to me. The only thing I ever objected to was taking the first few sentences of it, retelling only that part of her statement except flipped around 180 degrees backwards, and then going banhammer-happy when a bunch of people said that that’s clearly not what she meant.

[–] AnarchistsForKamala@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

when you are an anarchist, you will get to tell exactly one anarchist what their praxis should be

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I know one anarchist who used his authority to tell his software to coerce me into not being able to post anymore. I think your lecture should be more properly directed at him.

I personally feel that I’m allowed to object to people’s conduct when it impacts me, whether or not I am an anarchist or have “earned it” or whatever you are thinking should be a precondition before I can do that.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone who unironically uses the word "praxis" should rethink their whole life.

[–] AnarchistsForKamala@lemmy.world -3 points 3 weeks ago

oh no! you found a real anarchist! run!