masquenox

It's almost like like liberalism and fascism is, respectively, merely the carrot and the stick being held up before our eyes by the same pair of hands.

Nahh. Must just be my imagination.

Duh... that's what I'm trying to tell you, genius.

Who do you think used that term first, eh?

If I needed a butt for my jokes I'd be talking to liberals.

Proof, please.

Libertarianism masquerading as leftism.

Since when does libertarianism "masquerade" as leftism? You do know that this is literally the original association of the term libertarian, right?

And literal force/violence is the only thing that can ever do it.

There's no rule that says an anarchist society needs to be moneyless.

People are selfish and greedy.

Your proof of this?

Real theoretical work is a concept I don’t understand

A critique of hierarchy - no matter how airtight it might happen to be - is not a suitable basis for preconfiguration.

Knowing what something mustn't be is not nearly enough - one must know what something must be in order to build it.

Andrewism

I am perfectly aware of Andrewism's work - I stopped watching them (and most anarchist media) because I don't think they are actually serious about performing the real theoretical work preconfiguration would require.

Anarchist FAQ

I am perfectly aware of the Anarchist FAQ, too.

I never heard that reference before in regards to fascism and liberalism.

That's the left's fault in general, I'm afraid - many of us are too afraid to admit (either to ourselves or others) what liberalism really is and always have been. And that's costing us - it hampers our ability to actually explain to people why everything we are seeing is happening in the way it is.

Build a life without the state.

How?

confronting the state

How is this going?

Sooo... apart from grandstanding for the cameras, are these Dems actually going to be doing something?

What do you mean talking about Good cop?

What did you think the relationship between liberalism and fascism is? Good cop - bad cop. Carrot - stick. I'll ELI5 it for you - when liberal lies ceases to protect the status quo, they stand aside and allow the fascists to take over and protect the status quo through unbridled state violence.

Did you notice how the COVID pandemice highlighted the class divisions between the billionaire parasites and the rest of us? Did you notice how the decades-old liberal propaganda machine surrounding Israel came crashing down just recently?

Do you see the lies starting to fail?

You - and the rest of us - are now stuck watching the "stand aside" part of the process in action. This means... no - we can't go back to what was last year, or before 2016, or any time before this. And no, we cannot "strengthen" democracy because we never had any to begin with. What we had was a piss-poor democracy-knockoff which, anti-democratic as it fundamentally was, is now seen as unnecessary by our political establishments and it's billionaire handlers - if Trump and his myrmidions' behaviour hasn't clued you in to that by now I don't know what will.