Dear media,

I am an anarchist.

I assure you, the Capitol Hill mob are NOT anarchists.

Anarchists support, among other things, social and economic egalitarianism; not extreme cultural conservatism, nationalism, and the like. That’s fascism. Do some actual research.

If you ever see an "anarchist coup", it won’t involve people storming government buildings and trying to take over

It will involve people ignoring those buildings and coming together in their neighbourhoods and workplaces, then deciding to run them autonomously and cooperatively
Liberals and conservatives alike throw around the word "anarchists" to mean "people who cause a fuss in public", regardless of their actual politics.

If you’re at all interested, there’s more to social anarchist political philosophy than causing a fuss in public.
Social anarchism is about trying to push society in a direction that is more

• free
• egalitarian
• cooperative

It sees the central antagonism within society as the conflict between

1. Sociality: the voluntary cooperation of free equals
2. Hierarchy in its various forms
Social anarchists propose replacing the various forms of social hierarchy that restrict both freedom and equality – statism, patriarchy, white supremacy, queerphobia, ruling classes – with various forms of horizontal organisation through free associations.
In other words, anarchists want to take all the useful forms of activity that currently go on in this existing society – e.g. making a growing things, providing services – and find ways to do them through egalitarian cooperation.

It’s not actually that crazy.
It’s not that crazy because there already exist (or have existed) many real-life examples of egalitarian cooperation which function in ways similar to what anarchists recommend.

A free online book, Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos, is chock full of such examples.
Most anarchists don’t believe we can achieve such a world overnight.

I have no faith in the notion that it can be achieved through some kind of ruptural event like the Storming of the Winter Palace.

Instead, we try to do what we can to eliminate hierarchy in the here and now.
You can find anarchists working within every progressive social movement to fight racism, sexism, queerphobia, and ecological degradation.

Anarchists have also been historically involved in every fight for civil liberties and used to be joined at the hip to the labour movement
If all you pay attention to is street fighting and window breaking, you’re roughly equivalent to the British newspapers in the 1770s who cried "Those violent brutes! Look at all that tea!"

Sometimes you have to scream to be heard.

But you need to hear the words, not the noise.
So once again media,

No, the rightwing authoritarians who stormed Capital Hill ARE NOT ANARCHISTS.

"Anarchist" does not mean "anyone who makes a fuss in public".

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I don't normally do threads like this but I did want to provide some deeper thoughts on the below and why having a video game based on a real world war crime from the same people that received CIA funding isn't the best idea.

This will go pretty in depth FYI.


The core reason why I'm doing this thread is because:

1. It's clear the developers are marketing the game a certain way.

2. This is based on something that actually happened, a war crime no less. I don't have issues with shooter games in general ofc.

Firstly, It's important to acknowledge that the Iraq war was an illegal war, based on lies, a desire for regime change and control of resources in the region.

These were lies that people believed and still believe to this day.

It's also important to mention that the action taken by these aggressors is the reason there was a battle in Fallujah in the first place. People became resistance fighters because they were left with nothing but death and destruction all around them after the illegal invasion.

This is where one of the first red flags comes up.

The game is very much from an American point of view, as shown in the description.

When it mentions Iraqi civilians, it doesn't talk about them as victims, but mentions them as being pro US, fighting alongside them.
Parents in cities, please pay attention to the reopening details from the Whitehouse.

Biden says "small classes". What we need to understand is how they plant to accomplish this.

Through "childcare programs in schools". We see this all over states w/ closed schools.


We need to grasp that the AFT, NEA, & local unions are systematically working to decouple education from childcare.

Their vision is your child sitting on a device all day, watched by a childcare worker, being "taught" from a Teacher working from

This isn't a paranoid conspiracy theory - it is already happening in the majority of districts across the US where schools are closed.

"Learning Hubs" open, supervised by childcare workers, sometimes in the same "unsafe" school

There is NO OTHER WAY to get "small classes" without Hybrid + wraparound childcare. Your child will spend 2-3 days per WEEK supervised by low wage workers and sitting on a laptop.

Here's

Fairfax,

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