:yea:
It’s especially infuriating because arguing with people online about what’s authoritarian or not is the lamest shit ever when if you consider yourself an anarchist there’s a ton of much needed work to be done on that front right now and you need to log the fuck off.
I don’t care what is or isn’t true about China because (1) I have no way of knowing anything without learning a new language and traveling to a country I have never been to before, and (2) if any of the shit that western media says about China is true there’s literally nothing I can do about it.
What I can do is agitate and work on unionizing my workplace, I can volunteer at the FNB free kitchen a few blocks away, I can film police interactions and help with any number of local projects from community gardens to tenants organizations.
Never in any of these places does anyone get into the sort of toxic discourse that exists online, most people are there to improve their or their communities’ material conditions, and when I do have conversations with anyone from leftish libs with no real ideological stance, the kid wearing a ushanka even though it’s like 80 degrees out with a pride flag Juche pin or the boomer ML who’s dad actually met with Castro and Ho Chi Mihn (those are actual examples of people I’ve met), it’s always civil and in good faith and we all respect the fact that fixing our shit is going to require many different approaches and a combined and concerted global effort to dismantle capitalism.
:kkkanada: :ukkk: :ukkkraine: :amerikkka: :anglo-burn: :anarcho-sickle:
I don’t care what is or isn’t true about China because (1) I have no way of knowing anything without learning a new language and traveling to a country I have never been to before, and (2) if any of the shit that western media says about China is true there’s literally nothing I can do about it.
I love getting into purely tribalistic arguments about distant blurry things while we have fascist border camps, no healthcare, and no future.
