> "Order Without Rulers"
> drawn with a compass and ruler
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its not a ruler, it's a collab with straight edge!
It’s bittersweet to think that this comment will never get the recognition it deserves for being genius, but at least I was here to see it.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
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I only go for ISO 9001 certified anarchy.
:2000, or :2015?
Going to stop scrolling now because this is it
the aesthetics on the right are better. don't gatekeep my penmanship
Honestly, they both have an appeal. The left is better for most organizations and looking official. The right has more of a "fuck the system" je ne sais quoi. At a protest? Use the right. Printing out pamphlets? Use the left.
If someone handed me a pamphlet with the left one on it, I'd assume they were a cop.
Greetings fellow lover of anarchy! Here's a pamphlet about our local anarchist club. Also, have a free Glacier Freeze Gatorade. If you haven't had a chance, don't forget to stop by the Antifa™ tent and sign up for their official newsletter.
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Strong disagree but I'm not about to piss on anyone's personal parade, I wish you enjoyment of your preferred aesthetic.
The left one makes me think the Fantastic Four are known as the Avengers in one of those infinite alternate realities we haven't seen yet.
It’s “scrawled” on walls, not “sprawled”
It depends on the size and medium
Does one scrawl or sprawl poo?
Diarrhea + sneeze = sprawl
Diarrhea + dragging one's bottom across the floor = scrawl
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According to my Nurse Practitioner wife.... Yes unfortunately.
I mean, you can do whatever you want.
Part of Anarchy is understanding and accepting that that is a true for all individual life regardless of any laws or guideline.
Consequences come after actions and do not stop committing to an action.
But the more important part is taking this knowledge and asking ourselves, how can we deal with this fact and build a society that respects it while maintaining order?
Part of Anarchy is understanding and accepting that that is a true for all individual life regardless of any laws or guideline.
I feel like this is the crux that I've seen people disregarding too often. They know how to make the perfect society, and it only requires everyone else having the same exact ideology and priorities that they do.
Every time I see someone advocating for anarchy on Lemmy (which is a lot), it comes down to “well if everyone works together in harmony and also there are no neighboring states with imperialist intentions, then everything will be great!”. If everyone was perfectly altruistic then literally any government form would work - capitalism, communism, even fascism.
Fascism heavily implies one group specificly not being altruistic. Anarchy is just the trust that we could someday have a society based in kindnes and cooperation. If we could have a try. There are already well working anarchosyndical comunes around the world.
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hii, please do not let lemmy comments form your understanding of anarchism. it seems that gave you some wrong ideas. anarchists are not naive or idealistic about people and hierarchical structures.
if you want to learn about anarchism, i can recommend a few video essays which might give you a better understanding of anarchism and might answer your criticism.
- an introduction to anarchism - anark
- human nature - anark
- how would anarchism defend itself? - anark
(full disclosure, i havent watched these videos in a while, and mostly picked them, because i vaguely remember them talking about the topics you mentioned)
all of these videos are by the same person. i think they make some of the best videos about anarchist theory that i know, (and videos are a easy way to get into new things), while also being active on the ground as an anarchist organiser, being able to measure their ideas against their lived reality. i hope you will consider what they have to say
take care :3
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They're not wrong, but the edgelord comparison and the gatekeeping are just bad.
This guy explains it better than I ever could.
The concept of Anarchist Gatekeeping is mind-blowingly ironic.
Woo account with a caduceus staff background and some new age star of david airs their bias regarding anarchy symbols
DSA lib doubles down on the opinion to imagine a scenario where anarchists behave hypocritically
Yeah I guess this accurately sums up how it feels to be an anarchist on the internet.
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One of these things is fundamentally harder to scrawl on a bathroom wall.
Reminds me of how the peace symbol came from an N and D for nuclear disarmament, similar aestheticl
For those who also couldn't figure it out in your head, it's apparently semaphore.
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I have a fridge magnet letter "A" perched in my butthole goaste style. Wonder what that means?
If not sure it's best to buy an official Anarchy stamp at Your local Walmart.
Is this on the entrance exam for Antifa??
the president of antifa retweeted this
On the one hand, I've long said that Skater kids who can't define Anarchy scrawling the symbol on bus stops in sharpie never does us any favors, on the other hand the top comment isn't wrong
Proven again!
I don't want to belong to any club, that wants me as a member. ☝️
~Q. E. D.~
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Isn't Rothmus a weird ancap type?
....you're trolling me, right?
Others' defined boundaries do not limit your freedom; they merely delineate the point beyond which they will choose to no longer cooperate with you. Those who agree with the sentiment may simply choose of their own free will to refrain from association with you if you are nothing but a shallow and unserious edgelord shithead. If you do not like how people will respond to your behavior, you may wish to consider changing your behavior.
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