I know that liberalism is the monoculture in the West, but you must eventually learn that (1) liberalism is not the default mode of existence,
Which countries aren’t ‘liberal’ or some degree of brutal authoritarian dictatorship?
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 4 days ago
Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing
If you actually got death threats and threats of doxxing, that truly sucks and shame on people who took this that seriously.
Even people around here I’d interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves.
Or maybe you were just wrong, dude.
Like you developed a frontend. If you just blocked people from your instance we wouldn’t have batted an eye. Your job as a frontend developer was to choose how information was packaged. You should not have been deciding for users who they would or would not be allowed to see. And if you really felt strongly about the need for a blacklist, you should have made your filters opt-in.
Then you have entire instances whose admins call for the death of others, harass other users
Yeah it’s crazy how liberals call for the deaths of billions around the world by supporting the status quo, which kills countless people and is currently dooming almost all life on Earth to climate disaster. That’s why I’m on Anarchist Nexus, whose admins and users (me lol) have called for the killing to stop by any means necessary. (Pretty sure Admiral Patrick is referring to us specifically as the instance-that-will-not-be-named.)
I know that liberalism is the monoculture in the West, but you must eventually learn that (1) liberalism is not the default mode of existence, and (2) liberalism is violence. Liberal democracy is violence. It’s probably the most violent system currently in existence. And I don’t know how to make that an easy lesson for you to learn, but if you’re unwilling to do the work to undo your liberalism, the rest of the world does not have the time to wait for you.
One day you, too, will do or say something that doesn’t toe the line and you’ll be right where I am.
Good, if I ever become as libbed up as you then I deserve to get banned.
You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn’t worth saving after all.
Bye
Hell yeah we’re fucking crazy, and I wouldn’t want it any other way ancom-heart
yucandu@lemmy.world 4 days ago
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 4 days ago
By “liberalism is not the default mode of existence,” I meant to reject liberalism’s tendency to label its constructions as “natural”, “inevitable”, or “universal”. E.g., private property is not natural (even territorial animals cannot establish property lines like we do), not inevitable, and not universal (because it is a specifically Western liberal concept). Capitalism is not natural (c.f. Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution), inevitable, or universal (e.g. various hunter-gatherer societies).
yucandu@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You’re using the word “liberalism” a lot, can you define it in one short sentence for me?
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 4 days ago
Liberalism is the justifying ideology of liberal democracy. Liberalism nominally stands for freedom, individual liberty, and equality, but actually perpetuates white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, and the State.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
You might as well ask which societies aren’t some variety of feudalism before liberalism was invented. It’s not an eternal unbreakable system.
yucandu@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They said “in the west”. I want to know which non-Western countries exactly they’re referring to.
Because it sounds to me like they’re just on China/Russia propaganda-brain.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Nah you won’t see me glazing Russia, China, or any other state. I’m literally an anarcho-communist. But Russia and China are absolutely not liberal democracies.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Sounds like you’re just on western liberal propaganda brain
yucandu@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s funny that you complain about liberalism so much when you sound exactly like the kind of fart-sniffing liberal who loves to spew out incomprehensible word salad without being able to actually precisely parse out what any single sentence means. You’re the left wing version of Jordan Peterson. Image
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
“You criticise liberalism, and yet I’m too illiterate to understand you, how ironic!”
yucandu@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Questioning the reader’s literacy capabilities rather than attempting to actually refine their prose into something readable is the last refuge of the lettuce-spewer.
BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
I’m not questioning your literacy capabilities, I’m paraphrasing your own statement. Their prose is perfectly readable, so if you can’t understand it, it’s because you’re illiterate
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 4 days ago
Not my fault you’re too impatient to read 🤷
yucandu@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s not that I’m impatient, it’s that I can sum up everything you say in two words: “west bad”, and the way you dress it up only impresses other mindless academics who are only privileged enough to enjoy such a position thanks to their generational wealth.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Well the West is bad. If you take that position 100% of the time, you’ll be right 99.99% of the time.
tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I mean, youre the only one here having trouble parsing his comment…
Could it be you, who were wrong?