Uncle Ted is a fun meme but individual action isn’t a solution to systemic problems. His anarcho primitivist (I know he didn’t claim the label, but c’mon) critiques are also founded on the flawed assumption that technology is the root of all evil. He harkens back to an idyllic past that never existed to justify his beliefs and actions. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? He’s just leftist edgelord Elliot Rodgers. In terms of defense, this is how being ungovernable looks Image
Everybody gangsta until the fbi bust in
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BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
aproposnix@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Lol. He was NOT an anarchist.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
In the same way that the zapatistas aren’t anarchist but the venn diagram between zapatismo an anarchism is basically a circle? Or like how bookchin made a few tweaks to anarchism and called it communalism because he was annoyed with the popular individualist anarchist movements of the 70s-90s?
Sure, by that metric he isn’t an anarchist (specifically an anprim, which is distinct from other flavors of anarchism) but the differences are vague
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Honestly, the way you become ungovernable is the same way the government becomes unaccountable to the people.
Passive hostility. Slow roll everything. Throw a wrench in every system you can. Stop at all stop signs and railroad tracks, and wait 3 seconds to confirm all other traffic has stopped. Make every request in writing, using snail mail, then call every day (or multiple times a day) to see if they got your requests. Demand everything communicate to you is done in the slowest and most expensive way for them possible. File FOIA requests for everything. Cop pulls you over, take a while to find your license and registration. Become sludge, become a quagmire. Make anything and everything the government does to you a huge use of their time and effort. Embrace your inner old man “get off my lawn” energy.
TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
To add to this, you can generate lists of likely emails of CEOs and yell at them and get free stuff. ATT gave me 6 free months and a free phone.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep, you don’t incur the wrath of their violence, you just make governing you not worth the effort
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Do all this while being unfailingly polite and friendly, and the cops won’t even see you as a problem. Especially if white.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah he is quite well known outside usa. There is a netflix show about him
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s fair my bad, I missed the Netflix show
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Thanks!
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Me watching as the slavers feet get turned into bolognese after meeting one of the claymore roombas
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Claymore roombas are too destructive against non-targets.
Claymore rc cars are where it’s at. Transmitters motors and batteries are cheap or can even be scavenged to an extent.
Drive that motherfucker up to the target and click
OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Thats fair, but they are automous
funkajunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mmmm, bolognese
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
“until the fbi bust in”
would never happen to me, my brother’s not a snitch.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
how many innocent people would you let your brother blow up?
for me it depends on the sibling lol. I have more patience with some than others.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Dude was extremely governable in his prison cell. They governed the living fuck outta him. They governed his brains out.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not sure one needs to be a serial killer in order to rebel against government overreach.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That’s why snitching is awful and you should guard yourself against it his brother is scum.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
So I’m supposed to carve a swastika into my forehead and brainwash people into killing Sharon Tate?
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
A decade or so ago, you look at his manifesto and the history of the Luddite movement, they REALLY read differently now.
I blame the right often for not having concerns unless they were personally affected, but I have some empathy for what they saw.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d love to be a mathematical prodigy!
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What it actually means
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mildseason@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Sorry but community gardening as a solution is one of the worst I’ve heard. It’s very hard to achieve the same level of scale and efficiancy that large farms do with these small gardens. For instance, I see no machinery in this picture. Are we really wanting to go back to the days where farming is done by hand?
Sure it’s good for the soul to get together and grow things but as a means to feed society it’s just not viable.
Do you really think a small group of farmers is ungovernable? Peasant farmers have been exploited for pretty much the entire history of humanity!
Ungovernable means civil disobedience, it means sabotage. It does mean building community, but if your community only wants to farm, remember to pay the king after the harvest.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
This kind of labour intensive farming is actually orders of magnitude more efficient (on an acres of land farmed basis) that mechanized industrialized farming.
But you are not entirely wrong that “community gardening” is insufficient, but good luck convincing anyone to engage in serious civil disobedience etc. when there is no alternative support network that can feed them while doing so.
OmegaMouse@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I guess, but things like community gardens get people together, to communicate, share ideas and help each other out. Modern capitalism attempts to eradicate community and keep the individual alone, stuck inside, easily manageable and placated with tailored content online.
Building community seems like an important bit of defiance, even if it doesn’t ‘scale up to industrial levels’. It depends what your goal is here, and I don’t think the ‘goal’ of community gardens was every to feed an entire society.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I took it to be about building community rather than literally working on raised beds
moendopi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All the faces in here are… distorted
wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
It’s to avoid facial recognition by the ones who want to govern them /s
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Now this I can get behind!
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Then the cops break this up and the city has it torn up for not following the rules. And you know it wasnt very useful anyway sure a nice thing to do and to build community but far from revolutionary.