Friendship ended with America, EU is now my best friend

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You can cease your circular logic. Your response says you didn't read anarchists praxis, in history.
- Well, would you mind telling what I should read to understand it better? The first link you send I did read, the second has thousands of files, so I didn’t know where to start.
  
  All of it. Until you fully comprehend that when everyone's equipped with anti-oppression tools, nobody can, or should be oppressed.
  @PugJesus@lemmy.world ’s meme is neoliberalism at its finest, sending bombs to Gaza, and slavering Africans. What “Freedom” is there, when they oppress other nations, and their civilians, through theft?
  
  So do you keep up to date with the new files being added every day?
  
  So, do you read book covers for the pretty fonts, or do read and conceptualize the contents of a news article with a journal to take notes with at the next post?
  
  I am not trying to be petty or mean, but I honestly don’t understand what you are trying to say.
  
  Yes. Just like I take my time to read lemmy posts of ignorant statists, I read newer entries in my library.
  Or do you actually keep a record of every arbitrary law and news coming out of NATO Imperialists?
  
  Ah okay, impressive. But can you see how it’s a bit much to ask everyone to read all the articles?
  Anarchy is not the only political ideology, so in theory that would mean that I would need to read all the articles from all those ideologies to make an informed decision.
  Well, I’ll try to read some of em, can’t promise that I’ll read everything tho.
  
  I'm confident a civilian as yourself read every single law you are beholden to, and comply with the arbitrary judgements made in behalf of those laws, that nobody would make a profession out of that simply to exploit your ignorance, no? I simply can't fathom an entire industry created in the exploitation of ignorantia juris non excusat. Wouldn't that be, a bit much?
  Anarchy is not the only political ideology, so in theory that would mean that I would need to read all the articles from all those ideologies to make an informed decision.
  Sure! That seems absolutely reasonable. How familiar are you with European colonialism, and that of the US?
  Take your time. I'm sure there are mentors, counselors, and teacher that can help you process centuries of information into condense forms of historical contexts you can summarize details for. There's even lemmy communities for that too!
  
  Well now I’m confused. You just told me I should read all the papers in the anarchist library. Was that meant sarcastically?
  
  I was told statist literacy dropped recently, I'm hopeful you're not a victim.
  Do you know all the laws and actions of the state you reside, or do you like being exploited by your oppressors?
  
  Rhetorics are praxis, yours are shit. Be less angry. Project less of your pain on random passers-by. Assume innocence. If you can't, work on it until you can. If you don't understand why that's the case, why it's a bad idea to preach from on-high as an Anarchist...
  
  Is this a projective preach for yourself? Or do you actually have something to deoppress in Europe that I can help with?
  If you read the thread from my responses, I was replied to in ignorance and bad faith.
  
  Well, would you mind telling what I should read to understand it better? The first link you send I did read, the second has thousands of files, so I didn’t know where to start.
  That is not ignorance. That' a chance to educate, and you blew it. Did you send them a link to the anarchist library or something and really expect them to read it. At that point you should have been asking what kind of question, aspects, interests them most, and give some pointers.
  Anarchy just shifts the problem from “people with the most money bully the people with less” to “people with the most guns bully the people with less”
  That is not bad faith, but ignorance. Presumably because you failed to give a proper and vulgar definition yourself. Vulgar as in "doesn't use misleading terms such as 'state' which has a completely different meaning in the dictionary than it does in anarchist theory so you should keep it out of first impressions and leave it to the history seminar".
  Frankly speaking, if you can't advocate for anarchism without getting the term anarchy or any politics involved, you're not doing it right. Not that that's always the best approach, but it is a viable and valuable approach.
  Or do you actually have something to deoppress in Europe that I can help with?
  Why, are we so flawless on the continent that you're itching for any opportunity, any, to apply your vast skills of deoppression? Go outside. You don't need me to point out shit, shit should be obvious, question is how to grow flowers on it.
  
  Ah, I see, I failed to actually call out European Neoliberalism for what it is, because @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world is both ignorant and not ignorant about oppression.
  Go right ahead and mentor them. I have prisons to abolish.
  
  Why are you tagging me in a separate thread? I have no interest in engaging with you here.
  
  There you go, @barsoap@lemm.ee , you have your Rhetorics answered.
  I apologize, Thekingoflorda. Someone thinks people can be convinced of a new political thought over a thread, instead of years of immersion and peer review.
  
  As if convincing me was in any way your goal. You are clearly only here to feel morally superior and smarter then other people.
  
  If that was the case, why are we not working together to end European & American imperialism?
  
  Indeed. What's your actual motivation, here: Advocate for Anarchism, or be angry at Neoliberals? Why frame the whole thing as "against bad thing" instead of "in favour of good thing"? Is there a reasoning behind it?
  Are other people the reason they can't be convinced, or at least their interest be piqued, or your combative approach? Are you willing to entertain that possibility or does your mind shy away from it, seeking not an answer to the question but justifications to ignore it?
  
  Freedom. Do you speak it?
  
  Jesus H. Christ.
  
  Also a historical anarchist!
  Happy Easter, anti-christ!
- Well, can you point us to an example where anarchy effectively worked? With more than a thousand people?
  It just doesn't seem to function, and you just don't want to try to figure out why and fix it.
  That's the problem IMO with anarchists (like you).
  
  Sure! Plenty of examples, both alive, and in the past.
  It's just extremely saddening when statists forgo teaching basic anarchist praxis, and prefer to indoctrinate statist homogeneity.
  Why does oppression function so well then, that freedom means now oppression of others, and you seem content on maintaining that contradiction? Since when was freedom justified in the oppression of others?
  My problem is I don't like oppression, but you do!
  
  Nah the problem is you're blaming everyone else for some reason.
  
  Blaming what‽
  
  Being asked for evidence that anarchism works and then just linking the US Revolution is an absolutely hilarious display of "Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?".
  
  Keyword is “past.”
  I'm aware literacy rates keep dropping. So I hope you get to reading!
  
  So at what point was the US revolution proof of anarchism working? When the rich landholders rebelled against the king? Or when the rich landholders retainer power after the revolution?
  
  When people united against a common oppressor.
  Now, could you please end their fascism for us? We don't like Xi imperialism either.
  
  When people united against a common oppressor.
  No offense but I'm not even sure if you know what your politics are. The US rebelled partially because Britain didn't want the colonists to expand West. It had nothing to do with anarchism.
  
  And what did Native Americans practice, colonialism?
  
  So just to nail down the goal posts before you move them again, you believe that native american tribes were anarchistic and because they were involved in the US revolution in some capacity, that makes the US revolution proof that anarchism works?
  
  goal posts before you move them again
  No oppression, ok.
  you believe that native american tribes were anarchistic
  Are you saying most weren't?
  because they were involved in the US revolution in some capacity
  Because they united against a common tyrant, yes, to revolt against a common oppressor, (oh look, my goal) to maintain their political ideology, (look solidarity!) When you know the declaration of independence was made to free everyone, EVEN if colonialists lied to keep slavery.
  that makes the US revolution proof that [solidarity against a common oppressor to liberate each other from oppression] works
  I hope this reading comprehension check works, if not, I hope you get to 12th grade comprehension this year!

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