Comment by Prunebutt@slrpnk.net on Those guys back in 1700s probably had nothing left to lose

Wow. It’s not like the state is quite good at repression. /s

Posting this on International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners is quite tonedeaf, too.

Don’t you feel it’s a bit counterintuitive to call someone tonedeaf for being unaware of “International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners”, something that more than 99.9999% of people are likely unaware of?

Wouldn’t you be better off, say, helping build awareness of such a day instead of simply berating someone for not knowing about it? At the moment, you’re teaching people to treat it like a joke.

Right… like you didn’t grow up watching the International Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners special every year with the rest of us

something that more than 99.9999% of people are likely unaware of?

Western liberals aren’t aware of it because they’ve segregated themselves off from the folks in their community most subject to political prisoners.

But then lots of Western Liberals clap and cheer when an anarchist group gets raided by the police and dragged off to prison.

Sounds like you’re just blaming people for not being as smart and enlightened as you because you’re so special you knew about an obscure day that almost nobody outside your usual bubble has heard of.

You could have actually brought awareness to that fact, but you decided to be a petulant clown instead. Bravo.

The Black Panthers were notable, back in the 1970s, with their leaders either arrested on phony charges or killed in police raids.

Occupy Wall Street members were routinely subjected to arrest and detention in the wake of the '08 Recession.

Wikileaks was another big one in the early '10s, with its major contributors and journalists all arrested or forced into hiding.

The Black Lives Matter movement had many of its early leaders jailed or killed, before the various social media organizing tags were hijacked by online media personalities.

The Black Panther Party was explicitly Marxist-Leninist. There were probably some Anarchist members, but the party line was ML.

Yeah Malcom X was clearly trying to divide the left.

Liberals aren’t on the left, it only seems that way to you because you percieve yourself as left yet support the status quo.

Holy moly, lmao. No, I am not a sockpuppet, nor am I an authoritarian. What in the world scratched you so much?

Also, all Socialism is democratic, do you mean you’re a reformist, or support Scandinavian style Social Democracy?

Just gonna piggyback on that malcom x comment and say “yeah, I’m real sure mlk was trying to divide the left.”

Yeah, maybe. That’s not the main issue I have with the meme, though.

Then, construct your comment in a way that conveys such information without automatically ostracizing them from ever having sympathy for your cause. You’re never going to build curiosity in those unaware of your cause if you begin by chasing them away.

You must be one of a few hundred people on the planet who know about it so I don’t know why you’re expecting people to care and not post memes that might be related to it.

Still a stupid meme. People are fighting for a better tomorrow. It’s just that the state also cracks down on revolutionary movements (remember Tortuguita and the Stop Cop City protests? Or Lützerath? The fucking Black Panthers?)

Also, activism burnout is also a thing, framing it like people are just too complacent is simply disrespectful. Basically a leftist version of the “still you partake in society” meme.

It also reeks of the defeatist mentality/capitalist propaganda that lefties are fighting for a miserable future. Simply a stupid meme all around and to top it all off on an unfitting date.

You think governments didn’t use to crackdown in revolutionaries? There’s nothing new about that.

Didn’t say that there’s anything new about it. I said that the meme is stupid, because it ignores that fact.

Then what’s the difference between now and back then?

The state’s gotten better at propaganda

There is no way that’s actually a thing

No offense here because i like the sentiment, but just because a random bookstore declares it an “international day”, doesnt make it so.

Those aren’t the people who made it up, though. It was just the first search result.

You can read up on it here.

Where is that unearned hate for clowns coming from? :(

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