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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Then stop participating in the system be the revolutionary you claim to be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

Or...organize and consolidate power amongst the people around you.

A good chunk of us participate in autonomy; growing our own food, going vegan, not participating in blatant consumerism and monopolized economy. There's also quite a few posts that have been...removed.. for talking about "revolutionary actions". You can think about it for maybe two seconds if you pull those brain-cells together why that might be. HMMMMMMM.

But yeah, thought-terminating cliché is the typical response of your kind when confronted with actual agitative ideals. It results in a sort of cognitive dissonance you have where that in order to be a revolutionary you gotta go full Uncle Ted or you're just a illegitimate who doesn't VOOOOOOTE for your bullshit genocidaires.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago
  1. No one here claims to be a revolutionary. We are an instance for memes and theory, we don't even do organising like a union or a communist party, and we are certainly not a revolutionary cell.

  2. The "stop participating" argument is the most worn card in the deck of the anti-communist debater. Participation in the system is not like seal fur or tropical woods, you cannot live your life in a way that avoids it. Capitalism's total commodification of basic human rights means you cannot even obtain food and shelter or receive life-saving care without taking part in it. Telling someone to "stop participating in the system" amounts to promoting suicide.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Have you actually tried any of your own suggestions?

"stop using credit cards and paying taxes" lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

"Just get a loan (with credit), apply for federal programs that will deny you (with credit), get a cheap mortgage (with credit and bum-fuck nowhere+4 hour commute)"

"What, you don't like that? Stop using credit-cards, commie."