Glad the essays got some appreciation. <3

And thanks, sadly no better, and genuinely thank you for the offer it’s really kind of you, but I think it’s probably all a bit much to put on a stranger…

Welcome new admins, I can’t get my brain to be friendly right now (not related to you or any of this at all), so I’ll just leave it at I’m glad it isn’t anyone I have blocked, and good luck.

I’m in a really bad headspace right now due to irl bullshit, so I’ve not got around to and honestly don’t have the brain bandwidth to make my own post about this right now or even discuss it in any depth (nor to fully process what you’ve suggested in op), but this seems like an opportunity to bring it up if not as a general discussion, then at least for the admins of this specific instance to read and consider, I think it’s really important and something I’ve seen (and personally experienced) get people who are organisers and run communities to end up acting against their own community members and make the latter feel excluded and even unsafe, so I’m just going to leave this here.

The essays are titled “tyranny of civility”, they are a bit long, but yeah, I think really important especially on this instance where we (should) take abolishing oppressive structures, even within our selves, seriously:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

E: There is also Social Power and the Oppressive Potential of Civility which is a later discussion by the same author about the series of essays, and their observations since to, in their words “hopefully highlight some issues that I believe are created by maintaining civility as an unquestioned social norm in a society where institutionalized and social oppression operates along a variety of dimensions.” as a kind of TL;DR (though still read the essays if you can)

Western Europe (excluding Britain) is taking this threat pretty seriously

What an odd exclusion to make… The government might not be taking it seriously, but most others aren’t either (and why would they? they serve capitalism, not society). Plenty of the people here (in Britain, in case it wasn’t clear) are just as concerned as the rest of Europe (and the world)…

Just going to leave this here

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/romeo-kokriatski-respectability-politics-or-you-gotta-be-nice-to-monsters

So licking fascist boot is the solution?

Fuck that complicity.

Lmfao, do you live under a fucking rock?

Fascist parties have been gaining power all over Europe (and elsewhere) for ages, and have gotten significantly emboldened and actively backed by him since he became president whatever his dictatorial title will end up being.

A feature, not a bug.

Same, I’d read it quite a while back and it was an eye opener, and “we want accomplices not allies” stuck with me, a few interactions I’d had recently made me want to post it lol

It’s a shame that those who need to read it most won’t, or will but find ways to distance themselves (like “oh, well this is about being an ally to Indigenous people so it doesn’t apply to me, someone who claims to be any ally to [insert other marginalised group here]”) as if these principals can’t or shouldn’t be applied universally and across the board…

In any case, definitely a must read.

Rare win on terf island, not surprising it happened in Scotland…

I bet the nothing I have that they won’t address the systemic issues and deliberate selling it off by the government for several decades, that have led to the state of the NHS, even once.

So why is the BBC spending a day in an NHS hospital? To make propaganda for the state.

Retail giant Monsoon’s CEO calls on UK to scrap tax loopholes benefitting competition, so he can continue to exclusively use them himself

FTFY

The CEO, like all CEO’s is concerned with his own companies profit margin, noting else, but especially not “fairness”.

I’ve not read them all, so I can’t really rank them, but I do share Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! often, and of course there are the renowned Bullshit Jobs and Debt. I’m sure other folks can add their own suggestions…

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/david-graeber

Tbf he isn’t wrong, they haven’t had to be very hostile in their takeover have they? Plenty of people happily bending their knee and licking the boot… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sorry, all I can hear is gargling boot noises…

I’m not a dude, and you can feel free to go fuck yourself too, bootlicker.

And this fucker defending them, too…

Jfc, imagine piping up do defend literal nazis, people who have chosen to follow an ideology dedicated to the extermination of people for who they ARE, and who are actively rounding people up in camps.

Go fuck yourself, collaborator.

Oh, and just fyi:

“Only one thing could have stopped our movement – if our adversaries had understood its principle and from the first day smashed with the utmost brutality the nucleus of our new movement“. - Adolf Hitler

The Met (or any) police never was safe, that’s the opposite of its purpose.