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The place for anarchist theory, practice, & memes for millennials & zoomers.

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The place for anarchist theory, practice, & memes for millennials & zoomers.

Discord: pJUapy3vMn

Rules

1) Content must be related to anarchism, or at least must be of interest to anarchists.

2) Don't be A Dick! Remain kind and courteous to other users of this sub. Don't call for violence or make threats, even if you disagree. Do not discriminate against others on the basis of their race, sex, potential disability, belief, sexual orientation, etc.

3) No brigading Do not brigade other subreddits or communities. If you do this, we will find you and ban you, even if it means working with the mods of a sub that we hate. Things that that can be considered as encouraging brigading will be removed as well.

4) Regarding non-anarchists This sub is first and foremost an anarchist safespace. Non-anarchists (including "An"Caps) are allowed to ask questions and engage in polite discussion, but they shouldn't consider themselves "welcome," as this is not the sub for them. If you are a non-anarchist, expect to be held to a higher standard of scrutiny than most of this sub's users. Certain groups (fascists, TERFs, &c.) will receive no platform at all. No entryism. Read this.

5) Follow Reddit terms of service and site-wide rules Do not break Reddit terms of service. Your post or comment will be removed, and depending on how serious the offense was, and at the discretion of the community, you may be banned.

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Shout Out

Good news, i have spoken to famed anarchist singer/songwriter David Rovics, he has agreed to give Anarchismz AND PeopleU a shout out, and is willing to guest star on a PeopleU episode.

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2025/01/31
01:25 UTC

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"Actually, failing on purpose is part of my genius 4 billion step 500iq plan to win. It'll totally work this time, I swear!"

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2025/01/26
18:05 UTC

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Yes, i just read the 1st chapter of social ecology, how do you know?

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2025/01/26
11:45 UTC

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neat meme

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2025/01/24
17:07 UTC

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What's your opinion??

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2025/01/24
16:57 UTC

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You can now report ICE sightings on r/LaMigra

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2025/01/23
14:46 UTC

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How Big Tech Steals Our Lives

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2025/01/22
21:33 UTC

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Announcing PeopleU, a new Anarchismz project!

Greetings comrades! i am elated to announce a new project that the community has started. On our official discord server (pJUapy3vMn) we have decided to create PeopleU, a half parody/half anarchist version of PragerU. we would love for more people to see our work, and we are looking for volunteers aswell, be it something small like grammar checking scripts, or even something as involved as voice-overs or even starring in a video! please feel free to join or even just spread the message, thanks!

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2025/01/22
17:54 UTC

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We are in an Economic War.

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2025/01/13
13:07 UTC

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Outreach

Would you like to help create an a Anarchist community for the purpose of mutual aid and freedom? we are getting members and integrating them to avoid, the never ending September effect.

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2025/01/11
22:38 UTC

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Is accountability even compatible with Anarchism?

Sorry if this is a stupid question I just couldn't find much conclusive on this philosophical problem, and came to a standstill when talking about it.

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2025/01/06
22:25 UTC

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(CW: Abuse of power, CSA, exploitation, police brutality, rape culture, sexual violence, xenophobia) The Predators Behind the Border

Introduction

As Trump prepares to take the reins of presidential power once again in an attempt to forcibly displace millions of people across the country, the far-right have been actively seeking to further empower themselves within the bordered, capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchal, carceral police state to make sure that those who are forced out are indeed kept out. These far-right myrmidons will violently crack down on immigrants of all stripes and eliminating any and all support networks, inflicting their targets with all sorts of horrific abuses.

The following list of hardline right-wing border hawks who have abused their power to prey upon the vulnerable in order to dominate and subjugate them is by no means exhaustive. It merely describes a behavioral pattern of the kinds of people who work to keep this draconian system running.

John Childs

The owner of a private equity firm named J.W. Childs Associates, based in Massachusetts, John Childs is a GOP donor who lobbies for organizations like Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative advocacy group with connections to the Tea Party movement.

Childs has been involved in a sex trafficking operation whereby immigrant women who worked at massage parlors were being forced to have unprotected sex with any man who requested these services; any signs of defiance were met with threats of deportation of not just the women working these parlors, but also their entire families.

Childs and his accompanying sex traffickers doubly degraded these immigrant women as not only sex objects, but also as beings who were only useful for their potential contributions to the capitalist death machine. His enterprise directly exploited the vulnerabilities of these women and took advantage of their situation for the sole benefit of xenophobic, capitalist patriarchs like himself.

Jerod Prunty

A former aide to Louisiana GOP congressman Clay Higgins, Jerod Prunty established a sex trafficking ring in Lafayette Parish, where five massage parlors were staffed with immigrant women who were forced to service rich and influential male clients that patronized them. An alleged co-conspirator named Pingjuan Xia, who was Prunty's roommate, is believed to have been introduced to such men by Prunty.

Like with the case of John Childs, Prunty made an enterprise of exploiting the work of immigrant women, degrading them in the process, both as sex objects and as laborers simultaneously.

Jeffrey Short

A city councilman of Asher, Oklahoma, Jefferey Short is a former ICE agent.

Short has been accused of rape by two underage girls. They recounted how he said that he was "trying to show her a good time" after they kept trying to stop his unwanted advances, while a potential third assault occurred as far back as 2008, with many more potential assaults taking place up until 2019. There were even accounts of him displaying child sexual abuse material to minors while in his ICE office.

While there are no known records of Short preying on immigrant children, nothing above suggests that he would have any real qualms doing so. Nevertheless, his predatory actions against these children within his community could've shaped their views in such a way to be similar to his own views, considering the xenophobic culture that institutions like ICE are rooted in.

John Jones

The former chief of intelligence and counterterrorism for the Texas Department of Public Safety, John Jones is an avid Trump supporter who has been vocally advocating for his border wall.

Jones hosted a party at his home, where a female guest recounts how he took her out on an ATV into the woods and then raped her. The woman went to the ER, where they identified trauma on her body, and she even tried applying for a protective order, but to no avail. Additionally, he was also caught in possession of child sexual abuse material on his phone.

Even though no known records exist of his potential atrocities against immigrants, Jones has enthusiastically contributed to a culture that encourages both rape and xenophobia simultaneously. He jointly operated in a way that endangers both women and immigrants to the point where if he gained any more power in this draconian system, he would've had the chance to prey upon the most marginalized individuals at the border with virtually zero impunity.

Tommy Fisher

The CEO of Fisher Industries, Tommy Fisher is a GOP donor whose enterprise, also called Fisher Sand & Gravel Company, which has been committing environmental violations as well as tax fraud, was chosen by Trump and Bannon to build the border wall.

Fisher settled a federal lawsuit with $150,000 in an effort to pay off the accusations made by two women who recount egregious verbal sexual harassment by a supervisor, only for one of them to be fired after she asked for the degrading treatment to stop. On top of this, Tommy's brother, David, who was the former CEO of Fisher Industries, sexually exploited a 10-year-old girl.

Through their activities, the Fisher brothers have willfully reinforced the bedrock of the xenophobia, rape culture, capitalist exploitation, state oppression, and ecocide that all constitute border security. They make everyone below them an accomplice or accessory to the toxic ideological framework that this system inherently runs on.

Jamie Berryhill

A former GOP candidate for Texas congress, Jamie Berryhill received endorsements from Texas Right to Life (an anti-abortion group) and the House Freedom Fund during his congressional campaign. Things got particularly egregious when he made a xenophobic post on Facebook, wherein he compared immigrants entering the country at the border to raping women, "A nation without borders is like a woman raped and defiled, her precious value pillaged and taken." He elaborated on his comments on the news, "Our nation is like women. If our borders are being encroached, it is like a woman. Like a precious woman, a person that is being defiled by an unruly infiltrator."

By simultaneously making such comparisons and being part of the anti-abortion movement, Berryhill is able to project the violence enacted by right-wingers like himself onto vulnerable scapegoats in order to create an out-group to contrast with his own in-group as a means of manufacturing consent for the creation of a culture of both xenophobia and rape. The only women he talks about "protecting" are white women (who still aren't safe), whereas women of color and immigrants are treated as "acceptable" targets. Although no records exist of Berryhill enacting such violence, his comments suggest that he would have no real qualms doing so.

Chris Simcox

A former private sector guard for Doug Ducey and challenger to John McCain in a 2010 Arizona Republican primary election for the Senate, Chris Simcox is the founder of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, a right-wing, anti-immigrant militia group that tasked itself with further securing the southern border by detaining immigrants who were deemed "illegal".

Meanwhile, Simcox has been documented being extremely violent towards his own family. He threatening to kill his ex-wife and molested and raped his own daughters, starting when they were 5 and 6 years old. His family regarded him as a petty tyrant due to his abusive streak and controlling behavior. He even demanded the chance to personally cross-examine his daughters during trial.

Simcox lived vicariously through the wretched system that is border security, where he could enact any type of violence he wanted as an outlet for his white-nationalist fervor. Accounting for the horrors he inflicted upon his own family, it's safe to say that he would have no real qualms about doing the same terrible things to immigrants, based on how the MCDC operated.

Jarl Rockhill

A member of Patriot Prayer, Jarl Rockhill committed a hate crime against an immigrant center in Portland, Oregon, whereby he posted a sticker showing a man making a Nazi salute above the word "pure" on a fence outside the immigrant center. However, his record goes all the way back to the early 2000s, when he molested and sexually exploited a child.

Although Rockhill's sexual offense may appear miles divorced from his xenophobic hate crime, it occurred in the same white nationalist zeitgeists. There's a reason why Rose City Antifa mentioned him in a piece entitled "Patriots & Pedophiles: Patriot Prayer & their Nazi Sex Offender Allies". Such groups will take anyone who agrees to their philosophy and reinforce their actions if they believe they can use said philosophy to justify those actions, no matter how heinous they are.

Aaron Mitchell

A former Border and Customs Protection Officer, Aaron Mitchell approached a 15-year-old girl walking to school and asked for her documentation. After she gave it to him, he said to come with him to a police station, but instead took her to an apartment complex where he raped her. He even made threats towards a witness in a misogynistic rant after the accusation went public, "Fuckin' little b—-. B—– is claiming rape. That’s so fuckin' crazy. That’s crazy, man. She better hope I don’t get out of here."

The arbitrariness of Mitchell's attack is a signal to the arbitrary standards that border security subjects its victims to. Men like him are ideologically tasked with assigning the label of "outsider" towards any unfortunate passersby out of a xenophobic, law-and-order type of paranoia, a paranoia whipped up by ruling elites of all kinds in times of impending fascism.

Conclusion

These are just a handful of right-wing border hawks who prey upon the misfortunate, each with different histories, but if there's anything they all have in common, it's their vested interest in securing a bordered, capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchal, carceral police state. Any allusions to border security are the hymns of a system meant to brutalize and prey upon some of the most misfortuned and marginalized people around the globe. Millions who escape disasters, whether natural or manmade, only to be interrogated about their worth as human beings. There is only one real solution to such a vile, unconscionable system as this: TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

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2024/12/31
18:45 UTC

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"That's not violence, no, it's just how things are done. Laws are nonviolently upheld, by the cage and by the gun."

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2024/12/28
21:54 UTC

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🎶…Us poor folk haven’t got a chance unless we organise…🎶

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2024/12/19
14:36 UTC

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"March on in the Workers United Front, for you are a worker too"

https://youtu.be/yNF-TS6lKQg?si=DWsE4wphxy8I2ylb

Let us remember that Anti-Fascism is our main goal for now alongside spreading the word of the left and Anarchism to our fellow comrades.

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2024/12/18
03:29 UTC

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Looking for gossip. Anyone know what happened to the r/genzanarchist discord server.

Let me know anything you know about it. I used to be in it in like 2020 when I was a really lame teenager. I'm kinda curious what's gone down at that wretched place. I think I left shortly after the head mod deleted the reddit of the same name. Also if it's still up and you have an invite pls dm me :>.

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2024/12/16
03:21 UTC

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An Appeal to the Young by Peter Kropotkin

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2024/12/15
19:57 UTC

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Not the OP. Rediscovered this on my phone and it made me chuckle.

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2024/12/15
17:47 UTC

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"Deny, Defend, Depose," aerosol spray-paint on glass and metal, Miami, 2024

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2024/12/11
22:35 UTC

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Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators

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2024/12/09
20:17 UTC

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Spreading the Spirit of Revolt

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2024/12/07
17:57 UTC

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The Twins of Oppression: Property and Government

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2024/12/05
18:44 UTC

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Resistance vs. #Resistance

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2024/12/05
03:28 UTC

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https://discord.gg/NNtFrWhDDd

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2024/12/05
01:31 UTC

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Support The Kurdish Red Crescent to save lives <3

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2024/12/04
03:43 UTC

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Defend the Forest

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2024/12/03
15:15 UTC

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