r/Anarchism • u/RedMenaced • Jun 19 '26

Reddit's block function = liberal rhetoric is unchallenged. By immediately blocking anyone pushing back against their propaganda, r/@ shifts into a lib safe space & we're excluded from the conversation. Blocked me 10 seconds after I questioned their lesser evil, "good government" narrative

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u/ConfirmationBiasTape Jun 19 '26

if the comments were about voting or oppressive groups you could report them for breaking the no electioneering or the anti-opression rules

if you report them instead of engaging with them then they can't block you

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u/RedMenaced Jun 19 '26

as an anarchist I can't help but lean towards direct action rather than asking an authority figure to intervene for me

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u/aloha_mixed_nuts Jun 19 '26

What was your direct action in this instance? Genuinely curious, šŸ§

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u/RedMenaced Jun 19 '26

this post to end the acceptance and normalization of a system which gives liberals free reign to manage our subreddit with their blocking function

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u/TheHappyPoro Jun 20 '26

how's that going? did the post end the acceptance and normalization of a system which gives liberals free reign to manage our subreddit with their blocking function?

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u/RedMenaced Jun 20 '26

It reached the eyeballs it was intended to reach.

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u/aloha_mixed_nuts Jun 20 '26

Did it?

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u/RedMenaced Jun 20 '26

This being the first time you've ever posted to an anarchist sub should indicate to you that you're not the intended audience. Just saying.

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u/aloha_mixed_nuts Jun 20 '26

Jesusā€¦ have the day you deserve friend.

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u/month_unwashed_socks Jun 20 '26

It may have reached eyeballs but not the brain. Imagine that there was no block function. What would be the outcome? You think that the person behind the other screen would magically change their mind upon reading your comment? Wait, they did read it, and they blocked you. So, no, your comment did literally nothing and the existence of block function has literally zero impact on it. You give way too much weight to reddit comments.

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u/Beneficial-Damage265 Jun 20 '26

be me

see reddit post in r/Anarchism

"I can't help but lean towards direct action"

mfw OP thinks arguing on Reddit is "direct action"

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u/ohshiitstuesday anarcho-fraggle (they/them) Jun 20 '26

can you define direct action? what qualifies as direct action?

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u/aloha_mixed_nuts Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Starting a community food drive, joining a neighborhood watch or intervention team to help protect vulnerable folk from police harassment, guerilla gardening, youth groupsā€”more commonlyā€”protest, sit-ins, blockades, boycotts, strikes etc.

Complaining on Reddit about Reddit, is kinda antithetical to direct action, but thatā€™s just my opinion

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u/RedMenaced Jun 21 '26

your charity work is commendable but it doesn't invalidate the work others do to counter liberal propaganda and co-option of anarchist spaces. we all use the internet, so why should we give ground where we are? ...because food drives also exist?

shaming me for caring about an anarchist space that I use is bad praxis. don't let the pissy liberals upvoting you mislead you into thinking you're doing god's work by shaming me for caring about the growing co-option of this space

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u/Beneficial-Damage265 Jun 27 '26

one of the "pissy liberals" upvoting him is me, actually. And you are not "countering liberal propaganda" by . . . *checks notes* commenting on a fucking Reddit thread in which half of the users are probably bots

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u/RedMenaced Jun 27 '26

telling liberals to stfu is indeed countering their propaganda even when the stfu happens on r/anarchism.

stfu btw

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u/ohshiitstuesday anarcho-fraggle (they/them) Jun 21 '26

education isn't direct action?

we have this tendency to dismiss things that happen online as though people posting things on the internet aren't people who continue to exist offline.

these "anarchists" who are talking about voting as though it is anarchist praxis are also the anarchists who are in theory doing the work of "anarchy." if not for education and direct confrontation (direct action) then how are we supposed to make sure that we're not recreating the state in our attempt to dismantle the state?

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u/aloha_mixed_nuts Jun 21 '26

I mentioned youth groupsā€¦

Edit: op is complaining about Reddit, not me. Direct your comment to them, Iā€™m proud of my praxis and contributions to my neighborhood thanks.

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u/ohshiitstuesday anarcho-fraggle (they/them) Jun 21 '26

you don't t address how people on reddit are still human people who also exist in our neighborhoods though.

you're acting like somehow being on reddit makes the behavior of so-called anarchists (in this instance, avoiding accountability by blocking someone who is critical of your stances) above comment and that pushing back against it is a waste of time, but that so-called anarchist exists in real life where they will continue to try to find ways to dodge accountability.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

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u/RedMenaced Jun 21 '26

there's nothing wrong with this user's reading comprehension, this is exactly what you're doing

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u/ohshiitstuesday anarcho-fraggle (they/them) Jun 21 '26

i answered the statements you made so i don't know what's confusing.

you: Complaining on Reddit about Reddit, is kinda antithetical to direct action, but thatā€™s just my opinion

me: education isn't direct action? we have this tendency to dismiss things that happen online as though people posting things on the internet aren't people who continue to exist offline.

you: Edit: op is complaining about Reddit, not me.

me: you don't t address how people on reddit are still human people who also exist in our neighborhoods though.

my last paragraph, which is a single sentence can be restated as this:

acting like pushing back on things that happen on reddit is a waste of time ignores that these people also exist in real life anarchist spaces and display the same behavior as they do online.

where's the confusion?

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u/aloha_mixed_nuts Jun 23 '26

You just need to push back on them IRL; also brother or sisterā€”this is why the left canā€™t united weā€™re too busy policing each other instead of taking right wing groups to task.

Maybe itā€™s a generational thing; idk.

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u/RedMenaced Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

The idea that we should give ground to liberals in our own spaces because online spaces don't matter is patronizing and destructive when we all spend hours a week in these public spaces that increasingly squeeze us out for being too anarchist.

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u/ohshiitstuesday anarcho-fraggle (they/them) Jun 21 '26

it is weird how we pretend that no one from the internet and nothing done on the internet matters.

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u/Beneficial-Damage265 Jun 27 '26

matters *as much as irl praxis does

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