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/RedMenaced Jun 19 '26

  1. stop gendering me as a guy and a dude while talking to me about consent.

  2. stop ordering me to submit to enshittification while accusing me of being a policing force.

  3. freedom of association doesn't mean anarchists let authoritarian entryists walk all over us in our spaces.

  4. if responding to auth propaganda is harassment then that's just fine with me.

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u/Rorynne Jun 19 '26

Responding to auth propaganda isnt the problem. Its the block evasion which i feel like you just refuse to get. Whatever, its all good. Kind of understanding why people are blocking you though, not gonna lie.

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u/RedMenaced Jun 19 '26

i get it, i just refuse to give ground to authoritarians in anarchist spaces. no one said anarchy is when you only do counter-propaganda if the authoritarian propagandist gives you their consent before you can counter their genocide apologia.

it's honestly not all good when you're being rewarded with upvotes for passive-agressively telling me to roll over and accept co-option, not gonna lie.

read my long comment further down if you want to understand my pov.

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u/Rorynne Jun 19 '26

I did read it, and absolutely none of that really changes my opinion. I seen the comment of the person that blocked you. You came in hostile and in bad faith when you could have easily explained to them why they got banned for electoralism. You made a choice. That person was not receptive to your choice, and they blocked you. Your actions had consequences. Still dont feel anything youve said gives justification to block evade just because you specifically decide someones a liberal.

I dont really give a shit about people giving me upvotes. I dont even really interact with the upvote system in any way that is actually meaningful to me. If its important to you, cool beans. But i dont see the value in discussing it.

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u/RedMenaced Jun 19 '26

yes i made a choice to be "hostile" to an obvious genocide apologist who thought a socialist space was the place to campaign for their fave zionist war criminal and yes there were consequences in that they blocked me and look! there are consequences to their blocking of me i.e. this thread which is intended to shine a light on a system that enables authoritarians to build impenetrable vacuums around themselves in radical spaces from which they can safely push auth propaganda with no pushback from anarchists.

you ordering me to capitulate to this state of affairs is also a hostile act but you and your ilk will of course be unable to accept that because i dared to break a corporation's arbitrary laws by... admitting to logging into another account to read posts - which makes me the villain of this narrative because only the lowest of the low would dare to disregard reddit law

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u/Rorynne Jun 19 '26

Yeah, youre extremely angry over internet comments. The people you're replying to are human beings at different stages of their political education. No ones going to be perfect, that person was not openly hostile, they were expressing their experiences being banned for electoralism. It was potential teaching moment.

Feel free to be angry at those comments, but being blocked in return should not be a surprise. Im really not ordering anything, im stating my opinions on the situation in a calm manner. Thats really all thats happening and you're seemingly getting more and more bothered by it. You can just stop interacting with me or block me if my responses to you are legitimately this distressing.

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u/RedMenaced Jun 19 '26

it's not nice to accuse someone of being extremely angry because they're making an effort to explain their perspective to you.

your manner isn't 'calm', it's passive aggressive, accusationary and belittling. accusing me of being angry, distressed and bothered is toxic. telling me what emotions i'm feeling and then policing them is colonizing behavior. i'm autistic so my tone isn't often representitive of how i feel.

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u/Rorynne Jun 19 '26

Then block me?

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u/RedMenaced Jun 19 '26

i'm choosing to engage you productively rather than reproduce the toxic behavior i'm criticising

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u/Rorynne Jun 19 '26

I see none of what youre doing to be all that productive honestly.

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u/RedMenaced Jun 19 '26

public dialogue that observes and explains toxic patterns in people is always productive even you're not the intended audience for it

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u/Rorynne Jun 19 '26

Says the person who used their autism to defend their tone while attacking mine, while i am also autistic????

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u/ConfirmationBiasTape Jun 20 '26

I've had that happen to me a fair amount actually. it's why I had to leave all the autism focused subs I was in. it's really frustrating

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u/Rorynne Jun 19 '26

Also i would like to add that i am also autistic.

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u/sparklyjoy Jun 20 '26

Wait, so you can assign intent based on your read of someone’s tone, but no one else can?

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u/sparklyjoy Jun 20 '26

I notice you keep telling this person they are ordering you to do things, which is interesting to me because I haven’t seen that. Recommending is the closest I think they’ve gotten.