Subvert The State

political sideblog, probably mostly memes idk yet

[illseeyouintheagora]

it has come to my attention that nobody on this horrible website knows what the definition of oppression is and just assume that oppression is about minorities and that an oppressed people cannot exist if they are 50% of the population or higher, which is interesting because everyone on here is a communist who believes that 99% of the population (or higher) is oppressed by 1-0.1% of the population

[illseeyouintheagora]

my country is truly pathetic. nothing else to say really no notes spectacular levels of patheticness

[poipoipoi-2016]

[scarabesque-returns-deactivated]

[illseeyouintheagora]

my unimportant hometown with no interesting history that has nothing going on had a bit of a freedom of speech crisis recently, and even though i thought the guy who was at the centre of it was extremely stupid i honestly never thought i’d see the day that the uk would be so 1984 or that that town would ever be relevant. fucking mental

[illseeyouintheagora]

i think people should be more open to the idea of the ‘deep state’, that there is more than what we see in the government, much bigger people with a different kind of power. it annoys me that conservacucks see it as like oooo the evil leftists deep state are preventing me from having the guy i want in power and shitlibs see it as this wild impossible baseless concept… even if some slightly ludicrous conspiracy theories are deeply imbued in the idea of there being more than the state, it’s not like you personally can’t conceive of it without that attached. like i’m decently convinced there are people pulling strings and creating havoc that we don’t know the names of. with the power dynamics of this world it makes much more sense than just… “oh look it’s evil guy vs evil guy and they are potentially going to be in charge of the whole country for no reason other than that they want to and that they can. and they are evil for… reasons!” it cannot possibly be that simple.

[theconcealedweapon]

More proof that capitalism was never "freedom" or "small government".

[liberalsarecool]

Get radical.

[blackwolfmanx4]

[dittography-direwolf]

There was a time when the left was very generous with other people's money, and the right was very generous with other people's blood.

Now, as might be expected, both sides are very generous with both.

[illseeyouintheagora]

my mother was nearly sex trafficked through an orphanage under communist regime because her parents were convinced she ‘belonged to the state’ and were too poor to take care of her i don’t think this is accurate. nothing to do with nazism. even if you’re a communist you need to stop pretending it’s fine that people died and were heavily oppressed under communism in real life. i don’t fuck with this

[i-knowur]

[wageronancap]

[illseeyouintheagora]

i saw this pop up on my dash as well and it is almost laughable how one could type out ‘b-but what if i’m somethingphobic for opposing violence against an innocent people 🥺’

‘i don’t want to be poisoned by the media’ i’m pretty fucking certain all the people you’re consulting are also very much poisoned by the media and considering a big chunk of your fear is based on the identity of who’s being attacked because MSM told you that matters and not the fact people are dying en masse you are absolutely CHUGGING that poison too. goodness gracious people need to put down the fear they’ll get called a mean word for half a second and examine themselves.

[depreussen]

You know what i find absolutely irritating about the modern 'literature' of the left? The sheer amount of ignorant slop that gets lauded as a "wonderful critique of capitalism." I understand not everyone likes capitalism, you can have that oppinion, it's okay. But if you’re going to critique it, at least try understand the topic you are writing about. So much of what I see could be decent if the writers actually bothered reading their own work before patting themselves on the back.

A lot of dystopias focus on workers suffering, and sure, suffering is is punchy, it gets attention. However when the authors only focus is suffering, rather than the system, it's hard to call it capitalism. It’s not even cronyism. It’s just needless suffering.

They justify everything as 'profit', when making sadistic decisions that actively hurt profits. Killing workers without a care? Providing 'un'safety equipment? How is a capitalist supposed to exploit labor if the labor force is dead? If work stops every other day to replace employees?

Some of these fictional capitalists don’t even seem to want profit. they just like suffering. Honestly it could be a good story, if the writer actually thought about what they were talking about: power. You want to critique elites? Class structure? Hierarchy? Go for it! But the moment you say "in the name of profit" when it should be "in the name of control" or "because they’re sadistic," you’re not critiquing capitalism—you’re just writing nonsense. If my eyes roll any further back, they might detach.

Write what you want, but actually think about what you’re saying. Capitalism can be critiqued there’s plenty of real-world exploitation and you don’t even have to dig deep to find it.

But when your "capitalists" are so antithetical to the identity they’re supposed to represent, it’s just bad writing. Plain and simple.

It’s absolutely possible to write a story where capitalism is a means to achieve power and do evil. That’s a valid, compelling interesting angle! It can spark interesting dilemmas and even make actual capitalists reconsider certain aspects of the system. But if your characters are one-dimensional, it’s bad writing. And if they’re not even one-dimensional?

You’re a bad writer

[illseeyouintheagora]

easiest agorist purchase other than drugs (For Legal Reasons This Is A Joke HaHa this was taxed and i paid those taxes yes i did)

[illseeyouintheagora]

so during a discussion with my closest confidante on this website, i mention my own ‘analysis paralysis’ and the fact i struggle with this bad habit of living in my own head and making things up potentially for mental stimulation or some other thing, and something came to mind about my experience as a young teen in the punk scene. it hasn’t been all too long since then, but i want to dispense some wisdom for the youngins interested in it as i was.

the problem with ‘the scene’ is that it’s filled with older punks who will have a LOT of insight on how it was way back when and what they believe, but most of their time talking to you in the back garden while they smoke a joint will be reminiscing. there won’t be much ‘good advice’ on the current state of affairs unless you’re lucky because when they’re there with you, talking to you, it’s like they’ve gone back to a moment in time long ago so your mentioning of what’s happening now is like a thought experiment to who you’re chatting with. like they haven’t experienced it themselves. a lot of what they’ll say is based on what they think they’re hearing from someone else who may not even be anti-establishment and promoting pro-state (lol prostate) propaganda. you won’t get that much advice on how you feel post lockdown as a young person, or about how complex the anarchist environment is with all of the brand new terms that kind of all mean the same thing. it’s not what’s on tv and it’s not what their friends send them so they don’t have a robust understanding, which is fine, but you, as a young person with a malleable mind, should not depend on these people for information as i did.

i know a guy who is permanently repping a ‘nazi punks fuck off’ shirt, in a band, plays local, will talk to you for hours, seems very legit. in fact he is a family friend, who introduced me to the irl scene. problem is he cannot face the plight of the current generation despite having children of his own and just goes ‘hurr durr yes sir’ to whatever is on the tv to later yell down a microphone about being anti-corporate fuck the government fuck the rich etc etc.

if you do want to hang around these people, go for it. but go with an adult, first of all; they will still try to give you drinks despite knowing you age. and second, you should still seek other input from the places you typically wouldn’t go. matter of fact, go outside and observe how you live, where you live, how others are living, what is causing their circumstances et cetera. don’t forget to read, either. you are smart enough to realise you shouldn’t be governed and controlled the way you are, but you are not immune to BS that people want to/maybe unintentionally are putting in your head. your experience as a teen is invaluable, so don’t waste it getting caught up in doctrine and listening to the alt quirky equivalent of your boomer grandparents.

[illseeyouintheagora]

feelin inspired yet?