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Orobas<p>I know I said I&#39;d now spend more time on here as a result of being sus&#39;d on Twitter...but fuck, it&#39;s so hard to actually do. I&#39;ve become so preoccupied with my health. And I&#39;m really scared for how awful it is. Every day I&#39;m consumed with dread that I could be having something that could very well spell real doom for me, and knowing I&#39;m too poor to see the doctor and get a checkup, and knowing there&#39;s not much I can do to possibly reverse it. It&#39;s all I can do to just try and go for a long walk outside in the blistering heat, on the days I&#39;m not at work.</p><p>I&#39;m really sorry I haven&#39;t been on here more. But it just feels increasingly like my own body is against me, as is my mind, and there&#39;s a real sense of despair in most people don&#39;t care for those like me, that most people laugh at the idea of work abolition and see no problem with me living in torment, telling me that I have somehow failed myself with what I eat and how active I am in this shithole environment.</p>
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Orobas<p>Serious apologies for having not been on here for…what, two months now?</p><p>I’m really sorry y’all. I’ve just been so stressed from work, from interpersonal relationships, and from finances. This shit has been too much for me, I feel too drained and lethargic to even log on to here.</p>
Orobas<p>Well I guess I kinda have to be more active on here now. I said what I said. Death to France.</p>
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Orobas<p>The thing is, people do want to work. We have to make it so, in fact, truly nobody wants to work.</p>
Orobas<p>Cops and the media fully endorsing/upholding white cis men who murder homeless people in public, textbooks about the Holocaust being rejected for simply talking about systemic bigotry being what leads to things like the Holocaust...</p><p>...We&#39;re living through not just a fascist movement, but a fully reactionary era. Understand that, and understand that we should act accordingly, which is to tear every last piece of this world down.</p>
Orobas<p>It feels genuinely maddening to live through a so-called &quot;historical moment&quot;, and being one of the few who seems to recognize it for what it is.</p><p>A full-on global spiral into fascism, genocide of disabled and queer people happening in real time, open and total society-wide advocacy for murder of unhoused people, the complete denial of even the most basic scraps known as &quot;rights&quot; to migrants and refugees, white leftists spouting open fascist talking points in response to movements and ideas like Land Back. It feels like living through a giant silent scream, one of the few able to actually hear it.</p>
Orobas<p>Really amazing, in a horrifying way, how work can fuck your whole body and mind up so bad, yet both regular liberals and spicy socdems (like MLs) think that work can be made &quot;better&quot;. Truly the height of willful deception.</p>
Orobas<p>Today&#39;s the day all fascists can gladly go and follow their leader. It doesn&#39;t have to be only this day, mind, they can choose any day of the year, but today especially they can fuck off into the void forever and we&#39;ll throw a whole parade about it.</p><p>And if fash don&#39;t want to do it themselves, we can gladly help them out, preferably by stringing them upside down.</p>
Orobas<p>Saw a photo today from a &quot;Take Back the Streets&quot; Walpurgis Night demonstration in West Germany. Don&#39;t know what year it was, but the person who posted it said such demonstrations started in 1977.</p><p>The banner being carried in that photo read &quot;We Want to Live, Not Survive&quot;. Can&#39;t begin to describe how accurate this phrase is, in regards to just EVERYTHING. Novatore said the same thing in &quot;Toward the Creative Nothing&quot;. </p><p>This is not a world we&#39;re meant to live in, but to merely survive in. And it seems like so many people want to do nothing but survive, keep *merely surviving*. Not just those who continue to believe in capitalism, but even many who claim to be &quot;anti-capitalist&quot;, and indeed, many who say they&#39;re &quot;anarchists&quot; (even &quot;anarcho-communists&quot;!). Ffs, we need to end this mere survival. Enough of surviving, we want to LIVE. We want to live *real, fulfilling lives* already. Enough of holding on to one phantasm or another, to the state, capitalism, democracy, gender, police, money, markets, all of it. Let&#39;s start creating a world where we can actually LIVE.</p>
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Orobas<p>In this environment and atmosphere, I really do think about how much more difficult it might be for certain workers to do any workplace sabotage, anything that can fight back against the bosses without directly confronting them.</p><p>Not just because they&#39;ve got cameras everywhere now, mind. But the fact that in this environment, so many workers just can&#39;t afford to be caught and get fired. So many workers who spent so long desperately trying to find a job in the midst of the pandemic, who lost a job and have only now found one, especially those who are ND/mad and/or trans. Workers who feel that they can&#39;t afford to fight back, to sabotage their workplace, because they so fear being caught, fired, and driven to destitution by this society.</p><p>And I think that&#39;s also something of a failure on the part of us as anarchists. Tbh, we should be helping prefigure the death of this society by forming unions of dispossessed (former) workers, creating more free stores, helping steal things for people and teaching them to steal for themselves. We should be giving workers, especially the most threatened among us, the courage to lash out against bosses, and be there to form unions of friendship, cooperation, and rage if the bosses decide to try and push us to destitution.</p>
Orobas<p>Missouri, Florida, Texas are all just leading the charge. A queer forest defender has been proven to have been murdered in cold blood by consistently lying cops, in the name of further ecocide. And yet, it seems like everyone&#39;s either not paying attention, or holding out hope for some miracle.</p><p>Voting is not going to stop fascism. Calling your representatives will not stop fascism. Going out and doing the same chanting and sloganeering and marching will not stop fascism.</p><p>Now perhaps more than ever, people have GOT to start actually attacking and tearing down fascism, and all that upholds it. And what upholds it? The state, but also systems like patriarchy and white supremacy, phantasms like whiteness, the family, religion. People, we need to leave behind ALL facets of liberalism. The state will never protect you, the state is WORKING WITH the fascists and abusers and rapists and racists and queerphobes. All of it needs to be COMPLETELY DESTROYED.</p>
Orobas<p>It&#39;s honestly incredible how similar ML/Maoists and regular fascists are when describing &quot;asocial&quot; people, along with basic liberals in how all three talk about &quot;antisocial&quot; people.</p><p>You have MLs/Maoists calling drug dealers and users, sex workers, etc &quot;degenerates&quot;, which I should remind everyone that fascists also use to refer to such groups. They say everyone who deals drugs should be summarily executed in the streets, the same way liberals talk about &quot;hypothetically&quot; dealing with drug dealers, houseless people, etc. MLs/Maoists refer to anyone in such groups with the same rhetoric of social cleansing, the same way right-wingers in countries like Colombia talk about murdering anyone who&#39;s a &quot;parasite&quot;.</p><p>There is a reason the term &quot;red fascist&quot; exists, and these people are exactly it.</p>