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Somewhat on the vibe of "your glorious revolution doesn't exist," I want to talk to you all, especially the young folks, about effective anarchism.

Spoiler alert, it's not blowing stuff up or arson.

I am considered the most anarchical person of all among my friends. Granted, most of my experience has been wreaking anarchy against the systems present in my high school and college, but the principles are the same.

Practical anarchy is not the big, flashy, romanticizable thing people online make it out to be. It's more about the long haul - digging in your teeth and just being a menace that no one can really get rid of.

Everyone's "Why vote when you can firebomb a Walmart" posts (that they don't follow through on) are just not pratical because this is a surveillance society. With CCTV and DNA testing and cell phone cameras and GPS tracking, if you do something big like that, you are GOING to be caught; then that is the end of your anarchical career. And, keep in mind that you might get caught while you're setting up this big event - it's a crime to blow up a Walmart and also a crime to conspire to blow up a Walmart, so your career in anarchy might end before it begins, and then you are permanently out of the game. No matter what causes you were working for that inspired you to do something big and violent that you thought would get someone's attention, you now can't help at all ever again in your entire life. What you did will be a passing headline on the news, and then everything will go back to exactly what it was because big, acute actions can't compare in effectiveness to small, constant actions (just being a thorn in the side of the system, poking and poking, but unable to be dislodged).

This is just the practical side of it too: think about the risk of hurting innocents if you really advocate for doing things like that. You think blowing up a Walmart would really make a dent in that big of a corporation? But if you intentionally or unintentionally kill a bunch of Walmart shoppers, that's going to devastate families that had nothing to do with whatever your cause is.

So all that big talk about violence and destruction: not practical, not effective, not ethical.

The only way I've started to change oppressive systems around me is by justing chipping away from within the confines of the rules of these systems, and/or only stepping just outside them (never breaking rules in a big way that could have allowed said system to easily and "justifiably" get rid of me).

So if you're going to be an anarchist, you need to consider:

Having the longest career in anarchism possible (i.e. being careful enough and judicious with your actions so that you don't get expelled from the system you wish to fight).

And then for any given anarchical plan:

2. Potential consequences.

3. Insurance.

I'll give you an example. I had serious beef with the culture of my college's science department. Students were constantly overworked, and if they expressed their misery outloud or reached out to any of their professors about their struggles, they got apathetic responses if not direct insults to their abilities or dedication. I had too many similar disparaging interactions with professors in one week, and I realized a lot of the responses I was getting were just the result of professors not really knowing how they sounded when they said certain things to students (ex: If someone says they're struggling with a course, don't IMMEDIATELY respond with "change your major," - you can give that as an option, but if you make it your first suggestion, the implication to the student is that if they're having any trouble with the course, they're not good enough for the program).

So I wrote up a flier of examples of good and bad ways to respond to students having anxiety with explanations and distributed it to every professor in the department. Everyone who knew about this perceived it as a great personal risk - that I would get in some kind of unspecified trouble or piss off an important professor, so before embarking on this project, I considered...

Potential consequences: I couldn't really think of any specific college or department rules I could be violating. People postered and handed out fliers in the department all the time. What I was doing fell pretty clearly under freedom of speech. I just shoved the fliers under professors' doors, so I didn't trespass in anyone's office. Worst I could think is that individual professors would get mad at me and make my life difficult, or I'd simply be told to stop fliering in the department.

Insurance: Just in case there were any consequences that I didn't think of and to insure me against the ones I had thought of, I didn't put my name on the flier. It was typed in Word, something everyone had access to. I came in to do it after professors had all left for the day but before I needed to use my ID to get into the building (no electronic record of me being there). I took the elevator to the first floor offices because the stairs require ID swipe after 5pm, but the elevators do not. I found out the building had no cameras by asking about it on the grounds that something of mine had been stolen a few weeks prior. I shoved the flier under the doors of dark offices and left it outside offices with lights on (so that no one would come out and spot me). And here's one of the most important pieces of insurance: I put up a few of the fliers on public bulletin boards in the building. This was important so that if I slipped up and said something that conveyed that I had knowledge of the content of the flier, I would have an excuse for that, i.e., I read it on the bulletin board before class this morning.

And then I did the thing. And surprisingly, it was incredibly well-received by professors. A few who knew that the flier must have been mine (because of previous, similar anarchical actions rumored to be associated with me) told me that everyone was RELIEVED that they finally had an instruction manual from the student perspective on what the hell they're supposed to say when one of their students is panicking. It sparked a real change in the vibe of the department and student experience. Had it instead pissed people off, I would have simply said I could not claim authorship of the flier but had read it and thought it contained good ideas then gone on creating more anarchy while angry people grasped at the zero straws I had left them to pin the action on me.

That's an example of a single action I took that was part of a much longer (~3 years) campaign of mine to change the culture of my department. Everytime I did something in that campaign, I made that consequences vs. insurance calculation to make sure they couldn't expell me from the program, the department, or the school before I succeeded.

Covering up fash graffiti in Kielce, Poland

They aren't wrong

Quick 1 hour study 🫶 you may start to run from the rain, Hobie

Some old man yaoi from the other day~

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Hobie in drag

“Against the NSU”

National Socialist Underground is a neo-nazi terrorist network with ties to German intelligence agencies. The network was formed in the mid 90′s and is  responsible for numerous bombings and murders, mostly targeting Turkish migrants.

The existence of the NSU only became public in 2011, following a botched bank robbery by two nazis affiliated with the group. Immediately following this exposure, German intelligence agencies embarked on a massive coverup operation, shredding thousands of documents relating to paid nazi informants who were connected to the terror network.

For more information on the NSU check out: https://www.nsu-watch.info/en

hes suchhh an annoying older brother

Octobie week two, Anarchy!

I didn't know what to write, so I just painted the A on a free flag I got from a Pride event. Fun fact! It glows in the dark (slightly)

Hobie is mostly hand-sewn from felt and fabric scraps I had on hand (I bought nothing new!), although his boots are glued together. He got a bit of an upgrade while I was painting the flag, his pins are painted, and I went back over the spider on his back, his patches, and added some doodles to his boots bc why not

I actually had to dye both the fabric for his shirt and pants to get it right

some little details ive added and a fuckton of pockets!!

🎸💥💥

"How are you even cooler under your mask?"

- "I was this cool the whole time."

✩HOBIE BROWN Y'ALL! 🤟✩

I haven't drew him in a while.. THIS is the second time I've ever drew him and I think I improved ALOT since the last sketch I did of him :)) kinda proud of this!

i wanna spider punk’s movie so bad 🫴🫴🫴🫴 내놔

Some sketches I did in class

The ones with braids is me trying to draw one of his concerns designs from memory

this movie really reactivated my dormant deadpool phase loll

been rereading the joe kelly run and some of the newer stuff ive lost track of

Thought I’d post again

The hyperfixating is stronger than ever

unoriginal joke

manche leute hauen echt den gottlosesten, menschenverachtendsten scheiß raus und tun so als wäre das voll in ordnung und würde nicht gegen jegliche menschenrechte gehen.

𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝔀𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱

Here, my fellow deutsche Kartoffel, take this and gib es weiter 😄

(Reblogs are appreciated)

it’s always you’re so masculine, you act like a guy, you’re just your father and then everyone is shocked when you transition.

cis people stop asking trans people if they’re sure challenge.

just found this pic and thought that I want Schlatt there.

i respect u if u like tubbo and dadschlatt as a duo but oh my god . shakes . do u ever think about how dadschlatt is technically canon through fundy but nobody recognizes dadschlatt and fundy as a father-son duo!!!!! like besties . the dynamic . fundy chose to stop being a spy for pogtopia bc he sympathized with the dictator that exiled his actual father. ISNT THAT CRAZY!! isnt it crazy that schlatt canonically views fundy as a son and felt betrayed he left him!!! isnt it crazy that cfundy views schlatt's sword, the one he got when schlatt died, an heirloom!!! isnt it crazy that his last appearance on the dsmp involves him giving schlatt's sword away to the museum!!! WHY AREN'T WE TALKING ABOUT THEMMM

Reminder that T doesn't make you more violent.

Reminder demonizing masculinity isn't good, for anybody.

Reminder that excluding trans mascs and trans men out of your discussions of trans issues is bad, actually.

Reminder that you shouldn't expect trans men to be "man but better", not bc of their identity as a man, but because of their classification as a human being and a complex being capable of both good and evil.

Reminder that bioessentialism is bad. Always.

In the great big year of 2024 can we all finally acknowledge how fucking stupid those “transmasc vs transfem oppression” posts are? You cannot look me dead in the eyes and tell me that you think all transmascs just put on a hoodie and pass, that we don’t get beaten, and that we have great support and literally never go through anything. You also can’t look me dead in the eyes and tell me you believe that every single trans woman ever doesn’t pass, looks like man, is abused and are all defenseless little girls that need to be protected, because that’s just blatantly transmisogynistic. You’re literally helping no one with these posts and are cherry picking each experience. You’re contributing to trans masculine erasure, stereotypes of trans women, and also the “oppression Olympics” that you all claim to hate because you’re LITERALLY MAKING IT A COMPETITION.

i hate the sexualization of hobie brown, aka spiderpunk.

people find him attractive, which is fair and i don't care if you find a character attractive (there's limits, obviously), but i look at art of him which is beautiful and shows so many parts of him and uses his art style and i go to the comments to see what everyone else thinks.... and its just basically smut in a pinterest comment section.

like this is a more tame example, but come on...

i know it's the internet and i should probably just ignore it and move on, but it pisses me off when i'm just trying to look at nice fanart and see what others think about the art or the character or the relationship between them... and then i'm hit with people describing how they want him to fuck them

My dsmp!Foolish design