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   AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@oliphant.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 23:51:09 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

   Yeah fine, it's also that your groups are riddled with feds too - but really, society is full of cops, I could probably get over it, if you'd stop being such dogshit. But you're overwhelmingly white guys, or at least those are the folks who do ALL the talking, so I could wait around for the Sun to go supernova before this improves in any meaningful way.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@oliphant.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 23:52:45 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     Which makes you? Bad allies, bad people to organize with, bad people to associate with whenever I say "yeah, I'm an anarchist" - which is WHY I don't say it very often; any ideological tradition that presumes to lump Vampire Castle theory in with Kropotkin, is embarrassing and worthless, why would I want people to think I'm you? That's the last thing, I desire.

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     Oliphantasmal Force (oliphant@oliphant.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 00:01:22 JST Oliphantasmal Force

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites I had to look up Vampire Castle theory and oh no

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@oliphant.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 00:06:50 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     @oliphant Someone whose work I admire just shared THIS fucking essay and said we "need it now more than ever."

     https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sever-horrible-creatures

     This is objectively way worse than Vampire Castle. It's reactionary, duplicitous, and veers into low-key racism when you start comparing Hiroshima to being called out on your shit (not you, the guy who wrote it.)

     This is absolutely fucking unacceptable trash.

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     Oliphantasmal Force (oliphant@oliphant.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 00:15:23 JST Oliphantasmal Force

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites The dehumanization is particularly vile.

     We will at times need to harm the Horrible Creatures. But we mustn't feel justified in doing so. I'm sure they are some sort of alien being, unfeeling and bent on conquest. How else could they be so cruel? But maybe I'm wrong.

     And I'll skip the 'walking shit people' comparisons.

     Holy hell.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@oliphant.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 00:22:30 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     @coffeepine @oliphant the intention is to mobilize reaction inside anarchist circles to chase away the "Horrible Creatures" he believes has hurt him; while casting that in the guise of being about necessity of successful revolutionary praxis.

     It's Ben Burgis/Jimmy Dore shit with better words.

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     Coffee Pinewood (coffeepine@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 00:22:32 JST Coffee Pinewood

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     @AnarchoNinaWrites @oliphant

     Shit. This is so horribly verbose to me. So, the author is somehow against gatekeepers and purists while being a gatekeeper and purist.

     Like, I don't understand the intention of this at all. It's so unfocused.

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     Oliphantasmal Force (oliphant@oliphant.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 00:25:41 JST Oliphantasmal Force

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     • Coffee Pinewood

     @AnarchoNinaWrites @coffeepine It's really irresponsible to write it so vaguely, it's designed to foster paranoia and a sense that your enemies are within the gates, and it could be easily twisted to anyone's agenda.

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     AnarchoNinaWrites (anarchoninawrites@oliphant.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 00:27:08 JST AnarchoNinaWrites

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     • Coffee Pinewood

     @oliphant @coffeepine Pretty sure that's a feature, not a bug; since if he had just come out and said "this is Vampire Castle" in 2019, he would have been told to go fuck himself.