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@hakan_geijer @foolishowl @chairman_meh

Weirdly, when I tell people I'm an anarchist, about twenty percent of the time people respond by asking if I'm a sovereign citizen / antivaxer / 5G-tower conspiracy theorist. I once even got asked if it means I'm pro-Putin. Maybe I just have very odd in-person vibes, but I think it's more that "anarchist" is a word that a lot of people are carrying around weird definitions of, and that means the word is of limited communicative value.

At times, when people ask if I'm a communist, I say yes; not because any communist would regard me as a communist, but because by the values set carried around by that person, their definition of communist would include me.