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They're not really anarchists.
fuzzy satellite photos of middle schools in Xinjiang are enough to convince a western chauvinist, but years of seeing Palestine get torn apart live on video is "complicated"
I don't think this comparison is fair or honest. Never once seen an anarchist call the Gaza Genocide anything other than what it is.
Liberals are the ones always hand-wringing about how "complicated" Palestine is.
I've seen some brainrot anarchists on twitter but I'll take it with a grain of salt because it's twitter
I mean I just got back on BlueSky a few days ago (their ban evasion methods suck apparently lmao) and deadass I just saw a guy (calls himself a demsoc, sympathetic to anarchism) confidently try to argue that Marx wasn't anti-capitalist.
Social media has a way of bringing out the most bewildering takes from the most ignorant people on planet Earth.
Both. Some are just in denial, others genuinely think the US empire is the "lesser evil".
This is what not understanding imperialism (defined by Lenin) gets you: A poor understanding of vague authorities as imperialist, with the imperial core's lord (Amerika) being portrayed as the lesser evil by some.
People usually don’t reply when I bring receipts. That can be for several reasons, including the unlikely case where they learn that they may actually have been wrong. But I bring the receipts more for the lookie-loos than the interlocutor, anyway.
"Two things can be bad at once." They try to tell me.
theyre right, china is bad (in a sexy kinda way)
Here's the thing, from their POV you're using a logical fallacy know as guilt by association, so even if the CIA approves them, or even more than that, it doesn't prove anything. And indeed, by itself it proves nothing, but we know the context where the CIA ends up being so sympathetic, the thing here is, anarchists above all else care about being more revolutionary (read edgy, in the good sense of the word) than anyone else, so this won't matter to them.
Can you send me that cia doc? Haven't seen it before
uyghur:
” The speaker is Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell and retired US Army Colonel. He was speaking at the Ron Paul Institute in August 2018 on the threefold purposes of the US presence in Afghanistan, one of which is to contain China. He said undisguisedly that "the third reason we were there [in Afghanistan] is because there are 20 million Uyghurs [in Xinjiang]. The CIA would want to destabilize China and that would be the best way to do it to foment unrest and to join with those Uyghurs in pushing the Han Chinese in Beijing from internal places rather than external".”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Cvx0R8iDo
as for the CIA liking anarchists i cant find the doc this instant but i know its in the COINTELPRO
They dismiss links to gov.cn and the Ron Paul Institute out of hand. They censor themselves.
Here's a link straight from a Western government
https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=4767d3ce-8490-464f-8508-d8f3b7878808&subId=703775
Do you have a link to the full speech, by any chance? Thanks either way.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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