Reading Recommendations for a Fellow Anarchist

'Field'? Surely this is also a higher level concept, much too 'abstract' for ComradeAppleton?

No, he clearly would say "All I see are twenty-three individuals running about on several million blades of grass...".

Yeah, I agree completely, mate.

Since 7 people I've never met upped my previous post, it somewhat inflated my ego, and I feel myself coming round to ComradeAppleton's point of view. So I upped my own previous post, to bring it to an even 8, then I did this:

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all threads should be settled by means of cartoon satire.

You have to appreciate how a good number of ComradeAppleton's replies are essentially, "No u".

Poor comrade; he just wanted to be part of the club of the top 1%.

Last one for today. Just a quick summary of the general trajectory of this thread for anyone not up to speed:

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I thought it would save people having to read the rest of the thread.

I've read it.

Every fucking last word of it.

I've even tried unreading it!

I hate myself!

I'm off to drink myself to death with cheap cider...

There have been some fantastic posts in this thread by comrades (and here I mean actual comrades, not people with mislabeled usernames). Appleton may not have bothered reading anything anyone said but I've found much of it pretty inspiring. Its always good to hear views you hold articulated in ways you've never been able to quite express yourself. Hopefully that's of some consolation to those who bothered writing long posts, only to be repeatedly ignored by someone unwilling to engage with any opinions that contradict his/her own.

Maybe we should just face it.

We're dogmatic.

Our holy writ is a handful of unfinished manuscripts and drafts by a bearded old man who drank like a fish.

More cartoons plz

Yeah, I just want to add the comments in my above post weren't directed at other posters, who have done a grand job given the circumstances, just at the general madness of having to explain the same thing over and over to someone who wanted it explained to them in the first place, but who deliberately dismisses every explanation offered out of hand, and who invariably twists what others said into the exact opposite.

OK, one quick one for now! Inspired by this disturbing post (which surprisingly no one commented on at the time) from earlier in the thread:

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The BORG synth is hilarious

this one has had me giggling like a loon for the last fifteen minutes

You killed us with that one, didn't you?

What about her reality?

ComradeAppleton, why don't you read what we write, rather than make up pretend dragons and pretend to slay them?

What's the point of using up your time in such an unproductive way?

For us, this thread has been of some use in clarifying and explaining our ideas, as other posters have testified, but for you, it's just a continuous, monotonous monologue.

Don't you have any friends you can share your views with? Online or in real life? Why bother with us?

It's becoming pathetic, and I'm starting to feel ashamed at toying with you.

At the start of Appleton's membership I questioned why he was in a forum called libcom if he hated communists/ism and suggested he try some libertarian/freemarket forums. I'm not sure what he's still doing here as he's not converting anybody to his cause and we'd be the worst crowd to try that anyway.

You lot better up this like crazy, 'cause it was a bastard to pull off with a hangover:

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I'd so fucking love a wallpaper version of that.

1680x1050 png or if your have something that can read SVG (like Inkscape) make your own to any size with this.

No True Anarchist.

Answer me a straight question, ComradeAppleton, and I'll give you a biscuit: How is it that in a communist society, everybody is going to take a vote to steal your cake and gang rape you while you watch TV (your examples), but in an individualist society, where anyone can do what they want, for some reason nobody wants to do any of those things to you? And given you live right now in a more-or-less* democratic country, why aren't they all clamouring at your door for cake-sex right now!?

* No sniggering at the back of the class, please!

So according to you:

1. Democracy is more tyrannical than absolute monarchy or fascist dictatorship.

2. "Real" anarchists don't consider the effect their actions have on others, they just do whatever they fuck they feel like.

3. All anarchists are men.

For a minute there I was worried you were going to be racist, or something...

So I stopped reading this thread after it was clear that Comrade Appleton was just an obnoxious troll. But I just came back to it and I have to say that it's turned out to be one of my favorite Libcom threads ever.

Yes appleton has some especially fucked up sexual politics, and I have tried to drag him into it a couple of times, but nobody seems interested. But to summarize:

- appleton believes that if you are raped, and you then choose to respond with police intervention, that YOU are "immoral". Not the rapist, nor even the cops, but YOU.

- appleton often, bizarrely, uses hypothetical rape or gang rape in order to criticize democracy and/or communism

its really, really creepy.

Also, Omen clearly wins the thread.

And oh yeah, wikipedia says:

This would suggest a social relationship right?

wikipedia then goes on to say:

What does the phrase "left-wing" mean? I don't get it. What are "organizations"? The word is surely just a meaningless abstraction right?