Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
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"everyone working in my government"
Jesus Fucking Christ... I swear, some people read "kill the liberal inside your head" and heard "turn into a rambling, insufferable edgelord that has completely lost touch with reality."
Do you even have the remotest idea how thoroughly fucked you (yes you, specifically - and specifically everybody around you) would be if every public worker in your country suddenly decided to up and leave their government job to fulfill your edgelord fantasy moral purity test?
We're talking everybody - from the street sweepers, to sanitation workers, to nurses and health inspectors. Just how far do you think you're going to get?
Even Joseph Fucking Stalin didn't buy into this bullshit narrative of yours - neither did the hundreds of thousands of troops and resistance fighters who marched into Germany (including anarchist ones) and saw every kind of Nazi depravity with their own damn eyes.
But you, edgelord supremo, know better than them, right?
You're right, it's much better if the government agents prop the nazi regime. A strike of any sort is totally edgelord behaviour.
Fucking cringe, mate.
Who is propping up this regime, db0?
The people who collected your garbage this week, perhaps?
Howzabout the plumbers who ensures that there's water coming out of your taps? Perhaps them?
Who said anything about strikes? If the aforementioned garbage collectors and plumbers leave their government jobs out of some moral prerogative they can't actually go on strikes, can they? The only place they'll be "picketing" is on the unemployment line.
Go ahead explain to me how a park service maintenance worker scrubbing a toilet is propping up the regime.
Don't you know it's telephone sanitation engineers keeping society alive
have all the sanitation workers walkout and we'll see how quickly a regime with clogged toilets (among others) survives.
They'd just put up an out of order sign or close the park. Doesn't effect the regime and only harms the public
Harming the public helps the resistance, by turning the public against the oppressive regime. Just like the oppressive regime shooting an innocent woman in the head helps the resistance by turning the public against the oppressive regime.
Unfortunately I don't have that much faith in my fellow citizens anymore.
I don't think anything is going to change until many begin starving. Hope I'm wrong though
That's already the case:
https://www.worldhunger.org/recent-news-about-death-from-malnutrition-in-the-united-states/
Right so elderly abuse isn't what I meant and you know that right?
It's the most vulnerable group which is also kind of "observed" so it's where it starts/it is first noticed.
Right I'm clearly talking about economic times becoming so bad the average person begins to starve.
Your data points to either increase of abuse in care facilities or simply the result of a rapidly aging population. You can't tell which it is either because it doesn't provide the data but instead percentage increases. Which overall is a worthless metric. 5 to 15 is a 200% increase, but not helpful. Hell just this year I had an elderly family member die after refusing to eat. Despite the best efforts of the family and doctors she just wouldn't eat. Instead of force feeding her they let her pass peacefully.
Considering we saw increases in care facilities and the rapidly aging population your data tells me very little.
To be clear my point was about famine. Not about isolated cases of abuse or cases where people did not access available care or sources. Either due to unwillingness or being missed. These are obviously problems, but not the type I was discussing
In the US? Lol ok
/disengage
It is better to have them there, rather than have the government be 100% Fascists. People who don't support them can slow things down by "accidentally" doing things wrong/poorly. If they all leave and are replaced by actual Fascists who want to support the regime, they will do things as well as they possibly can. Also, having people in there who can feed information is also really useful.
This is the 22 years of slowing down you're talking about:
At the least you're honest on wanting them to stay there, accelerating genocide.
.001% Nazi state is still too many.
Lol. I don't think you understand how this all works. Do you think it'd be higher or lower with 100% of people working for them supporting what they want?
There's a very real and useful tactic called malicious compliance, where you do what's written but not what's intended, to slow down the machinery. It's a useful tactic, but you need people on the inside to do that.
If you still want them to leave after reading this, I'm assuming you're on their side. You want them to leave to make room for obedient workers. If so, fuck off. You're too easy to read.
Am I talking to a robot, or do you blatantly ignore the fact that ICE accelerated it's “machinery” after 2025, and that malicious compliance is having the opposite effect, as I replied to you back?
How can you know it's having the opposite effect if they're accelerating their machinery? The result could easily just be the acceleration from increased spending and recruitment being more powerful than the malicious compliance.
If they leave, do you think those jobs remain vacant? Obviously not. They fill them with new employees, who will probably be sycophants. They'll be happy to do the job as desired and make things worse.
Because effectively “They [have] fill them with new […] sycophants. They’ll be happy to do the job as desired and make things worse.” It's 2026, they’ve point blank executed 9 people in Minnesota, a Blue state.
Alright, I'm done. I moving on. I don't know if you're actually just trying to help them or if you're so set in your stupid idiology to realize that you're helping them. Everyone getting out of their way is what they want. Malicious compliance has been used historically to great effect to slow down authoritarian regimes. If you can't recognize that then you aren't arguing in good faith.
prove it.
This has some examples against the Nazis. It's been used many more places too.
I suggest you researc before you are so sure that you're correct. You're closing yourself off to learning new things because you think you already know the answer.
Teslas are helping the Nazis.
Boeing too.
U-haul as well.
Ford, Cheveron, and all the Americans automotive makers are not doing malicious compliance (MC).
Sure, the companies are not. They are in support of the regime, so why would they? They probably have employees who are though. You wouldn't know until after this is all done and they come out and say it. The entire point is to keep it descrete so you can continue doing it. You can't do it if they fire you.
They are “descretely” accelerating the genocide of fascism🤦♀️. Since you can't see that, the conversation is over.
Dude, this conversation was about workers, not companies. You're so dense.
The sycophants exceed the “Schindlers” in our current moment. The companies have outpaced them.
No shit. I literally said the sycophants are the problem. You want to make room for more by having the people slowing things down leave. Do you even remember what we were talking about?
You don't seem to comprehend my point. So I’ll draw it for you.
~~Uhhhh, I thought this was strictly an anarchist instance? Not a prog-lib one. You think ditching tried and true socialist praxis is "edgelord behaviour?"~~ OOps
Can you parse sarcasm?