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Except that people have already chosen to get into your system. If they didn't desire your system, they wouldn't be in it. They have already chosen for you to have some authority.
Who are you to tell me what to do?
You didn't tho. Despite who organized the vote etc. the post stands posted by an Admin, and the post is in clear violation of your own stated Code of Conduct.
The "shite" was following prominent Anarchist thinkers (Bakunin, Chomsky) in making the point. I never argued for infinite theoretical education, I argued that critical thinking and awareness of power dynamics are necessary to prevent informal elites. Without tools to recognize bias, framing, and authority signals, "self-organization" becomes a tool for the charismatic or well-connected to dominate.
Unsurprisingly, the people who choose to associate with you agree with you. Have you considered that perhaps anarchists who don't agree with you simply don't feel that it's worth the effort to try to challenge your power structures? Judging by the way you respond to me, it would be futile as anyone who disagrees with you isn't a true anarchist.
oooor, they know that they can demand my (and every other admin's) recall, and the fact that they haven't proves they just trust us.
bed-time is authoritarian, amirite?
Nu-uh. Lol. Ok you're stuck in a loop, buddy. You're gonna have to try harder than that.
Mate, it's an niche online forum run by neurodivergents. Charismatic and well-connected we ain't.
Of all the political people, you think it's anarchists that would be loathe to call out bad power structures? Are you sure this is the argument you want to run with?
Again, effort. Why bother with yet another power tripping admin when they can just hop on to another instance (or ideally, save their energy to actually do something meaningful in real life). It's just a niche online forum run by neurodivergents.
True. It just so happens that all the other anarchist instances also happen to like us. Funny how that works, huh?
Yes, I'm sure that all the people you have an agreement with agree with you.