Yeah that's actually hedonism
It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.
I don't want you to waste anyone's time with pointless infighting, and if you think I should only care about the value of my own time, I've got some books for you to read about how European-American individualism is wrong and people should care about others.
I thought claiming nobody has to take their jokes seriously was a conservative thing
Your post is moralising about electoralism. It's just moralising against electoralism. And it's a useless waste of my and other anarchists' time. Infighting over pointless bullshit instead of talking about direct action. Complaining about the anarchists who do things you don't like one day a year isn't getting us any closer to a revolution.
Of course not all anarchists vote, but those of us who are most committed to doing all we can, care about voting. We recognise that it's incredibly easy compared to arrestable actions, so it has a very good effort to effect efficiency. Those of us who believe in doing everything in our power are inclined to treat people who don't bother voting with suspicion, since it's so easy and it could have prevented the impending trans genocide if enough people had done it.
They have a pro-monarchy community (shera), which isn't great.
Me representing my own anarchist views isn't strawmanning, even if they're different than yours. And I will repeat myself: claiming your views as the only legitimate form of anarchism is a toxic form of infighting.
I was being funny when I said they made a good point, I already knew that anarchist infighting over whether to vote is pointless and that certain anarchists claiming their political disengagement as representative of anarchism is toxic.
Okay centrist.
When someone tells me they're only motivated by things getting better; by hope, what I learn is that they have not in their life needed to learn fear. Things have not gotten so bad that they have learned to fear being attacked. They are detached enough from consequences that they think nothing getting better is the worst that could possibly happen to them. It's a privilege I envy.