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Democratic Confederalism

a multinational revolution

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Apr 15, 2023
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Pol Pot is the ultimate shitpost. In the vast terrain of online politics, irony posts will inevitably attract unironic fringe weirdos. Academics call this phenomena context collapse. And 4channers call it Poe’s Law. But they are describing the same thing. For radically transgressive teens, Pol Pot is the perfect meme because it is indefensible, reprehensible and un-cooptable from every side. The ironic memetic crusade against “glasses wearing intellectuals” culminated in a nihilistic shitposting style which expressed a deep sense of failure and a deflation of political possibilities on the left.

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I’m a libertarian socialist.

Who are your biggest influences?

Abdullah Ocalan, Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders, (for getting me into politics) Edward Abbey, Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh

When did you first learn about or start visiting online political communities?

2016

What was your ideology before entering these spaces?
Or how have your views evolved since you started participating?

I started off as a Liberal, and then I slowly drifted towards Libertarian Socialism

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What changes do you think we are likely to see in the next 10 years?

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