So, someone calling themselves Ex-anarchist created one of the site's AMA threads inviting questions with this provocative intro:
*If one of my nieces or nephews told me they were anarchists, I wouldn't be happy. In my experience, being an anarchist means being around people who are dysfunctional and destructive. Most (all?) of their destructive behaviors are directed against themselves and against other people in the scene. Many of these behaviors are sexual.*
Within a day there was something like 200 replies, including some very troubling personal experiences from other anarchists. The thread is now locked and a number of the posts were deleted by the moderators, but what's left can be seen here: https://raddle.me/f/lobby/208310/ex-anarchist-here-ama
Thoughts, anews anons?
Comments
I was there for this. Some…
anon (not verified) Fri, 06/27/2025 - 08:14
I was there for this. Some posts were being deleted by the moderators as the thread progressed, and one poster deleted their account, but most of what was said is still up there
they deleted my post
anon (not verified) Fri, 08/01/2025 - 07:38
In reply to I was there for this. Some… by anon (not verified)
yeah, they deleted a post I made about an anarchist couple who tried to groom and morality haze me. they were protecting this duo for reasons I will leave out of this post for now. glad someone made this post about it here, because this couple has been doing the same stuff in several online leftist and anarchist spaces, as well as in real life. targetting people of color especially.
'human flesh enjoyer' wow…
anon (not verified) Fri, 06/27/2025 - 12:34
'human flesh enjoyer' wow and i thought the anews crowd were fucked up
j/k i love y'all really. ps. what's a raddle
ziq and zig
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 04:49
what happened to anews' resident age of consent warrior? https://x.com/SirEinzige
Zic is of the same ilk as…
anon (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 20:24
In reply to ziq and zig by anon (not verified)
Zic is of the same ilk as SirE. The masculine toxicity that the spook of patriarchical supremacy, from which all the other hierarchies flow down, is his main critique. Most, nay, all normies cannot comprehend the truth of self-awareness, which is the foundation of anarch liberty, not collectives following ideological/religious spooks, nor the moral impositions which guide and control every action within the normie existence.
Why is this sketchy, ultra…
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 07:45
Why is this sketchy, ultra-normie Reddit-wannabe forum pandering for clickbait on my (once) beloved Anews? Is this the Javasnitch holocaust of online anarchism?
raddle does not come out…
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 09:40
In reply to Why is this sketchy, ultra… by anon (not verified)
raddle does not come out well, skimming this thread. why is everyone on the offense? do those kids think they're on twitter? and why was the post locked?
don't disagree (mebbe some…
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 09:47
In reply to raddle does not come out… by anon (not verified)
don't disagree (mebbe some of the comments that were removed were helpful context).
but also smeone coming to an anarchist site to say they're not anarchist any more is pretty bullsit. there are some people like that on anews too, coming here just to complain about anarchists. and as some said on raddle, the lack of specificity is highly sus.
actually I thought the OP was spot on, for example:
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 12:06
In reply to don't disagree (mebbe some… by anon (not verified)
"In my experience, being an anarchist means being around people who are dysfunctional and destructive. Most (all?) of their destructive behaviors are directed against themselves and against other people in the scene."
and
"i was part of a collective that was guerilla gardening an abandoned space in the city. there was a handful of us, and two of the group were a couple. a few months in she left him and he lost his shit, told us he was ''retroactively withdrawing consent from her'' and told us we should start an accountability process against her for raping him. obviously the group fell apart and that was the end of that.
i know people keep saying ''there are dysfunctional people everywhere'', but honestly, i can't imagine something so insane happening anywhere other than where anarchists are."
^^^(I've literally witnessed a scenario play out just like this one...)
and
"i literally interned at LBC" <-------(lmao ouch!)
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Idk about you, but I don't think this person is a troll at all.. I think it's just a person who simply got hurt as a result of being around other anarchists, many of whom, yes its true, tend to be suffering from mental illness and unfairly projecting their unresolved traumas onto others around them as a toxic coping mechanism. As someone who's also been involved in the Scene for ~10 years, many of the OPs vignettes in the now locked thread strike an excruciatingly painful chord of truth because, lets be real... we've all experienced or, been adjacent to, stories like the one I included, where some mentally unhinged person attempts to gaslight everyone and weaponize the language of "accountability" in order to control someone. It's so common.
Also their use of specific terminology/lingo and authors/publishers throughout the thread has me convinced that this is real. Meanwhile, people are trying to discredit this person by: A) calling them a disingenuous troll, B) calling them a cop, or C) saying "Well, you were never REALLY an anarchist in the first place!"
All of these weak dismissal attempts are just narratives that people are telling themselves simply because its much easier for their egos to manage those narratives than it would be to actively confront the structural issues at the heart of modern anarchism raised by the OP.
raddle OP here. firstly i…
anon (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 03:53
In reply to actually I thought the OP was spot on, for example: by anon (not verified)
raddle OP here.
firstly i will say that my time with the LBC people was brief and uneventful. it was not the uplifting community i'd hoped to find but nor was it the traumatic shitshow i found at gigs, fairs, moots and basically anywhere anarchists gather.
'''anarchists, many of whom, yes its true, tend to be suffering from mental illness and unfairly projecting their unresolved traumas onto others around them as a toxic coping mechanism.'''
hit the nail on the head there. i did try to touch on this on raddle (on a follow up thread that was also locked) but was told that '''mental illness''' was '''ableist language''' so got nowhere with that.
'''Meanwhile, people are trying to discredit this person by: A) calling them a disingenuous troll, B) calling them a cop, or C) saying "Well, you were never REALLY an anarchist in the first place!"'''
younger anarchists seem to think they've joined the Avengers and are now among the goodest of the good (see also '''God's chosen people''') and really don't want to hear that they've thrown their lot in with people who are, in my experience, even more fucked up than your average Joe
Yes, many anarchists are…
anon (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 07:11
In reply to raddle OP here. firstly i… by anon (not verified)
Yes, many anarchists are fucked up. Not nearly as fucked up as sickos like Neonazis or the Epstein crowd. But your judgemental fixation on the mental ills or anarchists keeps you from considering the fact that you need to be a level of fucked up in order to espouse such anti-social beliefs and critique.
Like do you really think your average suburban normie that scores professionally, socially, sexually and has maybe even a nice family would be so willing to take down the very system that makes them so happy and comfy in the first place? Maybe not the whole explanation, but it's got a lot to do with that.
The barbarians will…
anon (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 09:45
In reply to Yes, many anarchists are… by anon (not verified)
The barbarians will legislate. Now, and forever longer.
Idk why you bring up…
anon (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 17:07
In reply to Yes, many anarchists are… by anon (not verified)
Idk why you bring up neonazis or "the epstein crowd". Simply saying "well atleast we're not as bad as THEM!" .. isn't the big flex you seem to think it is. Because at that point, you set the bar down so low that it literally becomes a tripping hazard in hell. A better question might be: "how are anarchists in comparison to the average normie?" And personally, I agree with the raddle OP, simply based on my own experience in both types of social scenes, that anarchists tend to be way more fucked up on average than your garden variety apolitical rando.
My 2 pesos.
Maybe it only seems like that cuz
CalvinSmith (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 17:29
In reply to Idk why you bring up… by anon (not verified)
They are on some activist power trip due to their oh-so important anarchist identity, at least that's how i look at it with my small scenester experience. I tend to agree with your setiment against rating ppl's character. I agree with julian langer that there's no shame in self-preservation.
Anarchism does appear to mostly be a youth culture thing, i guess its best to leave while you can....
For example, this immediately comes to mind:
anon (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 17:33
In reply to Idk why you bring up… by anon (not verified)
I remember one time, back when the ITS were a thing and posting stuff, there was this university student, basically just a 20somwthing y/o kid, studying computer science, who got [redacted] and this person, who was quite popular in the local scene at the time, was celebrating that incident... I called them out on it, and an argument ensued. Eventually, when argued into a corner, it comes out that the real deep down reason they feel the way they do about the college kid who was [redacted], is because they had been the victim of bullying by shitty people back when they were in high school, and were now projecting that hurt onto this random student in Mexico who they know absolutely nothing about.
So, yeah... definitely saw a lot of crazy ass people with raging trauma projection complexes masquerading their unresolved wounds as "radical politics", and how they got totally enabled by (most of) the people in their environment.
Meanwhile, tho not perfect obv, I've never had anything remotely in the same ballpark of crazy, with my "normie" social scenes that are mainly based on shared hobbies and interests, like, idk, fkn volleyball, fly fishing or boardgames.
Never once in any of those scenes did I have to be like, "gee, um, well, listen 'Bob'... maybe unresolved personal trauma isn't a good enough foundation to justify celebrating the [redacted] of a random Mexican university student you don't even know, y'know?"
i've come to the conclusion over the years, as of studying a lot
CalvinSmith (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 18:11
In reply to For example, this immediately comes to mind: by anon (not verified)
of anarchist related ideas, and watching drama unfold on the internet, that radical politics can easily become a lot more authoritarian than centrist type ideologies because radicals tend to want big changes to happen really quickly as opposed to having some acceptance of the way things are. Demagogues tend to be the ones who can push large groups of more centrist-minded people in a more radical direction.
Of course, if you have an interest in anarchism at all, you know that the foundations of liberal democracy are dishonest, so that's where the contradiction lies: how do you navigate something that's personally insulting to you without exploding in hatred? I don't think anything is going to supplant the standard consumer format for living anytime soon, we might not even like what replaces it if i'm wrong.
"how are anarchists in…
anon (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 19:53
In reply to Idk why you bring up… by anon (not verified)
"how are anarchists in comparison to the average normie?"
Well you've just set the bar even lower with such stupid question. As normies, being notoriously neurotic conformists, or at best sociopathic innovators, neither stand as good reference for mental health or any "non-fucked-up-ness".
You'll find out that mental illness is mostly a product of social democraphics... as you're crazy only when alone, or marginal numbers.
(Then I get banned over Raddle over writing "crazy", lol. Ziq is such a huge cunt with zero life content...)
Most anarchists act like…
anon (not verified) Mon, 06/30/2025 - 05:44
In reply to "how are anarchists in… by anon (not verified)
Most anarchists act like they're sooooooo much better than "normies", when really, they are just as neurotic and just as conformist. The superiority complex they walk around with is simply astonishing, just looking down their noses at so called "normies" or "muggles". Truly appallingly judgemental and self righteous asshole cultists.
"everyone is evil except me and my tiny group of friends"
Ok bro.
"they are just as neurotic…
anon (not verified) Mon, 06/30/2025 - 09:30
In reply to Most anarchists act like… by anon (not verified)
"they are just as neurotic and just as conformist."
HahaHaHahHaHahaHaHahHa!
Nope. You're sooooo out of touch that it shows all over. Psychosis are the trend in anarchist and radleft mental issues. Always been. Yes, there's always some followers and scene-surfers, but what *drives* anarchists is something far deeper, if it's mental illness.
And no, the "conformism" of the punk scenes is just same old gang subculture. You need 1-2 other major attributes for to have conformity and even normies.
the conformism of the punk…
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/04/2025 - 03:41
In reply to "they are just as neurotic… by anon (not verified)
the conformism of the punk scenes is just same old gang subculture indeed, except there's no promotion to be in had in punk, so you end up with the tragic sight of elderly men hanging with teenagers at a gig. some of them are harmless old lost souls, some of them you definitely wouldn't want your niece around
This checks, but you'll also…
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/04/2025 - 07:07
In reply to the conformism of the punk… by anon (not verified)
This checks, but you'll also have this creepy shit going on within Xian groups or in some big business circles, and I don't wanna imagine the pedo shit likely going on at the Burning Man types of hipster events. So it's not a "normies vs marginals" thing, unlike what you'd likely crave to believe
i guess the difference is…
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 05:28
In reply to This checks, but you'll also… by anon (not verified)
i guess the difference is Burning Man is only one weekend of the year, and big business circles are still working hours only, whereas joining the A gang is a 24/7/365 commitment (tattoos optional but encouraged) that alienates you from your family and your 'normie' friends for the rest of your life. in this respect, it has a lot in common with the most fundamentalist religious groups
Yeah, obviously
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 07:18
In reply to i guess the difference is… by anon (not verified)
Built into its very structure is the idea that you should resent your family. Afterall: it's "patriarchy", it's "cishetnormativity", plus theyre a bunch of normies anyway who probably don't care very much to dedicate their lives to your cult, so "fuck em"
thats 100% been a thing in anarchism. I was there. I used to be the same way: "Oh my boomer parents don't understand or accept the existence of alternative neo-pronouns? Ostracize them forever never talk to them again!!!"
Very dumb.
So grateful for this thread
anon (not verified) Wed, 08/06/2025 - 07:50
In reply to Yeah, obviously by anon (not verified)
So happy to see so many people criticizing these pernicious tendencies. the anarchists I hung out with were the same as the fascists they claimed to abhor. they tried to convince me to leave my family, coerce me into sexual and relational dynamics that they wanted, actively hid the full picture of information, so that I could be controlled. gas lit and punished me for questioning their bullshit. tried convincing me that they were not being coercive when everything was coercive. tried to micromanage my life so it was in line with theirs. it was the biggest mind fuck, because the aim was your self-esteem and sense of self.
funniest thing was that when I started questioning and challenging their bullshit, this main person would say things like "i'm usually much better at doing this" lol. I'm sure thats true, because the grooming skills are so fully developed and so tied to their identity as "good anarchists" that I think these folks are genuinely mentally distraught when it's not working on someone they've identified as a good candidate to "work on". mega creepy bunch!
"I lost my WIFE to WOKE…
anon (not verified) Wed, 08/06/2025 - 09:48
In reply to So grateful for this thread by anon (not verified)
"I lost my WIFE to WOKE anarchist kults. Anarchists are really fascists where the fascists are just tryin to save good White normal Muhrika from Mexicans and other Browns. Uuuuhhr! If you ever see an anarchist never let them anywhere near your picture-perfect blond daughter or else she'll get corrupted by tatoos, filthy dogs, Colt 45 and the Polycule cult."
stop deflecting.
anon (not verified) Wed, 08/06/2025 - 11:12
In reply to "I lost my WIFE to WOKE… by anon (not verified)
we're talking about anarchist groomers. that's a real problem.
No uuuu!
anon (not verified) Wed, 08/06/2025 - 18:45
In reply to stop deflecting. by anon (not verified)
Uuuuuu keep throwing bland empty accusations at "the anarchist milieu" or "anarchists" in general, but. burns out accusations are cheap! We want names... locations... dates... what exactly happened... or statistics supported by peer reviews.
*turns out*... I like that…
anon (not verified) Wed, 08/06/2025 - 18:47
In reply to No uuuu! by anon (not verified)
*turns out*... I like that slip tho!
not a gang, a cult.
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 07:21
In reply to i guess the difference is… by anon (not verified)
at least in a gang, you're supposed to be thuggin' and making money. Anarchy tho? More of a hyper-liberal jim jones type thing.
Forgive the hot take, but a…
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:42
In reply to not a gang, a cult. by anon (not verified)
Forgive the hot take, but a mass suicide event is maybe precisely what USA anarchism needs. But alas, the poor Murican fucks cannot even make koolaid great again.
It was Flavor-ade!
anon (not verified) Wed, 08/06/2025 - 18:20
In reply to Forgive the hot take, but a… by anon (not verified)
Koolaid is innocent.
https://forgottenawesome.blogspot.com/2019/12/that-time-alan-moore-wrot…
Nothing wrong with cults…
anon (not verified) Wed, 08/06/2025 - 19:00
In reply to not a gang, a cult. by anon (not verified)
Nothing wrong with cults... as far as there's no fixed hierarchy and gurus.
The state basically is the biggest cult around, and not even you can disagree, if you aren't another civcuck hypocrite.
We amoral nihilists find…
A.N. (not verified) Thu, 08/07/2025 - 04:11
In reply to Nothing wrong with cults… by anon (not verified)
We amoral nihilists find cults to be oppressive boorish gatherings of sheeple.
Sturgeon's law states that…
Tim Declercq Mon, 06/30/2025 - 01:41
In reply to raddle OP here. firstly i… by anon (not verified)
Sturgeon's law states that 90% of everything is crap. I sometimes think that with anarchists it applies double, in that the remaining 10% is also 90% crap, ending up with a grand total of 99% crap. But more realistically the 90% figure seems about right from my experience. That being said, I never really participated in the whole gigs and squat-partying scene, so I guess I've been relatively insulated from the most fucked up parts of anarchism anyway.
OooOooh yeeEeesss, Iii Am…
anon (not verified) Mon, 06/30/2025 - 04:25
In reply to Sturgeon's law states that… by Tim Declercq
OooOooh yeeEeesss, Iii Am tHe one percent puRe aNarCH wHo nEVer sEEtheS w*tH ReSSentimEnt!!
"C) saying "Well, you were…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/07/2025 - 04:23
In reply to actually I thought the OP was spot on, for example: by anon (not verified)
"C) saying "Well, you were never REALLY an anarchist in the first place"
as someone who had the privilege of posting in that thread, no. the point was that if you think punk show gigs are full of rapist abusers disproportionately, just stop going to them, maybe advise people not to go to them, make a complaint post about them... but it says nothing about anarchism or whether you should abandon the ideology.
if anything, people were puffing up their egos because the argument in the post was so poorly constructed
NooooOooooo.... you didn't…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/07/2025 - 08:24
In reply to "C) saying "Well, you were… by anon (not verified)
NooooOooooo.... you didn't get the point that anarchism leads to being rapist by default! Coz my personal experience of some punk scene, n such n such.
correction: anarchism leads…
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 09:38
In reply to NooooOooooo.... you didn't… by anon (not verified)
correction: anarchism leads to *being raped* by default
seriously, try being a conventionally attractive woman and hanging out at your local anarchist events, even tame stuff like food not bombs, and see how long you last before something seriously creepy happens to you.
and no, it isn't true that "well this happens everywhere!" i've been doing mixed karate for more than a decade and never seen anything like it
lol, Looks like a bold new…
anon (not verified) Thu, 08/07/2025 - 19:10
In reply to correction: anarchism leads… by anon (not verified)
lol, Looks like a bold new concept for cheesy normie horror flicks, with jump scares and all that. Blumhouse studios get this done!
> it says nothing about…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/09/2025 - 00:22
In reply to "C) saying "Well, you were… by anon (not verified)
> it says nothing about anarchism
what if every gig, every gathering, every bookfair, every event and everything ever to do with anarchism attracted creeps like flies around shit, then would it say something about anarchism (even if you are determined not to hear it)?
100%
athousandmore (not verified) Fri, 08/01/2025 - 07:49
In reply to actually I thought the OP was spot on, for example: by anon (not verified)
This is exactly right. My own experience is that some anarchists, and mostly egoists, have a tendency to legitimize all of their shady ass bullshit as legitimate because they truly believe that they have unlocked the key to true enlightenment, or some crap like that. The narcissism this this feeling of certainty produces is the source of the sickness as you put it. And yes, it's both a danger to be around, and even worse to be subjected to.
This is so true..
anon (not verified) Thu, 08/07/2025 - 15:45
In reply to 100% by athousandmore (not verified)
Don't get me wrong, the Org types have had their issues for sure, but are mostly just harmless cringe larpers.
The Egoist/Nihilist types tho have truly been some of the most narcissistic lying pieces of shit I've ever had the misfortune to come across in general, for reasons you've already layed out above..
What??
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 12:14
In reply to don't disagree (mebbe some… by anon (not verified)
"coming here just to complain about anarchists."
"pretty bullshit"
lol what do you mean? that's the norm my dude. I've never met anyone who complains about anarchists more than other anarchists, and this is IRL. So much of modern IRL anarchism seems to be about "purifying the inside of the movement".
My experience of anarchism, I would describe it as an infinite Russian nesting-doll of endless purity tests until it implodes on itself.
Yeaaaa, I heard about …
anon (not verified) Tue, 07/01/2025 - 19:14
In reply to What?? by anon (not verified)
Yeaaaa, I heard about "Montana anarchists" too. After all the moment you pretend being anarchist that's surely coz you gotta be one!
to anon 09:40
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 15:04
In reply to raddle does not come out… by anon (not verified)
Likely that was just another of Ziq's tricks of sock-puppetry... as he's desperate for attention and especially data clicks to his ever-suspicious site.
Most people with half decent…
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 12:42
Most people with half decent anti-white politics got ran off or left raddle a while ago
Good!
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 18:15
In reply to Most people with half decent… by anon (not verified)
We don't need more self-loathing white liberals with their annoying guilt-complexes... let the Democrat Party have them!
Btw, you can be anti racist or pro black community, without necessarily having to be "anti white"... like how I can be pro palestinian without necessarily being anti israeli, duh..
"self-loathing white…
anon (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 12:51
In reply to Good! by anon (not verified)
"self-loathing white liberals" aren't anti white, or else they wouldn't be liberals. They're not the kind of people being discussed.
"like how I can be pro…
anon (not verified) Sun, 06/29/2025 - 13:34
In reply to "self-loathing white… by anon (not verified)
"like how I can be pro palestinian without necessarily being anti israeli, duh.."
Great to see Mark Carney posting on Anews!
Thread is absolutely…
anon (not verified) Sat, 06/28/2025 - 15:07
Thread is absolutely incredible. The part where ziq willingly compares their passion fro anarchy to Christian fundamentalism was the chef's kiss. Suicidal nihilism is a problem.
Verily, get active, ye Nihilists!
as much as i dislike him and…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/02/2025 - 08:38
In reply to Thread is absolutely… by anon (not verified)
as much as i dislike him and his website, the person (people?) who keep trying to dox ziq on this thread only prove the OP's point: anarchists are spiteful individuals who will go out of their way to make your life a misery if you offend them, in the same way that many of the raddlers in the original thread were obviously itching to dox the OP
WHO is really being doxxed…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/02/2025 - 09:54
In reply to as much as i dislike him and… by anon (not verified)
WHO is really being doxxed here? Let us know!
No u
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/02/2025 - 12:27
In reply to as much as i dislike him and… by anon (not verified)
OP only proves ur a spiteful idiot... like with an axe to grind against anarchists, for some reason. Did they steal your girlfriend, maybe? So sorry for u... but there's plenty other potential love interests out there!
> Did they steal your…
anon (not verified) Thu, 07/03/2025 - 09:06
In reply to No u by anon (not verified)
> Did they steal your girlfriend, maybe?
you really think anarchists are super-suave lady-killers? they're incels, generally. zhachev, ziq etc.
Yep, for a start, a real…
anon (not verified) Thu, 07/03/2025 - 15:48
In reply to > Did they steal your… by anon (not verified)
Yep, for a start, a real anarch NEVER declares themselves to actually being an anarchist, to them, anything with an "ist" attached to it is basically an "ego-stroking club. The real anarch just describes themselves as a critical thinking agnostic free thinker with empathy,,,that's all. They sit quietly in the corner at parties, usually talking quietly to the most sensuous babe in the room, and leaves the party early with her. No boasting about slashing rich peoples tyres on their porsche, or throwing rocks at a capitalist business, or spray painting slogans on a wall, no seething rants about poverty and the joys of eating free food out of dumpsters. OooOooh nooOoo, none of that Incel, ranting ressentiment from the cool real anarch, he just leaves quietly with a babe,
respectfully, are you…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/07/2025 - 04:24
In reply to Thread is absolutely… by anon (not verified)
respectfully, are you illiterate? the comparison was of structure, not passion: if you go to a forum about X, complaining about X, you'd likely get yelled at. likewise the word fundamentalism was never mentioned lol
ziq didn't say X, he said…
anon (not verified) Thu, 07/10/2025 - 09:14
In reply to respectfully, are you… by anon (not verified)
ziq didn't say X, he said church. Of all the comparisons he could go to, he went to that one. And if raddle is a church, what does that make him? The priest of course!
Anarchomissionaries for sure
anon (not verified) Fri, 08/15/2025 - 17:46
In reply to ziq didn't say X, he said… by anon (not verified)
Totally agree with the above post. These creeps are just as deranged as the catholic priests.
Zhachev
cease and desi… (not verified) Mon, 06/30/2025 - 09:04
I wish the mods hadn't deleted the short comment by Zhachev on this thread. His name surely has to be part of this conversation. This is a man who, lest we forget, travelled half-way across the country to threaten someone who'd slighted him on an anarchist IRC. This is what you risk everytime you interact with anarchists, even online.
raddle uses cloudflare? *…
paddle (not verified) Mon, 06/30/2025 - 13:32
raddle uses cloudflare?
**LE BARFz**
Im guessing its socks and…
anon (not verified) Tue, 07/01/2025 - 15:12
Im guessing its socks and fed bots talking to eachother like on regular reddit
💯💯 thecollective actually…
anon (not verified) Thu, 07/03/2025 - 06:57
In reply to Im guessing its socks and… by anon (not verified)
💯💯
thecollective actually has one of the larger upvote cartels on there. anything criticizing is lost, yet there reposts with no comments always run
this is all so amusing! the…
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 07/04/2025 - 09:23
this is all so amusing! the main idea being pitched here is SO weak haha
a generalizing fallacy just running around on a lazy rampage, like who could possibly have traveled enough and lived long enough to make a serious version of this assertion?
the fish god emperor from Dune if he was also a train hopping oogle on earth for centuries? maybe some sort of vampire hobo that finds anarchists appealing? like, we get it, you've had a bad time and that sucks but perhaps anarchism was one of the few ways that you ever socialized beyond your friend groups?
start wandering around in the back alleys of literally any scene or "community" for awhile, make it past the honeymoon phase and you'll realize all of this is just ... describing the ugly side of our species.
little, if anything to do with the beautiful idea, except perhaps a slightly higher concentration of mental health issues, which others have already remarked on
so for an anarchist (or ex…
anon (not verified) Sun, 07/06/2025 - 04:46
In reply to this is all so amusing! the… by lumpy (not verified)
so for an anarchist (or ex-anarchist) to say anything about anarchists in general, said anarchist has to have personally hung out with every single other anarchist on earth?
So then what was your…
anon (not verified) Sun, 07/06/2025 - 08:43
In reply to so for an anarchist (or ex… by anon (not verified)
So then what was your demographics sample for claiming to know their global democraphics so to be able to make a reliable assessment on how they are, generally?
Tour local oogle gang of dogThe edgy dude who stole your girlfriend!?
Bold of you to assume…
anon (not verified) Sun, 07/06/2025 - 11:26
In reply to So then what was your… by anon (not verified)
Bold of you to assume anarchists have girlfriends.
So then what was your…
anon (not verified) Sun, 07/06/2025 - 16:04
In reply to Bold of you to assume… by anon (not verified)
So then what was your demographics sample for claiming to know their global democraphics so to be able to make a reliable assessment on how they are, generally?
The true anarch has…
anon (not verified) Sun, 07/06/2025 - 21:18
In reply to Bold of you to assume… by anon (not verified)
The true anarch has intellectual and emotional nous, and we always take a babe home from any convergence. This may sound sexist, but infact it's an asexual relationship which has the potential of mutual desire, but gratification is not the pursuit, thus the mysterious charismatic allure that the true anarch exudes.
yes! i see your bad faith…
lumpy (not verified) Tue, 07/08/2025 - 11:54
In reply to so for an anarchist (or ex… by anon (not verified)
yes! i see your bad faith question and circle back to how my ALSO hostile prompt already destroyed this watery, weak-ass assumption and it's done now.
so again, yes, meet every anarchist on earth, spend months or years getting to know them, or you're a bullshitting liar (or somebody who doesn't understand generalizing fallacies) and only fools should listen to your silly nonsense
me: i went to a crackhouse…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/09/2025 - 02:26
In reply to yes! i see your bad faith… by lumpy (not verified)
me: i went to a crackhouse once and it was really scary and dangerous. i went to another and it was the same. i recommend everyone stay away from crackhouses.
lumpy, PhD: you don't understand generalizing fallacy! have you been to every crackhouse in the world? only fools should listen to your silly nonsense!
lumpenprole, did you ever stop to think that maybe you are one of the ''''dysfunctional and destructive'''' people the ex-anarchist is talking about here?
anon, did you ever stop to…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/09/2025 - 09:28
In reply to me: i went to a crackhouse… by anon (not verified)
anon, did you ever stop to think that maybe YOU are one of the "dysfunctional and destructive" people the OP is talking about!?
Haha so amusing how your…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/09/2025 - 03:29
In reply to this is all so amusing! the… by lumpy (not verified)
Haha so amusing how your experiences are so much weaker than my ideas, which are so muscular and beautiful that I have to post them here constantly under my own handle, like a true egoist
Anyway yes our “communities” are filled with all the ugliness of the rest of the world, plus some bonus mental illness. But haha! Youre weak!
i said the argument doing…
lumpy (not verified) Thu, 07/10/2025 - 08:38
In reply to Haha so amusing how your… by anon (not verified)
i said the argument doing all the heavy lifting here is weak BUT this response does indicate a deep insecurity too! :)
> plus some bonus mental…
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 05:33
In reply to Haha so amusing how your… by anon (not verified)
> plus some bonus mental illness
isn't that alone a good reason to keep well away? hanging around with ill people makes you much more likely to be ill yourself. lie with dogs, wake with fleas etc
Caught a bad round of…
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 05:42
In reply to > plus some bonus mental… by anon (not verified)
Caught a bad round of Borderline personality?? Betterhelp.com. First month free
nope, just trauma, trust…
OP raddler (not verified) Sat, 07/12/2025 - 04:48
In reply to Caught a bad round of… by anon (not verified)
nope, just trauma, trust issues, damaged relationships with family and old friends, internet addiction, a stalker, and a half shelf of books
O boy, I got a stalker too!…
anon (not verified) Thu, 07/17/2025 - 19:06
In reply to nope, just trauma, trust… by OP raddler (not verified)
O boy, I got a stalker too! Mine systematically isolated me from all my "friends", weaponized " accountability" language (via being an attractive white middle class woman), lied about abuse and sexual assault (!!) & told people I actually assaulted someone else who got a handjob from me while on top of my blacked out drunk body. Sexy! Then I ran into them "coincidentally" every 2-3 weeks for 10 months until I left my apartment & then the city. Still paranoid they are going to show up anywhere i am, still not assuming any anarchists I meet would have the courage to confront me about rumors instead of exiling me at the first sign of a distressed white woman.
Imagine being my therapist while I was so fucked I was convinced I must be not perceiving reality correctly!
What a fucking mess
I'm guessing this happened…
anon (not verified) Tue, 07/22/2025 - 04:12
In reply to O boy, I got a stalker too!… by anon (not verified)
I'm guessing this happened at your local chess society? Classics book club? Climbing group? No? It was anarchists?! Well color me shocked!
Face it, people: this kind of shit just doesn't happen outside of 'radical' subcultures.
FACE IT! Society and its…
anon (not verified) Tue, 07/22/2025 - 07:16
In reply to I'm guessing this happened… by anon (not verified)
FACE IT! Society and its criminal courts (and often the police too, .well as all the related agencies) got a bunc of prepldispostions against sexual absue and other types of misconduct. Yes yes yes! The state in many countries at least pretends protecting the women and children from all these crusty derelict men who don't keep their hair clean cunt and shave everyday.
The threat of denouncing such behaviors to these state institutions is clearly is clearly enough to ensure a good morality amongst the cool normie citizenry, as per reification of the superego to mass scale!
Then it's all up to those having achieved structural privilege (fathers, judges, cops, misery managers, sports coaches, "artists", and so many more!) to better use and abuse where no one's looking...
Choose Society. Conform.
no, you just don't want to…
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 09:25
In reply to > plus some bonus mental… by anon (not verified)
no, you just don't want to go outside. also, you hang out HERE fleabag
there is no here here
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 09:43
In reply to no, you just don't want to… by lumpy (not verified)
there is no here here
then where'd you get all…
lumpy (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 09:47
In reply to there is no here here by anon (not verified)
then where'd you get all those fleas, genius?!
digital fleas
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/11/2025 - 09:52
In reply to then where'd you get all… by lumpy (not verified)
digital fleas
Ah, it's the completely…
anon (not verified) Sat, 07/12/2025 - 06:45
In reply to > plus some bonus mental… by anon (not verified)
Ah, it's the completely-unscientific, normie tall tale about mental illnesses being contagious. But but.. maybe you are the one who's being paranoid!? Such intellectual poverty here, regardless your diagnosis.
the true anarch hangs with…
anon (not verified) Sun, 07/13/2025 - 01:59
In reply to Ah, it's the completely… by anon (not verified)
the true anarch hangs with zhachev IRL all day and ziq online all night and still wakes up early in the morning happy, healthy and bright
why was the raddle thread…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/07/2025 - 00:52
why was the raddle thread locked?
as annoying as it is when mods here delete messages here in the name of '''better conversations''', at least they never shut up a whole conversation
Perhaps you could ask the…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/07/2025 - 08:10
In reply to why was the raddle thread… by anon (not verified)
Perhaps you could ask the actual Raddle mods instead of asking on a completely different site?
raddle OP here: i didn't…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/07/2025 - 11:05
In reply to Perhaps you could ask the… by anon (not verified)
raddle OP here: i didn't bother asking, but the thread was locked and many of my comments were deleted after i asked -- not in bad faith, i don't think -- why a middle-aged man (?) would spend all of his (?) free time and money running a website used mostly by teenagers.
to the people saying i am full of seething resentment, the only thing i resent is having sunk so many years into a scene (or a milieu or whatever, pedants know what i mean) that takes so much and gives back exactly nothing
!why a middle-aged man (?)…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/07/2025 - 13:57
In reply to raddle OP here: i didn't… by anon (not verified)
!why a middle-aged man (?) would spend all of his (?) free time and money running a website used mostly by teenagers."
oooooooooooooh... Now I see where you're getting at!
"The only thing I resent.."
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/07/2025 - 15:20
In reply to raddle OP here: i didn't… by anon (not verified)
To raddle OP: for what it's worth, I know exactly how you feel, and wish you all the best moving forward.
stopping posting on…
anon (not verified) Thu, 07/17/2025 - 09:11
In reply to "The only thing I resent.." by anon (not verified)
stopping posting on anarchist sites would be a good start to moving forward, don't you think?
Sure, but for some people,…
anon (not verified) Thu, 07/17/2025 - 12:19
In reply to stopping posting on… by anon (not verified)
Sure, but for some people, the giving of their account can be part of that process by providing catharsis.
any brit anarchos have any…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/16/2025 - 01:05
any brit anarchos have any context for the X link shared in the raddle thread for us? https://xcancel.com/TransActionBloc/status/1711046787643977847#m
context: anarchists get…
raddleOP (not verified) Thu, 07/17/2025 - 01:34
In reply to any brit anarchos have any… by anon (not verified)
context: anarchists get together; conclusion: someone ends up getting molested, as usual. or, in this guy's case, multiple people.
Conclusion: anarchists will…
RaddlePSYOP (not verified) Thu, 07/17/2025 - 11:29
In reply to context: anarchists get… by raddleOP (not verified)
Conclusion: anarchists will most surely molest some people the moment they gather together; cops, normies, religious fanatics, crackheads and/or authoritarians can't!
is this the same 'well, cops…
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/18/2025 - 07:32
In reply to Conclusion: anarchists will… by RaddlePSYOP (not verified)
is this the same 'well, cops abuse people too!' line that the raddlers kneejerked out two weeks ago?
just dismissing problems in the scene (problems that everyone can see, unless they're determined not to) does nothing but prove the OP's point
Even a whataboutism is…
anon (not verified) Fri, 07/18/2025 - 09:13
In reply to is this the same 'well, cops… by anon (not verified)
Even a whataboutism is better than saying "anarchists get together = someone ends up getting molested", which is a total generalization out of a few problem instances.
Let's also look into the poverty of some anarchist milieus, like even apparently London, with informal hierarchies where well-known figures are given some untouchable status just due to being in a position of eminence or competence... what other contexts does that make me think of?
It's no secret. Look at the…
anon (not verified) Sat, 07/19/2025 - 13:09
In reply to any brit anarchos have any… by anon (not verified)
It's no secret. Look at the guy's Twitter and see how he uses his "clout" to tweet at women half his age: https://xcancel.com/bristolafed
As someone else already pointed out, many of the people who go the distance in the milieu do it because they have ulterior motives. We've always been very weak at weeding these people out. Try to challenge someone like this and it'll most likely be you who ends up being ostracized.
That's why in some other,…
anon (not verified) Sat, 07/19/2025 - 21:35
In reply to It's no secret. Look at the… by anon (not verified)
That's why in some other, lesser nice milieus you got things like death threats and vendettas. Martyrdom is a status that many of these people with ulterior motives will cower away from. These are not of the brave, restless type.
That's not the person the…
anon (not verified) Sun, 07/20/2025 - 09:55
In reply to It's no secret. Look at the… by anon (not verified)
That's not the person the tweet was referring to.
Anarchist Federation UK is basically two people plus a handful of hanger ons. The AFed person who was called out by Trans Action runs this account: https://xcancel.com/anarchistfed
The BristolAfed account is another bloke. There are no accusations against him as far as I know, but like the person above pointed out he does seem to spend a lot of his time corresponding with much younger women on social media... maybe it's all in the name of the rev?
This is the person https:/…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/23/2025 - 02:38
In reply to That's not the person the… by anon (not verified)
This is the person https://getriddical.noblogs.org/ (LONG READ)
"But as a feminist, I…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/23/2025 - 07:57
In reply to This is the person https:/… by anon (not verified)
"But as a feminist, I believe in believing survivors first and foremost. Both the local IWW and the AF concluded that there was ‘no case to answer’ after their investigations, but all their findings indicate is that nobody wanted to engage in their flawed ‘processes’. There are myriad good reasons why a survivor might not want to engage in one, especially something labelled an ‘investigation’."
*facepalm*
What's new here?
I wouldn't give less of a fuck about a bunch of pseudo-radical neolib AFed and its tools engaged in early-20th century LARPing... What somewhat irritates is that their garbage, wrong-headed cancel culture is still being taken seriously in 2025.
So it's very easy, kids: an accusation does *not* count for a fact, regardless of who it comes from. This can be held as significant "lead", but that's it.
Some people can lie, manipulate, deceive for ulterior purposes. And that's one of the main reasons why you just don't fucking trust an accuser off the bat, just coz they make an accusation, ergo "they're the Survivor", coz they from an oppressed socio-democraphic group... or claim to be.
If you can't understand that, then have fun with cult leaders and other kinds of authoritarians, as they'll be having a field day with you, "anarchists".
did you read beyond the…
anon (not verified) Wed, 07/23/2025 - 09:51
In reply to "But as a feminist, I… by anon (not verified)
did you read beyond the second paragraph of the first piece?
i found the second piece better. much more to the point.
two things: first, and i've noticed this with other anarchists online, the person being accused of being a rapist (the so-called 'rev') is said to use multiple aliases, and whenever someone says something like 'rev, is that you?' he accuses them of doxxing him. this is very suss behavior. no one is using his real name. why would you want to spread yourself like that?
and second, and i seriously want to LOG OFF after reading this... did the rev guy really say his only crime was being '''overzealous with bum stuff''' with all his ex girlfriends (his words) as if that was no big deal??? what kind of porn addicted man child are we dealing with here??
strong work by this person!…
lumpy (not verified) Thu, 07/24/2025 - 12:22
In reply to did you read beyond the… by anon (not verified)
strong work by this person! high quality analysis and useful reading list
rev appears to be just the sort of skillful bullshitter and cult leader that anarchists really need to watch out for
not that skillful. he's…
anon (not verified) Sun, 07/27/2025 - 01:23
In reply to strong work by this person!… by lumpy (not verified)
not that skillful. he's deleted his twitter now, but it used to be full of fanfic like '''i was on my lunch break and this guy was shouting at his girlfriend so i walked over and told him to back off and he walked away and the girl thanked me with tears in her eyes.''' not even exaggerating. he's now on bluesky, where every other post is about what a nice guy he is and how everyone has got him wrong.
also, from the writeup: ''Rev’s style of organising was invasive. He’d pressure you into doing stuff, get mad at you for doing things incorrectly and basically nothing I was doing in the AF happened without his oversight. Only after leaving and organising with other people did I realise how toxic it was.''
this is what you can expect if you join a membership organization. a patriarch sits at the top on his fat ass collecting dues and issuing orders while the bright eyed new recruits do the work for a year or so, burn out and are replaced by fresh meat for the grinder. it's common for the head organizer (in the AF it's called the ''national secretary'') to frequently pick up the more vulnerable of the new recruits.
listen i DID save that girl…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/28/2025 - 00:46
In reply to not that skillful. he's… by anon (not verified)
listen i DID save that girl's life and a dozen other girls' lives too and if you would all just SHUT UP and DO AS I SAY we'd be living under anarchist-communism with strong leader characteristics by now and I would've saved the whole world just like in my favorite film Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
-- Reverend Rev
did you see the bit where rev/peter o'm becomes lead organizer or whatever then moves all comms onto his discord where he can see everything everyone is saying, even on the gender-oppressed committee, the non-white committee etc? textbook control freak
Often referred to as…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/28/2025 - 01:44
In reply to listen i DID save that girl… by anon (not verified)
Often referred to as classical anarcho-narcissism which evolves into anarcho-communism when membership grows.
> At the 2024 bookfair in…
anon (not verified) Tue, 07/29/2025 - 00:05
In reply to Often referred to as… by anon (not verified)
> At the 2024 bookfair in Newcastle, it was made clear Organise! and the AF were not welcome to stall and why (the allegations against Rev). AF members (apparently from London(!)) turned up anyway, to try and talk about him with the organisers. A very suspicious and creepy thing was that the friends trying to ‘clarify’ information about Rev, despite being separate people and having separate conversations with several of the organisers, were all speaking from IDENTICAL SCRIPTS. The ease with which the narrative is repeated (which of course follows Rev’s version of events only) is weirdly cultish.
imagine travelling hundreds of miles just to "have a word" on someone else's behalf. totally normal behavior
"Rev and the organisations…
anon (not verified) Thu, 07/31/2025 - 06:28
In reply to > At the 2024 bookfair in… by anon (not verified)
"Rev and the organisations he’s involved in have had some pushback, with some people (myself included) blocking him. But in multiple instances, he has evaded these blocks by messaging from his org admin accounts. If you block him on Signal, you might find him in your Twitter DMs, or sending you stuff through the postal service. He has continued to engage in clearly unwanted contact and shown a general disregard for people’s boundaries"
Grrr why won't all these plebs just LISTEN TO ME and accept that I AM A NICE GUY!
It's relevant that Rev/Peter O'M/Seditionist's name has come up so frequently on this thread because he is exactly the kind of person that the Raddle "ex-anarchist" was talking about. It's surprising that Kevin Tucker's name hasn't come up yet, tbh.
It's a waste of time trying…
anon (not verified) Thu, 07/31/2025 - 07:08
In reply to "Rev and the organisations… by anon (not verified)
It's a waste of time trying to tell him he ain't no anarch! Plebs are locked into their cultural identity seething ressentiment script, they don't recognice "nice guys" only pawns in their identity as being rebel leaders and influencing their team.
That he was into that awful…
anon (not verified) Mon, 07/28/2025 - 11:21
In reply to listen i DID save that girl… by anon (not verified)
That he was into that awful garbage blockbuster movie is damning by itself. Someone with such bad taste should be kept away from any position of influence.
But no, 'cos of being in the…
A.N. (not verified) Tue, 07/29/2025 - 04:31
But no, 'cos of being in the Now, mkay!?