nihilism: come for the courageous embrace of the absence of received meaning, stay for the facile ability to disclaim any responsibility in anything
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feminism: come for the articulation of the oppression of half of the human race and call for their liberation, stay for the construction of what it means to be a woman based on the narcissisms and bigotries of rich nineteenth century housewives
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anarchism: come for the principled commitment to opposition to power, stay for the leisure to indulge in ever more pure intellectual rightness thanks to being thoroughly insulated from any of one's ideas being put into broad practice
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capitalism: come for the unprecedented engine of economic growth and innovation, stay for the absence of any barrier to unbridled rent-seeking
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progressivism: come for the noble commitment to uplifting the most oppressed, stay for the vicious infighting over limited resources based on how high an oppression score you can gin up for yourself
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exit/patchwork: come for the promise of being able to build a community without yahoos and sociopaths rolling in and shitting it up, stay for the screeching racism
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existentialism: come for the clear-eyed embrace of an individual agent's position in the universe, stay for the whiny scolding about who's existentially inauthentic compared to you, the hero of responsibility
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Objectivism: come for the penetrating Marxian economic determinism, stay for the nerd revenge fantasy
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technocracy: come for the promise of systems governed by those most skilled at their maintenance, stay for the systems that only work if you violently reduce human endeavor to things that fit on a spreadsheet
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green/sustainability: come for the responsible stewardship of the environment, stay for the romantic primitivism tarted up in morality drag
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Platonism: come for the striving toward the Good, stay for the smug satisfaction that you're the one who knows what's really going on around here and should be telling the NPCs what to do
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rationalism: come for the clearing away of falsehoods and trickery from thought and inquiry, stay for the hubristic superiority complex and febrile rationalization of one's cherished falsehoods and trickeries
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postrationalism: come for the embrace of the full spectrum of human thought and experience, stay for the zero effort shitposting
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RT @[REDACTED]: Fandom: join to enjoy genre fiction with friends, stay because they will hold your entire life hostage to neoliberal bullshit.
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please destroy libertarian municipalism/communalism so i can do a sad chuckle
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i don't honestly know the scene well enough to do it justice, but the zero effort shitposting version probably runs something like "come for the getting to have roads after all, stay for the constitution banning age of consent laws"
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fortunately i think bookchin's definition of "libertarian" is left enough to exclude people who would prefer to live in concertina-wire compounds with child sex contractors
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look how well it's doing! but yeah i literally have no idea how Bookchin people characteristically go wrong so i'm at sea
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mad props for finding one of the nutritional deficiencies in my reasonably voracious ideology diet
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it's my favorite because it seems cozy, ecologically sound, and pleasant without the "you will die in a rude shelter without antibiotics" of primitivism
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hm, probably it's something in the general direction of "stay for the community shutting down anything you might want to do that could possibly be called new or interesting" then
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there's confederation between communities too but i'm gonna watch how mastodon unfolds before i go all in about doing that offline
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