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by notch656a 1627 days ago
Oh so you are back. You're a liar too. Pathetic. I use that word because of your gate-keeping, not because of your brand of anarchism.

> choose to use "anarchism" to mean a non-leftist ideology

I thought using leftist was offensive (even though I didn't mean it offensively) and you asked me not to? You're a hypocrite too.

>you should expect that most people will misunderstand you

I expect you will misunderstand because of your willful ignorance of the term. Calling it 'hijacking' is a lot different than calling it different from whatever looks mainstream to you. There is no mainstream brand of anarchism, it's an ideology without coercion that can manifest in many ways.

Spare me the speech about politeness. You called me a hijacker of a term and say "I think I know this." No I do not, in fact I know the opposite. I think you're an arrogant and self-serving keeper of the word anarchism, one who tries to hide their vulgarity in pretty language and has the gaul to act like a victim for a curt retort.

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Please don't leave comments like this.
Listen Kragen, I do feel bad I misattributed many things to you because after a long back and forth thread I _thought_ I was still talking to denton-scratch but it was actually Kragen. I appreciate your thoughts and insight, even this one. And you have my sincere apology for the mis-attribution to you based on my mistaken thought you were denton-scratch.

Do not expect me to censor myself going forward, however. I understand that could result in being banned. I'm OK with that, as I'm not really interested in communicating in a place with censorship.