I'm seeing lots of talk about democracy again. Look, people, democracy is just flatly bad. Most of the things that you hate about the world order are a product of democratic states. Democracies have been excluding people from actual "democratic rights" since democracy was first invented: it's a feature, not a bug.
One of the things that most remains with me from Bob Black style post-left anarchism is that anarchists should just oppose democracy and not try to rehab it.
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
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