Let's talk about forced anon.
Why force anon?
Anonymity provides many benefits that other leftist communities don't provide.
>anti-celebrityism
>drama reduction
>removal of prejudice in responses, removing many potential causes of fallacious arguments (conscious or otherwise)
Users taking on identities encourages negative behaviors.
There are some potential cases where an identity might be appropriate within a single thread, but users taking board-wide identities are antithetical to the strengths of this site. Their identity serves no purpose but to satisfy the ego.
<b-but muh leftytrash community!
Take it to GETchan, Matrix or just have namefaggotry on /siberia/ only. There are many, many communities purpose-built for those values. This should not be one of them.
55 posts and 2 image replies omitted.>>19758Go to therapy. If you read the second paragraph and identified with it, go to therapy.
No shame in it. I hope you get better.
>>19945Anything helps. People here are generally ok.
>>19944>Also, identity is a spook that influences the way you behave.Exactly. You're already doing it by identifying as egoist, but whatever.
>>19949To continue. Now, egoist
anarchism may be a fixed idea.
But. It may as well come from a simple fact that Stirnerites simply do not want to be told what to do. Anarchy as a system is also more flexible because there is noone above you who is giving you orders, thus you can better figure out what's in your best interest yourself. It's also a consensus, I simply support it because most Stirnerites agree on this and I want to extend My power through them and share experience and knowledge with them. It's simply easier to figure out strategies with fellow Uniques when you have a clear direction to move towards.
>>19948You know, we can just reduce the flags to the core thinkers (Marxism, Stirnerism, Proudhonism,
Hitlerism). That way the flags will still convey from what ideas people are coming from as well as their common interests while not overspecializing and using overly specific flags to identify themselves and thus giving more data to glowies.
Also a good way to detect raiding /pol/tards and radlibs. Like, WTF is an atheist flag? Marxists and Stirnerists already intersect with atheism so it's kinda redundant.
>>19952>>19950>>19949I am more Egoist than you merely for the fact that I reject such categorization. There are aspects of Stirner's texts that I have made my own, but just as much as my upbringing, my mistakes, my successes, my work shape the way I think. I don't call myself a follower of begged-for-a-blowjob-once-ism because it is not usually relevant to what I am saying, except now of course. That doesn't mean I don't think about it or the situation in my life that led to that moment aren't signifcant to how I think.
For example, at the beginning of this post, I am saying I am more Egoist than you. After I click submit, that temporary label I ascribed myself for the purpose of this post is gone, and I go back to being an incongruent incohesive mess of mediated identities and immediate being, all mediated by the permanent and unsescapable existence of ideology. "Anti-ideology" is nothing more than "better" ideology, or meta-ideology.
Anyways, you're spooked. You will reject this because you have made "anti-spooking" part of your identity.
>>19957If I am anti-spook that does not mean I do not contain spooks. Also, you cannot be more "egoist" than Me. If you've read Stirner, you already know that all people are already egoists, they are just not
conscious egoists. Without re-evaluating your beliefs and opinions you do not stop being an egoist. You just become a merely unconscious one. If you are unable to re-evaluate your fixed ideas (be "anti-spook") then nothing stops you from blindly following an idea, by which point you, again, become an unconscious egoist. In which case, what is the point of calling yourself "more egoist" at all if you do not focus on maximizing your self-interests in the first place? You are not any different than any dogmatic ideologue at all then, especially if you create such a fixed idea of egoism not for your self-enjoyment, but as something you're "suppossed to" follow in order to be "more egoist" (which is a statement as absurd as demanding someone to be "more human").
>>17253The name field has been a staple of image boards for literal decades. If people want to identify themselves for the purpose of a thread, then they should.
The most cancerous part about identities has always been people spamming 'muh tripfag' instead of writing a relevant reply
>>17963Everyone on this board should use flags, it was much nicer back on old leftypol when you could actually identify what position someone was coming from. I agree with
>>17965 in that flag culture was something worthwhile.
>>19758Incisive, although perhaps a bit generalizing. I'd agree that the typical channer is lonely and in search of an in-group, but the root of reactionary politics is more in broader board culture than just being an anon.
>>19946Newfriend detected, anonymity was always meant to be an optional default rather than an enforced meta-identity
>>19946from the front page:
>Leftypol is an imageboard where users can post anonymously.not an anonymous imageboard, an imageboard where users
can post anonymously.
flags, names, and even tripcodes only make a difference to the most technically incompetent glowies.
>>20217That backlash is useless noise
You generate a lot of it by using trip
Drop the trip loser
>>17253It's becoming increasingly obvious that most of the users here, and the mods, have no fucking clue what the point of Chan/Imageboards are.
Instead of largely just a free spirited leftist shitposting forum, it's becoming the exact same little butthurt fiefdom of a few butthurt MLMs that seemingly every Communist online community becomes.
>>20320ludicrous
do tell what's the point
A lot of you sound like amerilards talking about the founding fathers don't you? Do you enjoy being retarded? No matter.
It's a rhetorical question. When you ask a rhetorical question that means you don't expect an answer.
>>19758damn, that's brutal
imageboard autism
>>19945Weirdly enough, didn't make this post
>>17964or this
>>19759not sure about this one
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