The Contemptuous Communique #5: A Void Full of Mirrors

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The Contemptuous Communique #5: A Void Full of Mirrors

“Empire is the free play of simulacra.”
“It tries to pass off anything that violently opposes Empire as barbaric, it deems mystical anyone who takes his own presence to self as a source of energy for his revolt, and makes anyone who follows the vitality of thought with a gesture a fascist.”
- Tiqqun

“…It submits to everything with unrelenting servility. Reality is a bitch. And that is hardly surprising, since it is the product of stupidity’s fornication with the spirit of calculation – the dregs of the sacred illusion offered up to the jackals of science.”
- Jean Baudrillard

Action Update: The Contemptuous have completed our first successful action, shutting down – singlehandedly it seems – the comment section of Anarchist News. We shut down these comments because no one was reading them anyway. This action inaugurates the Battle Against Banality and the campaigns in our all-out virtual war on undiagnosable imbecility. Beneath the tyranny of IQ lurks a much fiercer evil!

We’ve come to the point where we are under the final warning of the anarchist parole board, we must show our proof of membership. The commentariat, somehow incapable of taking on The Contemptuous line by line, has used the failed Thought Police formula of associative logic. Even those drawn into the analysis are quick to give the communiques a quick and dirty organization. It is “right-wing”, “fascist-adjacent”, “fire-breathing”, “adolescent”, “edge lord”, etc. The examples go on and on, the compulsion to organize in so many directions is evidence of the necessity of these communiques.

Given that we feel giddy at the idea of further confusing all those who can’t stay away from our addictive poison — and given our recent successful action — we are happy to take on the “other side” of the pathetic polarity of control and offer up some tepid proof that we care even less about the right-wing than the rest of you “anti-fascists”.

So, to the Nazis. There are in fact a few of you. Maybe you were once anarchists (and we know some of you were). Maybe you once asked those anti-civilization anarchists more about their critique, maybe you sensed that there was something beneath the pale politics of simulated heritage. But now you again fight the war of the timid and flaccid reactionary. Life for you is much like a mirror of the Antifa morons we have critiqued previously. These wannabe Nazis misunderstand Jünger and populate their social media presence with long-winded texts which have never been experienced in context (“books are made to be read and not consulted” - Jacques Ellul). Since this ploy of depth is not convincing (even to themselves) it must be deployed along with a Thor’s Hammer and pictures of “European Heritage” that the posters most certainly cannot identify. The mysticism of ethnic purity commingles with hot takes from self-identified “Right-Wing Extremists” and the intensity of the mimetic mirroring overwhelms the researcher. Is it not that the “extremisms” of the left and the right are the contours of control? How can it be that they so startlingly call for the same actions, for a time-is-up eradication of the other? How can these mimetics and the control it engenders pass over the anarchists? It is not even veiled, like an orchestra simulating its disintegration with counterpoint, the only lasting effect is the ultimate unity between the parts played:

“Time to accept that being left alone and having small government isn’t an option anymore. Crush our foes.” - Common Sense Extremists

“…we would not criticize any comrades who did decide to initiate violence against members of the far right or to destroy their property, which in many cases would simply be preemptory self-defense, in any case.” - Montreal Antifascists

We know most of those who read this will defend the later statement under some idea of self-defense and not realize this victimization (this gross first-world grievance obsession) is exactly the cofactor of the worst most brutal politics. One well known antifascist has admitted privately that the danger is not bad ideas, but the power to implement those ideas. But they would never admit this publicly, for to do so would be to undermine the myth necessary to mobilize the fodder. In this sense the mythic structure of The Turner Diaries or Siege and that of “It’s Going Down” display a horrific symmetry.

Let’s back up to the Right. What happened to these once-anarchist souls to bring them to this point? Absolutely the same as everyone else. Their politics are a full-time social media job, they do not relate to “real” politics, they only relate (directly and proportionally) to the void of meaning at the center of their quantifiable life – a quantified life with quantified values and quantified subjectivity. All of their calls for action resonate with a dearth of meaning, not a swarm of potentiality. What is asked in this social media politics is the same everywhere: How can it be that I have nothing to fight against? How can it be that my complete and totally legible speech can dissolve continually into nothing? How can it be that I am alive (provably), that I sense the need for belief (conscription is necessary) and, yet, nothing happens to me? The infinitely mutable character of the post-modern character who may be whoever they wish since any character they chose is a slave to the game.

The left once understood and, in fact, pioneered this critique. It is not new. From Baudrillard to Tiqqun to Foucault to Agamben — even Judith Butler — and other interesting names (we use who we’d like to, if the thinking is sound in some temporal window we are obliged to take it seriously) understood the perils of iterative and legible subjectivity. But the crude associative logic of the social reformer has always won out in its simplicity. The left is recruited into this game and must immediately leave this critique to the academic castration society. For their cultural presence, the leftist will simply pick the side of the good (the science, the equality, the justice) and be on the side of the authority of fact (all politics are solidified in a parade of self-confirming truths). The subject, stripped of theological imperative, may now attempt to join a communal conjuring of goodness against the “fascist” tide.

The right is also at home in this same domus. The resurrection of ancient values! The return of Rome! The pathetic simulations of the past that exist (like the future for the left) devoid of technological, material, or even symbolic analysis. All that matters is a call to the good, to the full, to the dead recycled transcendent values.

What amazes is that one would need to write so much to critique the Right? How many thousands of words poured out – an instant recycling of condemnation, a sputtering and momentary glimpse of a life without the sin of the troglodyte boneheads! A nonstop purification of the proles and landscapers, construction workers and grocery store clerks – all those elites with bad ideas who stomp around ignorant of the ascendency of the liberal knowledge grid. How ironic that Foucault would be associated with this rise of the woke. But Foucault was always incapable of asking what his own popularity implied about his theories of knowledge and power. Foucault thus deployed his own associative “grid”, and his analysis of classic dynamics was consumed and “deployed” as a crude tool for junior social engineers drunk on skim reading and microdosed psilocybin.

But we suppose we should have a little fun. Let’s prove our point, show our good work, take down some pathetic losers and feel our moment of superiority – taste the power of a silent condemnation. A look into some of the modern intellectual heavyweights of ideological fascism reveals a degradation similar to all other fields (an aside, is AI’s appearance of brilliance also not equally accounted for by a generalized degradation in human capacity?). The new right-wing intellectuals, when they aren’t studying Evola and Spengler (or at least googling them), are deeply concerned with the misinterpretations of their presentation, which involves, in one case, a fat sad man in poor lighting holding his kitten. Supposedly the other pathetic “child-less pet owners” give this man a bad name, after all he “respects fatherhood.” Someone so pathetic that they blame the decline of masculinity, family, tradition, or a list of other abstractions for their inability to find someone who would fuck them, let alone fall in love with them. Maybe there is something to this eugenics stuff after all. Are you getting a sense of the low-hanging fruit that abounds in fascist circles? The pace of posting for the influencers in this space (who talk ceaselessly of preparing for war) involves, ironically, the absolute proof of their total apathy towards any conflict. Multiple times a day one must remind oneself of what spiritual material has been stuffed into the gaping hole where meaning and vibrancy used to reside. In this mimetic con-job (where both sides deploy elaborate simulations of feverish belief) there is nothing but the endless reaffirmation of biological life, bare life. Their slavish work of constantly digitally reproducing the echo of belief through images and stale rhetoric (the certainty of its presence — the objective fact of its image is perhaps intoxicating) is but a subtle injunction against what might be, in the near future, an unstoppable growth in mass suicide. It is now only the thinnest glimpse of meaning which holds together all who wait nervously at the edge of the abyss of nothing. Thank God for technology, our one true ascendency, our one true progress which might define for us finally the pursuit and the purpose of this vacuous nightmare of nothingness. The transhumanists await our continued fall – a fascism more directly possible than all others.

Most of what passes for fascism now is simply people holding onto anything they can in the face of technological velocity. The pace of things is such that even the most stalwart proponent of progress begins to feel vertigo — and you begin to hear the endless stutter of leftist elites about the “troubling times.” If everything materially stays the same, if the void of meaning continues to grow, if by all measurements the totality grows and its hegemony is consolidated (we aren’t talking nation-states here, folks) then we must ask: what continuity binds the extremes and all space between? The inability to ask this basic question means that both the Antifa “revolutionary” and the reactionary “fascist” both operate under the same assumption that after whatever “purification” or “self-defense” (sic) takes place there will still be iPads and Facebook – just rebranded to more appropriate monikers. The commonality of the technological terrain they both fight for defines the uselessness of both to anarchists of any interest.

As the idiocy of our fantasies like infinite knowledge confront us with their stupidity in “real time” (chat bots), the prospects for the dissolution of the “culture war” seem thin. The Contemptuous is here to provide the necessary dose of theoretical violence, of cultural terrorism, so that you might just jump ship, afraid of immediate “dismemberment” or perhaps spontaneous combustion from the heat-gathering-power of inter-cellular metaphysical frustration.

Both the left and the right secretly desire to fight DNA, to fight the bare reality of their nothingness, but they find no enemy. We are here to call for a retreat from the frontlines, to ask for volunteers for a regiment of burrowers that aim to circumvent from below, to find ways in and uncouple the techniques of hegemony – like an irresponsible ALF raid, leaving scared puppy-dog faces in a field of no sustenance, left wondering if perhaps they didn’t always beg for the cage after all.

Declaring Perpetual War
Against the Banality and Imbecility
of These Times of Nothingness
The Contemptuous
contemptuous@riseup.net

CalvinSmith (not verified)
I do admire your power to shut down

The comment section [at least in your essays], maybe you will figure out how to shut down the website [the only one who will publish you]?

anon (not verified)
i think they were joking???

i think they were joking???

but maybe it is time for them to shut down anews, but then where would lumpy and calvin find meaning in their lives? for the sake of harm-reduction, let's hope it stays running.

CalvinSmith (not verified)
to me it's really hilarious how I get

A bad rap for posting here at all, even though it's pretty obvious that the same few anons have been posting stuff here [almost 24/7] for years. Maybe one day, you will see the problem with call out culture, but you don't appear to be there yet.

I actually take huge breaks from this website: why are you judging me for that? Damned if I do, damned if I don't as the expression goes! It's funny until it happens to you.

anon (not verified)
I prefer your commentary

I prefer your commentary compared to say,,, the rather dull clichéd anarcho-socialism of the 90's which lumpy projects, but that might just be due to generational difference, who knows, but keep up the good work!

CalvinSmith (not verified)
I am a little sad that I haven't written

Any anarchist essays or anything: I did write a book of poetry called "smash all clocks!" which is a mildy humorous luddite thought exercise. I would put the book on a website for free download even though I don't feel I've made enough recent artwork to justify a word press website. Have any suggestions of anarchist topics that haven't been explored deeply enough yet?

anon (not verified)
"Have any suggestions of

"Have any suggestions of anarchist topics that haven't been explored deeply enough yet?"

Wingnuttery: The Joy of 24/7 Trolling by CalvinSmith

I'd totally buy it.

CalvinSmith (not verified)
All the more reason to put that book

And the music album I've been working on online for free ;-) yeah, yah gotta be edgey as a writer, or else it's boring af. I've been reading "the death of Ivan ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy, and it's not all bad but it is kinda rambling and boring.

anon (not verified)
I have read aALL of your

I have read aALL of your critiques, bravo Contemptuous, I admire my DNA more now, and my disgust for the simulcra equals yours. <3

anon (not verified)
i just went back and read all

i just went back and read all of the communiques in order, and this one really ties it all together for me. overall, a solid, much needed and appreciated intervention into the anarchist space. it is a shame, but very revealing that most people have not engaged with these texts, but instead find every shallow and hyperbolic reason to dismiss them outright. i would like to see future communiques go deeper into their technological critiques, social media, progress, revolution, and even, although i seriously doubt it would be received with anything but dishonest attacks, race, gender, and tradition from a post-left anti-civ anarchist perspective.

i particularly like communique# 5 for its complexity and density in critique. i went back and reread it multiple times, each read revealing more to me. this passage in particular has so much meaning in it:

“Most of what passes for fascism now is simply people holding onto anything they can in the face of technological velocity. The pace of things is such that even the most stalwart proponent of progress begins to feel vertigo — and you begin to hear the endless stutter of leftist elites about the “troubling times.” If everything materially stays the same, if the void of meaning continues to grow, if by all measurements the totality grows and its hegemony is consolidated (we aren’t talking nation-states here, folks) then we must ask: what continuity binds the extremes and all space between? The inability to ask this basic question means that both the Antifa “revolutionary” and the reactionary “fascist” both operate under the same assumption that after whatever “purification” or “self-defense” (sic) takes place there will still be iPads and Facebook – just rebranded to more appropriate monikers. The commonality of the technological terrain they both fight for defines the uselessness of both to anarchists of any interest.”

my only question is why is this not posted on the main page. was it intentionally buried in the forum section? i hope this was not intentional. i think these communiques have a lot to offer.

can’t wait for #6!

Tim
Stahp. Stop projecting. Just

Stahp. Stop projecting. Just stop. Your "critiques" are the same old typical dog shit shitposted all over the internet a gazillion times. You guys (likely one person) appear to be so easily trolled to the point that you write these generic whiny walls of text in reaction. Your butthurt is off the charts and is seething in everything you write. You should call yourself the butthurtuous.

I question if you've read much of Ernest Jünger's writings yourself. Right-wingers likely read Jünger because he's considered "revolutionary conservative" post WW2. My favorite "communique" by y'all was the one dedicated to how aggravated you were because a rando on this site opined that Jünger was a fascist (he wasn't) and some mystery randos on the internet supposedly suggesting you're not allowed to read Jünger. It was loltastic.

You, the "contemptuous" are like the opposite of Jüngers or Martin's anarch.

anon (not verified)
i don't think anyone is

i don't think anyone is projecting timmy

CalvinSmith (not verified)
you CLEARLY have not engaged

with the contemptuous "line by line". Like I've said before, it's obvious how far troll anons will go to defend some random writer that they don't even know by name!

Anarqxista Goldman (not verified)
Preach!

Preach!

anon (not verified)
to anyone confused or who

to anyone confused or who hasn't been paying attention for a couple years, this is the nicely pithy joke slash commentary that the above anon is making...
https://news.yahoo.com/serial-catfisher-posed-anarchist-sex-095204670.html

CalvinSmith (not verified)
yup, you just can't trust anyone

Online...I guess trolling the internet is how many of us now adays will die.

anon (not verified)
1. How is getting something

1. How is getting something out of it "projecting"? If you mean they are "projecting" relevance then I guess you are "projecting" its irrelevance? Perhaps you just don't like it and it makes you irritated that someone does. It certainly adds umpf to your dismissal if all those who find something in it are "projecting" and therefore their commentary is irrelevant.

2. If this critique is seen a "gazillion" I'm sure it'll be no effort to provide 3 examples or even just one from somewhere "all over the internet".

3. Your butt joke was a bit adolescent but it had potential, let's see if you can really nail it next time. It is interesting that if you were to hear "butthurtuous"you would assume a political text, that's certainly a diagnostic. Do you fear anal sex? Perhaps youre caught in a loop where "butt hurt" is a kind of catch-all for things that make your own ass tingle with pain.

4. One person? That seems unlikely but I like it. It seems like a great testament to your reading skills, sort of gives the rest of your commentary a nice color. Like when you realize the painting in the gallery you thought sucked was made by a 6 year old, you kinda sigh with relief.

5. It sounds like youre well-steeped in Junger, perhaps you could clarify your stunning summary with a thesis on the inverse-anarch

anon (not verified)
For those who haven’t read

For those who haven’t read the other Contemptuous Communiques,
they are available at:

Communique #1: A Contemptuous Idea
posted April 12
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-idea-communique-1

Communique #2: We are a pack. We are not the crowd.
posted May 16
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-communique-2-we-are-pack-...

Communique #3: Resisting The Leftist Creep
posted June 3
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-communique-3-resisting-le...

Communique #4: We Bring Flamethrowers to the Snow Storm
posted June 17
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-communique-4

Communique #5: A Void Full of Mirrors
posted July 7 (relegated to the virtually unused Forum Section)
https://anarchistnews.org/content/contemptuous-communique-5-void-full-mi...

Hopefully there are more to come!

CalvinSmith (not verified)
i do appreciate some of the points you make, contemptible/

contemptuous ones, but I'm very confused about how the left and right both want to fight DNA? Maybe you are referring to the fact that people on the left and right both have an issue with genetic engineering? Maybe you are making a reference to the shitty aspects of institutional science?

Also, i have a huge problem with this very rhetorically neat summation of your opponents:

"The commentariat, somehow incapable of taking on The Contemptuous line by line, has used the failed Thought Police formula of associative logic. "

Sometimes in your writing, there is nothing to take on in every line, because you "people" make a lot of generalizations. So, if a line to me is kinda meaningless and contains a lot of these generalizations, it's basically like you wrote nothing...at least from my perspective. When you insult the entire commentariat in this way, you are using the thought police formula for associative logic. HOWEVER, there are people out there who understand that not everyone who sees parallels and errors on your part is intending to police your thought. I personally don't care what you think about: go on and fantasize about having sex with children or writing contemptuous #6.

Criticism is not inherently thought police. Really, for me, criticizing you is a form of self-expression. Let's take another look at your associative logic from your first essay. I'm going back in time here to show that you keep making the same false accusations, over and over again:

"What has become of the Beautiful Idea? It is a laughingstock: it is the ideal of the twenty-something in search of adventure with training wheels, a chance to be 'wild and free' but never ever impolitic, a chance to have loveless sex in a tent at a 'Temporary Autonomous Zone' [i.e., telegenic protest] with a stoned stranger (or any paralleling uncritical arrested development of a thirty-something, forty-something, etc.) without endangering one's prospects for getting a Master's Degree in Social Work a few years down the line..."

For me, anarchist philosophy has partially been about being impolitic and doing illegal things. I have even fantasized about being a terrorist. The fact that you seem to have an issue with people screwing stoned strangers in a tent seems rather prudish of you. It makes no difference to me if people screw inside of a tent, in a bed, or on a forest floor. What DOES make a difference to me is whether the screwing is fun and whether or not I am doing it.

"Virtually no one outside of the broadly left- or post-left anarchist subculture takes those same strands of North American anarchists seriously..."

Are you really sure that you have the ability to read the thoughts of the cops as well as you think you do?! Your characterization of anarchists being pussy liberals who cry all the time and want to control you totally misses the mark. Also, if you haven't noticed: at least a few from the commentariat really love you want you to keep ranting about your enemies. I can't control you! All I can do is enter the crybabyfest in solidarity.

Okay, let's go back to more problems from #5:

"...most of those who read this will defend the later statement under some idea of self-defense and not realize this victimization (this gross first-world grievance obsession) is exactly the cofactor of the worst most brutal politics." [reference to montreal anti-fa quote]

I don't have any idea about "most of those who read" your stuff, but your points about anti-fa are the same ones that people like me and SirEinzige have been making for years: the right-wing fascists aren't any more dangerous or oppressive than any of the other groups we could freak out about. And yes, you are right in your second point: people practicing politics and divide-and-conquer always need some horrific future scenario to scare people into obedience or some boogeyman to disparage. The right and left are both vulnerable to these tactics.

anon (not verified)
“sex with children” you have

“sex with children” you have brought this up before calvin, i never read anything about that from the contemptuous, maybe you are projecting?

i also didn’t read the contemptuous as “prudish” for being bored with stoned sex at an autonomous zone, just that it was a safe way to be a rebel and one of the many over-simplistic activities that passes for anarchy these days. it also seemed like a joke to me.

CalvinSmith (not verified)
anarchism needs complex and strong

Activities, and the contemptuous are here to show us the way. This whole thing seems to be a little drawn out to be a prank, but yeah they might just be making a self-deprecating joke.

"You have brought this up before..."

And what the anons who see pedophiles and fascists everywhere, anon? I'm only trying to say the contemptuous are liberated in thought and mind and may think about whatever they want, look at those rebel warriors walk with such purpose through the terrace, they indeed are the superior trolls of anarchist news. None of my posts can hold a candle to the ancient and true anarchists like Junger and and Kropotkin, we should make an anthem dedicated to the contemptuous.

Le Way, (not verified)
Yup, I'm a semiticphile

Yup, I'm a semiticphile particularly the hilarious Jewish comedy which made the 20th Century bearable, if not for these subtle satirists the holocaust would have been forgotten or been swept under the communist socialist embargo by the materialistic politics of corporate banking and neo-liberable commodity fetish. Why, even my cerebral mentor Freud and his buddy Jung made psychoanalysis a pathway to individual freedom, but I digress. Capitalism is Auschwitz and we are all being detained in a concentration camp of mediocre investment consciousness.

anon (not verified)
Typo--semitophile ;)

Typo--semitophile ;)

anon (not verified)
I think it's interesting that

I think it's interesting that he related the psychic power he referred to as the ID to stupidity and actions solely driven by instinctual innate desires in conflict with social mores, but then, stupidity is fun, you should know, no?

Nettle
how

how can there be a void if it is full of mirrors???

anon (not verified)
What a great question!

What a great question!
Everyone post your favorite candidate for worst written line (title is a strong contender):
“The infinitely mutable character of the post-modern character who may be whoever they wish since any character they chose is a slave to the game.”

Nettle
mostly

mostly i just got a hearty chuckle by imagining a void chock-full of countless number of discarded ornate vanity mirrors, cracked compact mirrors, rusted medicine cabinet mirrors, reflective glass off untold defunct office buildings, not to mention the shallow puddle at the bottom reflecting the whole array.

anon (not verified)
Wow, U are like Dali brah, he

Wow, U are like Dali brah, he Spanish 2, anarcho-artiste brah in 1938 kewl,,,,

anon (not verified)
Sike!

Sike!

anon (not verified)
Dali was a giganormous

Dali was a giganormous fascist asshole, not "anarcho-artiste".

anon (not verified)
Quite literally, afaik as

Quite literally, afaik as current science "knows"... black holes are voids full of "mirrors", all around.

The Contemptuous equally is a black hole, sucking people's energies and especially attention but providing with nothing. For other examples of such pattern, have a look at society.

anon (not verified)
link plz

link plz

anon (not verified)
think a little harder now, i

think a little harder now, i know you can do it. it seems like a poetic slam of the self-referential echo-chambers of nothingness. that's how i read it. but maybe everyone should keep it simple and base.....smash blah blah blah, you know we want everyone to join us, right?

anon (not verified)
The fact that the collective

The fact that the collective attempted to bury this as a forum shows just what a worthless project Anews really is. Okay, great, Aragorn wanted to show up Infoshop.org, great. But if something is worthless to begin with, why attempt to perfect the useless and counterproductive mechanism? A! At least had some charm, or at least finance capital, but the current collective are merely riding on his cocktails.

CalvinSmith (not verified)
lmfao, it may be worthless to you,

But there clearly are a lot of "anarchist" writers who desperately need an article aggregator like anarchist news...

anon (not verified)
Anews is like when Walmart

Anews is like when Walmart rolls into town and all the little stores have to close down then Anews just swallows up the other websites' content after that. Anews kills visits to other anarchist websites by reporting ALL of their content and not just a portion with a link. It's BADnews.

Anyway fuck the Contemptuous dudebro's idiot blog! Good riddance!

anon (not verified)
that’s kind of dumb. i mean i

that’s kind of dumb. i mean i got issues with anews, lots, but posting “ALL” of the content from other sites isn’t one…how dare they! yes, they should be more selective, agreed, but that's not really the problems here...

and, i don’t know why the contemptuous people keep getting called “dudebro’” can someone explain this? i don’t pickup that vibe, unless you think contempt, anger, and criticism is only a “dudebro” thing. again, kinda dumb. as a queer woman who tends to express myself in those ways and who found a lot of kinship with the contemptuous communiques it seems like a cheap and random misfire. stop being a bunch of bitches and engage with the ideas, its obvious a lot of y’all could learn a lot from what they have been saying.
and, did we ever hear why they buried this one in the forum section? seems a bit odd
and yes, it is buried, and it didn’t seem to be posted as a question, but instead as an article, so why???

anon (not verified)
Why did you put anarchist in

Why did you put anarchist in quotes? Was that to imply irony? I love the levels of confusion you introduce into the convo Calvin. Btw, are you the famed track and field athlete?

anon (not verified)
It’s literally not a news

It’s literally not a news item; why do you think it doesn’t belong in the forum? Why do you think that’s “burying” it when it’s on the front page of the site?

anon (not verified)
How does one define a news

How does one define a news item? I see statements and podcasts on this site. If media & essays are excluded, anarchy isn’t exactly left withe much.

anon (not verified)
sorry, but its an "article"

sorry, but its an "article" post, not a "news"post and the communiques are clearly articles not forum questions. and its not on the front page, what are you talking about?

anon (not verified)
"But they would never admit

"But they would never admit this publicly, for to do so would be to undermine the myth necessary to mobilize the fodder. In this sense the mythic structure of The Turner Diaries or Siege and that of “It’s Going Down” display a horrific symmetry."

lol... awright! Coz they're after gaining power, Lefties are just like Atomwaffen & co!

Also funny when you're using a claimed statement made in private by some antifascist that can't be verified as a pragmatic supporting argument for your drivel.

Thank you the Comtemptuous for yet another brain fart that's using the same old talking points of the Alt Right.

Fiona (not verified)
Suppressive Subterfuge

It's strange that this excellent essay got "buried" in the "forum" section, while super-relevant "news" about Trump's indictment (!) and how it "changes the political landscape" gets "highlighted", so to speak....What's happened to A-News and its critical edge? I was very close friends with one of the founders of this site---Aragorn!--- and its hard for me to accept that he would have "priveleged" lame re-postings from IGD over critical and controversial anarchist analysis; in fact, i'm pretty sure that's exactly the type of forum he was hoping @news would become ( remember "waldorf and statler?)....What's up with this bullshit? And why is Wolfi Landstreicher allowed to be accussed of pedophilia in the comment section of certain recent postings, when everyone involved with @news/Lbc/ Ardent Press personally knows Wolfi and knows this is false and defamatory....NONE of that got taken down....Ultimately, I'm just going to have to discuss this with the @news collective in person (and yes, we know each other well and go way back), but I'm pretty dissapointed at this point....WHERE'S The ANARCHY?

anon (not verified)
Fiona,

Fiona,
I love you and your work and EVERYTHING you say here is true EXCEPT calling this Contemptuous nonsense "excellent." It is one thousand percent NOT excellent by any stretch.
Hugs

CalvinSmith (not verified)
i don't think The Contempt are

"excellent" unless we are going for comedic value, and i personally think a lot of our troll commenters excell beyond these essays in that department.

However, i do think you bringing up Aragorn's unique stances towards the daily identity politics of anarchists is relevant here and i appreciate it. He sympathized with both the liberals/leftists and those who hated them or were simply alienated by them.

As far as the wolfi thing is concerned (i hope ya'll are having fun in france by the way), it isn't any different from the typical slanderous drivel from a lot of these articles and the comment section, so i don't know what to say about that anymore. I'm sad that i can't buy any paperback copies of "Beyond The Arch" yet...maybe ill just see if i can find an electronic version. So, in other words, the efforts of "the anti pedophiles" and doctor bones to attack wolfi have probably had a positive effect on his reputation. Maybe we could get more folks to accuse max stirner of being to help even more with that.

CalvinSmith (not verified)
*get more folks to accuse

Max Stirner of being a racist to help even more with that [Wolfis good will and reputation]

anon (not verified)
Thanks, Fiona. The fact that

Thanks, Fiona. The fact that the moderators are leaving knowably untrue and slanderous comments about Wolfi up is further evidence that they have an insatiable thirst for scene drama without which their dullness would entirely consume them. That Wolfi is a friend, and they still do this is, is beyond fucked up since we know they have no problems deleting any other thing that they even slightly disagree with, true or not.

anon (not verified)
and yet they leave up both

and yet they leave up both fiohnoh's comment and yours, both of which are demonstrably untrue.

nice try.

anon (not verified)
Deleted twice now? Damn you

Deleted twice now? Damn you must really want your sockpuppet to have the last word.

"How gracious of them. However, this does NOT demonstrate anything contrary what the other anon or Fiona said. In fact, it reinforces it." Wed, 07/19/2023 - 11:16 (Reply to #71)

It was a direct response. Don't be such pearl-clutching assholes.

anon (not verified)
your assertion is empty. if

your assertion is empty. if you're going to say something is wrong or right, then back it up with something or your meaningless comments will continue to be removed.

or be funny.

signed, thecollective member .4

CalvinSmith (not verified)
so then why the fuck did you

Erase the corrrction of my own typo? I get: your life is stressful, you are sensitive/fragile like the rest of us, but fuck your hypocritical "back it up with evidence or be funny", because all of your assertions that we just post empty words is bullshit, and making people mad at you on purpose to show your superiority is not funny. That's very much a narcissistic american thing. Fuck you. WHOEVER you are, i dont give a fucking shit if you are a victim or not. You're obviously not paying much attention to what you are doing.

anon (not verified)
I totally agree with you

I totally agree with you Calvo, stand up to the subterfuge, and let's make anarchy fun again, like Wombat used to insist upon.

anon (not verified)
things get deleted for

things get deleted for various reasons, calvin. as it says in the about us. please dont think that every comment is about you or related to you or referring to you.

and OBVIOUSLY our sense of humor is not yours, all anons and calvin. we are not responsible for yours, all anons and calvin.

signed,
thecollective .4

CalvinSmith (not verified)
i never said you were responsible

for my posts, and you obviously have no problem trolling diverse selections of people. BUT, if you voluntarily decide to play the role of anarchist moderator or speach/thought police, then yes you are obviously responsible for being more of a help than a cyberbully to people who seem to want there not to be cops, prison systems, and nation states.

Why the fuck would i believe you are responsible for everything i don't like on here? Stop trying to say we as commenters are to blame for the deletions in your round about way. Stop deleting posts based on how "empty" they are. So you really think its possible to prove anything on here when you seemingly delete everything at random?

And why the fuck would you delete me posting corrections of my own typos? That makes absolutely no sense, and you are fucking crazy if you think its cool to moderate without a clear set of rules. At least FB and Twitter are total anarchy until someone reports a post. Shady moderation is less anarchist than that.

anon (not verified)
Calvin, you know... it's not

Calvin, you know... it's not very nice in general to be deeming as "cops" the people who're putting a constant hard work at removing hateful and bigoted comments or just trying to increase the quality of discourse in here. So be mindful of your name-calling.

No, moderators aren't the police, unlike some problematic past contributor of Aplanet used to be saying, in defense of a major asshole who was on record posting anti-Black racist and homophobic slur on the IRC... The fact of removing comments is not going after specific commenters, neither it is repressing them in the systematically violent means inculcated by the very same fucking police you are telling us to be so nice with. No, Anews mods don't care about politically-repressing anyone posting here.

The principle of moderating involves removing content that is only destructive or spoiling the quality of discussion, and snitching as well as blatant hate speech also is not allowed. That's, at least as I understand, the approach of moderating on Anews.

CalvinSmith (not verified)
thank you for your totally hypocritical

AND condescending tone:

"Calvin, you know... it's not very nice in general to be deeming as "cops" the people who're putting a constant hard work at removing hateful and bigoted comments or just trying to increase the quality of discourse in here. So be mindful of your name-calling."

How can i be mindful of the name calling when the mods don't have a policy against name calling, and encourage it through sloppyness and hypocritical practice? The whole source of this conversation (if you have been paying more attention than the mods) is this terrible blog post where some anonymous person insults wolfi landstreicher, aragorn!, and william gilles. William has definetly bullied people on twitter, so i am not as concerned about insults directed towards him, but if you think cyberbullying is bad (and I DEFINETLY do, despite the fact i let mods and anons push me around systematically), shouldn't the moderation be skewed against flaming and prejudice against "white people" [and any other socio-economic or biopolitical group, like women, transexuals, and "black people"]? Are you lumpy? The tone is basically identical. I thought the whole appeal of the comment section for the majority of anons was that anarchist news keeps the slanderous insults up, and removes posts for mysterious and inconsistent reasons.

What do you know about hard volunteer work as a mod? Like i said before: i have donated money to this website, and i just helped "thecollective" find the blog post where wolfi was accused of being "a disgusting pedophile". I have also tried to chat with and help the anarchist prisoner Michael Kimble via snail mail. So fuck you, i've put just as much "work" into maintaining this website or "the anarchist cause" as the moderators have.

But i do want to thank you: you've pointed out, in your round about fashion that this is a bad wrbsite and calling it "anarchist" is a complete joke: the cops also use their "hard work for society" as a rational for hurting people. Moderators and cops are not the same, but all moderators should understand the correlation.

So have your cheesy nationalist anthems dedicated to anarchist mods: i'm done using this website for now, and if i do come back, i will be armed with the knowledge that giving someone like you my real name is giving you way too much. You have confirmed that humans are hopeless self-tormenters, and fuck me for playing along.

"fuck me really hard, sweetheart"
--every cheesy american like you

anon (not verified)
Wow, that was a classic bong

Wow, that was a classic bong-rant!
"Okay honey-bunch, but I'll go first" ;)

anon (not verified)
"At least FB and Twitter are

"At least FB and Twitter are total anarchy until..."

...you fucking grow a brain and leave moronism for good.

thecollective_1.8 (not verified)
re: Suppressive Subterfuge

Hello. The previous texts from The Contemptuous have all been shared as articles, except for this last one which has been posted to the forums instead of an article because thecollective decided to put it there instead of the front page. It didn’t make the 15 articles posted to the front page, but it has been atop the forums since being posted, which in the long run could possibly be more attention than disappearing after a few days on page 1. The comments on the previous texts were turned off because there were over 100+ comments already and it was just getting the drive by one-liner trolling, so as not to waste our time on it. It’s okay to experiment, I would have liked to post as an article, but I’m not the only person in thecollective. I don’t think ANews is privileging posts over others and it’s unfortunate to be compared to worker who long retired from the project. I think that thecollective continues to have a pretty light moderation policy inline of what old friends might have appreciated.

Can you link the comments about Wolfi thread you are talking about? It’s not easy to read every single comment, but someone has to do it. We have been pretty good about keeping that bullshit out of the comments.

- thecollective_1.8

anon (not verified)
A! would have loved the

A! would have loved the contemptuous. that much i know is true. not sure how he would feel about anews these days.

Z from The Cont... (not verified)
Narcissists will often assume

Narcissists will often assume that if someone notices them that they are obsessed with them. This is often the case with anarchists, who choose to inhabit a limited subculture rather than face the harsh criticisms of those not indoctrinated. For many of them it is a criticism too far to merely not agree with them.
It is fascinating to see claims that communiques were inspired by anonymous community college adjuncts crying about novelists. It wasn't an inspiration, it was an example. Providing examples is standard technique in argumentation. This should not come as a mind-blowing revelation, but apparently skills in argumentation, analysis, and critical thinking are not valid traits among many anarchists.
The Contemptuous are an affinity group of multiple anarchists collaborating for our mutual satisfaction. We are not a collective, because we have no need for meetings to collaborate, nor do we value consensus. Obviously we intervened in a space considered post-left because this is a tendency that we have found value in (though don't assume this is the only area these missives have appeared. Just because you don't know something doesn't make it not real.) Of course, we find value in the post-left tendency; we've all helped to define it for decades. Most of us have books published on the subject. Likely, many of those who have done performative snowflake dances have some of our books on their shelves. You should try reading them. Have I revealed too much? No, it is more important for you to know.
Some say we should fight the real enemy. It is presumptuous of you to think you are better than we are at determining who the real enemy is. We live in a herd minded cybernetic totality, in which authority and control has been diffused among the populace. Everywhere we look, we see another enemy. We will fight at every point in which we encounter control. This is the war of all against all. Some of the herd have threatened ourselves and other of our radical aristocratic friends. We don't take kindly to this. And even those who don't take such actions still maintain their spectacular social role, propping up the totality we intend to collapse.

anon (not verified)
"Some of the herd have

"Some of the herd have threatened ourselves and other of our radical aristocratic friends."

LOL WUT?

anon (not verified)
Can you clarify your question

Can you clarify your question? What is the “WUT” referring to? Sorry, txt speak don’t make sense to me

anon (not verified)
i agree, narcissism is a

i agree, narcissism is a plague both in this culture in general, and the anarchist space....do ya think social media might have something to do with it?

thank you Z for clarifying. look forward to future communiques.

fuck all snowflakes. the world is a harsh place, if people melt under the virtual heat.....don't know what to tell them, 'cept...fuck off!

Z from The Cont... (not verified)
Thanks, Bro.

Thanks, Bro.
We Contemptuous are the vaccine for this plague of narcissism. Join us in the forest before the collapse defangs our wolf spirits!

anon (not verified)
Hmm Mmm, so good, I have

Hmm Mmm, so good, I have aristocratic tastes although I'm a propertyless peasant nobody, thanx and looking forward to more precious rantings from yous all.

Z from The Cont... (not verified)
Thanks, bro.

Thanks, bro.
All any of us Contemptuous are are nobodies, but it is an aristocratic nobody we fire-breathe into the night. More will be coming!

anon (not verified)
Thx Z, I am a furious furnace

Thx Z, I am a furious furnace of contemptuous disdain who spits raging fire into the abyss. Your forthcoming vitriolic repartéé to authority will be most welcome,

anon (not verified)
agreed. abc's of anarchism

agreed. abc's of anarchism are boring, and getting lamer

time for more x y z's from the contemptuous

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