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I'm a bit grumpy and feel roused to defend CT, as sometimes happens.

I think that, like, from the perspective of criticizing the copy, as with "grassroots movement", sure.

It's the anti-movement thing that annoys me. Like, I get not being into social-revolutionary anarchism, and being interested in other shit. I am also down for critiques of activism, pretenses to nation-wide organizing, participation in a broad left, etc. But what I see, with the perennial anti-CrimethInc. thing (also anti-Submedia and anti-IGD), doesn't qualify for that. It's just shitting on the whole thing, usually from some politically prescriptive place, i.e. you should do what we do, which has nothing to do with social movements.

Like, to the clown saying "what anarchists should find Ocasio-Cortez relevant enough to respond to", the answer is clearly, "anarchists involved in spaces that include people who might vote for a lefty candidate." And if the next thing is, they SHOULDN'T be involved in those spaces, then, well, okay. That's not that useful, I don't think.

Anyway, I don't mourn what CrimethInc. has become, and I don't long for the good old days - which is partly what I think this is about. Similar to how I hated Against Me! for a while, cuz I felt invested in the music they put out, and got mad when they went anti-anar.

But, like, CT is not anti-anar, they're just on a social-revolutionary tip, which is, umm, MAYBE annoying sometimes, MAYBE has led to some nonsense, but nothing that warrants this constant stream of shit talk on this site. And I'm happy to have them picking fights in that space with the tank drivers and the electioneers.