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I don't usually visit this site anymore (maybe once every few months I'll scroll through the pages for interesting articles) and I rarely post because around the time of the Occupy Wall St. I got fed up with the comment section being flooded with bizarre violent posturing and a lack of coherent discourse (not everyone who was posting, just most). About a year after that I noticed that most of the younger generation of anarchists became something I no longer recognized. I was made aware, through some friends of mine, of the drama that unfolded around the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair surrounding the book Atassa and thought that was a pretty good final exit point, so I just gave up on you. I decided that the anarchist galaxy in the United States had become gross to me and took my leave.

I still check up on you all from time to time (visiting sites like It's Going Down, Puget Sound Anarchists, etc.) but, I maintain a distance. Since the Trump presidency Anarchy in the USA has devolved into something even worse, it's cruder and more self-destructive then ever. While I still think of myself as an anarchist, I'm really glad I stopped being involved in your circles and the petty, toxic dramas that you fill your lives with.

I seriously hope that this isn't the new normal for Anarchist thought/action and that the (A) galaxy in the US as whole can grow out of this nonsense. Maybe this is just what the internet does to people? In which case I'm glad I limit myself to only a few times a year.

My wish to the newcomers who find themselves interested in anarchism, only to see these depressing dramas take precedent over what are otherwise beautiful grasps at true freedom, is: these depressing/embarrassing feuds will just die already and something much more level-headed will take their place. I hope newcomers can see through this highschool non-sense and build a better anarchist galaxy than what these knuckleheads left for you. Good luck!

I'm sure this comment will be lost among the other 130+ comments so I'm not even sure why I wrote it other than to be a dis on the people so tied up in petty-revenge/macho-posturing. I bet that someone will say they're glad I left the (A)-space. So am I.