by anonymous (not verified) Aug 21, 2024

Announcing A(k)CAB, A Kansas City Anarchist Bookfair!

FREE
October 12th
Inside Howdy & Farewell
6515 Stadium Dr, Kansas City, MO 64129
(the venues are nextdoor to each other, you'll figure it out)
12pm to 6pm.
All ages.

We’re really excited to announce the first Anarchist Bookfair in KCMO. It will include books, zines, art, food, friends, workshops, and other fun shit. We’ll be able to share and connect with anarchist publishers, artists, distros and other anarchics from all over the midwest.

We welcome folks to show up and table. There is also still space for more workshops, talks, and other activities.

If you plan on tabling, please try to bring your own table. If you need a table and cannot get one, reach out to us beforehand.

Tablers so far include Warzone Distro, Oogle Zines, Greygoo, Wasteland Distro, Prisoners Cinema, KC Mutual Aid, Uncivilized Podcast, and Nihil Distro.

Email akcabcollective@proton.me if you have any questions or need anything.

If LBC was still a thing we would of invited them.

For joy and anarchy in Missouri and everywhere!

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anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 14:51

Authoritarian Lefties wear N95 masks for "teh community". So that's an issue where clarifying words becomes crucial. More crucial than (not) protecting yourself against a non-epidemic with a very low fatality rate.

TranslationChud (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 15:26

"Yeah! Fuck them inferior-gened sickies! I am wearing a authoritarian leftist chin diaper (N95) just because they have immunity issues. I thought his was America?!?"

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 19:05

Just be waiting 'til you find a way to equally forbid people from coming by cars at your bookfairs, lol For as you should know. every year motor vehicles are competing with guns as the biggest cause of death in this glorious cuntry -and often winning the race- regardless of your snowflakes rare (or invented) health syndromes. And that's not talking of all the non-human creatures they're also killing.

So yea, fuck you, authoritarian drama queens.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 13:50

We haven't decided on that yet. One of the venues has an outdoor patio big enough for several tablers and if weather permits it, we're considering offering that space up to people who don't want to wear masks.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 15:26

"haven't decided on that yet", based on my experience, means yes, masks required.

"offering that space up to people who don't want to wear masks"

why not do that to the people who don't feel "safe" around people?

look, so-called anarchists, of all people, are they ONLY people doing this. this exposes most of these so-called anarchists as complete frauds.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 15:32

"haven't decided on that yet" means only half of the collective cares about masks. Buddy im not even vaccinated for covid but I also don't throw a fit every time someone asks me to wear a mask. Quit being a fucking baby about it.

"Why not do that to the people who don't feel "safe" around people?"
Because the anti-maskers tend to be the ones demanding special treatment.

Anarchists when they obscure their faces at a public event must be frauds. Yeah checks out.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 15:37

that is so not true, go out in the real world. NOBODY WEARS A MASK except people who are sick or virtue signaling.

again, not the reason yer wearing masks, nice try poser.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 17:59

To think that an N95 would serve to obscure your identity would be to akin to thinking you can be "anonymous" by wearing the fake glasses/nose/moustache combo.

It's just laughable.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 18:17

To think that crying on every event post on an anarchist website about anarchists wearing masks at anarchist events you will never attend would be akin to thinking you can rally accomplices to do the miLitANt vioLENcEs you dream up while LARPing in your mom's basement.

It's just laughable

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 18:47

We're not "crying", we're criticizing what is actual authoritarian behavior that ain't just got nothing to do in anarchism, but also in 2024, you Covid snowflake. -_-

You guise are like attempting to create a new form of fallacy, that I'd call "Win by kicking the can forever". Since no one's interested at that point in arguing the pointlessness of N95 masks, you win the debate out of the void (?).

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 15:12

...but nobody is complaining about anarchists "wearing masks"... lol, such a bad faith misinterpretation of what people are saying... what they're complaining about is so-called anarchists attempting to bully/coerce OTHERS into wearing a mask when those others just don't fucking want to/feel like it, especially when it serves no actual purpose.

At this point, the covid mask is just a fetish for authoritarian liberal dorks.

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 18:12

> At this point, the covid mask is just a fetish for authoritarian liberal dorks.

Yes. but also our well-known frail Instagram Zoomer snowflakes that're soooo scared to get triggered by anything.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 18:54

Furthermore, I'm seeing here what could an effective COIN tactic of sowing unnecessary divides within milieus, as the Covid mask/anti-mask debate was never really solved and outside agencies have likely observed a critical rift, or even schism, happening within Western anarchist milieus, and have gone into fully exploiting it 'til no one's either interested showing up to "anarchist" events asking people to wear Covid masks years after the end of the pandemic.. as the anarchist dissenters are kept away from key gatherings by this micro-managerial caste.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 15:42

pushing back at a pathetic trend isn't throwing a fit, its calling out stupid shit that continues to pathetically drag on as anything resembling anarchy gets taken over by activists, leftists, idpols, and commies.

fuck that.

live without needing illusions of "safety" or go the fuck home.

akcab organizer (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 16:01

Then go home. You don't wanna wear a mask for a few hours if a space asks you to? Then stay at home. It's the midwest, most people don't wear masks. But there was just a different event at this same space recently and they asked that people wear masks. Nobody fucking cared. They just did it for the day because it's not a big deal. You're upset about something that isn't even in the announcement. Come to our event, don't wear a mask, idc. It's not a big deal to me. One of the more lefty organizers might throw a fit tho. That'll be beteeen yall.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 15:45

oh no! look out!

there's a traumatizing tarantula on your flyer!!!!!

you just marginalized the arachnophobic community.

you bastard!

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 17:50

"Buddy im not even vaccinated for covid but I also don't throw a fit every time someone asks me to wear a mask. "

Buddy,,,,, I actually AM vaccinated for covid, but I also don't throw a childish tantrum whenever someone says "no thnx" to wearing a mask,,,,, quit being a baby about it.

See how two can swing that branch?

People are not demanding "special treatment", they're just asking you don't harass them if they turn up without wearing an N95, wtf is up with this gaslighting BS?

This has nothing to do with people's safety anymore and everything to do with: virtue signaling, conforming to the group and the exercise of control over others.

It's all become just one big fucking liberal power-trip at this point

Oh, and btw: N95s dont even obscure your identity, lol,,,, You can literally tell who everyone is, regardless if they're wearing a dozen N95s on their face or not,,,, Actually obscuring your identity would take full-bloc attire while covering your eyes, not just your mouth/chin area. Which just reinforces the idea that the whole thing has become one big performative, symbolic and theatrical LARP that fetishizes masking for its own sake, independent of actual function or context.

lumpy (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 18:17

A dozen?! I could cover my entire head with only like, 7 or 8 N95's you lying so and so!

This is exactly like - "I can put my whole fist in my mouth!" But then I gag and throw up on somebody who never indicated that they actually wanted to be talking to me at the party?

It's exactly like that. Bad boundaries and lack of ability to read social cues. Yeah!

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 15:33

shoulda known some "anarchist" event in 2024 using the much diffused and watered-down nothing tag ACAB would be like this...

akcab organizer (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 15:53

A few local tablers added.

○ Anarchist Radio Relay League (local)
○ A Boulder On The Tracks (STL MO)
○ chasermassgrave (local)
○ BLK+BRWN bookstore (local)
○ Neither nor zine distro (local)
○ Kc Foodnotbombs (local)

Also we made an instagram: akcabcollective
The venues instagrams are farewellkcmo and howdykcmo.

Follow them for updates.

EmmaAintDead Thu, 08/22/2024 - 15:52

Blk+brwn is an interesting addition given the others listed in op and here. While the idiots are distracted arguing over masks, can I sneak in and ask what went into their inclusion in this anarchist book fair?

I'm hopeful I'll be able to make it. Haven't been down your way in over a decade, and it would be nice to see some old friends.

akcab organizer (not verified) Fri, 08/23/2024 - 15:25

One of the other organizers wants to include more poc. Which is funny to me cus im a poc and they're white but im like whatever dude, as long as they're not authcoms go ahead and invite them. Idk anything about blk+brwn but from their website and social media they seem fine.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 17:59

Maybe instead of the moderators blocking the term s.e.e.t.h.i.n.g..r.e.s.s.e.n.t.i.m.e.n.t they can block "are masks required???!?!????" from this fucking fragile testicled perpetually online trollbaby on every anarchist events irl that they will never attend (due to fragile testicles and having to go o-u-t-s-i-d-e)? Yes.

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 07:09

I find it easy to imagine people I align with might ask about mask requirements. Probably screening the use of "diapers" would work best.

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 18:20

I can't take it anymore. Anarchists are wearing masks!! THIS MUST END!!!
*cries*

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 18:20

If this event doesn't enforce mandatory masking, you best believe the Portland Poop Squad are coming!

TranslationTesticle (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 18:22

"Portland anarchists scare me! They don't respect public property!! Please stop asking people to consider wearing a mask if they feel so inclined! It hurts me even if I won't be there!"

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 19:55

Dear Collective,
I would like to speak to a manager. It seems that some anarchists are holding an even and considering the suggestion that event attendees consider doing something that I disagree. While I would never attend such events out in the world I would very much suggest you put an end to these practices of anarchists doing things that I do not agree with. You see, the science that I choose to believe says that the science they choose to believe is wrong and also the fact they they claim to be doing this to help others makes me think they are saying I do not help others and this is virtue signaling, which is bad. So, I encourage you to look at the science I abide by and put an end to anarchists making suggestions at their own events that I will not attend that I do not endorse.

Sincerely,
~Fragile Testicled Anon That Cries When Anarchists Wear Masks At Anarchist Events I Would Never Attend and Who is Fearful of Portland Anarchists in General

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 20:00

Pardon my typos and missing words. The bad science doctors claim it's from long covid but I know that's just fake news.
Regards,
~Fragile Testicled Anon That Cries When Anarchists Wear Masks At Anarchist Events I Would Never Attend and Who is Fearful of Portland Anarchists in General That Doesn't Have Long Covid But Is Just Very Busy Trolling the Anarchists

anon (not verified) Wed, 08/21/2024 - 22:12

Long Covid rates are super low these days, and doctors are just doctors; not epidemiologists. But hey, keep dissing this actual SCIENCE with low-level insults as scientific aeguments, so maybe after the rev in 278 years this might help making you look more clever for sure.

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 08:22

Yes, yes... after formally banning the use of artemisia along with another native plant that Black Africans widely used so that the spread of Covid didn't affect the continent much. But of course your White capitalist biopharma science is superior to all these medicines for "savages", right?

...REGARDLESS! Yes, this superior Science has eventually tackled Covid.. after a year of mass infections and nonsense despotic socio-sanitary measures. So back to 2024... where is your Pandemic god, now?

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 08:36

Also anon bigot @ 22:33, since I care backing up my claims, unlike you... and for educational purposes for the less bigoted, there's a few non-racist Western scientists who dared looking into African traditional medicines being used against Covid, like similar respiratory diseases:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7980728/

https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/8/e010813

No mention of N95 masks either, that were proven by loads of research to not be effective against the spread of the virus, not anymore than wearing a thick scarf on your mouth and nose. As the virus was being spread through water droplets from coughing and sneezing. So sorry your thick skull makes me remind you this shit, in 2024 when you should have already learned that four years ago... that kinda unveils how anarcho-leftists never learn anything... or read, afaik.

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:00

Wait are you saying that anon 22:33 is a "bigot" because they made fun of your SCIENCE cherry-picking? Do you know what the term bigot means?

Worried about you. Long covid brainfog? Maybe get it checked out by a qualified epidemiologist you agree with?

anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 08:07

gddam these mask arguments are long-lived. almost like the ideas given are MASKING some other concerns.

is it impossible for people to look at and talk about what they're actually worried about in some way that is not designed to enrage anyone who disagrees with them?

some people have a really hard time not being able to see other people's faces. like, it's emotionally destabilizing. i'm not saying that's the problem for all the mask-deniers, but probably it is for many. how can the mask-accepters address that concern in a fucking empathetic way?

why can't the mask deniers recognize that mask-accepters could have different and scary risk factors that are not (or not just) about accepting state rules, but about having to make health-based decisions in a shifting, chaotic, and unclear environment?

what is it about some of these baggaged conversations (masks are only the most recent, right?) that makes it impossible for people (or at least "people" online) to get out of rigid boxes and maybe get creative with options and opportunities?

i'd make this a topic of the week question if i could. ffs.

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 15:35

"why can't the mask deniers recognize that mask-accepters could have different and scary risk factors that are not (or not just) about accepting state rules, but about having to make health-based decisions in a shifting, chaotic, and unclear environment?"

I hear you, and no is saying that "mask-accepters" shouldn't wear a mask... they can do whatever tf they want. They can take all the booster shots out there on the market while wearing 11 layers of N95, I don't give a fuck! The issue is about imposing these practices on people who don't want them!

I also take issue with the label, "anti-masker". There are no fucking anti-maskers! What we have here is one side that is MASK-NEUTRAL (i.e: wear one or not, idgaf either way) just trying to mind their own business... and then we have this other side that is pro-mask ENFORCEMENT (i.e: trying to control others)

It's that simple. One side wants to just live and let live, essentially, and the other wants to dominate and micro-manage what people have (or don't have) on their faces.

It's fuckin wack.

At the height of the pandemic, sure... But in 2024? WTF is their goddamn deal?!

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 12:23

Why are the moderators even bothering to try and curate some comments? It's horribly dumb and is causing even more stupidity when part of the conversation is deleted but other parts are not. You are making anarchists and trolls of anarchist website even dumber. Stop it.

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 14:44

the point isn't to wear a mask or not, do whatever the fuck you want. it is to stop mandating them at anarchist events. as long as they continue to require them, there will be pushback.
duh.

anon (not verified) Thu, 08/22/2024 - 17:33

Love the acronym. Can probably make it to this. grateful/thanks.

anon (not verified) Fri, 08/23/2024 - 15:16

we need mandatory vaccine passport checks at every anarchist event, including 5-person max. social bubbles with 6-foot social distancing.

also you need to suck a girldick to prove you're not a cop!

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