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That's the thing that gets me, though. Even the "Anarchist" branding is misleading; Black Bloc and Antifa and whatever else, invariably come out in favor of more government.
Obviously, anarchism is a very broad term, and can encapsulate a wide variety of political agenda and beliefs. But, at the bare minimum, "left anarchists" are going to be anti-government, and anti-capitalist. That's what the term means. That's why you're "left" "anarchist" - you promote mutual, voluntary cooperation, and oppose the hierarchical power structures of both the state and corporate realm.
And now... we've got "anarchist" activists shooting regular citizens - demanding that the "fascist Nazi federal government" claim unprecedented levels of power and authority - and doing so on behalf of a global windfall subsidy program that's making billions for Big Pharma.
American "lefty anarchists" have always been tankie socialists in denial, so that much isn't new... either you're too young and stupid to see what your task masters are using you to promote, or you're too old and stupid and morally bankrupt to sort out the cognitive dissonance of being both an anarchist AND a hatchetman for Big Government.
But the vaxx thing is very new. It was only a few years ago that vaccines were seen as a tool of neoliberalism (for Farmers who don't have much contact with radical lefties: neolibs are to the woke what RINOs are to the based), and it was not uncommon to see the rockstars of the anti-authoritarian left - Jill Stein, for example - speak out passionately against Big Pharma, the FDA, the CDC, institutional capture, and the dangerous corruption of the medical-industrial complex (here are a couple articles that have not been memory-holed yet, and even a Reddit AMA). But if Stein said anything like that now, she'd be labelled a Nazi and shot, by the very people who claim to represent "her side".
