Me: “Yes”
Lmao I wouldn’t even call me an angry person. I’d call me an empathetic person that is responding naturally to a shitty system.
Being submissive isn’t a virtue. You just dislike justified defiance because it makes it harder for you to pretend everything is okay. It reminds you of your cowardice.
One of the worst aspects of internet culture is this idea that being mad about something means you are no longer “rational” about it. Anger exists for a reason, there are some things worth getting mad about it. Injustice in our corrupt and fucked up system is one of them.
Yes. There is a reason we still have the phrase “righteous anger” percolating in the English language. Seeing injustice elicits shock, horror, and heartbreak. It is completely ‘rational’ that those emotions transition into incandescent rage. If I saw a dude kick a puppy my first emotional reaction is gonna be “Holy fuck did I just see that dude kick a puppy?” My next emotional reaction is “I am going to kick that dude’s ass.” Completely normal chain of events.
Exactly. It is how we as a social species protect each other. By taking action against things that endanger us (or puppies, who are a part of our society) as a whole.
Unfortunately under capitalism this indignant rage is often redirected at petty criminals and the homeless
Yep, capitalism rewires you to deflect your anger against the things capitalism wants to (or is indifferent to) have hated. Communist theory enables us to both see, and crucially, articulate the real causes of injustice that should be targeted. It is emotionally taxing, however. It can give us short fuses and leave us coming across as “hot headed” or “angry all the time.” Well no shit! Capitalism is systemic, it’s totalizing, and it means we see shit that should be bothering us all the time. Couple that with the fact that lots of people are content to ignore this tornado of shit that whirls around all of us and it can be very isolating. Sorry I kinda meandered a bit there but it’s one of the things I think about a lot.
The unfortunate consequence of assault being criminalised.
In the old days if someone said something offensive you could just kick the shit out of them as it was considered fighting words.
Bullies have nothing to fear now.
Of course not saying assault should be legal in all cases, but I do think if someone is saying disgusting ignorant shit, you should be allowed to beat the shit out of them.
These days the ruling class start pissing themselves if you stick protest banners outside their house. Because they get reminded that even though they have all these apparatuses to separate them from us, underneath it they are people and people can get got. We need more of that.
It reminds you of your cowardice.
That goes hard.
It also reminds people that there is another option and that they are choosing to remain silent.
Honestly, coming to this site and seeing comments like this is one of the only few ways I can get external validation that it’s not me that’s going crazy. Keep on fighting the good fight comrade.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society
