cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/15059816

transcript [text overlaid on several pictures of benches and outside windowsills. the benches have bars, or gaps to prevent someone from sleeping on them.

text reads “Ban anti-homeless arctithecture”]

sauce: https://mastodon.social/@AnarchistArt/112901196516297447

Hostile architecture is among the symptoms of the hostile modern city, where neighbours never say hi, and people die on the streets as people walk passivly by.

  • tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Obviously a society set up to force citizens to engage with power structures like police isn’t going to mesh will with anarchist ideas. A lot of anarchists just don’t do shit when they get victimized like that. The cops aren’t going to find your stuff and if they do they aren’t going to give it back. You suck it up, accept the loss, and ask your community for mutual aid.

    But what if society wasn’t like that? What if we created other avenues for empowerment besides go to the cops or deal with it? What if there was a justice system based on restorative justice and rehabilitation instead of violence and oppression? It turns out that most people are only stealing things because they can’t meet their needs any other way, and most people actually don’t want to just randomly hurt others if they have adequate food, shelter, services, and community. Build a society based on helping people up instead of beating them down, and appealing to your community for help no longer necessitates violence.

    • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      ah yes, the secret third option: tell yourself that whoever stole your thing probably needed it more than you and beg your neighbor to give you another one.

      we’re already doing that, it’s called gofundme, and it’s not working out great

      it is true that, in a just world where people’s needs are provided for, there would be fewer bad actors. there will still be bad actors regardless. these bad actors would be the sort of greedy arseholes who currently run megacorporations, but they would operate on a much smaller scale since society would be less conducive to their will. even still, having no plan to deal with their actions besides “shrug and be thankful for what you do have” is not an attractive prospect

      • tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        It sounds like you don’t actually want to discuss this and just want to have an argument tbh. You’re misrepresenting what I’ve said and it’s definitely not good faith.

        I hope your capitalist community comes to help you when the cops don’t give your stolen things back.

        • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          I’m not arguing against police reform. I agree that the police in their current state suck massive donkey balls, are not trained to de-escalate, frequently do things that would get an ordinary citizen five years minimum without so much as a slap on the wrist, and increasingly resemble a military more than anything else. I am sick to death of leftists pretending these problems extend to policing as a concept and working to abolish that instead of working towards a future where psychologists are called rather than SWAT teams.