an anarchists quick and dirty definition of hierarchy

an anarchists quick and dirty definition of hierarchy

alt-text: (thumbnail) There is an image of rose (a 3d vtuber avatar) staring off to the side. Rose has green hair, blue eyes, and is white. Rose has a stylized ranger cloak on as well as a black and pink tshirt. There is text over the thumbnail that says "what is hierarchy"

(in video itself) an image of Rose, a 3d vtuber avatar is staring somewhat towards the camera while laying down. Rose has green hair, blue eyes, and is white. The camera angle is pointed upwards and you can see the bottoms of 3d retro style trees.

A transcription is available on youtube, and I have personally added and corrected captions.

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u/RosethornRanger — 8 days ago
▲ 19 r/QueerLeftists+1 crossposts

Very little of the work people do is actually measurable. In order to gatekeep you capitalists often have to make you do a lot of useless busywork they can actually track. This leads to us getting far less done overall

An edited 3 panel garfield strip featuring jon and garfield. The first panel is jon staring at a piece of paper saying "so this is how I justify the value of my work". The second panel is him looking at garfield while garfield has a thought bubble with the text “lol”. The last panel has an entire stack of papers and jon looking at them unhappily while garfield has a thought bubble saying "that’s the work"

u/RosethornRanger — 11 days ago
▲ 423 r/AnarchismZ+2 crossposts

It can happen here. The dehumanization required for genocide is already present.

A twitter post by Maha Hussaini (@HahaGazy) with the text "About the hypocrisy, double standards of the world, Hamed Ashour from #Gaza, writes: "A year ago, I shared the story of this very friendly dog. What a lucky dog he turned out to be, his story was featured in Arab and international magazines, read by over 5 million people around the world, and translated into seven different languages.

At the time, I was contacted by an animal welfare organisation based in Dublin, the capital of Ireland. They wanted to check on the dog’s health and asked for photos of the tent we lived in and guarded together. I sent the pictures, and in return, I received an overwhelming and extremely rare show of sympathy. They seriously explored the possibility of evacuating the dog from Gaza through partner organisations.

They wanted a better life, a cleaner place, and a wider sky for the dog. No one mentioned me, who was living in a tent unfit even for a dog.""

There are two images attached. The first is an image of a person laying on a beech in front of a dog. The next is an image of the same dog in front of a tent in the sand. The date for the post is 9:21 AM jul 16 2025 and has 141k views.

u/Only_Lecture4920 — 11 days ago

always remember that oppression is not linear, and what is safe for one person may be dangerous for another, and that they probably know more about their oppression and set of risks than you do. Like, people do things for a reason

A Tumblr repost by pumpkin-gore of ahasiw-kahkitow that says "why black and native people don't trust white queers exhibit #963" with a screen shot of a censored user saying "never have an issue with police at Calgary Pride..." And another censored user asking "are you bipoc?" The first user replies "I'm trans" and the second user responds "that's not a race"

u/RosethornRanger — 16 days ago

It can be much harder to notice things that are not there for you. You need to be actively looking to learn about these things if you want to be there for the people around you

A Tumblr post by depsidase that says "some people have a hard time recognizing privilege, saying 'I work hard. I don't get things handed to me.' I understand that. Here's how I respond: privilege isn't bonus points for you and your team. It's unfair penalties the other team gets that you don't. Privilege isn't the presence of perks and benefits. It's the absence of obstacles and barriers. That's a lot harder to notice. If you have a hard time recognizing your privileges, focus on what you don't have to go through. Let that fuel your empathy and action.

u/RosethornRanger — 16 days ago
▲ 543 r/QueerLeftists+2 crossposts

"we can't stop calling fascists "disabled" as an insult, that would make us too different from the normies so it would be harder to recruit them" (the main recruiting point that we have is that we are actually different)

a tweet by "Abby" (@abbyMachines) That says "No you don't understand bro we need to abandon another minority group to win. I know it didn't work last time but come on bro just trust me. We just need to alienate another group of marginalized people and their loved ones and we'll definitely win the election this time"

the text in the post (as well as quotes in the title) is sarcastic.

u/Only_Lecture4920 — 16 days ago

A trans persons perspective on democracy, and how it impacts trans people in leftist organizing

alt-text for thumbnail: a youtube video titled "democracy is transphobic" with that written in green and red letters. It is on top of a digital art wooden background next to a non-binary flag

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u/RosethornRanger — 18 days ago
▲ 13 r/AccessibleAnarchy+1 crossposts

Art is something that someone sees as art. It does not need to be more complex than that. Also, a meal doesn't need a narrative to be art, it can just be amazing tasting food. Why is this different?

A tumblr post by prokopetz that says "Even folks on the pro-porn side of the aisle often talk like it's the presence of narrative that makes porn an art form, as though the erotic needs to be explicitly justified in order to elevate it from the mere mechanical production of arousal, and it always makes me feel like maybe we're not quite as "pro" as we think we are." There is a follow button in the top right corner, and it has the tags #media and #art. There are 39 comments, 1896 reblogs and 4688 likes.

u/RosethornRanger — 19 days ago
▲ 459 r/AnarchismZ+2 crossposts

Pretending to be somebody else in order to access the resources I need to live are consistently the worst experiences in my life. This often includes having to present myself as "disabled enough" for accommodations, how I must attempt to make the invisible visible

an image of a quote by george orwells 1984. The text says "The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes from being misunderstood. It is the loneliness of standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not know the true essence of who you are. And in that loneliness, you feel as though you are fading, disappearing into the background, until you are nothing more than a ghost. A shadow of your former self."

u/Mvrd3rfac3 — 20 days ago
▲ 312 r/AnarchismZ+1 crossposts

many allies are only there when it is convenient. They will say nice things and talk like they support you, but are still willing to turn on you when there is privilege at stake.

A tweet by @iconaWrites saying: "Here's one feminist life rule of mine: I never judge a man based on how he treats women when they are coddling or praising him. Look closely at how a man reacts when a woman displeases him, stands up to him, or draws a boundary with him, and you will find out who he really is."

u/RosethornRanger — 22 days ago
▲ 2.6k r/ennnnnnnnnnnnbbbbbby+4 crossposts

The language we use is more important than most people give it credit for. Language shapes how people interact with things. Ignoring a "preference" is easier and given much more social grace than ignoring a "fact", for example

a tweet by Natalie Reed (@nataliereed84) that says: "Cis people get genders, we only get "gender identities". They get pronouns, we get "preferred pronouns". They [allcaps on] are [allcaps off], we "identify as""

u/RosethornRanger — 6 days ago
▲ 71 r/anarchocommunism+1 crossposts

You do not help people by hurting them. That statement is something that I need to say again and again, and I cannot possibly say enough. If someone does an action that puts us down to help recruit more of the "general population" into a movement, all you do is achieve less, not more

A framed yellow square with text and graphs in it. The text says "Mental health conditions are very high in autistic people. A study by E.Cage et. al. in 2017 showed that autism acceptance from others and personal acceptance had a positive impact on depression and anxiety rates." There are then two simplified graphs where the y axis is depression, and the x of them are external acceptance, and the other is personal acceptance. The line has a strong downward trend with external acceptance, and lower but still downward trend with personal acceptance. There is a citation at the bottom that says. "Cage, E., Di Monaco, J. & Newell, V. Experiences of Autism acceptance and mental health in autistic adults KJ autism dev discord 48, 473-484 (2018). There is a watermark in the corner that says "autism sketches"

u/Only_Lecture4920 — 24 days ago
▲ 512 r/radicalqueers+3 crossposts

If you use a circumstance, experience, or body as an insult you cannot separate who it hits and who it doesn't. You are putting down all people in that circumstance, and in doing so putting yourself above them. If you are using ability as an insult, you are building an ableist hierarchy.

An image of a tumblr post by "rars" on apr 4 with the text "being disabled and lgbt is such a horrible curse because you will see the most ableist take on earth online and you're like "oh surely this is some right-wing fascist loser" and then you look at the person who said it and there's pronouns in their bio. and it's like, how did we get here? but the reality is that a lot of abled people (and often disabled people who are intolerant of different disabilities) are just not even willing to confront the idea that they are capable of punching down on other marginalized groups". There are two comments, 4055 reblogs, and 6560 likes.

like i don't know who needs to hear this but you are Not as progressive as you think you are if you're saying stuff like the R slur, "jobless behavior", making fun of nonverbal people, mocking physical differences, using psychotic as an insult, or calling people "lazy" for using disability aids. even if you're gay!"

u/RosethornRanger — 24 days ago
▲ 437 r/AnarchismZ+1 crossposts

Heat will get worse, and it will get worse more quickly. This is something you need to prepare for in your daily lives, it will get genuinely dangerous to many of yall individually. What are your current plans to deal with it, and do you think it will be enough?

A two panel meme of the simpsons. The first is bart with text saying "this is the hottest summer of my life." With homer looking at him wagging a finger saying "This is the coldest summer of the rest of your life"

u/RosethornRanger — 26 days ago
▲ 344 r/gender+2 crossposts

It makes me uncomfortable when people constantly talk about how homophobes must secretly be gay. Like, not only is that blaming our oppression on our own community it also like, is telling other people what their identity is.

A tumblr post by "lily-the-good-witch" that says "Sometimes I think people mistake straight men's attraction to power as homoerotic. Like a big example of this is how men being misogynists, showing or outright saying they hate women as gay. And obviously conflating gay men and misogyny is bad on its own but like, also, no they hate women because they see them as parasites, status symbols that you show off to other men but still resent for weakening you. And they see men as big and strong which they are attracted to but not the men themselves."

u/RosethornRanger — 26 days ago

Looking back on my life, it was quite obvious I had EDS my entire childhood. I wish more people knew how to and cared to look for stuff like that, because I wouldn't have known if I didn't randomly choose a doctor who specialized in it during college

A tweet from hux | lizzie huxley-jones @littlehux that says "a few weeks ago a hypermobility specailist told my pal that standing up normally for us is like standing on a moving a moving bus at all times and I haven't stopped thinking about it. No wonder we're so flipping tired." and a response from the same poster "I think I mention in my essay for allies the way disabilities can be quietly noticeable if you know what to look for and I can always spot a hypermobile person by how we stand and sway and move positions a lot while standing, or sit like a dropped cluster of spiderweb."

u/RosethornRanger — 29 days ago

It is essential to remember that these labels are ours to define for ourselves. A universal power structure defining our experiences for us is not something that we need or want

A series of 4 posts by Crescairis on tumblr. They are posted mar 2 2022. The text of the first says "i get that people are more comfortable with defined rules and structure but i also think queer people lost when they started resorting to dictionary definitions for what labels mean". The next says "the queer umbrella is meant to deviate from the norm of rigid boxes and definitions and to decide that lesbian means Only this, bi means Only this, etc, is directly contradicting what queer means. each and every label is going to have a unique meaning to the person using it and that is how it’s supposed to be. if you’re not comfortable with that…sorry?" Next it says "basically if someone tries to tell you you’re using a label wrong: no you’re not, eat them". The last post is an image of text with the text after it that says [image description: a set of tumblr tags from @/elinaline, reading: “#there is a way to use a label wrong actually; #its when you force it on someone else”. end image description.] "

u/RosethornRanger — 30 days ago
▲ 378 r/AnarchismZ+1 crossposts

This is one reason why I don't like democracy. I am part of a group that will never be the majority. This means the best possible case of having my rights only exist as well as they are explained will mean I will never have as much as many other social groups

A tumblr post by ThunderBottle that says "I think queer people should be more confusing actually. I think we should make everyone as confused as possible until they give up and realize that total understanding of other people isn't the gateway to respect and compassion."

u/RosethornRanger — 29 days ago

I want a list of autistic stereotypes

Hey yall, I am starting streaming again and one event I want to do is an autism stereotype tierlist. Please tell me all your favorite stereotypes below so I can add them to the list uwu

(no bazinga guy 😤)

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u/RosethornRanger — 1 month ago
▲ 323 r/AccessibleAnarchy+1 crossposts

Food is one of the most important parts of our lives, and something that is easily shared compared to a lot of what we do. If you aren't sure about how to build mutual aid, or how to get closer with friends and people, food is a great way to start

A Tumblr post by intoSnarkness that says "legit the best advice I can give you: feed your friends. Any time someone is in any kind of crisis or upheaval, offer to feed them. tell them they don't have to choose what it is if they can't make decisions, just ask about allergies and preferences and tell them you're just gonna make food happen at their house. Friend having a baby? Delivery gift certificate to order food to the hospital after the baby shows up. Someone's relative passes away? Offer to make them dinner. Buddy gets laid off? Offer to order them lunch. Pal stuck in a depressive episode? Offer to drive them to McDonald's if that's what they want. People in crisis are tired and sad and angry and the last thing most of them are doing is thinking about feeding themselves. So if you have the ability or time or money providing that is always a good move. Legit I do this every time and it is 100% always appreciated. I have taught all my friends that whenever something happens we all feed each other. It makes people feel extremely cared for, and I cannot recommend it enough." And a response from sandersStudies that says "right after I reblogged this I found out a friend's mom was hospitalized -- this is such a good reminder. If you can provide disposable plates/utensils and save them from doing dishes -- when my husband was diagnosed with cancer, bulk paper products were our most appreciated gift."

u/RosethornRanger — 1 month ago