Salty As!

 People love getting salty about the salties and it’s really boring when it comes from people who have protested alongside Socialist Alternative before. Gosh, they arrived late and left early? Shit, imagine if anarchists did that! That’s right, you wouldn’t say anything, because you wouldn’t feel weirdly entitled to their solidarity. In fact, you’d respect that they have their view on things, their own ideas, their own conclusions about what’s important, their own priorities and motivations. I don’t know who “you” is in this paragraph because I’m not actually mad at anybody.

I mean, everyone annoys me. Everyone comes up short, seems too wrapped up in ego, has the wrong approach and that’s because I am very into my own way of thinking and I absolutely fucking love projecting my own bullshit onto others. 

It’s not like you can just not have an ego. And you also can’t be everywhere, seeing everything, building the best opinion ever. Sometimes, unbelievably, I might be wrong. I might be wrong now. What am I saying? Someone will read this and hate hate hate it. And that’s the power of love. 

At the Trans Day of Visibility rally at the library, there were salties using a megaphone just across the road. I didn’t know that, I couldn’t see, and I thought that maybe it was christian preachers. Now that I know it was SAlt, I assume they were talking to passersby about the rally. There were floods of people going past, so that would make sense. 

Oh my god, I’m so bored by myself. Why am I writing about this petty shit? Well, some people were mad at SAlt for using a megaphone in a jampacked busy city across the road from a rally. 

Tom Tanuki, the Vice President of Antifa has written about this nonsense today and you’re probably better off reading his take, because I am running out of steam. 

See, in real life I offer my feedback when people tell me about shit like this, like this: “Oh for fucks sake. Oh fuck off. Nah, get fucked.” But also in real life I try to deescalate the drama by saying, “SAlt are SAlt, they’re our comrades, we can’t change them and we just we have to work with them and sometimes around them.” But I wouldn’t say that about the megaphone incident, because who gives a shit. Harden up fuckers. Get better things to complain about. 

I will say that people direct an amazing lot of mockery and scorn at a group that is way better organised than we currently are. Have a chuckle about that. That is very funny.

In September of the year 2000, 10,000 people turned up to blockade Melbourne’s Crown Casino, because the World Economic Forum was coming, and a thing called the September 11 Alliance formed to make that shit happen. S11 was an extremely well organised blockade to shut down a meeting of honchos deciding on terrible futures for us all. The blockade was so successful that future WEF circle jerks happen far away from big cities. We did that.

Then there was the Woomera Breakout in 2002, when a thousand or so deadset legends went into the desert to tear down the fences of a detention centre and free refugees. That shit happened. 

Ah, I’ve remembered Tom’s piece is on his Patreon. I guess flip him a shekel for a sqizz?

Anyway, let’s form alliances and do awesome shit.