x_cell

x_cell, 22 days ago

It still works if you’re a mod in a community. I don’t know why.

x_cell, 1 month ago

Russian repression is so fucked up

x_cell, 1 month ago

In a way, the job of a teacher or journalist is to filter useful and/or relevant information for interested parties.

x_cell, 1 month ago

So what?

x_cell, 1 month ago

Kinky

x_cell, 1 month ago

I don’t disagree with your point in general, but this doesn’t make much sense:

If people suffer from the collapse of harmful machinery, it is the fault of the machinery.
No one would have collapsed it if it was not harmful.

A lot of people depend on machines to stay alive, machines that do produce harmful impacts around the world (that may or may not be possible to reduce), like advanced medical equipment that is dependent on semiconductors.

As a disabled person myself, I prefer if no one has to die.

x_cell, 2 months ago

I have not read the entire PDF, but it seems to be at best a new version of the Zeitgeist Movement with more anarchist flavor, and at worse a pyramid scheme disguising itself as the former.

There simply isn’t a good reason to use crypto for this kind of project, except if you want to make ir look technically advanced. I tend to be very skeptical if this.

x_cell, 3 months ago

Since we’re talking game theory, a basic rule in any competitive game (from chess to League of Legends) is that focusing on loss prevention is a losing tactic.

We’ve been doing peaceful protest since the beginning of the environmental movement. It’s not getting the goods and the earth is dying. What we need it’s a diversity of tactics.

x_cell, 3 months ago

Am anarchist and never voted. I see voting as a very ineffective action at best.

With that being said, I don’t vote because I have better shit to do. Not out of some principle or belief that I’m doing something effective by not voting.

I’m against taking part in a community based around refusal to vote, because the point of not voting should be passive. It should be “I’m already doing a lot of other more important shit to fight the State so why bother?” And not “I don’t vote therefore I am having an impact”.

Just like voting is damn near useless, organizing and campaigning around not voting is also pretty meh.

Edit: OP isn’t doing a false flag. That’s a pretty common view among anarchists. Especially offline.

x_cell, 3 months ago

As a Brazilian, I can tell this guy is full of shit and doesn’t understand what happened here in 2013.

x_cell, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Well, for starters, MPL wasn’t anarchist-inspired, it’s a coalition movement. Saying it’s anarchistic would be like saying Pride is anarchistic due to the lack of a single formal leadership.

I’ve been in anarchist circles for years, and never, ever saw anyone mention the book “Change the World Without Taking Power”. Most anarchists here are more inspired by older, classical works. I myself tend to critique them for not reading anything after 1950s.

And he must be referring to anarchists here when he talks about horizontalists, because the other political organizations in MPL are MLs, trotskyists, and maoists. What’s insane is that the vast majority of the Brazilian radical left is marxist leninist and pretty much allergic to horizontalism. The reason they build coalitions is because they are in most cases weak and small, not a lack of authority.

x_cell, 4 months ago

The first is what thinking on what kind of organization do you want to be a part of. Do you want to fight for labor rights in a union? Do you want an affinity group? Or maybe do you want to join a broad coalition of environmental defense. Or maybe a large anarchist platform.

Those are all different and will have different advantage and issues. There isn’t one right way of doing anarchism.

The other thing is, you mentioned there’s only a local DSA in there. Are you sure? Where is the chapter currently working? And more importantly, which movements are they working with? Knowing that might shed some light into other organizations or at least social movements.

x_cell, 4 months ago

I recommend trying to reach put to large organizations that align with your interests in this case.

Especifismo: black rose anarchist federation

Radical unionism: Industrial Workers of the World

Both of those orgs will be able to help a lot more than we can, if you want to build something aligned to them. Building different organizations take different approaches, and they can share their experiences and strategies that are more likely to succeed.

I’m not from the US, so I don’t know many more organizations. But the principle stays the same: you want to build a mutual aid network, try talking with people already working on those, even if they aren’t from the same place.

Now, as to what exactly amongst each of those you should do, I think only you can answer. My approach is that the best thing is something that touches you (be either in your heart, your body or your wallet). So basically, what do you feel like doing?

I wish you the best of luck, comrade :)

x_cell, 4 months ago

That’s my exact gut reaction. I read four or five paragraphs and was like “that’s enough brain poison for me”, and generally I’m into it.

x_cell, 5 months ago

Choosing Saudi Arabia for this is like choosing the US for an international conference on anti-imperialism.

x_cell, 6 months ago

This doesn’t mean shit.

I was raised catholic. It’s basically church doctrine that anyone is a child of God, and pretty much almost anyone can be baptized.

It doesn’t mean you’re not a sinner who’s going to burn forever in hell. It’s just the famous anti-lgbt talking point “hate the sin, not the sinner”.

This will lead LGBT people to a false sense of security before they go straight up to conversion therapy.

x_cell, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I’m keeping it as it is because most of the time I access Boost through hone screen. It doesn’t bother much.

But I thought it was worth reporting here to see if anyone else had the same issue.

x_cell, 6 months ago

Oh, I see. I didn’t notice it.

Thanks for clarifying!

x_cell, 6 months ago

Yeah. Like almost zero impact (zero if exclude the creation process and calories you have to eat) and you are a lot more precise, with the only downside being that it takes a bit longer to finish.

Where I live leaf blowers are really rare. I see them as a very unnecessary luxury.

x_cell, 6 months ago

How do anarchists propose handling public works, healthcare, etc?

Well, how we do it now?

During the Spanish Civil War, anarchists socialized many industries. What they found out was that you could just remove people from most management positions and continue work as before. Very rarely a manager was actually needed, and when it was they would simply elect one of themselves to fulfill the role for a while.

Talking about healthcare specifically, in many countries that have public healthcare, the system is already decentralized. Because it needs to be, otherwise they can’t properly answer the demands from their communities. Again, you just need to remove pointless middle-men and other workplace hierarchies (like physicians being more important than nurses), and stuff tends to get better.

x_cell, 6 months ago

Anarchy is the only way to stop an asshole.

If you’re an asshole in anarchism, you’ll fuck your neighbor’s life.

If you have a State or other giant hierarchy filling assholes with power, they will fuck everybody’s life. Case in point: every single billionaire alive.

x_cell, 7 months ago

The vaccine does not stop covid

It does.

It does not make you immune

Not to all strains, and not completely.

it does not stop you from spreading covid

It does, by reducing symptoms like cough, which spreads the virus in the air, and by lowering your chances of having it on the first place.

and you will have to get another dose after about 3 months

I haven’t checked this one, but even if true, it’s a small price to pay to not having my friends and loved ones dying.

And then there are possible adverse effects like myocarditis, especially for young men. All this should be considered.

Which are extremely unlikely to happen in comparison to dying of covid.

There are other ways to strengthen your immune system. They should be considered too.

There isn’t s way to strengthen your immune system, because it doesn’t work that way. You either have a healthy immune system or you are immunocompromised, which may happen when you are particularly fucking up your body with drugs, going through rapid environment changes or suffering with AIDS.

People with a immune system that is too strong (that is, more aggressive and more wasteful of body resources) actually tend to develop auto immune diseases.

Most people that have died due to covid have been severely ill, morbidly obese or very old.

Yeah. And they still deserved to fucking live.

Eating healthy, getting enough exercise and making sure Vitamin D levels are sufficient will make covid much less dangerous. I much prefer that to constantly getting new boosters.

Those are indeed good practices that will lead to a healthier life, and may affect your chances with covid (especially exercise if it’s cardio).

However, COVID doesn’t care. Being healthier mostly means that you can take a bit more physical damage on average than other people while your immune system tries to fight the infection. It will still fuck you up and possibly cause permanent damage.

Oh, and if you have bad genetics, got wet from the rain in a cold environment, or is just way too stressed out from work? Your chances are pulled down just as much.