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Capchas aren’t generally case sensitive though.

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Probably? I’m no expert but I always answer with just lower case without issue

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Very sad day indeed.

I was already using reddit less. I guess this is the final goodbye.

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Really cool and interesting video!

I also thought the Fermi Paradox was kind of weirdly colonial.

Hell I don’t even think we should be fucking with the Moon.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Why a Decade of Protests Didn’t Lead to Revolution | a new book discusses ten years of democratic anarchist protest movements and how they only served to empower right wing autocrats (jacobin.com)

Why is this solarpunk? Because changing society takes people power. Because protests change nations. Because for the last decade protests inspired by democratic anarchist principles have sprung up in nation after nation, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. And the after action report of the first two decades of the 21st...

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

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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.

Reading suggestions for deeper theory and praxis

Hey all, I started my dive into anarchism a little over a year ago and I’ve read a lot of the anarchy/socialism 101 type books but I’m starting to find a lot of it repetitive. I’m looking for suggestions to deepen my understanding of anarchism and libertarian socialism. Especially praxis and tactics, a lot of theory that...

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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.

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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 :)

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Oh, I see. I didn’t notice it.

Thanks for clarifying!

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