El_Sabate

El_Sabate wrote

Reply to by !deleted8445

Best I've read this year:

Creating a Movement with Teeth - haven't finished this one yet, but it's good and I think a very important topic.

Fire on the Mountain - Terry Bisson

Maroon the Implacable - Russell Maroon Shoatz

Unrestricted Warfare - haven't finished it yet, but good so far

Bolo bolo

War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History by Robert Asprey - again, haven't finished it, but really interesting deep dive into guerrilla warfare throughout history

Without a Glimmer of Remorse by Pino Cacucci

A bank robbery, some anarchists and the choice for revolt

I also re-read the US Army's "Ranger's Handbook" - probably THE definitive book on small unit combat tactics.

Also, if any of you are interested and can't find any of these, let me know and I can hook you up.

4

El_Sabate wrote

Reply to by !deleted8445

I'm probably going to be disappointed by this, but I can't help but get my hopes up that it'll be awesome.

1

El_Sabate wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted2159 in by !deleted8039

That sounds amazing. I wish it were free to camp in national or state parks in the US. It's usually like $20+/night to camp at most parks I've been to.

4

El_Sabate wrote

Reply to by !deleted8039

I can't yet. But I can have plans and goals to do so. I am saving to buy land and a homestead where I can produce most of the things I and my family need to survive, and hope to be able to mostly escape capitalism by doing so. I want as much land as I can get because then I can invite more people to escape capitalism with me, but I know that this is an extremely limited solution - so do as many projects as I can like Tequila Wolf, and I plan on using my escape from capitalism as a base of operations from which to attack capitalism in more system-wide ways once it is established. I don't just want a private escape from capitalism, but I do want to take my family off of it as much as I can.

7

El_Sabate wrote

Reply to by !deleted8445

Winter is officially here, we've gotten over a foot of snow of the past week and that means I will not see grass or anything other than snow or concrete for the next 5-6 months, the days are short enough that because I work two full-time jobs I now only get to see the sun through windows - it is dark before I leave my day job, it's dark when I drive to and from my night job, and it's usually dark when I drive to my day job...so I am gonna have to be consciously better at finding time to get some sunlight and supplement my vitamin D intake - something I didn't do last winter and I think it really dragged me down over time.

My kiddos are doing really well, homeschooling is pretty good, my partner is finishing an electrician's course and preparing to enter a apprenticeship that she's really excited to start, but that means we gotta figure out what to do with our kids - it might mean having to put them back into public school, which we are both a bit apprehensive of, but we feel pretty trapped. If we were able to support ourselves some way other than capitalism I would gladly quit my jobs and homeschool them, but I'm the main earner and our family is not in a position to be able to let go of that income - especially before we buy a house and some land.

I'm rambling. The important things are going well, capitalism continues to be a hellscape that is literally killing me, but what else is new?

8

El_Sabate wrote

Reply to comment by shanc in Free Friday talk by mofongo

Looks like it could be this guy

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-03/who-is-tushar-atre-the-ceo-killed-after-being-kidnapped-from-his-oceanfront-santa-cruz-home

https://nypost.com/2019/11/13/suspects-in-murder-of-kidnapped-tech-millionaire-caught-on-video/

Kinda looks like it could be their aesthetic. No one in mainstream media is saying who the suspects are or what their motives were besides robbing the guy, but they wouldn't go into detail about who ITS is, even if they knew it was them.

2

El_Sabate wrote

That's a good idea, I'll try it out and see if it helps. Thanks!

I'm hesitant to use something like Google Drive, even though that's the easiest. Any recommendations on other programs/software to use for this that can be stored in the cloud for access from multiple computers/locations?

4

El_Sabate wrote

I spent most of 2010 deployed to Afghanistan. I was single, a member of what I now recognize as being an abusive religious cult, and profoundly broken, suffering from profound PTSD and depression...which led to

A faith crisis, an ideology/political crisis, and to have to question everything I'd ever been taught or thought I understood. I passed through just about every kind of crisis you could think of, come out of it so much better off. I am still kinda broken, still suffer from PTSD and depression, but I'm free of all of the ideological and religious blinders that oppressed me and all those around me.

In this decade I've gotten married, adopted 4 kids and had one of my own, moved across the country to a state I'd never been to, where I knew no one, and dragged my family with me. I've gone from faithful mormon to devout atheist. I've gone from guy who grew up very conservative but kinda liked Bernie to a full blown insurrectionary anarchist.

It's been a hell of a decade.

15

El_Sabate wrote

My son has a birthday party today, and I'm psyched! I don't get to spend nearly enough time with my kids, so I'm really looking forward to it.

10