I'm getting told my invite is invalid, not sure why

Thanks for sharing! Most of us share your same condemnation of society and modernity.

Just a note, especially if you're a man, please don't go using 'bitches' like this. There are tonnes of other words out there that don't associate negatively with womanness, and given your hatred of the sexism in this world I assume you'll understand.

Sure why not

I feel pretty confident that you're fine, if they had anything on you or cared they would have arrested you

Fuck those cops

The premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality, which in turn acts as the emotional and intellectual response to our basic survival mechanism. Becker argues that a basic duality in human life exists between the physical world of objects and a symbolic world of human meaning. Thus, since humanity has a dualistic nature consisting of a physical self and a symbolic self, we are able to transcend the dilemma of mortality through heroism, by focusing our attention mainly on our symbolic selves. This symbolic self-focus takes the form of an individual's "immortality project" (or "causa sui project"), which is essentially a symbolic belief-system that ensures oneself is believed superior to physical reality. By successfully living under the terms of the immortality project, people feel they can become heroic and, henceforth, part of something eternal: something that will never die as compared to their physical body. This, in turn, gives people the feeling that their lives have meaning, a purpose, and are significant in the grand scheme of things.

I am a loaf of bread

Anarchy works, and you're invited

There's no such thing as a libertarian capitalist

they're fooling theirselves with their minarchism

I pick anti-authority over any of this shit, because it subsumes them all

starting with goddamn civilisation, through states, through capitalism

Sounds good to me. Often it's even better to skip the charities and give directly to people, I'd say :)

Anybody can change their own username in the 'my account' section in the user drop-down menu, in case you didn't know.

wat

Isn't it that we punch/protest against and resist in all ways except those that are mediated? except those that separate us from our own autonomous power? It's not just voting that we don't do.

the "we should resist in all forms" argument doesn't really work because there are tonnes of other forms of resistance that we don't do but nobody mentions those

If you think that voting makes no difference and ultimately only reproduces bad things, but that we should do it because diversity of tactics, then you could use the diversity of tactics argument to argue for anything that's completely useless and counterproductive

e.g.
Let's all baaaa like sheep at people in the voting queues!

Fascists do come into power in part because they are voted in (much of the time), but to suggest that this is the key point in fascist power-building is to miss out on all the other important elements of fascist power building, of which there are many
organising autonomously against those elements means we keep our power and we grow in it

I laughed

There's a whole wiki about magnets that starts with S3 keys, if that's what you're looking for.

w/ShopliftingMagnets

I wonder what people would have to talk about here weekly

updates on fansubbers?

in my anime days I used to just use bakabt where I could, and then myanimelist.net to find a list of the best fansubbers of any particular anime

not sure what more there is to it.

weak article in part because it doesn't make blurs differences between whiteness, white raced people, and 'white' skin people ie people of european descent

personally I think it makes sense to get rid of whiteness and so therefore people raced as white, but hypothetically once whiteness is gone the people formerly raced as white will just be people

Not if the items traded are parts of national and international networks of exploitation of the poor and otherwise marginalised

You can't look at capitalism as merely an interaction between two apparently free and equal individuals; there's a broader context of the production of those items and the tendency of wealth to beget more wealth and to create more inequality under capitalism

For as long as the world runs under a profit motive, there will always be incentive to exploit people, there will always be incentive to invent groups to dehumanise so that they may be exploited more

It's directed at university students, but you might get some use out of reading:

Anarchist Student Groups: How to Organize Your Own

I want things and there is no ethical consumption under capitalism

solution: theft