This is an interesting question:

Is a structurally broken place doomed to taint all the good apples it receives?

with a good answer:

But understanding things as structural problems is to understand that the whole tree is rotten, and that you don't get 'good apples' from a rotten tree. You get rid of the tree. I know it takes work to understand systemic problems - this is why I posted a very accessible book on the matter.

I haven't read the book but I gather it's about cops only? In how far do you reckon this "systemic problem --> burn the tree" works as a heuristic? (sorry for the gross oversimplification) When do you try to cure, when do you not? (e.g. cops you burn because it's a choice, being white you try to fix because it's not?)

for reference/disclosure i'm cis/white/male

Seems like the most reasonable option, but it was the first thought I had and going with my first thoughts is always scary, b/c what if I missed something blindingly obvious?

I like this! I'm personally not well-read or well-informed in anarchism, I've read snippets but not really anything more cohesive, so I'd like content like this.

That's been my thought so far, I guess people will vote on what they see as 'hilarious or very unusual'.

Do you reckon there's anything that should be excluded?

My personal favourite comments are the ones that aren't just in-depth, but provide further research options and links to or suggestions of things to read so you can further knowledge or gain more insight.

The type of comment that answers a big question that was in the back of your mind after reading the main link/post and the rest of the comments.

Easy to quantify, right? ;)

Done, thanks for the encouragement! Hope to see some interesting discussions there.

thanks, very much done!

Thanks, that was partially what got me thinking about it! Also because I sometimes skip links if I've already come across a link/article/discussion elsewhere, and this way if I miss an interesting topic I'd still be alerted to it, potentially!

I'm not sure, but i asked

I read this earlier, and it's actually super important, especially for a community like this one. Propaganda isn't just "that advertisement stuff the people we don't like makes", it's actually really clever people making stuff that works to be more and more divisive.

I'm honestly actually quite impressed with this one, because what I'd seen earlier were terrible facebook ads like "hillary is literally the devil" (i'm not kidding), but this is nasty stuff.

It's kinda depressing because the 'solution' given is to fact check literally everything but there's nothing scarier than going down the "but why can i trust/know that?" rabbithole

They don't, you can use calibre or you can copy it using a file manager (at least i can using an older paperwhite)

on a watch list

iirc that could be done as easily as looking into linux, if you visited some websites you were put on nsa's naughty list.

heh, i'm from the netherlands and there's tap water here that's from the same source as high-quality 'mineral water', but we're super spoiled

well yeah, that's kind of the logical conclusion of articles like this.

and it helps explain why to people that don't know yet.

Imagine having a good discussion about your sex life with your SO because that's what adults in healthy relationships do and all of a sudden you can't access your email or your documents because some underpaid intern listening in on you thought you're icky.

I could see it being done out of a sense of martyrdom… Do you think it would work though? Apparently after the referendum last year there were quite some catalan voices saying they didn't want independence, so I'm wondering if it'll be appreciated or necessary or will actually lead anywhere?

So a few things: there's some posts on the books forum about where to get books; I made a comment just recently in that thread about using IRC which takes a bit to set up but has most books I have looked for, and that's quite a few.

Secondly, stripping DRM will probably be the same as in all those old blog posts you've read, it's based on the software Calibre and a plugin for that.

Besides that I'm using linux and a kindle too, you can just plug it in via USB and there should be a 'documents' folder where you can put the books and they'll show up on the kindle.

Afaik if you do decide to buy from amazon you can still download directly, or at least you used to be able to.

he's got a kindle though so he should probably keep it as a mobi ;)

Hm, sounds like a lot of fun but unfortunately i'm swamped atm so i think i'll join in later, if possible. have you thought about how often you'd read a book?

I suppose, but I wonder if discussions as a whole would benefit from no one being able to see them. Not just as an option

Hm, I like your thoughts on this a lot. I'll have to give it a think, I guess. I'm inclined to agree with everything but I'm unsure about what to do with vote manipulation etc.