tnstaec
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Been awhile. How's everyone doing?
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This is a hard one. On one hand respecting others' autonomy has to include respect for a rational, determined choice to end their lives. This is especially true for people who are in extreme chronic pain and have no other options. But on the other hand there is something of an epidemic of suicide. I wouldn't want to encourage people to choose suicide when other options that might not be as apparent are open to them. Living in contemporary society is fucking unbearable much of the time, but a human life is so short in the scheme of things. Personally, I'd rather spend a few decades trying to unfuck the world as much as possible, and even failing, than to just end it all prematurely.
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Reply to comment by An_Old_Big_Tree in Mild frustration with redundancy of forums by hotcool
This has been a perennial concern from the beginning. I've seen some subreddits create hacky redirected by banning anyone from posting, have having only one post which says "Go to: /r/MAINSUBREDDIT" perhaps something along these lines would be our best bet for duplicates.
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Reply to Religious anarchists - how do you square organized religion with anarchism when it's so hierarchical and authoritative? by BabyCroc
Most religious anarchists I know avoid institutionalized forms of religion. Some people call this "spiritual, not religious" but I don't like that semantic formulation. The Christian anarchists I know focus on the collectivist teachings of Jesus and the early Christian community. They emphasize that Christianity was hijacked by the Roman empire and turned into a hierarchical institution, but wan't so originally.
I've been getting into Daoist anarchism more recently. I read a book about the lives of prominent Daoists. About half of them became members of the bureaucracy of whichever state/ dynasty they lived in, but the other half went to great lengths to avoid the state entirely.
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Reply to comment by Slick in Buying Kindle e-books? by tnstaec
Because there's no other option. Shipping physical books to my country is costly and time consuming, and the specific books haven't been uploaded to LibGen.
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Reply to comment by leftous in Buying Kindle e-books? by tnstaec
Is that MyAnonaMouse? It looks like it might be a bit of a hassle to sign up for that site.
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Reply to comment by nijntje in Buying Kindle e-books? by tnstaec
Afaik if you do decide to buy from amazon you can still download directly, or at least you used to be able to.
Great! That's what I was hoping for.
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Reply to comment by BabyCroc in Buying Kindle e-books? by tnstaec
I do use Calibre. I don't know how downloading books from Amazon works.
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Reply to Rebooted Roseanne is a proud 'deplorable' — can she be the Trump era's Archie Bunker? by ziq
A gender-exploring grandson is one of several ways that the producers and writers (who include comedian and sitcom veteran Whitney Cummings) have checked off some current (and increasingly cliche) boxes, so that "Roseanne" will not only look like a show in 2018, but will give Roseanne and Dan an opportunity to examine their beliefs.
I hope this means Rosanne Barr has moved away from her TREF positions.
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Reply to comment by happy in Do cities even make sense as something worth preserving? by BabyCroc
I'm not trans myself, but I've interacted with anti- and pro-civ trans people online. However, I haven't really seen a specifically trans anti-civ position elaborated yet. The thing is, many non-civilized societies have recognized we would call LGBT. I've posted a bit about it here: https://raddle.me/f/anticiv/7324/civilization-and-gender
A lot of the trans discourse is couched in a highly medicalized language. And to be honest, I find some of it to be a little bit creepy and gatekeeper-ish ("if you don't have dysphoria, you're not trans"). As a non-trans person, I haven't involved myself in these debates, but I have been keeping an eye on them.
Also, there's the DGR who are sometimes mistaken as anarcho-primitivist and they are virulently tansphobic.
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Reply to 10 Ways Your Social Justice Work Might Be Inaccessible and Elitist (And Why That's a Problem) by An_Old_Big_Tree
Liberals gonna liberal
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Reply to A court has just ordered these 16 countries to make same-sex marriage legal by An_Old_Big_Tree
I still don't get how international courts are even a thing. It's a human rights court, so ostensibly it's doing good work. But then there's stuff like:
Every person has the right to have his life respected. This right shall be protected by law and, in general, from the moment of conception. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.
So this court could potentially undo abortion rights in Latin America.
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Is this like radical, feminist lit or Radical Feminist lit?
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I would have been the target audience of this Red Pill crap when I was in my teens - early twenties. Luckily it didn't exist then. I had very low self-confidence, was not at all assertive, and had low social skills. Add to that, I wasn't athletic and didn't give a shit about cars, though I was embarrassed about not wearing the trendy clothing brands. I was also raised in a pretty feminist household.
So navigating the dating world was difficult for me. RP has a bit of a point in that assholes do seem to have the competitive advantage in the youth dating culture. But that should be seen as an indictment of a fucked up culture, not of being a (genuinely and not entitled) nice guy.
RP is so appealing to young guys because it freely mixes self-improvement with warped reactionary toxic masculinity. Heck, even a lot of their ideas about self-improvement are just buying into capitalist society's commodity-based "values."
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Reply to The countries that get by without a government by ziq
Not the first time the British use of "government" has led me to disappointment.
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Reply to comment by Hal in Is there really such a thing as beta/alpha males? by Garbo
It's their version of horoscopes.
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If we just look at the metric of time spent, then many medieval peasants had it better than us.
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I renamed f/fascismrising to f/fascism at one point, but the original creator switched it back. Seems pretty redundant, tbh. Others sound good.
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Reply to comment by Ant in FOTW: f/Languages by tnstaec
Thanks. I gave up on forum of the week a while ago. The posts usually get a few upvotes, but the visibility doesn't seem to do much for the forums.
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Reply to How do you read books? Paper? Where do you get them? Digital? What service/ereader? by JoeMemo
Since I don't stay in one place very long I can't really accumulate lots of paper books these days. I finally gave in and got a Kindle. I mostly get books from LibGen.
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Reply to comment by An_Old_Big_Tree in Friday Free Talk by ThreadBot
It's been a busy few months. Good busy, but I'm ready for things to settle down a bit.