drawingTheGun

The results of exploring rabbit holes

[music-thestrongestformofmagic]

Incels and other sexist men can’t see a woman doing something incredible without fuming and trying to discredit her. They’re now dissing on Katie Bouman, who helped write one of the algorithms that got us the black hole picture, saying she was just an assistant (they don’t know what assistant professor is), and using Andrew Chael, her colleague in the Event Horizon Telescope team who helped write one of the codes, as ~the true person behind the codes who is being erased by this anti-men society~ or whatever. They’re even saying crap like “lmao women really don’t do shit”. Andrew took to Twitter himself to call bullshit on that.

If y'all can spread this thread to counter such narrative it’d be great.

(x)

[vodcar]

when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet

[vodcar]

been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i’m wondering how and if we’ll be able to start commie internet lol

like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol

[vodcar]

i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!

[anarchopuppy]

GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)

Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use ‘em right, it’s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you’ve got internet!

Small antennae, like for connecting across the neighborhood, can literally be built out of trash

And a larger, more accurate one can be built pretty cheap too

(You can also reuse an old satellite TV dish, or really anything else that’s roughly parabolic)

There are LoRa meshnets in places like New York, India, and all over Europe: Spain (pictured below), Greece, Austria, Germany, etc

As for sharing fresh mëmês, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends’ computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information - that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc

What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it’s sent on and the computer that receives it - no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it’s all run on your computer, there’s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing

You can read more about this kind of stuff here (or here if it’s cloudy in Barcelona)!

[theweirdwideweb]

[everattaining-deactivated201606]

Do you think there's a possibility of religion existing in a fully communist world?

maybe, its hard to say because in the present, its very hard to separate religion-as-religion from religion-as-ideology

[everattaining-deactivated201606]

I guess for me, its worth clarifying, I don’t center or even emphasize atheism in my marxism for two reasons.

1) Atheism has taken on ideological utility to capitalism. Hitchens proves this.

2) Opposition to religion has ideological value to imperialism. Islamophobia proves this.

[redpantherparty-deactivated2017]

I know nothing about Hitchens. What role does he play in relation to capital?

[gooseplan]

He justified his support for imperialist wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, and sanctions against Iran on the basis that secular liberal societies were inherently preferable to the “theocracies” that they were trying to destroy. 

[humorcomunista]

But we can’t take away dialectical materialism.

[nochlangenichtgenug]

If you took out atheism(and following to this materialism) the whole basis of the scientific marxism would be missing. A “marxist” that doesn’t believe in materialism is just an utopist socialist without a philisophical system supporting the political views.

[everattaining-deactivated201606]

its not a question about taking out atheism, its a question of how much we center it in our ideology critique

[gayasscommie-deactivated2017090]

And frankly a Marxism that centered its politics around atheism would cease to be materialist, it’d just be like, left-Young Hegelianism

[gunpowderfemme-deactivated20170]

I think that religion is 100% compatible with materialism, it just can’t be used as a form of analysis, and what I mean by this is that your analysis has to be materialist, it can’t be that x thing happened because of G-d. I.E. The Soviet Union came into existence because of the material conditions that lead up to it, not because G-d placed came down and willed it in to existence. And there are various religious philosophies and views of G-d that are 100% in line with materialism such as Pantheism or Deism.

[dialectical-pantheism]

Dialectical pantheism 👍

[saynotorevisionism-blog]

Both the “New Atheist” movement and religious thinking can and indeed have functioned as expressions of the capitalist superstructure, a point which has been emphasized. 

Christianity is largely what led me to Marxism, and I think that the questions many religions pose can have revolutionary potential. That being said, a historical materialist approach should be primary to any meaningful analysis of class society. 

A Cuban poster of the revolutionary Christ

[transifranzi]

I think that in a communist society, and by this I mean a communist society like Marx had thought of (without authority etc.), every being should be free to practice faith, as long they do not try to take influence over other beings.

[not-safe-for-democracy]

[mediamattersforamerica]

☝️☝️☝️

[limelines-deactivated20210530]

hell yeah

[quakerjoe]

Actually, there is ONE, single, solitary mention of abortion in the Bible, and it if FOR it- PRO ABORTION.

Numbers 5:11-31

11 Then the Lord said to Moses, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him 13 so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), 14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— 15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[a] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.

16 “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord.17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. 20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”

23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. 25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar.26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial[c] offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. 27 If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse.28 If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

29 “‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband, 30 or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her.31 The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’”

So SUCK ON IT, you sanctimonious, hypocritical motherfuckin’ bible thumpers. Try READING your fucking bullshit tome of antiquity before spewing your self-righteous BULLSHIT. Do us all a favour and burn your holy books, your churches, and wake the fuck up and face reality. God is not in your religion.

[riseofthecommonwoodpile-deactiv]

a white supremacist released a manifesto referencing the much-promoted by the alt-right conspiracy theory of “the great replacement”, then livestreamed his explicitly racist and islamophobic killing spree (in a mosque, no less) and told people to subscribe to pewdiepie on this livestream

internet radicalization is not a joke, it is not ironic. lauren southern does not have “different ideas”, she has blood on her hands. so does pewdiepie. no more tolerance for the right wing’s racist ideology, and no more tolerance for “ironic” racism.

[fullpraxisnow]

Anarchy: What It Is and Why Pop Culture Loves It | Kim Kelly 

Anarchism 101:

Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! by David Graeber

Everything you ever wanted to know about anarchism (1980 approx.)

An Anarchist FAQ

What Is Anarchism? An Introduction (1995) by Freedom Press

Anarchism: a beginner’s guide (2005)

No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism (Released 1980, This Edition 2005) by Daniel Guerin

Anarchism: From Theory to Practice (1970) by Daniel Guerin

To Get to the Other Side: a journey through Europe and its anarchist movements (2010) by Peter Gelderloos

Marxism, Freedom and the State (written between 1867 and 1872) by Mikhail Bakunin

Bakunin on Anarchy (1971)

Basic Bakunin (2007) by the Anarchist Federation

The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) by Oscar Wilde

Anarchy (1891) by Errico Malatesta

Anarchism and Other Essays (1910) by Emma Goldman

No Treason (1867) by Lysander Spooner

The State: Its Historic Role (1896) by Peter Kropotkin

How Nonviolence Protects the State (2007) by Peter Gelderloos

The Accused, the accusers: the famous speeches of the eight Chicago anarchists in court when asked if they had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon them. On October 7th, 8th and 9th, 1886, Chicago, Illinois.

Anarcha-Feminism:

Anarcho-Feminism: Two Statements (1971) by Black Maria and Red Rosia

Feminism, Class and Anarchism (2007) by Dierdre Hogan

Love without borders? Intimacy, identity and the state of compulsory monogamy (2010) by Jamie Heckert

Women, the State, and the Family by E. Moraletat

Gender is a Weapon: Coercion, domination and self-determination bySally Darity

No Authority But Oneself: The Anarchist Feminist Philosophy of Autonomy and Freedom by Sharon Presley

Communist Anarchism:

Introduction to anarchist communism (2010) by the Anarchist Federation

What Is Communist Anarchism? (1929) by Alexander Berkman

What is Anarchist Communism? (2008) by Wayne Price

The Conquest of Bread (1906) by Peter Kropotkin

Basic Kropotkin (2008) by the Anarchist Federation

A Talk About Anarchist Communism Between Two Workers (1898) by Errico Malatesta

Fields, Factories, and Workshops (1912) by Peter Kropotkin

The End of Anarchism? (1925) by Luigi Galleani

The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays by Nestor Makhno

Anarchism: arguments for and Against by Albert Meltzer

The Floodgates of Anarchy (1970) by Albert Meltzer and Stuart Christie

Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm(1995) by Murray Bookchin

Durruti in the Spanish Revolution (2006) by Abel Paz

Anarchy Works (2010) by Peter Gelderloos

Marx’s Economics for Anarchists: An Anarchist’s Introduction to Marx’s Critique of Political Economy (2012) by Wayne Price

Insurrectionary anarchism:

Why Insurrection? (1982) by Alfredo M. Bonanno

Armed Joy (1977) by Alfredo M. Bonanno

For An Anti-authoritarian Insurrectionalist International (1993) by Alfredo M. Bonanno

A Critique of Syndicalist Methods (1998) by Alfredo M. Bonanno

The Insurrectional Project (1998) by Alfredo M. Bonanno

Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism by sasha k

Anarcho Platformism:

Contemporary Platformism: a critical study (2010) by Karl Klien

Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists (Draft): The new translation, the debate, the history & the platform today

About the Platform (1927 - 1929) by Errico Malatesta and Nestor Makhno

Insurrectional Anarchism vs. Class-Struggle Anarchism by Wayne Price

Anarcho Syndicalism:

Fighting for ourselves: Anarcho-syndicalism and the class struggle (2012) by the Solidarity Federation

Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (2009) by AK Press

Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century (2009) by Vadim Damier

Anarchosyndicalism (1938) by Rudolf Rocker

Anarchism and Anarcho-syndicalism (1949) by Rudolf Rocker

The Tragedy of Spain (1937) by Rudolf Rocker

Free Women of Spain (1991) by Martha A. Ackelsberg

To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936 (1994) by Murray Bookchin

Green Anarchism:

Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971) by Murray Bookchin

Feral Revolution and other essays by Feral Faun

Anarcho Primitivism

Why Primitivism? by John Zerzan

Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (2005) by John Zerzan

Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! (1983) by Fredy Perlaman

Why I am not an Anti-Primitivist (2010) by Lawrence Jarach

Mutualism:

A Mutualist FAQ

The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto (2010) by Kevin Carson

Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (2007) by Kevin Carson

Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective (2008) by Kevin Carson

What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (1840) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The Philosophy of Poverty (1847) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Queer Anarchism:

The short instructional manifesto for relationship anarchy (2006) by Andie Nordgren

Polyamory and Queer Anarchism: Infinite Possibilities for Resistance (2012) by Susan Song

Radical Queers and Class Struggle: A Match to Be Made Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire by Gayge Operaista

Christian Anarchism:

The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth (1906)

The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) by Leo Tolstoy

The Book of Ammon (1965) by Ammon Hennacy

The Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist (1954) by Ammon Hennacy

This list was originally complied by a Tumblr user who deactivated. If somebody knows who they are to credit, please message me. 

[victoryquote]

“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (1945) [750 x 829]

[anarchist-revolution]

[npr]

Alligators, Drugs, And Theft, Oh My! New List Shows Top 10 'Florida Man' Stories

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the most Florida of them all? A new top 10 list of bizarre stories from a Miami-based injury claims company attempts to answer that question.

[scottishwobbly]

How you can help end poverty and war with Food Not Bombs

here’s a pdf of the Food Not Bombs guidebook for all the solarpunk comrades wondering where to start

[lalocorleone-deactivated2026041]

The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man (1961) dir. Elliot Silverstein

[all-cops-are-bastards-1312]

[mixbagofholding]

my main criticism of solarpunk is why isn’t it happening

[scottishwobbly]

it absolutely is and here’s the wiki we’re building

what exists in terms of community developed sustainable technology

but like any revolutionary social movement it requires active involvement to achieve the change you want to see. Here are some handy resources for getting more involved:

Food Not Lawns - project to help communities feed themselves without capitalism

Food Not Bombs - same idea as above but less emphasis on growing food

The Buy Nothing Project - community resource pooling to combat consumerism

Demand Utopia - Rojava solidarity & social ecology activism - speaking of which, The Internationalist Commune of Rojava have their Make Rojava Green Again project.

Also, if you want your solarpunk social media then start looking to the decentralised non corporate sunbeam city mastodon instance (blend of tumblr and twitter without your data being sold) where you’ll find shit tonnes of information on making food, growing things, building sustainable technology yourself etc being shared - like this $3 DIY solarpowered USB charger or this $30 wind turbine made largely from salvaged parts.

In terms of building online infrastructure to actively combat capitalism, using and helping to develop open-source, community run software & websites like the sunbeam city mastodon instance should be a priority. This is a good alternative to google for searching.

In terms of building real world solarpunk infrastructure as resistance to actively combat capitalism, the organisations linked above are honestly invaluable - especially Food Not Bombs. I’d also add the Industrial Workers of the World (a democratic workers’ union for anyone in the world without hiring/firing power) as well as tenants’ unions - like ACORN in the UK. Finally, find or start a community garden.

@mixbagofholding

[anarchist-art]

[funnypicsdept]