Sargon of ACAB

“The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory.”

I just reread that intro and it’s so over-the-top awesome

Not the person you’re replying to, but if you happen to miss a train or it gets cancelled you generally are already at the train station. Depending on travel time and conditions it might be safer or more convenient to wait at the station, even if it’s for two hours.

I’ve never had to wait for a next train for longer than 30 minutes (maybe once it was an hour because it was a very small train station and during the weekend), but I live in a place with a pretty dense railway network and have mostly lived near one of the biggest routes.

If you’re an anarchist, I see no point in “pretending” you’re not.

Do you think the, by now century-old, propaganda efforts against anarchism couldn’t be redirected to a new term?

Sure, some people are put off by the term “anarchism” because of its negative connotations. You don’t need new vocabulary to counter that. You can either just correct their misconceptions or show their error by example. The people who aren’t willing to listen to you doing so also aren’t going to be convinced of your ideas of you package them differently.

I think people generally overestimate the extent to which “anarchism” being a scary term matters. Most people don’t even think about anarchism as an active political force.

You would also be distancing yourself from historical and ongoing anarchist struggles and efforts, which I personally think are an important way in which people get to known anarchism in a positive way.

Looking at that list, you might also be interested in the novel Walkaway.

As someone who has treatment-resistant depression: keep inviting your friend. Keep asking them for help when it makes sense to do so. Even if they cancel a lot or are quiet when they do show up. That’s helping a lot.

People need community.

This book can’t be recommended enough.

If you’re an experienced activist you’ll probably know a lot of what it says already, but it’ll do so in language that helps you teach it to newer people looking to get involved.

You’ve already gotten good answers so I just wanted to reply that I indeed wasn’t joking.

You can have decentralized planning. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.

Decentralization doesn’t mean you can’t have organization, communication or coordination.

What do you think makes it hard to combine planning, decentralization and democracy?

Living in Europe this is fairly easy te remember. None of the choices are great, but they definitely exist.

Installing something like Linux Mint or Ubuntu is fairly easy. The hardest part is probably creating the install media and that’s not particularly hard ei her.

If you don’t rely on specific software (like Adobe), using Linux is a good idea. I’d still advice not to mess with a computer you rely on and wait until you have sufficient time to troubleshoot something. Even if nothing goes wrong a new OS can still take a little getting used to.

I should probably take some time to think why my instagram feed is full of non-binary people, shouldn’t I?

My local anarchist collective has already decided to donate and is currently looking at how we can do additional fundraising.