It’s about publishing an anarchist children’s book. How do you think that doesn’t have to do with socialism? Anarchism is a socialist tendency, after all (perhaps excepting post-leftsts and some others who eschew such labels). One of the most historically popular socialist tendencies, in fact.

Under rent control, we simply make landlord’s lives a little more inconvenient in a system that still expects them to exist.

Yes, landlords will survive. It’s more important to focus on the material impact it has on renters, which is much greater. Everything to keep one of our basic necessities from becoming even more unaffordable. Everything to give us more protections. Everything to drive down the cost of housing and land and living. When owners complain about shit driving down their property values, we should be applauding!

Rent control is good. Abolishing landlords is even better. Making housing a human right is better still. De-commodifying land entirely and putting it back into the control of communities—and indigenous communities especially (who decisions over land have been stripped from even more completely than the general case)—is chef’s kiss.

Actually yes. If my neighbor openly, to my face, celebrated the state murdering hundreds of thousands of people in war, I would absolutely challenge them on it just like above. And I have, in fact. I see you’re more interested in civility politics than any kind of justice, so yeah: maybe it is time to fuck off and find some instance with people who have empathy and principles. Thanks for the “warning”.

I love escalating war and feeding more working-class people to the meat grinder for the sake of capitalists and nationalism.

Uh huh. Your country, too, fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian, I see.

So the lesser of two evils it is.

So…which of those evils does your government fund and arm, by chance?

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Wow! Will do. Thanks.

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Excellent article. Here is some more material along these lines.

Articles:

• Origins of the Police by David Whitehouse (libcom)
• The Police Are Not Here to Protect You by Alex S. Vitale (Vice)
• The Socialist Case Against the Police by Brian Bean (Rampant Magazine)
• History Of Policing In America: Starts And Ends With Protecting Private Property by Jack Hurbanis (WUWM)
• The Racist Roots of American Policing: From Slave Patrols to Traffic Stops by Connie Hassett-Walker (The Conversation)

Video:

• Policing on Trial: The Case For Abolition - John the Duncan

Audio:

• Behind the Police Trailer - Behind the Bastards
• Behind the Police: Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing - Behind the Bastards
• Behind the Police: How The First Police Went From Gangsters, To An Army For The Rich - Behind the Bastards
• Behind the Police: The History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan - Behind the Bastards
• Behind the Police: How The Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture - Behind the Bastards
• Behind the Police: How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier - Behind the Bastards
• Behind the Police: How The Police Declared War On All Of Us - Behind the Bastards

Supposedly Revolt is FOSS and is similar to Discord. I haven’t tried it yet, though.

Have you tried Revolt? It’s supposed to FOSS and offer similar functionality to Discord. I keep meaning to try it, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

IMO it can be MUCH simpler. Deleting content should propagate across federation just like adding content does. De-federating should retroactively remove all content that it would normally keep from propagating (possibly leaving “this post/comment deleted” markers so that replies make sense). And losing track of an instance for long enough (e.g. a week, or a month) should be equivalent to de-federating, possibly with the option to resurrect content when and if the instance comes back online.

I believe that would remove a lot of the issues with extra traffic, and possibly a lot of the issues with extra processing. I don’t know enough about the protocol to tell whether it would add requirements for extra data, but I suspect it wouldn’t.

ledger because I love to know about my money

Nice. I’ve been putting off for some time trying to find something better than GnuCash or buckling down and writing my own. This looks perfect.

jq for parsing/formatting/manipulating JSON, and its yq wrapper for YAML. Holy shit you can do powerful queries with them.