Go to earth-strike.com @socalledunitedstates@sunbeam.city

By the way, I have a big (and growing) collection of #anarchist and #solarpunk resources on my tumblr. Check it out if you need ideas for projects, #directaction or #mutualaid

http://socalledunitedstates.tumblr.com/tagged/practical

I've offered this on tumblr for a while now but for everyone on here: if you ask me to I'll look up #activist and #leftist groups in your area that you can join! I've been doing this for a while so I know where to look and what keywords to use. Getting connected on the local level is very important for getting real change to happen!!

This thread got a LOT more activity than I expected. If you guys have any theology questions I'd love to talk about it, it WAS my most recent special interest before anarchism and so I have a lot to talk about

My atheist brother's favorite example for the problem of evil is the baby in Africa who only lives for a few minutes suffering with some disease before dying. How could God allow that?

It used to stump me, but now I just think "why in Africa?" That doesn't happen in rich, colonial states - why? Because those are mostly preventable diseases. The question is, how could WE allow that?

But as an anarchist you realize that the VAST majority of human suffering is due to negligence and greed. Yes, those people hit by that natural disaster would've suffered either way - but if we had given them proper preparation and care they would've suffered much less. And there's no need for poverty or hunger or pain, we have enough to provide well-being for all but our imperfection prevents that

Being a leftist, and especially being an anarchist, gives like a 10x effectiveness multiplier to Augustinian theodicy

As a liberal you have to accept the premise that this is kinda the best world we can have, people have to be poor or be imprisoned because that's just how the world works. So outside of obvious cruelty, crime, and abuse, you can't blame that much suffering on free will. You need that tunnel vision because considering other options is "extremist"

Tumblr acting so weirdly smug with periodical "reblog if you use 'dude' as a gender neutral term!" over the past like 5 years has undoubtedly resulted in several "lol no dude I'm not misgendering you it's gender-neutral! no I won't stop saying it!" cases and I can't imagine it's ever resulted in any good whatsoever other than the tiny rush of "lol that's relatable"

Winter comes and within weeks our baby peach trees look VERY different. Their stems (trunks? when does that distinction happen?) are a lot woodier, rather than leaves everywhere they're just in clumps at the ends of the branches, and the leaves themselves look and feel different too

I know peaches need cold weather to grow properly it's just the process is really interesting. I love my plants!!! #gardening #plants

Are these shitty enough? #earthstrike

Doing my part #earthstrike

Unpopular opinion: as much as we like to pretend that #solarpunk was always a radical movement and that its politics were informed by #cyberpunk, we HAVE the original tumblr post that proposed the idea and it never mentions a political aspect and flat-out says that it's based on steampunk

The message shouldn't be "solarpunk was political from the beginning," but "solarpunk means whatever we make of it"