The only way to sway one is to join one and start steering.

This is how the Democrats got to where they are.

They're in their Donkey-shaped Zord already. We're still on the ground getting stepped on.

Yeah.

Though I don't think the Republican party is nearly that powerful.

Two words. Donald J. Trump.

I threw a letter in free.

Really, there needs to be a better ACLU. One dedicated to protecting free speech without reservation.

An alternative to the SPLC that doesn't just make hatchet jobs to deperson people.

Organizations to connect people and get them to help, as the church did in the past and groups like We (on the left) do now

I'm building a damned Internet Radio Station to sway shit in my state.

Pay me. 😄

A stronger NRA that's not just playing fiddle to the party and embarrassing itself.

The *terms of the discussion* matter as much or more than the office holder.

the NRA is also run by the membership.

Think people should pick up the anarchist's cookbook? Assuming just the communications and organizations part.

The most controversial thing I think the right/center needs: something like a union that protects people for promoting non-left values.

unionizing isn't a right thing.

Admittedly part of the problem.

Anarchists' cookbook was written by a guy who didn't really test what he was doing.

Unions... are part of the problem

But I'm allergic to the term union.

I am too.

It makes me twitch involuntarily.

Eh my point being, peopel need to learn how to communicate through non mainstream methods

But there does need to be something to provide defense.

>Anarchist's Cookbook
>not Steal This Book

Think about how the left plays lawfare if they get fired.

Something like that.

Its time to turbo hobo, friends

There also needs to be a space to develop leaders and strategy.

@GingaBomber If you want that, just look into the local ham radio club. Or start a forum.

that's going to be a bit of a challenge...

There's PDFs everywhere

Unironic.

Ham radio is especially good for non-mainstream methods. The dirty secret is that the ham radio operators are the guys who *actually* invent wireless technology.

It's actually an interesting read. Dude is way out there

They just get jobs at Verizon and get paid.

Ancommie antifa type really

ancommie [Definition needed]

Proper Anti-Authoritarian?

Anarcho Communist. We need a stateless Marxism type

If I'm remembering what I read correctly

Wait...

IF an anarchist book tells you to steal it

Aren't you damned if you do and damned if you don't?

It's because it's principled

Fuck your authority. I'm not stealing this book.

This book shouldn't be sold, but I needed to distribute it. Steal it

In some ways ancommies are very consistent

So they literally commend people stealing it?

If you talk to ancommies you'll find a lot that do yeah

As long as they don't want to put me up against a wall to hit me with Nuggets, I'm kind of okay with them.

One of the local punk bands I listened to included lyrics in their song about not judging homeless shoplifters

"Not up to us to question the way he lived" specifically

If you sift through the no ownership stuff and the calls for violence there's some common ground in there

Unease at the level of surveillance in modern society, distrust of large government etc

Desire for community and communal support

Bit of curiosity, how many Texans do we have?

@Sky

From texas counts.

even if you're practically in Canada now.

Me

I'm from texas

I'm still in texas

I'm not.

I think Atkins is TX, but I don't really remember.

please be in texas~

Nope. Stuck in NY.

Sorry.

Also, if you care to give a general direction... Mine is East.

It sucks here.

I like my area even if im not 100% jell with it

happy i moved to urban area, albiet i'd still move back to upper-class suburban-industrial area if i could find a place like my youth

My area is rather religious. I hated it growing up, but after seeing other areas...

I'm okay with it.

yeah moving gives you good perspective on that

I lived in DC for a while.

Yep.

the ability to see maybe your area isn't as bad as you think, despite its flaws

Let me tell you. Don't let TX become NY.

It doesn't work.

NYC won't tell you all the problems they have.

There's not a whole lot we can do except for open carry to make Californians nervous...

And if you're in Upstate...you're just screwed and silenced.

Can't even carry a knife legally.

They have a very expansive definition of "gravity knife"

California has cool people but place creeps me out a bit, probably more then it should

"NYC won't tell you all the problems they have." Sounds like Canada

>Carry rifle on back...
>"What are you going to do with that gun...?" - Normie
>"Which one?" - True fucking Texan.

^

What about the revolver?

Can't leave home without the 12 shot, right?

But yeah, NY has all sorts of gun and knife laws. It's absolutely nuts.

Open Carry Swords ftw.

Upstate very strongly resents downstate. But they can't do anything.

For real?

https://nypost.com/2017/08/31/texans-can-now-openly-carry-swords-machetes-and-spears/

hey atleast gun and knife laws make some sense on some level, the straw laws are where i start wondering wtf is going on

...Man. I got to hide my utility knife when I go camping. And Ya'll are walking around with *swords*