Caste by Isabel Wilkerson - opened my eyes to the true history of race and how it is used in the US to oppress and marginalize
Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos - one of the most comprehensive yet easily digested books that successfully answers many of the fundamental questions we ask about anarchism as well as some of the silly misconceptions people might have
Cannabis by Box Brown - really approachable history of the Illegalization of cannabis
All these books really opened my eyes, I guess you could say
Very fast for me as well. I just launched it to check, and it took just a second or two to cold launch it.
Takes a few more seconds to refresh and get new messages. I think it's actually faster than checking my email in browser, especially since one of my email addresses is the Yahoo! account I created in the 1990s and use for junk subscriptions.
My current employer doesn't use Outlook, but I've worked for several in the past that do, and I'm pretty sure I've seen all of those messages at some point.
Yeah, I never thought I'd use a dedicated email client anywhere but work, but Thunderbird is really good.
I also use K-9 on mobile, which I like even more, but marking messages as spam never seems to stick. I still keep getting absolute trash from Google, even though I unsubscribed to updates a long time ago.
"Libertarian" always seems like a misnomer. Libertarians only want people like themselves to experience liberty. They aim to do nothing to address inequities like social and systemic discrimination against LGBT+ people, BIPOC, women, and others. They aim to do nothing to address poverty. It's social darwinism at its ugliest. This is why they are practically indistinguishable from conservatives here in the US -- the way they arrive may look different, but the outcomes are the same. At best, they are wearing blinders. At worst, they actively support the power structures and systems that result in things like poverty and abuse.
People who legitimately do seek liberty should instead be looking to things like anarchism, which is interested in addressing the root causes of all of these problems, such as hierarchies and the state.
You misunderstand when you say "systems to prevent those things aren't necessary." These things are absolutely addressed by anarchists. We're not foolish enough to rely on the goodness of human nature to carry us through. There is no state, there are no hierarchies, but people causing harm absolutely can experience consequences under anarchism. Diffuse sanctions, for example. At worst, they can be removed from the community or group entirely.
But more than anything else, it's important to recognize that mutual aid is just as much a part of human nature as things like rape and murder, and the rate at which rape and murder occur are greatly exacerbated by hierarchies. For example, things like masculinity have to go, and we need to stop putting people in positions of power over others and creating such hierarchies.
And this brings me back to the topic at hand. I cannot conceive of an anarchist who would in any way approve of sexually abusing someone young enough to be considered a minor. Above all, anarchists aim to remove hierarchies, and having a grown adult in a relationship with a young teenager -- this would create such a power differential that I can't imagine any anarchist approving of it or hand-waving it away. The anarchists I know very strongly disapprove of such a thing.
The people we colloquially call "libertarians"(1) on the other hand still seem to support the state as well as hierarchies such as those created under capitalism. In fact, most self-described libertarians I know want to do nothing to address the things you mentioned, as well as nothing to address other harmful things such as the social and systemic discrimination against groups like LGBT+ people, BIPOC, women, and others.
(1)yes, a bit of a misnomer since it would make more sense to call anarchists "libertarians," though no one does, unless we append it with "libertarian left," though even this seems like a silly term for anarchism
What's wrong with anarchists? I've never seen anarchists defending pedophilia. Anarchism doesn't mean you just freely cause harm to others; quite the contrary.
If you scroll down, you'll find the comments to match "doesn't apply if you're married or a parent amirite" fuck me what the fuck is happening on Lemmy
I don't think this is normalizing it at all. There's more of a self-deprecating subtext, and it's not too dissimilar to the humor I hear from other addicts/alcoholics (been sober from alcohol since 2017 myself)
I think that also contributes to their raging LGBTphobia. They think we're just a kink or a fetish, because that's how they view all intimacy. It's projection.
I never used it myself, but I'm surprised this didn't happen years ago. I actually thought it shut down in 2016 or something.