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I know it’s been a month but any updates on the little spine ball?

I’m a US-American living in the US. I unironically condemn the United States now and as long as it continues to exist. In particular, I condemn its role in the Gaza genocide, and I consider my country to be a monument to racism and settler colonialism whose stench can only be removed by fire. I’m no fan of any world government, but the US government in particular is the most dangerous for world peace. And it’s not just under Trump; I condemn all iterations of the US government because there is no way to use the Baby Murdering Machine in a way that doesn’t murder babies.

How do you feel about Israel?

Sorry if that’s a lot for a first question, but I feel like it would be like if I showed up here and said “Hey y’all I’m from America, ask me anything”, which I’m not against doing but I would 1000% expect people to ask if I support my government.

We just started doing a reading of An Anarchist FAQ here on /c/anarchism: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51243397

It’s all public. Drop a comment in that thread or message /u/fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com directly to be pinged for the weekly discussion thread.

Could be better, could be a lot worse. Yesterday I was working on my engineering paper feeling on top of the world; today I’m completely out of energy because I have to get my car inspected and it’s like 10 years old and I’m terrified it will fail.

The duality of being autistic with ADHD 😆😂😭

Yeah I know, I’ve been here for over two years now… how time flies. It’s still a little distressing when it goes down 😆

things are not good here

I’m not a troll account. I’m just sick of good people getting played over and over again by the Democratic Party and liberalism on the whole.

But the moral prohibition on siding with any administration that endorses genocide will force a different flavor of the exact same logic that centrist liberalism has depended on for so long: hold your nose and align with the least worst thing. Only the least worst thing will no longer be the mild, ethics-agnostic emptiness of modern Western liberalism, nor will it be the multitude of barbaric authoritarians and their secret prisons. It will be communal solidarity, or else nothing, a walking away from all of this.

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Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.

— Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Chapter 7, Lesser Evils; italic emphases his, bold emphasis mine.

The previous passages were about the Gaza genocide in particular, but for me personally, they apply equally well to the Epstein files, the climate crisis, police brutality, and a whole host of other issues where the Democrats are just a “woke-coded” version of obstructing progress.

Like for Christ’s sake if the people who wrote Saturday morning children’s cartoons made the villains as evil as American politicians actually are, we would have laughed at how corny the writing was. And obviously the Republicans are making things worse at record pace, but none of that seriously changed when the Democrats were in control last time or the time before that (Obama) or the time before that (Clinton, who’s an Epstein associate!), even when they had control of all three branches of the federal government.

So forgive me for being irritated, forgive me for being spirited, but I don’t know how people can look at American politics in 2025 and be like “It’s literally trolling to be so disgusted by the Monster Party System that you don’t want to have anything to do with it.” They’re all monsters, and I’m tired of pretending they’re not.

Okay we’re back 😀

Happy days! We’re back 🎉

Volcanos are awesome and awesome things cannot be terfs, therefore I have disproven the existence of a Terf Volcano.

Petition to throw J.K. Rowling into a vat of acid instead.

I want to burn the Russian government to the ground too! There’s enough fire for every world government! 🔥🔥🔥🏴🏴🏴🏴

Because the Dems are trash too. Whole system needs to be literally burned to the fucking ground 🔥🔥🔥🏴🏴🏴🏴

Show who really cares for the people.

Yeah that’s why they’re never gonna do it, because the Democrats don’t care either and they know no one in power does. We won’t feed the homeless, we won’t feed kids at school, but we will fund the wars.

They had four years recently and generations of power previously to nip these issues in the bud. It’s intentional. The Democrats like the violence.

The child-murdering machine cannot and should not be reformed. It should be destroyed.

What reformism does to a mf 😞

Say “Thank you”

Me: please brain can we do all the stuff we’ve been putting off?

Brain: no, it’s hate-America-o’clock

Me: but it’s always hate-America-o’clock 😆😂😭

Climate change has not been out of the news cycle for months, and it probably won’t ever really be again.

I’m thinking more on a scale of days. At least in my feed, climate need has been getting overwhelmed by other things lately.

And how are corporate ghouls being stopped by Greenpeace hanging a banner on a oil rig?

They’re not. But it might inspire someone to actually go do something that could stop the corpo ghouls. It at least says that someone is willing to do something, even if it’s just symbolic.

Like I’m in agreement with you that it’s not a super useful protest, but it’s not useless or worse than useless either IMO.

it’s not bringing attention to anything the general public doesn’t already know.

It’s refreshing people’s attention, bringing climate change back into the news cycle for a minute, and demonstrating that ordinary people need to be willing to do illegal shit to stop these corpo ghouls from wrecking our environment.

if the resources used for this stunt are more damaging to the world than not having pulled it at all

It’s a little bit of paint in the ocean. Nothing at all compared to what that oil rig is doing.

Certainly not the most effective protest in the world, but I’d say it’s at least better than nothing.

I mean this might be selfish but for me personally, it would be nice to have some amount of structure and “peer pressure” to get the reading done. Like “okay here’s the part of the FAQ we’re on today”, and if someone else wants to talk about some other part that’s cool too, but you know… sometimes. it’s nice to do things as a group 😃.