Indeed. I can certainly see the benefits of this type of activity. I’m not saying it’s a bad idea for mental health and a sense of community.
But we had better community in the past and still felt the crushing weight of capitalism. Fighting back means fighting back. Community gardening is the left side of the meme.
Sorry but community gardening as a solution is one of the worst I’ve heard. It’s very hard to achieve the same level of scale and efficiancy that large farms do with these small gardens. For instance, I see no machinery in this picture. Are we really wanting to go back to the days where farming is done by hand?
Sure it’s good for the soul to get together and grow things but as a means to feed society it’s just not viable.
Do you really think a small group of farmers is ungovernable? Peasant farmers have been exploited for pretty much the entire history of humanity!
Ungovernable means civil disobedience, it means sabotage. It does mean building community, but if your community only wants to farm, remember to pay the king after the harvest.
Dude wtf are you talking about?? Islam does not call for the death of non believers. You’ve fallen for propaganda. Muslims are not your enemy.
Nah but this is /c/rant. I don’t just want a picture of text, I want paragraphs about why it’s annoying, or why it’s funny, or why you need an ankle brace in the first place.
I heard the english version with images sits at around 110GB. Haven’t verified myself though.
Click the link. The video is crazy! 10 minutes of the CEO saying if they want a union they can have a union. 70% of workers want a union.
Extremely disappointing from a non-profit organisation. They’re wasting money by not voluntarily recognising. Fuck Jimmy Wales for hiring union busting lawyers. Need to host it elsewhere!
Lol change your instance then. Or post some text actually ranting about why it sucks?
You are not immune to propaganda. The people of Iran do not want all Christians dead, they do not want all Jews dead. They want peace in the region. The US government and it’s allies make that very difficult.
We police how people spend their money all the time! Taxes! Laws. Life is full of resitrictions. Just because you have money it doesn’t mean you’re above the law.
By law you must also contribute to society through taxes. How is it fair that a handful of individuals can buy the presidency to reduce their tax contributions. How is it fair that their companies can lobby the government to bend/break the rules.
Musk and Bezos have done well. They had innovative ideas and expanded them incrdibly well. They deserve to live in luxury. They could give half their wealth away and still live in luxury.
I still want to live in a meritocracy where good ideas are rewarded. But the amount of power these individuals have is monstrous. Some of their wealth must be taken away.
Iran hates the West because the West has been invading the Middle East for hundreds of years. The crusades were a horrendous time. Muslims and Jews lived fairly peacefully in Palestine before the West sent the WW2 european jewish refugees there and created the state of Israel. They did this to establish a base of influence in the region and further the US imperialist conquest. Maybe Iran wants nukes just so the West will leave it alone. Iran is not the aggressor. You are not immune to propaganda. Neither am I of course, I spent many years thinking the West were the good guys.
I feel like this a lot. The rage can be useful. You’re right. Our society is rotten. It requires a mass shift in perspective and a desire to remove corruption in every level of society.
I would recommend thinking about what skills you have and what you enjoy doing. Then think about how you can fight back in a way that works for you. It can be as small as changing your email to a provider that isn’t Google, Microsoft, etc. Something medium like attending a local government/community building meeting. Or as big as redacted. What do you wanna do?
Don’t get me wrong. It’s fucking hard. Be careful about burning out. The most important thing is to look after yourself and keep going. It takes all of us.
Lol spot on! This is exactly how the current economy is working 🙈
I’d be interested in your take on NymVPN. Governence is still a bit opaque but they do provide a novel way to incentivise operators to join the network.
Perhaps in the future we could see a ride share app powered in this way. Operators and drivers paid by an algorithm based on work done. Funded by users paying with a specific coin. With the interchangeability of cryptocoin it wouldn’t matter if there are competing projects. The governance question still remains though.
Would highly recommand getting cursed by the bio spoiler! Long watch but incredibly informative. You are not immune to propaganda.
Does the US need a war with Iran. Does it need to invest so heavily in AI. I’d say no. I’d say that money would be far better spent providing support to the next generation. Or literally anything else. Green tech, healthcare, education are far more worthy causes than tax cuts for the rich.
That’s just not true though.
I understand the importance of a CEO. It’s a difficult job and requires dedication. But how can you honestly say they deserve to earn x1000 times more than someone who works just as hard but doesn’t have the right connections.
Then there are shareholders. They use their wealth to aquire more wealth. Yes they make decisions about where the company should make investment but they also only care about one thing, portfolio growth. This leads to loopholes in tax laws, private equity gutting companies, attacks on workers rights and criminal cover ups.
No one earns a billion fairly. Just because you are well off doesn’t mean you deserve to be. The notion that ‘these people create jobs’ is a cop out. These people need to be reigned in.
I’ve seen figures saying total billionaire worth is $21trillion. Divided equally, that would give every person on Earth $2500. I don’t know about you but that would help me enourmously. And imagine the difference it would make to someone from Iraq or Sudan.
Obviously it wouldn’t make sense to just hand it out like that. It’s just an example to show how much wealth is owned by those who don’t actually need it. They’re not even doing anything useful with it and would still be unfathomably rich if they gave some away.
Ok yeah I see what you mean. Definitely agree about government spending being auditable and public. And obviously wasted taxes are bad. But I’d argue taxes are never wasted on feeding the population, especially children!
I can believe that but I think the more important metric is labour hours vs food produced. Less labour and more food means more time for other activities.
A support network for civil disobedience can never exist. The state would shut it down immediatly. And yet disobedience must occur if the system is to truly change.
This is where we find ourselves. Destroy flock cameras. Don’t get caught. Support Palestine Action. Don’t get caught. Use what little time is available to fight back. But most importantly, don’t get caught because no one else can afford to save you.