Humans are not inherently evil or corrupt by nature, but even if they were, capitalism is the worst system possible as it enables and promotes these aspects. #anticapitalism#capitalism
Yup #capitalism will encourage people to let a 70+ yr old #disabled, #displaced woman and her 40 yr disabled daughter and an innocent #rabbit all survivors of #trauma to slowly die of heat and starvation
While everyone pats their backs for recycling or watching some politically charged #propaganda on #netflix or some shit
How much are those BS streaming TV and Movie shits nowadays?
More than enough to monthly help people in need instead and watch something for free that would support a small creator - wait they'd also rather pay #Google and watch some asshole like #MrBeast instead of an actual small creator
They'd all rather some machine tell them what to feed their minds
#TheCrimeCats say local government is just stooges for developers and the owner class, dedicated to upholding and continuing the legacy of violence perpetrated by police against the citizens. they don't work for us, they never have and never will.
@Dianora@capybaraz maybe we can get a progressive mayor if they wear a fully beige outfit. Like a nice kilt/skirt & beige shirt & blazer combo with desert boots.
This isn't some anomalous occurrence due to the happenstance of a protest. They are like this 24/7/365, lying, cheating, brutalizing, doing everything they can to stay in power, and that's why they must be dismantled.
There is a better future ahead. If their rule was just, they wouldn't have to expend so much effort to maintain it.
What would happen if we all just stopped paying, I mean I stop paying rent my (nice) landlady stops paying loans et al et al. What would they (vanguard or whoever) actually do? Send armies (=ourselves) to force people to pay for their imaginary wealth?
All it would take would be a little impossible unity of non-doing something to take down capitalism in a few days. That's how close we are.
@tokyo_0 yes it might, in terms of denial of the whole system I don't think we really have a precedent, since most of our current economy rests on post industrial things like valuations and high debt. But I agree that more realistically we should strive to deny the system the workers it needs, and organise for the workers instead (agriculture coops have been doing it since ages ago).
Note to alternate reality selves: if you think others should pay just because you have to pay too, you should actually be focusing on why you are paying and to whom.
Been thinking about the atom, the arc of environmentalism, and my relationship to social media.
The tl;dr is that there's no ethical extraction under capitalism for any energy tech, I don't have all the answers on ethical extraction, but it wouldn't hurt to touch grass for a bit.