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jalcine

@jalcine@todon.eu

My public bio is at https://jacky.wtf/about.
I'm most likely reading, ranting or starting shit offline.
l talk politics a lot.

pfp: myself taking a selfie

header: myself at karaoke taken by https://union.place/@betsyvr

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jalcine, to random
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I need to cop one of those portable air purfiers

jalcine,
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@grimalkina that's even better!

jalcine, to random
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Blaming voters for the actions of a government is like blaming citizens for not flying out to warzones to stand in front of a tank or strongly scolding soldiers for being bad guests. Outside of being ridiculously wild of a reach, it implies that the government operates in a purely democratic way. You can't vote out the FBI or your police oversight committee. You can vote for someone who uses those words with no guarantee it'll happen.

It's a complete misrepresentation of what voting SHOULD do and what it does today. More mileage in taking action (which could include but cannot REMAIN voting, the vital part here) with people and building (social, communal) power such that when they zig, people can zag them back (or more preferentially, impeach officials who fail to live up to their goals).

jalcine,
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What always comes to mind was the speed that the US-sponsored Haitian government did when, elections were held in Haiti and Artiside came into power, the United States, not wanting a democratic country with strong relations to Cuba and international support for actual aid, worked successfully to remove him from said power. The rest of the State obliged and allowed (for profit) the degradation of the country to now we can't even agree on which version of the Haitian constitution is the active one.

This, on a smaller scale, brings to mind the current corporate poisoning of Flint's water (which Obama ridiculed) - how the State won't have issue with harms to the people and will even (allegedly) give a way out. But concessions made by the State are covered with thorns.

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It's definitely plausible to say that voting can be harm reduction when the options provide said harm reduction.

The 2024 election for the US does not have any harm reduction candidates. Either overt fascism or more of what we see now, respectable fascism (now with Inflation and inclusion at the forefront).

Fascism has existed and operated in the United States for years but American individuality has made it so hard to see (or easier to ignore, to be able to have a permanent homeless population, prison population and exploit migrants for your Superbowl or Tyson foods is ... well, political education is a thing).

Biden has less time now to actually get Gen Z and those who want to believe that a voting box can be a means of change but it's consistently only been direct action that's forced political capitulation towards the needs of the people.

jalcine,
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Voting isn't equitable nor is it completely representative of the potential voting block. Sure, we can throw our pennies in for our thoughts. When you see a garbage truck of quarters dumped in, one has to ask themselves if there isn't yet another path that doesn't rely solely on hope for the change to take hold

jalcine,
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This makes it clear that focus on local elections are critical. In , local governments can make moves that can be substantial. Efforts towards rent control were won some changes.

https://www.cltampa.com/news/citing-floridas-new-landlord-law-st-pete-city-council-votes-to-repeal-its-own-tenants-bill-of-rights-16045401

That was based on the grassroot efforts to bring what people needed and get it into law. But because of the higher government, that fell.

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2023/03/29/gov-desantis-holds-news-conference-in-south-florida/

It'll be easy for me to say that this was a knee jerk reaction from DeSantis but that's click bait journalism and doesn't ask who did DeSantis see as benefiting from that and how did they influence him - especially when it was in reaction to one county making this change.

jalcine,
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But even then, we can't - I really need this to be understood - rely on the government to protect and serve people when the government today operates to protect the systems that work to abuse people en masse. The fact that no state run government in the United States places the need for shelter over private property and that a case is entertaining the idea of criminalizing homelessness is an on ramp to disappearing people as a state service.

They might consider hiring an ethical homeless removal service to save the efforts of hiring public workers. And expand that to eviction programs.

jalcine,
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Know your neighbors. The people who live near you. If not near, build better rapport with the communities you do exist in.

Figure out who's doing what near you. If you live in too rich/affluent of an area, find the area that your high property value serves as a fulcrum for rent exacerbation and redistribute wealth ($50/mo to a mutual aid group goes a long distance, now imagine if you convinced your block to pitch in with a 60% contribution rate! 80% even).

There's gonna be a Food not Bombs near you. If not, check out the local labor groups. Churches that house and feed folks. Advocacy centers. The options are there and will do more for people that are hoping for a politician to remember what they said last week.

jalcine, to random
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Shout-out to T&T. Trinidad recognizes Palestine as a state.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6f46a5BXZm/

jalcine, to random
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The US is the most diverse Mafia in existence https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/112383851249444707

beep, to random
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“Amazon has launched a new ‘one-click to quit the union’ tool, and they’re relentlessly pushing it to every worker in their Coventry warehouse. […] If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates a letter from the worker and then emails it to the trade union, ending their membership.”

A legal challenge to some gnarly union-busting tactics that Amazon’s deployed in one of its warehouses in the UK: https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-to-quit-the-union-tool/

jalcine,
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@beep at this point someone could write leftist fiction with labor at a point and this still wouldn't have made it into the point as a plot device

Mind blowing

jalcine, to random
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Whew. Great read from @emilygorcenski about A24's film "Civil War" which for some reason I still want to watch.

> For all the war movies we make – for all the wars we start – we don’t really understand culturally what they look and sound and feel like. Americans are masters at empathy-at-a-distance, but Garland doesn’t understand how

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/when-charlottesville-was-the-front-lines/

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The idiocy of men was placing law above love.

jalcine, to random
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It's 2024. This is MSNBC asking you not to read A People's Guide to Capitalism https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/russia-trying-exploit-americas-divisions-war-gaza-rcna149759

> A favorite theme of Russian information operations is to paint America as a failing democratic state, according to U.S. officials and researchers

Does that make an agent of Russia for not believing in America the way I believe in people?

Then a source even admits that Russian propaganda has no impact on the direct political unrest. What is the point of these outlets if they only spread FUD?

jalcine, to random
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HUH?!?! lol

https://neal.fun/password-game/

jalcine, to random
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HM HOW COULD THIS BE? https://theintercept.com/2024/04/30/gaza-israel-palestine-cable-news-poll/

jalcine,
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Why would corporate-run, state-backed media be in favor of a state-backed, corporate-funding genocide? I don't get it.

jalcine, to random
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Journalism students are being held under threat of arrest to not leave their dorms. Investigative journalism is about to come back HARD.

jalcine, to random
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Democrats are about to praise the NYPD tomorrow morning for being brave and maintaining the peace.

jalcine, to random
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http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u Sledgehammers being used to forcibly enter the school?

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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-to-lay-off-everyone-working-on-superchargers-new-vehicles/

jalcine, to random
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Say this three times in front of your terminal and a Google Web engineer will appear to remind you that Google, in fact, is the Internet and the premier way to do things so fuck off and install Google (c) Chrome (tm) today!

https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112356898091727067

jalcine, to random
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Seeing police in riot gear in person never fails to freak me out. Why do they have the kind of equipment that some country's army would use?

Granted, the other scarily quiet question is that why are some police departments in the United States more armed than other smaller countries?

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Whether or not knowledge workers are safe to learn is a canary in the coal mine for innovation. Just as whether or not children are safe to learn is a canary in the coal mine for whether a society cares about advancing.

Something that made an indelible impression on me way back in college was the Sartre notion of bad faith: our ability to unmake the consequences of our choices to such an extent that we negate choice, we abdicate as agents.

We are holding bad faith with human innovation.

jalcine,
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@grimalkina I don't know if it compares but I've read October Sky and the way the mines were heavily influencing communal life, I can only imagine how many folks served as such canaries

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